The southern argus., 1891-08-13
The Southern Argus.
SUPPLEMENT.
THURSDAY, AUGUST Is, 1891.



with the best answer. He says: In
the West Indies slavery long existed.
The whip was applied 10 old men, to
tender women; and nndeniably,
though we shrink 10 say so, pregnant
women set in the tread mill for retus-
ing TO work, when, moi they, but the
eternal law Of nature refused 10 work
mems backs We're fogged with COW
hides, and hot rum poured on super
induced with brine or pickle, rubbed
in with corn husk, III the scOrchlng
heat of the sun; runaways were hunt
ed with blood hounds into the sWamps
and hills; and III cases OF passion a
planter threw his Negro into a copper
of boiling cane juice. They were not
pleasant sights. The blood is moral /;
the blood is anti-slavery. A good
man or woman saw their injuries and
had The indiscreliOn 10 tell Of them.
The horrid story ran and flew; the
winds blew it all over the world.
They who heard il asked their rich
and great friends if it was true or mis-
siOnary lies The richest and great
est, the prime minister Of England, the
kings privy council were obliged to
say that it was too true. Granville
Sharpe was accidentally made &C
quainted with the sufferings OF slave,
whom West India planter had
brought with him TO London, and had
beaten with a pistol on bis head so
badly that his whole body became dis
eased, and the man useless to his mas
ter, who left him TO go whittier he
pleased. The man applied TO William
Sharpe, charitable surgeon, who at
tended the diseases of the poor. In
process of time he was healed. Gran
vile Sharp found him at his brothers
and procured place for him in an
apothecary's shop. The master acct
dentally met his recovered slave, and
instantly endeavored to get possession
of him again. Sharpe protected the
slave. In consulting with the law
yers, they told Sharpe the laws were
against him. Sharpe would not be-
lieve it; no prescription on earth
could ever render such iniquities legal.
"But the decisions are against you, and
Lord Mansfield, now chief justice of
England leans to the decisions" Sharpe
instantly sat down aud gave himself
up 20 the study of English law tor
more than two years, until he had
proved that the opinions relied on of
Talbot and Yorke, were Incompatible
with the former English decisions, and
with the whole spirit of English law.
He published his book in 1869, and so
filled the heads and hearts of his adj
vocates that when he brought the case
OF George Somerset, another slave, be-
fore Lord Mansfield, the slavish de-
cisions were set aside and equity af-
firmed This decision established the
principle that the "air of England is
too pure for any slave to breathe" but
the wrongs in her colonies and on The
islands were not thereby touched.
Public attention was drawn that way,
and The methods of stealing and tran S
portion from Africa became nOised
abroad Six Quakers met i'm London
on the 9th Of July, 1883, TO consider
what steps they should take for the
relief and liberation OF the Negro slaves
in the West Indies and for the dis
couragement Of The slave trade on the
coast of Africa. Thomas Clarkson
was a youth at Cambridge, England
when The subject given out for Latin
prize dissertation was, rs it right to
make slaves OF others against their
will ?" He wrote all essay and won
the prize but he wrote too we'll for his
own peace he began 10 ask himself il
these things could be true and if they
were, he could no longer rest. he left
Cambridge; he fell in with the >iA
Ouakers. They engaged him 10 acl
for them. He, himself, interested
Wherefore i'm the matter. The ship.
masters in The slave trade We're the
greatest miscreants, and guilty Of
every barbarity to their own crews
Clarkson went to Bristol, the greal
seaport, made himself acquainted
with the interior of the slave ships
and the details of the trade and pub
lished ii. Pitt and Fox were drawn
into the general enterprise. In l4Sc
the house of commons voted parlla-
mentary inquiry. In 1871 a bill e
abolish the trade was brought in by
Wherefore aud supported by him
and BY Fox, and Burke, and Pit. Eng
lands greatest orators and statesmen
II was lost. During the next sixteer
years, ten times it was renewed by
Wilberforce and ten times defeated
The king and all the royal family bn
one were against it. In 1871, on'
hnnlraa wars auo three hundred