Demoine courier., 1854-11-30
From the st. Louis Democrat.
Another Firebrand.
REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE,

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REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
Observant readers who have an op
por'unity OF seeing The Southern news
papers must have been struck with The
coInciden' appearance of a grea, many
articles recommending the abolition Of
all law against the slave trade, and al.
hitting that traffic to the privileges of
Tree trade. These articles were sImul
ianeous with The repeal vi the Missouri
Compromise, and were soon followed
by Mr.. Slidells monon in The Senate to
withdraw our squadron from the African
coast. SO as TO offer no impeachment from
The United States 10 the protection Of
this trade. All these articles, and this
movement by Mr.. Slidell, seem TO have
been but preliminary and preparatory to
an open avowed intention in the South
10 effect the ohjec. which they proposed.
The Charleston Is. CO. Mercury On.
wells and enforces the plan. and when i,
is remembered that tina. paper is the .'or-
gan of The nulliiers-that i. was there.
in 1885. that the programme for the
slavery agitation. with a view Of organ
izlng The South agains. the North, was
laid down which mas been so steadily
Followed up ever since-it cannot be
doubted that this measure has been re-
solved upon, and is to be pursued by us
authors as the browning measure for d.
vlding and breaking up the Union. We
give the article entire as j, appears in the
Mercury, and ask for il no, merely a
reading but a serious contemplation by
al, the patriots in the land. Ii is a stu.
diousty prepared and carefully written
paper, and bears upon its face the i'm
press OF determination 10 rouse the slave
ry agitation to the highest degree, and to
face the Consequences be what they,
may. Besides the ohjec, and design Of
The article the reader will be struck by
the accumulation Of terms Of unmitiga.
led contempt and scorn in which all are
spoken Of that ever favored measures for
The suppression Of this trade, and we
hope i. will also be remembered that these
terms OF contempt are applicable to the
trainers of our conslitution-(which pro
vided for the suppression OF this trade)
to the early Congresses which passed
laws TO carry this provision into effect
and to the Congress under Mr.. Monroe
in 1920. which made lha, traffic piracy,
punishable with death. Seeing To whom
among the illustr,aus dead these terms
are applicable we may ex;ect them to be
doubted, if possible, upon the living men
who may oppose their plans. We know
'ha, the mass Of good citizens hnd it
hard 10 believe in a settled design in the
nulllfers to force quarrels about slavery
until they can break up the Union. We
feel, too, tina, i, is honorable to the hear,
to disbelieye such a thing, but ne,er,he-
less j! is a staring and startling fact
There IL such a design. 1t is as old as
notification. 1t is more bold and daring
than ever j, was and has made more pro.
gress under Nj. Pierce's brief admins.
traiion than in 20 years under Mr.. Cal
houn.
From the Charleston Mercury.
Revival Of the Slave Trade.
II is now nearly half a century since
the people of the South. in a spirit of
homes! bu. mistaken philanthropy, con.
sented to measures for the abolition of
the slave trade l, was the frs, step TO
wards the grand aiiOn-,he ex-
JUNCTION OF slavery itself. In England
the same policy had been pursued, anu
in the end. emancipation in the British
colonies crowned with success the un.
firing efforts of fanaticism. Out of this
last acl of folly, grew the fret sober re.
Election. and mankind, taught by its ter.
rlble results, were forced to look a, the
question by more practical and ,ruer
lights than flickered ia the ex,ravagani
rhetoric Of WIlberforce and his coadju-
Tors. Indeed, so rapidly did these is
lands fall from prosperity into decay. ut.
ter blight and desolation, that Mr.. Ma
cauley. SO far back as 1910. just seven
years after the act had gone into effect,
declared in the House OF Commons, that
''if twenty five years hence those colo.
MES in which slavery continued should
be able to point TO those in which i, had
been abolished, ruined, and the planta-
tions in them abandoned, then he would
say, tina, although we should indeed have
wiped a stain from our own land, he
questioned whether W. should have con
ferred a great and signal blessing upon
humanity in general" The world well
knows how fully his apprehensions have
been justified, and how emancipation
has come to be a word significant only
of impovefishmen, and destruction
But il is not merely to institute a parallel
lha. we now allude 10 it,. We wish 10
show that governments have always fail
ed 10 effect any good by interfering with
slavery; and that as emancipation was
followed by the direct consequences, SO
measures for The suppression of The
slave trade have only aggravated the evils
they aimed 10 ex.irpa.e. This done.
we shall proceed TO an examination Of
the slave trade itself. as a question Of vi
tai interest TO the American continent.
and with which its future deyelopemeni
is closely bound up.
Our readers will remember that this ia
no new question with US. Ii wal long
since discussed in the columns Of the
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