The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-12-26
From the New York Globe
NORTHERN SLAVE TRADERS
AND THEIR PERFIDH.

that in the early practice OF the latter he
had collected upwards OF S3Oo,00o on
bonds and notes of citizens OF South Car
olina and Georgia, given TO citIzens OF
Rhode Island for negroes imported and
sold into those States.
The Constitution of the United States
restrained Congress from passing any law
10 prevent the importation of slaves before
the year 1903.
The State of South Carolina, in 1904,
open her ports 10 the traic, ana large
number of cargoes Of negroes was brought
in there direct from the coast OF Africa.
from that time 10 December 1907. OF
course regular register was kept at the
custom house of the number OF vessels
eng aged in the trade-for that period of
four years-ihe owners, consignees, their
place of residence, &c.
In 1920, when the Missouri question
was before Congress, no State was more
bitter against Shareholders generally, and
against the admission OF Missouri In par
ticular, unless slavery was prohibited, than
the State of Rhode Island. Al that ses-
sion of the State Legislature, lS2O-2l,
rhey elected Mr. James De Wolf Sena-
tor in Congress, continuing their lnstruc-
tons against slavery.
On this state of facts Mr.. WIN. Smith,
then a Senator from the State OF South
/ CaIolina-a man of great weight OF char>
! acter and influence, who aflerw ards resi-
! ded in Alabama, and died a few years
since al Huntsyille-took the pains TO OBJ
tain from the CUSTOM house books tran
script OF the papers IN every case OF i'm
ported slaves at Charleston, during the
period named, and read it in the Senate.
! We copy some of the revelations.
!, The number of vessels entered was
2O2, and they were owned as follows: 20
British, 81 Charleston, 50 Rhode Island.
4 Baltimore, French, 3 Norfolk, Con-
necticut, Boston, | Swede.
This list of conslgnees presents strong
: picture; of these 81 were natives of Eng
5 land, So natives of Rhode Island, 10 ma
| tves of France, and only l3 natives OF
: Charestoni
, The whole number of slaves imported
2 was 29,O75 Of which 2l,O27 were on
I British and French account. The three
2 Rhode Island ports of Bristol. Newport
r and Providence, furnished 1858, and the
/ whole number imported on Charleston
= account, by merchants and planters OF that
vicinity, was only 2,006l
2 Ten Of these cargoes belonged TO Mr..
r James De Wolf, the newly elected Sena-
e tor from Rhode Island.
e When MIR. Smith read this document in
g the Senate there was great hutterIng, anC
, an ATTEMPT was made to call him 10 order
e for rejecting on the Stale of Rhode Island
h and 1t was ruled that Mr.. De Wolf moi
,, having taken his seat, was not Senator
= and Mr.. Smith sarcasticallY observed thaI
{; he was not reproaching even Mr.. DE
: Wolf for trading in lawful traffic, bul
replying TO the resolutions and reproaches
of that Stale against slave holders.
By virtue OF that clause in the Consti-
] tuition requiring fugitive slaves to be given
d up on claim to the owner, and by virtue
d also of the act of Congress of 1898, en-
r forcing that provision OF the Constitution
d the Northern slave trader had good mar-
d kct al the South for his cargo. Had no
means for the recapture OF fugitive slaves
a existed, their value would hardly have en-
d ablcd our New England AboliionIsts to
n have accumulated such large fortunes by
= the prosecution of this lucrative branch o
If commerce The Constitution and the
l. law, by making the purchaser secure o
h retaining his slave, gave HIM value, anC
was therefore the true source of the emolu
l. ment and profit derived from this interna
d traffic by those engaged in 1t.
d But the North is not Only responsible
for the importation into the South OF slave,
d from Africa, prior To 1903, but her agency
d i'll supplying the South with slaves di(
not cease with the abolition of the foreign
slave trade at that time. From 1898 unit
the final abolition OF slavery in all th
l. States North of Delaware and Mary land
D. Northern men were extensively engaged
d In the domestic slave trade. We know
- several families, now in affluent circum
lr stances, whose parents laid the founda
ID ton of their fortunes by purchasing lie
IS groes in the States of New York New
lie Jersey and Pennsylvania, and transport
lg ing them to Georgia, Mississippi and Lou
is isiana. Indeed, it was owing 10 the hor
m rors of this traffic, and the misery an
l. cruelty with which 1t was attended, tina
10 the abolition of slavery was accelerated i
e. New Jersey.
I'd Now after having received from tn
Sc South hundreds OF thousands of dollar
d. for negroes. furnished by the North-th
people of the North are refusing to SUI
render these negroes, for which they hav
been paid-in despite of the Con stitutio
x and the Law, which created at the Sout
Id a market for their oetestable trahc-an
ss without which these negroes would neve
We have been sent there.
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