The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-04
THE SLAVE TRADE IN EUROPE.-THE
CIRCASSIAN WOMEN.

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THE SLAVE TRADE IN EUROPE.-THE
CIRCASSIAN WOMEN.
The N. Y. Journal Of Commerce speaks of
the horrible white slave trade in Europe, a
trade in human beings who are superior in
every physical and moral endowment, to
those who buy and sell and who retain them
as slaves. "The Circassian women especi-
ally-and they form the staple of the trade
are often the most beautiful and the most
gentle of their species. Of them it may be
truly said
ANGELS were painted fair, to look like you
Nor is this claim to rank with the most IA
vored of the human family, confined to the
person, it extends also to the mind-to its
kindly disposition certainly, if not also to its
intellectual capacity. There is, in short, no
inferiority in their human nature, whether
physically or nationally considered. They
are as well qualified, naturally, to fulfil the
object for which, according to the philoso-
pliers, that compound being man was at
first created viz: 'to fill that wide hiatus
which must otherwise have remained unoc-
cupied, between the natural world and the
spiritual, -sympathizing with the one in his
death, and to be associated with the other by
his resurrection They belong, unhappily,
to country and a system in which they have
no opportunity of developing the higher in
stincts, or cultivating the more ennobling
faculties of their nature. But, as they come
from the hand of their Maker, they compare
favorably with the most perfect of the human
race"
The great proportion of slaves sold to the
Turks are gentle and beautiful girls. Russia
had established line of fortresses and sent
armed vessels to break up the Internal trade
but since she has been compelled by the pre-
sent war to relinquish these positions, the
trade has been renewed with increased ac-
tivity.
The Bishop of Oxford has recently called
attention to the subject in the British Parlia.
ment, and showed, by recent letters from the
Caucasus and Turkey, that the traffic in Cir
cassian females had lately become greater
than formerly:
'At present. said letter from Bardane, 'the
only trade that may be said to be carried here s
that in women, and this seems to be extraordinarily
active at present. from the large prices obtanable in
Constantinople. and the removal of all obstacles.
have been told, from good authority, that girl
ee OF s bo.
along the coast from Trebizond almost every day
They haul themselves up on the beach, and spread
the captain SITS and the natives bring down to him
their girls exchange against his cargo, which gene
rally consists Of cacoes prints and other stus, and
Of salt"
e Another letter from the Bosphorus said:
81 regret to that the slave trade il greatly on
the increrse here Every boat that arrives from the
pors Of Abasia, brings In 10 girls or boys deitn
Cd for the Censtantinoyle market. 1t t. right to add
that when the coast was sblockaded by the Russaus
this tranc necessarily ceased But now that the COM
munic.ons with Trebizond are free the rush to dis.
regret Also to mention, that the Austrian steamers
DO not raise objections convey the slaves TO Con
stantinople. and every boat takes 80 OF 100 down.
In reply, the English Minister of Foreign
Affairs assured the Bishop that means had
been adopted, with the concurrence of the
Circassian Chief. SchamyL to put a stop to
the sale and traffic of Circassian women
We should like to know what those means
are, before we put any credit in their efficien.
cy. In the meantime, the slavery hating DOW.
er of Great Britain is responsible for the re.
vival of the most horrid slave trade which
ever disgraced humanity. Where is the
Duchess of Sutherland Where are the la
dies of Stafford Housel
THE SPANISH INSURRECTION.
The Spanish insurreotion is making head
way with great rapidity, and there Is now
every prospect that it win be successful. The
New York Herald remarks that the new Cab.
met composed Of haIfand- half Ministry. ia
not Of character calculated to inspire gen.
eral confidence, or reconcile conflicting inter.
ests and pretensions. OF Narvasz and ,Es.
partero. who are said to be both candidate
LOT the conduct Of psblic affairs, Narvaex, II
= believed, win be opposedto any alteration
~ tne present regime, farther than the reno.