Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-25
Spirit Of the Morning Press.


essay on Literature for the Million"
which, in its way, is quite readable ar
ticle. In this essay the Republic re-pub-
fishes conversation between Sir Walter
Scott and Constable, the great Edinburg
publisher. It appears that Scott, Lock-
hart, and Ballantyne had an interview
with Constable, in which the latter an.
nounced his intention to revolutionize the
''trade." His manner of doing this may
be learned from the following:
"After some further development of
his views, Constable added, IF live half
. dozen years, I'll make it as impossible
that there should not be a good library
in every decent house in Great Britain, as
that the shepherds ingle- nook should
want its saut poke. Yes he added, with
= favorite adjuration, i have hitherto
been thinking of the wax-lights, but
before I'm twelvemonth older | shall
have my hand upon the tallow' .Troth,'
said Scott, you are likely to be the great
Napoleon of the realms of print If you
outlive me- replied Constable, 4 bespeak
that line for my tombstone; but in the
meantime, may presume to ask you to
be my right-hand man when open my
campaign of Marengo! / have now set
tied my outline of operations-a three
shilling or half crown volume every
month, which must and shall sell, not by
thousands and tens of thousands, but by
hundreds of thousands-ay, by millions.
Twelve volumes in the year, halfpenny
profit upon every copy of which will
make me richer than the possession of all
the quartos that ever were, or ever will
be hOt-pressed. Twelve volumes, so good
that millions must wish to have them,
and 50 cheap that every butchers Gallant
may have them, if he pleases to let me
tax him sixpence per week.
Constable did not revolutionize the
'trade." He died bankrupt. But the
Harpers of New York have, by adopting
Constable's mode of warfare, not only
revolutionized the ''trade, but also made
princely fortunes.
In the Intelligeneer Of this morning.
Gen. John Coke, of Tennessee, in more
than two columns of correspondence, de-
ends himself against an attack by j. T.
Headly in Sartain's Magazine of August
last.
It replies to correspondent who de-
sires to know something of the fate of the
Africans captured by the British cruisers
on board slave ships, thus:
Gas to the fate of native Africans cap.
tured by British cruisers from slave YES
sells, his answer extends only to the course
pursued by the commanders of British
cruisers on the Western Coast of Africa.
Whenever slave vessels are captured by
any of the British men .of.war cruising on
that coast, whether they contain slaves
or not, lin the latter case of course they
are taken on suspicion, based on circum-
stantial evidence, they are sent, in charge
of an officer, to the colony of Sierra Leone,
where there is proper court of adiudica-
ton. Should the captured vessel have
slaves on board, they are placed in situa-
tons in which their physical wants are
provided for, and in which they have the
opportunity of acquiring knowledge of
the customs of civilized life, of improving
their minds, and of learning something of
the advantages and blessings of Christian
ity. The children are placed in schools,
either under the patronage of the British
Government or of the various Missionary
Societies of Great Britain which have mis-
sion stations and schools in that colony.
The older ones are placed in positions
in which they can be usefully employed.
And it not unfrequently occurs that
some Of these miserable beings thus
reserved from the horrors of the slave
ship are, by successive steps, elevated to
positions of honor and of wealth. Some
successful merchants at Sierra Leone
were formerly slaves, Captured on they
way to the western world by British
cruisers. And many of the rescued VIC
TINS have voluntarily returned to their
native countries, well qualified to instruct
their own people in the arts OF civilized
life and the truths Of Christianity. 1t is
believed that at Sierra Leone every neces-
sary means is used for the moral and
intellectual training of captured slaves.