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Show 168 CUBA· with the utmost cordiality, in their endeavors to extinguish the most inordinate system of cruelty and wickedness that ever stained the annals of mankind. Let America and England fully join issue on this momentous subject-and the work is done. In the mean time, something may, I trust, be effected, by legislative enactment. It seems very desimble .first, that the laws against building ships evidently calculated for the slave trade, and 011ly for this purpose, should be rendered as clear and stringent as possible; secondly, that the consular office at Havana, should be armed with greater powers, to stop these iniquitous proceedings;,. transitu. Such were the conclusions to which our own observation and reflection had brought us ; and we were rejoiced to find, when at Washington, that a bill for these very purposes, had been introduced to Congress, by our worthy friend John Davis, Senator from Massachusetts. I am told that it has since passed into a law. But we con· ceive that preventive measures on the coast of Africa, are still more important. \Ve were informed, on high authority, at Wasltington, that it was the indrjinite extent only, to which the mutual right of search was granted under the presidency of Monroe, that was found to be inconvenient, and led to a change of system on the part of this country ; and that had this mutual right been confined to certain limits near the African coa.st, no o~ject·ion would evm· have been 'made to it. Such being the facts of the case, I would venture to suggest to thy calm consideration, whether within these safe limits, the provision in question might not yet be conceded. There can be no dou 'Jt that such a measure, more than almost any other, would facilitate the suppression of the odious traffic. May I venture to entreat thee, to make use of the weight of thy own intluence, in favor of the alfirmative settlement of this essential point? Before I \eave the subject of Cuba, I think it right to remark, that all persons who visit that island, must be aware of the distinction between the newly imported slaves, and those who have been born on the island, or have been long employed in CUBA, the service of their mast T · ers. he former 11 d Bo Illegally introduced ar ' ca e zales being 169 , ' e not regarded b h ' as the property of their h ld ' ' Y t e laws of Spain. 0 ers In th h · ' the Amistad, the decisio f ·h e muc ag•tated case of . n o t e local f agamst the delivering up f h courts o Connecticut o t e slaves ' understand, on the fact that h • was grounded, as 1 . t ese persons were L d" I. e. true Cuban s\uves-bu t Bo zales , h not a mos-in the eye of the Spanish I ' v o arc no slaves at all, aw. Now appeal has been made, aO"ainst that d ':e are aware that an Court of the United State~ I ld ects•on, to the Supreme · wou remark th h decree be reversed it would 1 h ' • a.t s ould the ' 1uve t e i.njur" . . the sanction of the highest lc al . wus effect of gmng that shameful traffic by \Vhgh thnbunalof this country, to IC t ese rruser bl brought into illeual bondage-. t l .. a e men were and thu " · "' 0 t w condttton of Bozales · . s the co-operation of unworthy citizens of h . ' m promotmg that traffic would he e d t e Unton, Th ' ncourage and confirmed at so great a calamity may be averted mu t b th . desire of all who wish well to th ' ~ : e earnest e cause of JUstice and hu-manity. I am, &c., &c, 15 |