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Show APPENDIX '£0 NOTl::S. ''This is but the 11cginning. There is n tacit 11nderstanrling for tho extension of this l'~;h('mO until len thomm_n~l mo~e h :_~ve. been ln·ou,.,.ht hither on each of which is paid lo (Jf'hcmls, fur wtukmJ; nt it, th~ce ounces,' or fifty-one Jultnr!";, m:LkHlg iu tho ag;:;n~g:\tc $510,000." Prom t!te same payer, of Jan. 10, 1853. 'L'uE AlmiCAN SLAv~: '.l' lt.-\IH: .-Letters fnn~1 tho coast ?f Afri ca. stat~ that tho Ht·itish go1·c rnn•ont arc n.l)out to wnhdn\w t.ILi.llr ~a val. lut·c~::~ from the coast, :LnU, of ~.:\mr::~e, by such an act, aLamlon Its cftorts JU that quarter fur tbo suppression of the slasc trade. J.'roml!tesame paper, of Ptb. 7,1 833. A CoNfLICT 13ETII'l:l:N Tllr: B){l 'r i Sll A:\D S!'AKISII AuTUOil.ITIE! ABOUT A ~J.AO~Jt.-.\ 1-ih\Cl', iu j"I U<-i"C:-sion Of an Jo:ngli,.; fl p ri ~.C Cl"ll\1"1 was 11\tcly taken po~SN'~ion ~f Ly n. ·~umbc•· of t'puni("lh ~oldit•r~, nt )J:\I'IUl:L, '.!.'he J.:u:.;lish l.:ll.Jil:\11\ (Jl:.Lllliltlln) preptLI"Cd fo l' llH I\lCd L:_IlU rcc:~ptun: , n.ud matmcd ~LIS lJoa.t~. lu1: that p~trpub~', but the En,J..(,hsh cousul intel"fcJ·cd, ami rulvn:t,..tl W:\Ltmg m:-<li"lh;twus l!·om home. lhu3 the mn.ttcr remains, while it is :-;n.iJ, the :suldicrli a.•·e busy in t·ffaciug the cl"idcnce wbidt would C(lnticmn her as a shver. 1t is bt:licH:J the Queen-mother is I he owner of the h~ig, :wei hc~cc tbi~ bol.d mea~ure of the U:lpl:~in~Gencral. Mcnnwhtlc, much !11-feclmg lS ununfustcd Ly tho uHicial::~ tuwa.n1s the .English residents. .F'rom the ll"cw 10rk Weekly 1'imes, flj April, 30, 1853. SLAVE 'l'RADf.: h·s AUOLITION. Clarkson W"ilberforcc and Pitt ndi'OCfllNl the abolition of tl•o slave-trade, 'upon the suppol'lition that the abolition of shvcry would follow as the nccessa.ry result. lt wns tho J)l'U\'aicnt errol' of tha\ time. 'l'hu idc:t prevailed in the Con\"cntion whid1 framed the Con· stitution of tho United States. Jt was imng;incd that the existing u cg•·o stoek must natumlly disa.ppcn.r Uencath the rigor of labor nnd !Lan.l. treatment. l t was taken lor granted that the ccs:-ation of the former 1wpply would burden the a~.:tual tll a~·c.s with additional toils ami sull'erings, in orde~ to make up_ the reqmstte return, per llllllUtll, uf the mill ur plantatiOn. l\lortalLty was then>forc set down as a crc,.,ceut qun.ntity; while llllliTia g:c~ and l.Jirthl-l, as nlw:~ys whe_rc tho conditious of Ji!"c arc unt;:norabll', wct·e a!-il:iUm cJ to bo steadily decreasing;. There wuuld Lc t~othiug to repair the exhaustion; t~ud !ho period Uctwccn the tC'J"lllliJattou uf the slarc-tradc and the tcmunat10n of slavery was rcgarJed as a question of time. J t might be half a century; possi!Jly more;, prolmLty. less. lt nc,·er seems to ha.re ~~en thOlwht of, thnt the lrg:•uma.te cllcct of the sht\'C-tradc s uppt·e~s •on mip;J~ be beneficial to the illSt itution of Slavery, and calculated to prolong it indclinitoly. Hut such is the c1·idcncc of fa cts. We have only to ~lraw ~com· parison between Cuba aml the Southern Sta,tos of tlus Uuwn, to Al'PENDlX TO ~OTES. 231 fl.!lCf'tlftiu it. Cuba may bo r('grm..lud a.<; reprcst'nt in~ the condition of thin e;>~ where the ~la1·e pupulatiou i~ "till kt•j•t 11p by imporbttiow;. 'l'lw bla \e-tr; ~de ))('i.\\'1}('11 Uul1.~ anJ Afri ca ha!'! )J('cu very ~lightly aA'..•ct•.-d by the s~:nJr; d con 1·en ti ol.l~ f~Jt· it'> cxtinclion. lt hrrs only lH!L'Il renJL• red IJWI'C haz:u·dou'l. '1'1.