Chapter VIII: The Walker Administration

Necessity for Social Re-organization—Difference of
Language—Decree of Forfeited Estates—The Registry
Decree—The Slavery Decree—Colonial Systems of Spain and
England—Anti-Slavery Feeling in Europe and America—How
Produced—Effects on Spanish American States—The Negro in
Tropical America—Policy of the Decree—Its Relations to
Parties in the United States—The Anti-Annexation Character
of the Decree—M. Ange de St. Priest—Interest of Continental
Powers—Interest of England—Feeling against the Slave Trade—True
Character of the Commerce—Africa and America—Experiments
of Hayti and Jamaica—Position of the Slave States—Their
Apathy—The Course of the South—Her Proper Policy—Efforts of the
Anti-Slavery Parties and Powers—Southern Interest in Nicaragua PAGE 251