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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr. before Company a (Gregg's regiment), First S. C. Volunteers, at the Reunion at Williston, Barnwell county, S. C, 14th July, 1882. (search)
s and planters, while Rhode Islanders imported for us 8,338. (See Judge Smith's Statistics—Year Book City of Charleston, 1880.) Again. More than fifty years after this, in 1858, the London Times charged that New York had become the greatest slave-trading mart in the world; and Vice-President Wilson, in his work upon the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, quotes from the New York daily papers that there were eighty-five vessels fitted out from New York, from February, 1859, to July, 1860, for the slave trade; that an average of two vessels each week clear out of our harbor, bound for Africa and a human cargo; that from thirty to sixty thousand (negroes) a year are taken from Africa to Cuba by vessels from the single port of New York. （Rise and Fall of Slave Trade in America, Volume II, page 618.) Is it not absurd, with these historical facts upon record, for the Northern people, especially the New Englanders, to charge us with the moral offence of slavery? Slavery a