(' IH'J.;t"\Jt'i'i han• lwen malt':-!; b~cau~ e m:Lles are bcltc1· able to bt.!:IL" the l L'l "I'OI"M of tho tmnsit, pro], Jngt·U lLLJU hL•ig h t~.: u t•d :hi tht•y \\'ere by tho uect'*' ity of avoid in).; the J~uj.!;lish CJ"Ui>lcrs; nud lll'cau,.,o the plant('t"li have lll'eli.·ncd th em, as field lm n dt~ , tv ,,·omt' IJ, "ho \\'Cl"C found, in uthcr respcuts, expensive and t rouUlt.!"omc. The }Jl"t>"!J'''"t of the impot·tatious ~;('asing \\'i\'1 too indcfinito to cx,•i!e npprdu.:n:-:ionB of the .stf•~.:k JICI'i::d .in::; fl'OIII this t~hort-sig:ht('d polio..:y. Jt was only in 1~ ::1-1, when the rcmo • Jstr:t.tlCf'~, th1·ct~ts aud rcJou!,lcd viJ.;iltul~;C of England :.:;a\"0 the alarm, that lho demauJ fur ti.mmll's lJC't ame :wti\·(', and tho d{'alers were indthJl'd lu proporlion thcir ~:~hipuHmts more wisely. Hut tht•t·o has Jw,•n ll<l I:!Cil.':lib le hlling o!l' in the numhc•· and bulk uf tho ca.rgnN•. Tltu f!l:n•c ptJpulatiou, :t1't~o1·ding to the (:('111!'-u~ 111" tlto isl:wd, takt'll in I KI!I, o.mouutctl to l U.J,J 15. Tho return made no i"ep:u·:ttc •·etH I'IIS fo1· the iWO 80X(l~. 'l'hc I.:CilSLJS Of .1 8-ll did HU. however. showing thf11LUm)J('r of males to Uo 2l:H,~50; of femalci!, J55,2·15; in all, 4;HJ,4U:j. .Nuw there is every reason to beliel'l.l that pre\"ious tu .lt:iJ4, tho proporti1m of mu.lc to fema\o slavci! was a!,! tcu to oue. Jt wa':l uqtol"ious that whole pla.ntat.iuns, employing two 01· three hHmlrcd hand!:~, hn.d uot ~me wouHl.ll on them. Tl~c p:t~ti:dity .to the ~n al?s w:1s ,_;cne:ral. 'J'lJCJ"O IS no doubt that the ga•u u( 2.tl,;{Ll0, whwh l<:J noted IJetwcen IHJ'J and 184.1, is ('lltirely the fn1it of the Af1·i can trade. ~uris this all. 'Vith such d;spariLy bct.\\" CC IL the sexes, the itwr~.:a'ic could not i.H•gin to replace the n.nttual mortality. Signor 'l'cnaza, a u intcllig:ent CuLau, who has just publislted :\tract on the Ruldcct at Pari!<, e.;~timatcs tho net~ll.l i~uportalions iuto tho hland at 431 ,\J~;j in the twenty-one years cndLllJ; 1n 18-ll, or aUout tweitly tlwuswtd per wwum. Thifl is prob:tbly the fact; and although we hare no ofli~.:i:d rctums of the populatiou, ur llw extent of the tmflic sinec th:H date, wo know that :dtholwh tl.H~ influx h:\S diminish ~.:d very considcra.Uly, it ln~s not du;lC c;o !:in?li~ ~JCnt.ly to ronde•· the Lrueding- of negt·ocs a pro!itablc Lu"iuc~<'! . Jt IS stlll chc:lper to buy men, tlmn to Uuy women and rear children. And because the f'xternal ~<Up)Jly "till ~.:uutinue~, the cxactiOIL of cxccssi\' t) l:thor and tl1e infliction uf the cruelties, which so i::l JTOwctl up the souls uf 'Vil bcrf'urcc 1\tld his fnlluwer::~, ~.:O it li tHI C; ouly i11· crco~;iug as t~10 price of II O;.!;r,J~.:s dimini shes. '.l'he bland plautcr ttpplic~:~ the •· sweating:" system to his serfs, Uecause tbcre is no dllliculty in rcplaciu~ tho wear a11d. tc:\1', ft·um the cargoes of huch men Uli C:1pt1tin Uap~, whom our letters dcseriiJcd the other Jay. The natural etl"c?t ot: tills inhuman system is plainly vi s•lJlo. Jo:nglantl }Jl'Otcl:!tl:! a~a.Ln.-;t tt. One lll C<ltmro has been taken tO oiJ,·iatc a portion of tho mtschicf: and tho rest will presently yield to the influences now brought to ))Bt\1' upon the Court of .M:t(h·id. Sla\'cry wil l bo })rosently :~bolishcd in Cub:l.; :lnd it will be abolished a century be fOro f~~tif.~;i~:~t~f:,~cr~!cJr~~t/11~bor arc understood at the South, und th6 |