Demoine courier., 1854-11-30

'HiSes tAse W "httS Is
European lsnguished and died. Thus,
on the one hand was a land inviting the
most active enterprise, and promising The
richest returns, vet closing the treasure,
By the seal OF death. 10 The labor of every
race bur one; aud on the other stood Ar
RIGA, ready TO pour forth and supply, in
countless thousands. tia, very race.
Now, II ever 4 case arose which should
have been sacred from the intermeddling
of seniimentalisls, which called for the
most enlightened and liberal statesman
ship. i, was this. Yet, wha. do we see!
While The East India company. under
the sanction of The British Parliament,
was coming the hearts and lives of its
subjects into rupees; while Cline and
Hastings were ,rampling down right, and
property. and mercy. and filling the land
nh horror, the mere description OF
which. by Burke, caused the women of
England 10 swoon in the galleries of the
Commons-in The midst of those nearer
and more tangible evils, of a sudden, AT.
RIGA and African slave trade, became The
grand objects of sympathy. The cru.
SADIE began with a falsehood. For Viii.
berforce and Clarkson, though resolu,ely
bent on emancipation in tie colonies, tx
pressly avowed their whole aim to be
the suppression OF the slave trade. One
moment of suber thought would have
taught ,ha, a trade SO enormously profit.
able, so easily conducted, and SO difficult
10 abolish, required no, the hand of ex.
treme legislation, which, by increasing
The iisk to the trader, would make him
only the more reckless. End cruel, but
those moderate measures, which would
at once legalize his interests, We, protect,
their prosecution from brutality. But
fana'icism, acting, as it ever does, with
ideas alike visionary and destructive, de
clared the African SLAYER an outlaw and a
pirate. east HIM from The pale OF human.
!ty, and made him a desperate man. He
was compelled henceiorlh TO conduc. The
trade with all The secrecy and remurse-
lessness of every pursuit where failure
and detection involve The consequence.
of crime. Is ii surprising that the hos.
ule laws on this poin,, were, from the
first, a sheer mockerl! That the slave
trade has gone on in spite Of fleets and
fanatics, and Is this day not only agra
waited IN its seventies, but undiminlshed
ia its cargoes! The facts are with us.
When a. lis height, and before II was de-
clareG piracy, the number transported
did not exceed SO 600 annually. And
now il is far beyond that. Mr.. Hume
stated in a late speech in Parliament,
that 10000 had been imported into Gu.
ba alone during the las, SIX months.-
The testimony from all quarters is, tina.
he trade is s,ll unchecked. The report
made last winter in the Senate upon the
proposition 10 withdraw the African
squadron. gives a nos humilltaung &C.
count OF the failure TO etfec, any Gimu.
nilion, Mr.. Wise, ia his recea, letter,
says:
1.-The philosophy Of Theirs was true.
The coniraband increases the cruel,ies OF
the trade. and don't in the leas. diminish
tie number of The victims. Tina, num-
Der amounted TO GO, 600 per annum, a,
least, when | left Rio in ls47, from the
coas, to Brazil"
Such are The fruits of government. in
terferense dictated by a morbid sentiment
TALLY. Are they not enough TO make the
world pause? Is il not ,me to look a,
this matter as involving questions which,
stretching beyond the narrow visions of
dreamers, demand for their solution calm
inquiry and sober discussion? Does no,
the slave trade, in supplying so many
f%ourishiug States The labor neeiful 10
their Development, IN abundanlly fur
nishing TO the world the most useful
products of human labor, in bringing the
savage vi,liC the pale Of civilization and
christianity, and. lastly. by still progress
ing in its work in defiance of all attempts
al lis suppression, by all these titles,
rightly claim for itself an origin higher
than mere ~avarice, and a recognition u,
the hands Of The government other than
is accorded 10 the buccaneer and pirate?
We desire to see this question taken on.
of the hands of empty headed fanatics.
who have all along usurped It's control;
and, when this is done, we confidently
expect to zee the slave trade c,assed
among those m mysteries. which, however
repulsive to fasiidious eyes. are yet, in
the hands of God. the instruments of
mans progress.