Richmond semi-weekly times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 184?-1853, 1852-04-27
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When we called the attention of our readers
few days since to the Indian slave trade, as it is
described to exist by the Governor of the terrific
ry OF Utah, the principal point of our condemna-
ton was the feature of slave traffic which we dis
covered to exist in the transaction. The slave
tade, whether in Indian African captives is
denounced by our federal laws under heavy pen
| alties. The proposition of Governor Young was
this: He recommends to the territorial Legsla
ture OF Utah to open regular commerce III
Indian slaves. The traders were to sell and the
government of Utah was to purchase the misera-
BILE captives. This purchase is not to be ransom,
such relieved Capt. Riley from his unhappy
bondage in the desert of Zahara-fof a ransom is
free and unconditional gift of liberation and is
not coupled with servitude. But, the system
which has been broadly proposed by Governor
Young falls fully and completely within the inter-
diction of the law of Congress- which prohibits
the slave trade. He proposes to rescue these In
dian boys and maidens from one captivity to. sub
ject them to another. This fixes upon the trans
action the brand of felony, a brand which the laws
of the land desire to fix upon it. The ruling OBJ
ject of Congress- in its enactments was to dlscou-
rage this species of traffic. The system of Young
| contravenes that intention by proposing direct
| encouragement to it. What is I'll, difference in
| its effect upon slave sHi- - ! slave-catehng,
whether we purchase .ron the King of Dahomy,
or whether the territory of Utah establishes
| market for the purchase of young Indians, torn
| from their rowing tribes? The trade condemned
by the law would, in either case, receive anequal-
| " powerful impulse. 94,
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Indian slavery once existed in this State, butlt
was abrogated by the same series OF acts that rem
dered African slavery perpetual. 1t was found
| that the Indians here, as in the Spanish West
Indies, were rapidly dwindling away. A system OF
domestic servitude was discovered to be destruc-
| tive to race, whose nomadic inclinations were
entirely opposed to the fixed residence Of civiiz-
ed life The Legislature arrested the hand of ex-
termination and set period to the continuance OF
Indian servitude. The whites might have right
to take and 10 keep, but the Almighty, in ono Of
his earliest canons, has denied the right to kill.
| Whilst the negro multiplied in his servile con-
dition, the Indian was found to perish. 1t was
manifestly opposed to tho laws Of nature to hold
the latter in state of domestic servitude, as it was
| agreeable to those laws to detain the former
There many political benefits resulting from
the institution of slavery, we have it in the
| Southern States, which in ouropinion far more
than outweigh the objections started against it,
And if the people of Utah desire to introduce it in
their midst, there is constitutional method of
| proceeding to attain that end. But after having
adopted the necessary steps to its legality, if they
will consult tho statute law Of the United States
they will discover, that they will be compelled to
draw their supplies from those States of the Un-
| ion where slavery exists. They cannot either
resort to the coast of Africa for their levies, to
| those Indian slave catchers with whom Governor
Young proposes to open commerce.
| We believe this Governor has established
among other unchristian usages 1e institution of
| poigamy, and that he has part Of his own es-
| tablishment a large number of wives. This crow
| ded seraglio we suppose is supplied from the same
Indian market, MS the grand Turk replenishes
his hareem with the maidens of Georgia and Cir
cassia Instead of allowing territorial govern
ment and the protection of our laws, to communi-
! ty of Mormons whose pride tits to tread upon the
customs of christian life it would in our opinion
be better to send out detachment of troops and
dispense that loathsone and detestable fraternity.
| Congress can mould the territorial governments to
any form. Instead Of shaking the government by
| agitating the Wimot Proviso, it would have
been better in them to turn their attention to tho
redress of real evils and abolish and interdct the
immoral system of poligamy, said now TO exist
| in the Mormon settlements. Whether under our
republican system poligamy could be tolerated,
if one of our States should establish it, is u
| question which do not mean to raise. We
would be daunted at the prospect of the Rich
mond Enquirer bearing down upon us in close
columa on the subject of state rights. We here
plainly and formally declare that it does not now
enter into our intention to question the right of
the Legislature of Virginia to alot to every Ben
| edict two Beatrices.
| But we mean merely to suggest that the terri
tory of Utah, to whose political condition the res
olutions of '9s and '99 do not apply, might be
purged of this horrible institution by an act of
| Congress.
NEW YORK, April %.
1t is now reported that Rand, one of tho de-
faulters of the Suffolk Bank, did not sail for En-
rope in one of the steamers as was at first SUP
| posed.
| Cheyaer Hulsemann the Austrian Envoy, ill.,
| tends returning home shortly IN laava Tho "a