The American Tract Society's almanac for the year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1861 : being the first after bissextile, and until the fourth of July, the eighty-fifth year of the independence of the United States : calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and four parallels of latitude, adapted for use througout the country . was fought, which lastedthree days. Four thousand five hundred men were slain upon the spot! It is impossible to conceive a more foul blot upon the American name,than the revival of this traffic at a day like the present. It is reversing thewhe
The American Tract Society's almanac for the year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1861 : being the first after bissextile, and until the fourth of July, the eighty-fifth year of the independence of the United States : calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and four parallels of latitude, adapted for use througout the country . was fought, which lastedthree days. Four thousand five hundred men were slain upon the spot! It is impossible to conceive a more foul blot upon the American name,than the revival of this traffic at a day like the present. It is reversing thewheels of civilization, and voluntarily going back to barbarism. And yetthere is reason to believe that even now vessels are being fitted out iof our ports, designed to be engaged in this soul-destroying trade. On the morning of the 30th of April, 1800, the U. S. steamer Mohawk,Lieutenant Craven, commanding, came to anchor in the harbor of Key West,having in tow a bark of the burden of about 330 tons, supposed to be the WUd-Jire, owned in New York. The bark had as cargo, five hundred and ten nativeAfricans, taken on board in the river Congo, West Africa. She had beencaptured a few days previously by Lieutenant Craven, aj an American ves-sel engaged in the slave-trade. It was said that the bark was capable of THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETYS ALMANAC. 29. carry!.i ; on s thousand, but the captain not daring to wait for. a full cargo,she set sail with six hundred. More than ninety died on .e passage, butthis was considered a S7nall loss comparatively, and shows th;:- the blacks hadbeen better cared for than usual. The picture .gives a view of the slave-deckof the bark. Many of the poor wretches died after their arrival, others be-came diseased past recovery, and were added to the number of President, on receiving news of the capture of the Wildfire, sent a spe-cial message to Congress on the subject, representing the necessity of anappropriation to meet the expenditures called
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