The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-07-13

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lparsmonious rich man to enter the kingdom of
God-ChraStian Herald and Journal.
From the Cincinnati Gazette, June IA.
Slavery Professions.
| 1t has given offence to some of our best and
most valGcd friends, that the Cincinnati Gazette
should designate the claims of right insisted upon
by slave owners, as S1avery professions. These
terms are used as clearly expressive of the views
held to be we'll founded on the subject. The
rights secured to the slavery institutions of the
slave states, by the comfy of nations and by the
Constitution the United States, are of such char
acter, that difference of opinion to their legiti-
mate extent, would seem unavoidable. It's in the
nature of things, that the STAKEHOLDER should ask
the broadcast construction, in his own favor, so as
to secure the largest value for his property. On
the other hand those who are entirely persuaded
that slavery should be extirpated from the coun-
try, maintain. that no concession should be made
to it, beyond what is coerced by the mostrgid con-
structions against it, When more is claimed,
such claim is appropriately denominated a pretcn-
sion. The editor Of the Gazette is a strict con-
structionist He is ready to abide the bond as he
reads it, and with that reading he insists to STOP
A claim for more is regarded by him as a preten-
sion.
The expanding character of this pretension--has
already secured for it influence of dangerous ten
'dency. Its extravaganza is passing all bounds,
and carries with it power to subject the political
press, or the greater portion of it, to abect silence
or subservcnt control In proof of this the follow.
ing facts arc presented to the public:
A PROPOSAL TO REOPEN THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
A late number of the New-Or Courier,
paper of good standing, and we'll conducted, makes
these suggestions
1t is well known TO those who have taken tho
trouble to enquire into the matter, that the slave
trade from Africa is more extensive than ever it
was. One of the most violent opponents of the
trade, a member of the British Parliament, by the
name of Buxton,has recently published work
upon the subject. In this work, Mr., Buxton gives
lit as his opinion that the African trade has de-
rived strength from the very attempts made by
the English government TO suppress it. He says,
and produces facts in support OF what he says.
that the millions of money spent on the English
cruisers, and the thousands of valuable lives
which have been sacrificed in them to the climate
during the last thirytwo years, have only tended
to make the trade more demoraizng and cruel
in its tendencies, without at all diminishing the
number Of slaves carried from Africa to America.
"lf such have been the results produced by the
injudicious efforts of the English phianthropists,
we may we'll doubt the policy of the law of Con-
gress which has prohibited the importation Of
slaves from Africa policy that by all we can
learn has no other effect than to cause the plan.
ter of Louisiana to pay TO the Virginia SLAYER one
thousand dollars for a negro, which now in Cuba,
and by and by in Texas, may be bought for half
the money.
1T is known to those acquainted with the char
acter of the African that he is more patient and
less unruly than the Virginia or Maryland negro
his very ignorance of many things makes him
less dangerous in community like ours, and his
constitution is better suited to our climate. In
transporting him from his own country, his posi-
ton too in civilization is bettered, not worsted.
"The more we examine and reflect on the pol
icy the Texans are likely to pursue in this matter,
openly or covertly, the more we are convicted that
Texas should be annexed to the Union, or else
Congress should repeal the law prohibiting the im
portation of slaves from Africa. Otherwise tho
culture of sugar and cotton in Louisiana will suffer
greatly by the cheaper labor which planters Of
Cuba and Texas can and will employ"
Such a cold-bIooded proposition as this one
would suppose, could not be read without a first
impression of chilling horror, second of burning
Indignation. The expression of the public press,
as far as any expression has been made, is in the
COOL calculating temper Of profit and loss. The
Newly DIRK Daily Express speaks thus;
SLAVERY The lare-trade 6et,reen Gala and
Teras.-A report in circulation in Louisiana that
Texas was receiving slaves from Africa, via Gu
ba, has created some feeling among the planters
of Louisiana. The complaint is, that if the fer,
tile lands of Texas can be cultivated by slaves
purchased for less than five hundred dollars, the
planters will in time be enabled to ruin those here
who have paid one thousand or fifteen hundred
dollars for field hand, The New Orleans Cou-
rier makes the following interesting comments up
on the subject"
"lnteresng comments" Verify, it is a ques.
ton of interest the interest of grovelling avarice
a direct prosposal to reopen the African slave
trade, because Virginia and Maryland have mo.
nopoly in slavo-breeding, for the cotton market
Yes, African slaves can be bought cheaper than
Virginia and Maryland slaves and, therefore, the
cotton growers ask Tint the African slave trade