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HORRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE.--Commander Castle, R.N., while on service
with the preventive squadron in 1828, in command of H.M.S. Medina,
captured the Spanish brig El Juan, with 407 slaves on board. It appeared
that, owing to a press of sail during the chase, the El Juan had heeled
so much as to alarm the negroes, who made a rush to the grating. The crew
thought they were attempting to rise, and getting out their arms, they
fired upon the wretched slaves through the grating, till all was quiet
in the hold. When Captain Castle went on board, the negroes were brought
up, one living and one dead shackled together; it was an awful scene of
carnage and blood; one mass of human gore. Captain Castle said he never
saw anything so horrible in his life. In the year 1831, the Black Joke
and Fair Rosamond fell in with the Rapido and Regulo, two slave vessels,
off the Bonny river. On perceiving the cruisers they attempted to make
their escape up the river; but finding it impracticable, they ran into a
creek, and commenced pitching the negroes overboard. The Fair Rosamond
came up in time to save 212 slaves out of the Regulo, but before she
could secure the other, she had discharged her whole human cargo into
the sea. Captain Huntley, who was then in command of the Rosamond, in
a letter, remarks--“The scene occasioned by the horrid conduct of the
Rapido I am unable to describe; but the dreadful extent to which the
human mind is capable of falling was never shown in a more painfully
humiliating manner than on this occasion, when, for the mere chance
of averting condemnation of property amounting to perhaps 3000_l._,
not less than 250 human beings were hurled into eternity with utter
remorselessness.”
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HYPOCRISY.--Hypocrisy is, of all vices, the most hateful to man; because
it combines the malice of guilt with the meanness of deception. Of
all vices it is the most dangerous; because its whole machinery is
constructed on treachery, through the means of confidence, on compounding
virtue with vice, on making the noblest qualities of our nature minister
to the most profligate purposes of our ruin. It erects a false light
where it declares a beacon, and destroys by the very instrument blazoned
as a security.
Cant resembles a young wife married to an ancient husband: she weds
religion, looking forward to live by his death.
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