Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-24
THE AFRICAN NLAVE TRADE.

Many people among us do 10, allow them.
selves to realize the TACT that tho Shareholders
intend TO have Congress reopen the African
slave trade-pro3abIy because they are un-
abe to credit It. A year ago the same per-
sons did not suppose it poss bic Cor any inhu-
ence in this country TO carry repeal Of the
Missouri Comp-oni,e. They are always in
crclalous i'll this way, and never admit that
any apprehcndcl deviiism OF slavery, can
succeed until its su,tess is made certain
This class Of easy, conservative citzeus,with-
cut being !c,t anywhere as a positive force,
have much influence in cur politics, and they
do very much 10 tenn IT and encourage slavery
to be aggressive. While others work unscru-
puousiy to arrange and carry the measures
Of slavery, the men do very much TO dis
countemnco and o)struct opposition.
It's true, that the slavery fanatics intend
to REEVE the African slave trade, and that
they expect to carry this measure without Sc
rious difficulty. 1t is advocated by various
Southern papers, and slaveholding politicians
at Washington. Mr.. Sidcll in the Senate
has already made molten looking to the in
PRODUCTION Of this scheme, and the demand
for it among slavery propaglnd;sts constant
ly grows and strengthens The aim is to
counter5alanco the influence Of emigration
from Europe 10 the the free States, to supply
the demand for more slaves, and to increase
the facilities for stocking the new Territories
and trans ouing thom into slave States. Tho
Charleston Standard says -
40 practice slavery and yet suppress the
Save tradc-to contend that slavery is OF. ad-
vantage to the races which concur in its ex-
istence and yet resist tae efforts by which the
advantage is cxtcnded-to urge that the union
OF unequal races is necessary to the progress
OF human society, and yet resist the means
by which that union is effected, is a contra-
dction which human ingenuity can never re-
concile; and to such contradiction the
southern section Of this country is compelled
in every effort which looks to the discouAte-
nancing and encouragement of the traffic
with the coast Of Africa, by which the limits
Of this institution are extended.
X x To bask in the bright
ing beams Of such an institution as slavery,to
defend it, to praise it, and pray for its con-
tinuancc and yet contribute ships and soldiers
to prevent It's extension and its spread 10 9TH
ers than ourselves, is scarcely dc.ensible upon
any reasonable principle Of human action"
But, say our Northern quietists,-men who
are proud OF being called conservatives, 'and
who gather their robes closely about them
and pass by on "the other side" whenever
whenever they see an "anti-savery fanatic"
this is only the wild talk Of Southern ex.
tremsts, the madmcn Of slavery, it will new.
err be couuteuanced; no Northern man will
ever advocate Il restoration of the African
slave trade, And so they will feel, and talk
aud help on the scheme by hindcring efficient
opposition to it, until some day not very far
off in the future, the telegraph informs them
that it has been driven through Congress-
Now it is a fact that the Northern scoundrel-
ism which does SO much for the slave power,
has already begun to advocate this revival of
piracy. Look at the following from the ".
Y. Dny Bcok =
alt is undeniable that there is in this
oouu'iy, SioWiIS 0iSpooitloh W WltnuTaW
the restriction on the African slave trade,and
to reopen it to the enterprise of our merchants.
A few years ago the proposition would have
been received with shudder, and found not
one advocate in the whole Union; but the
fanaticism and discussion of the abolitionists
have led good many minds to examine the
subject more closely and carefully, and it is
useless to deny the fact, that there are many
who think that the bringing of the wild saw
ages of Africa to this country, and making
good, industrious working men and women Of
them, would be an absolute blessing.
"a few months ago, we heard most no.
BILE argument in favor of the resumption of
the slave trade, from one OF our most eminent
citizens--a man whose sound judgment and
morality no one will deny, and who has been,
for more than thirty years, consistent and
leading member of the Presbyterian Church.
1.-The basis Of his argument was, that the
Africans were an interior race; that they