The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-11-25

II mas decreased. perhaps, to Rio de ia
nero, put increased to every other prov
slave decks are no longer indispen-
sable. The water casks, slowed Level.
IN one or more tiers, according to the
size OF the vessel, fore and aft. and rush
mats spread over them, is the last i'm
provement of fitting a SLAYER. And thew
can now ship-indeed, it is proved under
oath in this examination that it took the
Montevldeo, with swept hold, from but
Two TO seven hours to ship cargo of 800
slaves; They have their water pipes fill
ed and buried in the sand of the beach:
and the slaves, the farinha, the ierked
oeef, the provisions and stores, and the
water are moved, at moments warn
ing, IN canoes and launches, to the vessel
waiting at the distance of five minutes
row from the shore '-[Hon. Mr.. Wise
to the Secretary of State.
Having discharged their goods. the
medium of barter, and taken on board
their closely-packed living cargoes. the
American captain and crew, if they had
them, are shipped on board brig that
has gone before to act as their tender.
and a Brazilian or Portuguese captain
and crew are supplied, if they had them
not. In the one case, the tender brig
returns to Rio Janeiro, either navigated
by the Americans or with them as pas
sengers, and not unfrequently with some
branded slaves for Fonseca, in the same
capacity as passengers. For aught that
appears, she will have performed law
full voyage, that is, having only waited
upon the slavers with some goods for
purchase money of the slaves, and got
them ready, and having then helped the
slavers to Brazilian or Portuguese
crew, who, if taken by English cruisers,
cannot be hung like Americans or sub
jects of Great Britain. The bloody SLAYER
then speeds her way through the horrors
of the middle passage silly lands her
human cargo, more dead than alive, at
Cape Frio, Mangaratiba, or other places
along the coast of Brazil, and then boldly
runs into this port in ballast, and fits
again for the atrocious voyage.
MIR Wise has now in custody on board
the frigate Raritan, two African lads
with Fonseca's brand upon them, that
were brought into port thus as pretended
passengers in an American brig, along
with Fonseca's agent, who had been in
the brig up and down the African coast
to contract for slaves, said American
brig acting as tender to three or four
others Immediately employed in export
ing slaves. She was seized by the U. S.
brig cambridge, on the charge of being
engaged in the slave-trade, but after
wards delivered up to the Brazilian au-
thorities for judgment, who have Gf |
am rightly informed) released the master
and officers, whom Mr. Wise was de-
sirous of sending for trial to the United
States The African lads and certain
others have been retained, and are to be
forwarded as witnesses to the United
States.
There is tale of blood and horror con-
nected with this brig, to be in due time
unfolded. 1t was given on oath, few
weeks ago, by seaman of another
American brig, the Kentucky, that the
first night after leaving the east coast of
Africa with cargo of $50 blacks, part
of them got loose from their manacles,
and rose on the crew. But being armed
with muskets and cutlasses, the crew
soon drove them below again, and killed
number by firing into them after they
had cried for quarter. A few days after,
others of the survivors were condemned
to be executed, then hoisted up to the
foreyard- arm chained two together, and
shot dead. When two were taken out of
the hold chained together, of whom only
one was to die, to save the shackle and
save time, they chopped off their victims
foot at the ANGLE, let the leg loose, then
run him up to the yard-arm, and finished
by shooting him. In this manner were
murdered forty-siX men and one woman.
| Thus the Internal business is carried on
eagerly and fatally as ever, and American
merchants, knowingly or not, pander for
it and make what gain they can by such
detestable pimping. Mr.. Wise has writ
ten his legal opinion to Maxwell, Wright
& Co. on their part in the business which
the laws of his country have declared
piracy, warning them and other Ameri
can merchants against it, and declaring
his fixed purpose to see to it that the
laws of his country are enforced, and the
star-spangled banner cleansed from the
blood of this atrocious tratfick, which in
fact it is made to shield, British cruis-
ers seldom daring to overhaul YES
sci under the American flag; American
/ citizens, and they too generally from the
North, not scrupling to employ their YES
sells where they can get the most pay.
May God bless these, | believe, honest
/ and earnest efforts to suppress the slave
trade, by a man who is himself slave
holder, and who has stood in such an at
titude to abolition, as makes the anomaly
of his present position and warfare the
| more remarkable. But of this more here
after. c.
.The following are the names and places of
ownership of some of the American vessels
thus employed at the present time, as furnish
ed me by the American Consul at Rio Janeiro,
| Mr.. Gordon
Sold to Manuel Pinto da Fonseca.
Brig Montevideo, J. L. Pendleton MASTER AL
exander Riddell, owner, New-York.
Brig Agnes, Hiram Gray master; John H.
Price, owner. Wilmington, Del.
Brig Kentucky, Geo. H. Douglass master;
Willis & Hart, owners, New York.
Brig Porpoise, Agnes Libby master; George
H. Richardson, owner, Brunswick, Me.--tender
to the Kentucky, Hope, Garafilia and others.
Brig Sea Eagle, Gilbert Smith master; B. c.
Clark & Co. owners, Boston-tender to the
Montevideo and Agnes.