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An Exposure of Some of the Numerous Mistatements and Misrepresentations Contained in a Pamphlet Commonly Known by the Name of Mr. Marryatt's Pamphlet: ... Registry of Slaves in the British West India - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816. Excerpt: ... cable to the West-India Legislatures. He afterwards adds, in support of the same opinion, the following fact:--"According to the laws of the United States, no man could be tried for carrying on the Slave Trade, except in the state where the offence was committed; and the records of their courts shew that in some states (particularly Rhode Island, where most of the vessels employed in the Slave Trade were fitted out, and where many prosecutions were instituted), although the circumstantial evidence brought forward was such as to leave no moral doubt of the guilt of the parties, still every attempt to establish the fact of slave-trading by such legal proofs as would induce a jury to convict, uniformly proved ineffectual." Mr. Marryatt has here unwittingly brought forward, and made his own, one of the strongest arguments which can be advanced for the enactment of the Registry Bill. He maintains it to be absolutely impossible to prevent smuggling. His opponents agree that it is so, by any other means than that of a law which, like the Registry Bill, will execute itself. His argument appears to be, that since it has been found impossible to induce the jurors of Rhode Island to convict their fellow-citizens of slave-trading, even though satisfied of their guilt, therefore smuggling will certainly be practised. The inference to have been expected from a mind so acute as his, was, that the Registry Bill, which,wherever it is established, no man can deny will effectually prevent smuggling, is a necessary measure. This most obvious deduction, however, he entirely overlooks, or rather omits; and yet it is a de P. 44. auction which seems inevitable, unless Mr. Marryatt can shew that we may expect a more unbending measure of justice from the juries of Jamaica, Antigu...
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