Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1854-11-23
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ALFRED SANDERS. Eouos.
Oovenpset, TAprsAays Nev.ls3s 1884.
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We publish in other columns q lengthy
artisls apon this Interesting subject. Our
object in doing % il two-fold; frst. for the
Information Of our readers, that being the
primary motive in the publication of every
article. and secondly. that by the agitation
Of the subject Of the slave trade, We may
assist il possible in directing the attention Of
Government to an evil Of greater magnitude
and Of more universal prevalence than any
now existing in violation Of the laws Of our
country. Such articles q the one publish
Cd are Of ne weight further than to reflect
the sentiment prevailing among the 6rc-eat-
ers Of the South, and TO show that that class
Of people are willing to countenance and
encourage every violation Of law, tending to
the strength and extension Of the institution
Of slavery.
The fears Of the st. Louis Democrat with
regard to the tendency of such articles to
lesd to the dissolution of the Union, are en-
tire groundless. With the exception Of a.
very small number Of indiscreet, impetuous
individuals. who have no claims Of property
resting upon them, the people Of the South
are a. warmly attached to the Union as their
countrymen of the North, and from self-in-
terest more strongly in favor of its continu-
ance. It Is al sheer nonsense then to talk
Of . dissolution of the Union, as both North
and South know il would be to their mutu-
al detriment and that ultimately it might
lead to the subsection ofthe entire Republic
to foreign powers, as there is no axiom in
scripture % generally admitted as, that
house divided against itself must fall.
The editor Of the Charleston Mercury,
who has written much upon the subject, re-
turns to it now with stronger convictions
and renewed assurance" The North has
made 80 many concessions to the South of
late, that the fre-eaters have the assurance
to ask for anything. and the precedence to
hope for its obtainment; yet we have a iv-
ing confidence in the moral strength of our
government, that it never will sully its
Christian name by aiding and abetting SO
unholy, cruel and unnatural crime as that
of the slave trade.
The trial of Capt. Jas. Smith, for slave
trade piracy. which recently took place in
New York, disclosed the startling fact that
large number of the merchants and ship
builders of that city, have acquired their
wealth through this nefarious traffic. In
the words of the Tribune, it was establish
ed beyond denial, that the slave trade with
Africa is branch of the mercantile profits
of this city, and that the cruelties of the
darkest crimes of the darkest ages are phar-
isaically enacted by parties claiming to be
gentlemen" The same paper in speaking
of Capt. Smiths conviction has the follow
ingdenouement and enjoinder of its remedy:
There are now in New York, wallowing in
wealth, living in sumptnous palaces up town,
and driving splendid e9uipages, men called
merchants--merchant princes is term
sometimes applied-who have for years, UNI
interuptedly, been engaged in the slave
trade. By chance, the way lie opened; one
villain 10 finally convicted; let the authori-
ties do their duty, and score or hundred
more may be found equally guilty"
Those who feel surprised that ''respecta-
ble"men ahouldbe engaged in this business,
will be more astonished to learn the extent
TO which it has been hitherto
without the authorities taking cognizance of
the matter--when we assure them that it is
estimated, from information derived upon
the above trial, that at least one vessel per
fortnight leaves the port Of New York alone,
almost openly fitted out as SLAYER. Arewe
then premature, or unreasonable, in direct
ing attention to this subject! 1t seems to
us It 10 one that ere this should have receiv-
ed the condemnation of the press and the
action Of government.
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