The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-29
AFFAIRS IN UTAH.

Judge Snow, in letter published in the Ma
tional InteAfgeneer, contradicts the unfavorable
reports rendered by two of the other judges of
Utah, concerning the state of things in that
Territory He says the people are orderly, at
tached to the Government of the United States
devoted to the principles of the Constitution,
and he speaks well of Governor Young and his
administration.
The Governor, in his annual message, thus
refers to Slavery and the Slave Trade:
"The practice of purchasing Indian children
for slaves is trade carried on by the Mexican
population of New Mexico and California.
These traders. of late years have extended their
traffic into the limits of this Territory. This
trade | have endeavored to prevent and this
fall happening to encounter few Of them in
nv travels as Superintendent Of Indian Affairs,
strictly prohibited their further traffic The
majority of them appeared satisfied, and after
making a few exchanges of property in the set
| Elements, returned to their own country; unfor.
tunately, however, few Of them still deter
mined to carry on their nefarious traffic, they
have been arrested and are now on their trial
| in this city. .
at is unnecessary, perhaps, for me to indi-
cate the true policy for Utah in regard to Sla-
very. Restrictions of law and government
make all servants; but human flesh to be dealt
| in as property is not consistent or compatible
with the true principles of government. My
own feelings are, that no property can or should
be recognised as existing in slaves, either In.
dian or African. No person can purchase
them without their becoming as free, 80 far as
natural rights are concerned, as persons Of any
other color; under the present low and degra.
ded situation of the Indian race 80 long as the
practice of gambling away selling, and other
wise disposing of their children, as also sacr
fcng prisoners, obtains among them, it seems
indeed that any transfer would be to them 9
relief and benefit. Many life by this meant
is saved; many a child redeemed from the
thraldom of savage barbarity and placed upon
an equal footing with the more favored por
tons of the human race. IT, in return for ia
vors and expense which may have been incur
red on their account service should be consd
cred due it would become necessary that some
law should provide the suitable regulations un
der which all such Indebtedness should be de
frayed This may be said to present new fea
ture in the traffic of human beings; it is essen
TALLY purchasing them into freedom, instead o
slavery but it is not the low, seryile drudgery
of Mexican slavery, TO which would doom
them, not to be raised among beings scarcely
superior to themselves but where they could
find that consideration pertaining not only to
civilized, but humane and benevolent society
"UNcLE TOMS CABIN n-CoSsIDERATIoNs
FOR AUrHoRs-The Nep York Euening Post
commenting upon the almost unprecedented
sale of Mrs Stoves great work, submits some
considerations deserving the attention of au.
thors
In rendering our congratulations to the
gifted and fortunate authoress of Uncle Toms
Cabin we take leave to suggest word Of ad-
vice to authors in general, suggested by these
facts. Had Mrs Stowe taken her MS, in the
usual way to book maker to be published,
and had it appeared as work Of a stranger,
! or at least of writer Of no ascertaincd posi-