Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1854-12-28
RevIving the Slave TRADE.


Several Southern papers have taken the
Northern papers to task. for representing the
South as favorable to revival Of the Slave
Trade yet every day We see new evidences Of
the truth Of that representation. Henry A.
Wise. Ike democratic candidate for Governor in
Virginia, is committed to that measure, openly;
and now We have. in quarter that surprises
ms, an ayowal that nothing will save Missouri
but return to national piracy. The St. Louis
In.elligencer, in speaking of the many escapes
of slaves from that State says;
The aggressions upon us, Of late, have been 50
wholesale and impudent in their character that
as above stated. the question is beginning to be
seriously asked. what remedy are we to have
against the wholesale theving to which Ouiciti-
gems are subjected9
So far as we are personally concerned, we do
not ask sympathy for our losses in this line. We
were weak enough two years ago to buy ne
gro man in Kentucky on his own and his white
friends enlreaties, to bring him to St. Louis
where his beloved wife was We bought him,
paid for him, and brought him here-and hug
ged ourselves for having humane heart that
lpited the sorrows even Of apoor darkey, who
was separated from the wife Of bis bosom. -
But 10 in few brief weeks, the grateful and
afFectionate Kentucky darkey fled from the COW
eted embraces Of his dear wife, and sought
refuge in the more loving arms Of Chicago Abb
olitionistsl We have had no attack ofnIgger hu-
manity since, and feel ourselves cured for life.
But others take the matter more hardly. The
editor ofthe Republican, for instance, in a saw
age article, last Sunday, proposes that an en-
arged police shall be raised to keep his own and
other peoples niggers from running off. 1t will
be avery large police that shall stand guard
from Cairo to KeOkuk, on the Mississippi river
and from the Mississippi To the Missouri along
the Iowa hne and the expense Of this enlarged
police will be very great Who will pay for it?
Slave properly only, every man will say. must
be taxed for the protection Of slave property
But lay the tax thus. and it will be too heavy
to be borne. Slavery will be eaten up by the
expense of sustaining il Some other cheaper
remedy, as well as more certain, must be found.
We have our views in regard to this matter,
and If Cur amiable friends will allow ns to give
them, without denouncing US as a Free Soiler or
'plrate;' we will proceed, as follows
There is just enough slavery in Missouri To
prevent the influx of free labor and free capital
into the State but not enough slaves to do the
thousandth part of the work which should be
done in it, as q slave state, We are neither
cold nor hot-but lukewarm.
Now, either let US have no slavery at all, or
great deal more slavery: and as the policy Of
the Federal Government has been radically
changed by the Nebraska bill, and slavery is
impIiedly endorsed as an institution entitled to
be spread equally with Freedom, we vote for
MORE SLAVERY IN MISSOURI. We have enough
to spoil it as free State-give us enough to
make it truly valuable as slave State.
II may be said, that this is sooner said than
done None of the slave States have an over
supply of slaves. All are calling for and need
| ing more.
There is one mode only of meeting this diff
Guilty Abolish the existing laws against the
slave trade. and regulate it henceforth and H.
cense it. The poor barbarians of Africa will be
vastly benefited aud thoroughly Christianised
by the operation. In fact il is only through
slavery that the A African has ever had ray Of
light, Of reason, or of religion poured into his
darkened mind. 1t was the penalties against
the slave trade that made it horrible. Make it
legal and respectable, and then we can have
plenty of niggers for our own use, and can
spare Chicago as many as her citizens wish
10 steal.
We are in earnest about this matter, and
wait with mpatience to hear what our Douglas
and Atchinson Nebraska bill friends will have
To say about it. viii have the courage to get
on our platform and be consistent with them.
selves. or not?