Slave-trade

“In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.”

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We are sorry for his family and friends, but we cannot but rejoice that the Slave-trade has received so heavy a blow.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

“Let us have done with this farce of pretending to punish persons engaged in the Slave-trade,” Raymond concluded, “if the officers charged with and paid for the execution of the laws can make no better semblance of a desire to discharge their duties,” especially when the president himself declared that the death sentence would not apply “ ‘even upon conviction.’”

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

I am not counsel for Gordon, but I am for Haines, who is under indictment for being engaged in the Slave-trade, and of which charge he declares his innocence.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

In your unofficial letter which is stated in the Times of this morning to have been addressed to a prominent official at the National capital you have given your opinion in the exigency of the execution of Gordon, convicted of having been engaged in the Slave-trade.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

The New York Times put it succinctly: “Henceforth the Government of the United States washes its hands completely of all complicity in the Slave-trade.”

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

It is for you to say whether that is the Slave-trade.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

The Slave-trade has experienced a blow from which, it may be hoped, it cannot recover.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

The Slave-trade is not, unhappily, a plant of such weak growth in our midst that it requires to be watered with these tear-drops of Executive clemency.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

If this was a bona fide sale, why were men employed to go over to this unhealthy place to transfer their ship—a place where, according to the claim of the defendant, a man would be probably compelled, if he wanted to get away from it, to embark on a vessel in the Slave-trade, involving the perils of that trade, and the horrors of a passage through tropical seas upon such a vessel?

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007