To the Editor of the Noxra-Curxa Darty News, S1,—Race days afforded me much leisure for scanning over pages vf history. Ps ticularly interesting is that period when England and France, with their united efforts, put down the slave trade on the const of Africa, Imagin before my eyes the huge every sail spread and sides. bristling. wi guns giving chase to slivers flying: like winged birds struggling fort arms—slave dealers existing their: crime; and the rows of kneeling blacks invoking blessing of Heaven on the heads of their and gallant rescuers. What! two nations willed their sons executed; giving up their money, blood and life for the: unfortunate races on the Da-k Continent, and History hands down their valorous deeds in letters of vold for ages and ages tofore, To cud my heated fancy which conjured up theee scenes of past generations, T'tock a stroll on the Bund and beheld fluttering in the breeze the flags of England and: France looking as defiant and proud as in the days of yere. But gazing at them sad thoughts crowded into my mind. " Those flags, which slavery had melted like stow under the glare of a noonday's sun, are;: to in these very settlements, protecting slavery of a worse kind—worse than that endured by the negroes. There is stain on the tawny, mane of the Lion arid the
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