The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-07

in his notes on the filSloIy VI
cry in Massachusetts,; and in prevent
ing the imposition of any tax on paint
ers' coNrs, copper plates for shedtning
cotton goods, all dyeing materials,
glue. hides and skins, sheet iron,lead
in bars. white lead, red lead, sail
cloth. sea-stores in ships. seines,
WOODEN socks and stockings, tin, iron
and steel wire, and raw WOOL; ana a
struggle in which Nlce-Presloehl
Adams took what Maclav considered
a disreputable part, they succeeded IN
having the committees proposed SIX
cents per gallon on imported molasses
reduced to two and one-half cents.
Slavery and the Slave Trade.
In the Congress Of the Co~nfedera-
ton which assembled on November
IS, 1888, Thomas Jefferson prepared
and offered a plan for the government
OF the Territory which became ohlo'
indian and Illinois; and IN II was
this memorable clause: After the
year 1900 of the Christian era there
shall be neither slavery nor involun-
tary servitude in any Of the said States
q. e.. those cr"ated out of the said
territory, otherwise than in PUNISH
ment Of crimes The plan was adopt
ed with the anti-slavery clause Strick-
en- out: and it is interesting to q
that of the twelve States represented
only four were Southern States,
namely. Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Maryland.
Moore's Notes on the History or
Slavery i'm Massachusetts, tell us that
i'm 1853 the Desire" a Massachusetts,
ship, was sent by Colonial authorities
TO Africa and brought back a number
of negroes for whom purchasers were
easily found; and that this traffic was
not offensive to the people of New
England we may judge from the fol-
lowing evidence:
/. The Due de La RochefOucauld-
LiancOurt came over to this country
in 1875, and in his Voyage dams les
Etats Cnis" he says that NEARLY
twenty vessels from the harbors OF the
Northern States" were busy shipping
negroes from Africa to Georgia and
the West Indies: and
2. In President Lincoln'S ge
of December s, 1861, he said: give
vessels being fitted out for the slave
ed To suppress it; n that the slave
cargo OF Africans on his vessel ha:
been convicted" &c.
Thus. without examining the mes
sages of the Presidents and othel
public documents. we cannot dOub
that New England slave-traders fol
lowed this inhuman traffic for at leas
hlly-tWO yeaIS LIZ laws we're eHdCI
ed TO suppress it; and that the slavee
traders were not violating the mora
code OF those States we may accep
the testimony of John J. ingalls,. al
Illinois SenaOr who was a native o
Massachusetts. In 1890 he said in tn
Senate. where he had been servin,
since March !. 1878: 1.-The conscienc,
OF New England was never aroused t
the immortality of African slavery un
til 1T ceased to be profitable"
l cannot leave the subject, however
without reminding the reader that tn
slave-trade. as we are informed b
Bancroft, Spears f"American Slave
Trade"). Dubois Suppression of tn
Slave-Trade") and others, was char
acterized by treachery. brutality an
murders. "the Horrors Of the middl
passage" almost SURPRISING belief.
some Of the SOuth's Burdens.
From 1880 to 1860 the fishermen {
New England frequently violated thei
treaty rights to catch fish on the Ban
OF New Foundland, in the Gulf {
saint Lawrence elsewhere, and s
doing compelled the Federal Govern
ment to spend many millions Of do
lars-much Of the money having bee
contributed by Southern
imported goods-to prevent the no
tile measures which such lawlessne
invited.
Fol reasons which do not appear
the records. when the compromi
tariff act Of 1888 was adopted. it r
duced the tar on imported salt fro
20 to 10 cents per bushel, but il d
not reduce the drawback which W
allowed when sailed articles were e
ported. Hence. as Benton inforr
US C"Thirtv Years View. IT. 316
the New England exporters OF salt
Goldfish were permitted to draw out
the Federal treasury twice "a mn
money as they a paid in. In a
years (from 1913 to 1S54) their Gle
gain was. as Mr.. Benton calculate
about 100000.
In 1892, while Senator William
King. of Alabama, was opposiny
proposition to divide among the sta
the proceeds Of the sales Of the pub
lands, he said.
Massachusetts and Maine whi
are now selling and enjoying tn
vacant lands in their own right. a
Connecticut, which received a dc
for " millions OF acres from
Federal government, and sold tn
for their own benefit, are put upon
equal footing with Virginia, VIII