The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-20

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wuo .Rg Responsible FOR THE SLASk
Tn.nrg-Some of the Free Soil papers are
,.aL;no TO strengthen the anti-slavery and
sectional prejudice against the South, by al
leeipe that the Southern people are anxious
to revive the slave trade. Il IL charge with
out the shadow Of foundation in fact, and
without the slightest semblance Of proof 1t
was through the fundamentally Of the South
that the slave trade was abolished. whilst the
North was, from the beginning, the principal
promoter and the principal beneficiary of it.
Colossal fortunes were built up in the North
ern cities by the slave trade, and it was not
till the traffic was abolished, that move
ment of any importance was made in the
North for the abolition of slavery
But the African slave trade is still carried
on. with all its atrocities, by Spain and Bra.
iii. And how do they carry it on? Where
do the vessels come from by which they trans
port their living cargoes over the ocean,
They come almost entirely from the North.
They are built in the North; the money for
the building goes into Northern pockets, and
the very section which is eternally canting
about the horrors of slavery, is the only Sec
ton of the United States which has any pc
cuniary interest in the slave trade, or contrl
butes in any way towards that execrated
traffic.
This fact has been over and over again
testified to by unimpeachable Witnesses
But the vessels themselves are the best of
all witnesses. In constructing ships for this
traffic, the great object is speed. Slave ships
must be clipper vessels, with sharp bulls ;
with masts that can carry clouds of canvass
with magazine; with false decks; with no &C
commodations whatever for legitimate COM
merce. Who but Americans of the North
ern States build the fastest ships And can
they build such ships as slave ships, without
being perfectly well aware of the object for
which they are builtl OF course they know
it; yet they, who are too good to own slaves,
build vessels to steal them, and take the mo-
ney they receive for these vessels without
quake of conscience, thanking God all the
time that they are not as other men.
Therefore, before the North accuses the
South of desire to revive the slave trade,
it would better put an end to its own iniqui-
tous and mercenary connection with it, tor 1t
is the fast-sailing Northern built vessels,
whose equal in speed cannot be procured in
other countries, which keep up the slave
trade, and enable the traders to defy pursuit
and capture.
New England in this, as in some other re-
spects, seems to have derived her peculiar
philanthropy from Old England, where faith
and practice upon slavery have always been
at loggerheads. The modesty and consisten-
cy of Great Britain in endeavoring to stir up
abolition in Cuba, are sufficiently illustrated
by the fact that it was principally through
her agency that slavery exists in that island
to its present extent. But a little more than
century ago, Great Britain purchased of
Spain a monopoly of the slave trade with
the Spanish colonies, and she carried it on
until she had completely stocked the islands.
Having filled her own colonies and the colo
MES of Spain with slaves, she is suddenly
seized with fit of pious penitence, and en-
deavors to atone for her robberies in At
RIGA by fresh robberies in America, under the
hypocritical pretence of benevolence and re-
ligion.
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