A letter to WEChanning, , on the subject of the abuse of the flag of the United States in the Island of Cuba, and the advantage taken of its protection in promoting the slave trade . e en-gaged in this unlawful traffic. This lengthy epistle designedly avoidsentering into the question of this scandalous abuse of the Americanflag, for very obvious reasons. One of which it is alone necessary tostate. The entire slave-trade of the island of Cuba was then posingthrough the identical hands of N. P. Trist, the Consul General o^fthe United States at the Havana, inasmuch as the whole illegal traffi
A letter to WEChanning, , on the subject of the abuse of the flag of the United States in the Island of Cuba, and the advantage taken of its protection in promoting the slave trade . e en-gaged in this unlawful traffic. This lengthy epistle designedly avoidsentering into the question of this scandalous abuse of the Americanflag, for very obvious reasons. One of which it is alone necessary tostate. The entire slave-trade of the island of Cuba was then posingthrough the identical hands of N. P. Trist, the Consul General o^fthe United States at the Havana, inasmuch as the whole illegal trafficwas then carried on fraudulently and scandalously under the protec-tion of the American and Portuguese flags; and Mr. Trist was theConsul General of the one country, and the acting Consul of theother, from the period of the dismissal of the notorious slave-tradePortuguese Consul, Mr. Fernandez. Now the papers of the slave-trading vessels of both countries necessarily passed through hishands. It was incumbent on him to see that they were neither°fraud-ulent nor fictitious. But Mr. Trist felt the only incumbency inquestion, was one by no means onerous or disagreeable, that of re-. 12 ceiving the fees of his office, and making the most of the precarioustenure of his post. However, in his long ramhling reply to the Commissioners, whereinall kinds of subjects, et quctdam alia, wholly foreign to their com-munication, are treated in a style of consular diplomacy peculiar toMr. Trist, he concludes this official manifestation of solemn nonsense,by reminding one of the Commissioners that he had been brought upin the Temple, and then calls on him for evidence of the facts statedin the letter; plainly intimating that legal evidence was recpiired, hewell knowing that no such evidence could be produced with safetyj^TTfe in any Spanish court. is Jatest official communication to the Commissioners, bearingthe date of the 8th of July last, was received by these gentlemen onthe 31st of August.
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