Anti-Slavery, Monthly Reporter, Vol. 4
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Excerpt from Anti-Slavery, Monthly Reporter, Vol. 4: Commencing January 1831, and Ending December 1831 We have already referred in No. 71 (p. 496), and No. 72 (p. 505), to a volume laid on the table of the House of Commons by Sir George Murray, on the 16th July, 1830, numbered 676, but which has been only recently made public. It is entitled "Papers presented to Parliament by his Majesty´s Command, in explanation of the Measures adopted by his Majesty´s Government, for the Melioration of the Condition of the Slave Population in his Majesty´s Possessions in the West Indies, on the Continent of South America, and at the Mauritius, in continuation of the Papers presented in the year 1829, No. 333." We proceed to give an abstract of them in the order in which they stand. 1. Jamaica. A letter from Lord Belmore, dated 20th Dec, 1829, transmits a copy of the new Jamaica Slave Code, to which his Lordship, contrary, it seems, to his instructions, had given his assent, without appearing to have been conscious that in doing so he was guilty of a dereliction of his public duty. He laments, indeed, one clause in the Bill, and one only, which he says creates an invidious distinction between sectarians and ministers of the established church; but he seems to have entirely forgotten that he had been absolutely prohibited from assenting to any law already disallowed by his Majesty, or from passing any persecuting enactment whatever without a suspending clause. Now this act of 1829 was nearly the same act, and it embodied the same persecuting clauses contained in that of 1826, which had been disallowed by Mr. Huskisson, and in that of 1827, to which, under the express orders of the Government, Sir John Keane, then Governor, had refused his assent. "As the bill," his Lordship says, "upon the whole, is certainly more favourable to the Slave that that of 1826, I could not feel myself justified in refusing my assent to it." We have carefully collated the two acts, and we venture to say, that it would greatly puzzle Lord Belmore to state a single substantial amelioration in that of 1829, as compared with that of 1826, while we could specify more than one deterioration. But both laws being defunct, we need not waste time in analyzing them; and as to the course pursued by the Noble Lord, the necessity of any remark of ours upon his conduct, is precluded by the masterly despatch of Sir G. Murray, which exhibits a perfect model of calm, firm, and dignified reproof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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