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Slavery In Brazil

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Day
15
Month
September
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Richmond Whig, August 13, has letter from a young Virginian at Rio aneiro, who thus compares the slavèlry f Brazil with tliat ol the United Stutes: "Slavery exists here in sotne inslances fa very oppressive cliaracter, hut genen!ly it assumes a milder form (it is said) han in the United Siates. SLAVES ARE ALLOWED Tü PURCHASE THEMSELVES. This they are ena- )led todo, bysaving thcir earning1' ovr-i heir tasks; in tliis nianner iliey become Tcemen. When a sla ve wishes to;hase liimself, the proper authorities set a oalue upon him, and Ihe master is buund to sell him. I "The only dislinctions known to society are slaves and freemen. You see ne groes in the most abject slavery; then again you see members of this same race occupying posts of considerable distinction - men of intelligence and great easlness of mnnner. Tlie blacks compose mostly the soldiery of the country. The custom-house oöicers are mostly negroes, a great many of lliem movingin llio fir.st circles of society, and iinmensely vealthy." We do not see how n. slatment could i have been devised, to show more conclusively the fallacy of all ourvAmerican proslavery tluories and assumptions, and to prove ihe trulh of v!)at v.-e have often asserted, that the syslem of slavery in ihe United States is both by law and in practice ihe most atrocious and inhuman the world ever saw. It is ihiê sliivery that reverend divines are dividing the church to defend, and that northern doctors of divinity are smoothingover, and refusing tocondemn,lest it should divide the church. - Chronicle.Capt. Peter Flowery, of ihe slover Spitfire notoriety, is now lodged in cur jai], where, perhaps, he will remain until the lernv of bis senience - five years - bas expired. He has a very comfortable room, and every niteniion consistent! witb bis safe cusiody is sho%vn him by Capt. Day and his assistianls. - Salem Adverliser. h is very kind in i;Capt. Day and his assistants," lo give "Capt. Peter Flowe-i ry" such "a comforlable room," and to; show him "every attention consistent with : his safe cüstody." Hè is au ivn fortúnate i mnn, a sort of "prisoner of state," likei Napoleon, or O'Conneil, wliom poüiical [ necessirles, rather iban moral, compel the government to imprison, tbr óecency's sake, at least {or-'-'-perhaps until the term of senience - five years- bas expired." But, of cöuise, he is to receivej "all attention," and be made "comfort.;-' ble," that his time may pass ngivenbly. without inconvenience. except the re- strnint of locomotion. Us solé oiTence i was in malrincf arrnngements to bringne-j groes from África to America- to makci free negroes slaves. For "rensans off state," the United States have prohibiied j this practice in regard to A frican negroos; ■ andtherefore the law must bs oxecuted ; "for reason? of state," while. at the same time, the Ameritan doctrine is. timl tbe conditiun of Africns is greatly irhpr'öyed by being ÖrougTit to America, and that all free negroes liad botter be slaves, and; woiïld be made better qff by being made slay.es., Of course, the people could not beur tb puitifh "Capt. Peter Flowery"' harcily and sternlv, as if he were n Iron. gressoivbut only confine him ïro forma, i ibr having been eaught in duing h iètSÓ : of niercy by monns ivTlítín flíe faw oiÖfgèd lo censuro. We nsfc if lliis is. :mv hing more than a V.ir parapiirpsej o( llie -iibuve pamgrnph, in view of liie fapjsi Loolrfiirther:'- Fr altemptin tomnl:e ; Africnnfrfemen SnX; the mruhal of;, the United Slafes, by order of the Conti ; of the l'niic-dStntes, confines Peter Flowery where he is quiie com(brtabie, and f )as every attentioti. For aitempting to . make American1 slaves freemen, anotherj marshal of the United States, by order or imother Court of tho United Statee, imprisoned Jonathan Wnlkerin an unwholesono cell. londed him wilh irons, set him ! in the piliory, and BRANÍ)ED HLM' "Capt. Peter Flovvery,"a foreigne-its nt li s ensc, reads, w rites, smokes, drinka win?, sees his friends, quite "comfortable," hnving only planned a conspiracy lo enslnve a lew hundreds of Iiis fellow1 men, foreigners. The Rev. Charles T. Torrey, a cilizen, for aUc-mpting to ff'ee' tlneo or four of his fellow countrymen, is clothed in thrr prisoo garb and keut ni ;he daily lnsk of liard labor in the peniteöïiiiry, atnonju' Wons of every trade. Mnrry of the s?.me papers, too, which will be forward to tel! how "comforlable! Peter Flowery's imprisoñment Í3 made for five years, only a few months ago were mnking themselves merry at the' condition of Fairbanks, in the Kentucky Siate prison, in being set to saV stond witl) n stout negro.

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