Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-05-25

pathiaus without being invited and Shrlnks back
from the Bosphorus. the goal of his ambition and
hope, whenever England and France raise
| finger.
mot one word Of the Unions eulogy is true
which exalts the social development of Russia
Its progress in science, art and learning. and the
vast achieve ments of its armies; not one word
which avows its superiority over other countries
OF Europe in every element of national strength
aud happiness, ia the stability aud efficiency of
it government and the content of its people, ia
the energy, honesty, and inmense genius of its
rulers. There is no social development in Rus
| STA; aud there never eau be, while nine-tenths
of its people either serfs of the soil or semi
barbaric forest hunters, but few degrees advanced
above our North American Indians. 1t is laugh
| able to hear of Russian art, science and learning.
when Americans are imported to build Russian
railroads and the trains in motion, and the sa-
vans fthe Car, whose philosophy is directed by
the police aud confronted by the knout, exist
named and unknown even at home. The vast
achievements the Russian armies are, we sup
pose, attested by the conquest of Siberia-effect-
ed by Independent Tattar chiefs-by the march of
Napoleon to Moscow, aud by the Circassian re-
verses which are the contempt and proverb of the
day. The elements of national strength and
happiness in which Russia is superior to othe
countries, consist, it must be imagined, IN her
being shut out from the family of nations, aud
shut in. in species of Imprisonment, by frozen
seas, and other equally impossible barriers
good shields, better teters-an iron cage 10 which
the giant looks large in his seven league boots,
but is only formidable to the Turk, and to those
who fancy he will some day break into Europe,
whittier he never get unless invited by some
coalition of ghtened kings, who would soon,
probably, turn about and dive him back again
Stability aud efficiency of the government How
many Russian Emperors have died in their beds
Or expect to die there What is the reason that
80 many Russian generals and admiras are CASH
Tered every year for POPULATION
"As for tue genius of the Russian monarchs
and the content of the Russian people, we must
leave the Union to settle those points by the aid
of the spirit-rappers. Summon Peter the Great
who was the greatest sot and cut-throat in his
dominions, and "civilized" his subjects by royal
process in which the whip and sword were the
great instrument; and summon Catharine, the
Northern Semiramis, who was--we will not say
what-to enlighten the subject of autocrat-
ic genius. Is Nicholas genius was Alexan-
der genius-or Paul. their father before them,
whom the latter caused permitted, to be assas.
sinated! The people of Russia may be contents
sd-nobody knows whether they Or not, aud
nobody cares. 1t is enough that they submit to
be ruled by tyranny, the united infiicton of the
| nj klo +bo
humiliating known in the annals of the world,
and if they like it nobody will find fault with
them. All that is surprising is to find this con-
tentedness eulogized in an American journal, the
organ of the Democratic party, as one of the
proofs that Russia is ''the preponderating power
of the Old World, standing Gin the front rank Of
civilization" and deserving to be held up as
such to the admiration of American freemen
A NEW SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA.
Liberia papers to the I'd of March, furnish
the subjoined proclamation of President Roberts
1t relates to new species of the slave trade
which has been commenced on the African coast
By the description furnished in this proclamation
it appears that the British, being in want of abo
rers for their West India Islands, have resortee
to their old practice of procuring them from Afri-
ca, with only this difference, that they are now
called emgrants and apprentices. instead Of slaves
The effect in Africa has been the same as thai
which resulted from the ancient slave trade
buying and selling negroes, and carrying o.
wars tor the purpose of making prisoners to keep
up this traffic. The whole story is told succnct-
ly in the following document:
PRocLAMATIoN.- Whereas Messrs. HYDE
Hodge & Co., of London, contractors with hsI
Britannia Maesty's Government to furnish labo-
rers from the African coast for the West Indies,
have sent of their shi ps to the coast of the
Republic, offering an advance of ten dollars for
every person who may be induced to emigrate;
and whereas the extinction of the slave trade
has left large numbers of predial and other
aborers in the possession of the chiefs and prin-
cipal mon of the country, while the offer of ten
dollars each is nearly equivalent to the amount
formerly paid for slaves during the prevalence of
the slave trade, and which operated mainly in
producing aud sustaining the wars by which the
country was distracted; and whereas certain re-
fractory chiefs are reported to have engaged with
the agents of said company to furnish number
of laborers, and are further known to have in
| concealment, near Grand Cape Mount, num-
Der of the unhappy victims of their predatory
excursions; and whereas complaint has been
| made to the Government that persons are held to
be off without their voluntary CONSENT or the
consent oftheir natural guardians; therefore, to
| prevent the abuses and evils which might other
| wise result from the enterprise,
Be it known by this proclamation, to all whom
it may concern, that the law regulating passports
must be strictly observed that vessels carrying
intending to carry away emigrants must come to
this port with their emigrants on board to obtain
passports, in order that opportunity may be
presented to the Govefdment to ascertain whether
the emigration be free or constrained. Every
violation of the law regulating passports will be
visited with the utmost penalty OF the law in that
case made and provided.
Done at Monrovia, this twenty sixth day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thou
| II. 8. sand eight hundred and fifty three. and of