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Excerpt from The Christian Examiner, Vol. 7Under the law of the United States, the slave trade with the coast of Africa was piracy, punishable by the extreme penalties of the law. Yet the trade never entirely ceased, and, in many cases, there was no remark or comment by the people who knew it; and in the Charleston Convention of 1860, Colonel Gaulding, of Liberty County, a