Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1854-11-23
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Another Firshrana.
REVIVAL OF The SLAVE TRADE.

REVIVAL VI x0B 0AAA vo ASSANAs'
Observant readers who have an opportu-
ni,y Ut seeing the Southern newspapers
must have been struck with the coincident
appearance of great many articles recon-
mepdinp the abolition Of all law against the
elaye trade, aud admitting that traffic to the
privileges Of free trade. Those articles
were Simultaneous with the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise. and were soon follow
Ell BY Mr.. Slidell's motion in the Senate to
withdraw our squadron from the African
coast, so az to offer no impeachment. from the
United States to the prosecution Of this
trade. All these articles with this move
ment BY Mr.. Slidell, seem to h ave been but
pre- eminary and preparatory to an open a.
vowed intention in the South, to effect the
object which they proposed. The Charles
ton Is. CT Mercury unveils and entorces
the plan. and when it is remembered that
that paper is the "orgaa" of the nulifcrs--
| that it was there. in 1853, that the programme
| for the slavery agitation. with view Of or
Ranixing the South against the North, was
| laid down which has been SO steadily follow
ed up ever sincs-it cannot be doubted that
this measure has been resolved upon, and 10
to be pursued BY its authors az the crown
ing measure for dividing and breaking up
the Union. Ws give the article entire as
it appesrs in the Mercury, and ask for it not
merely reading but serious contempla-
ton BY all the patriots in the land Its q
studiously prepared and carefully written
paper, and bears upon its face the impress
Of determination to rouse the slavery agi-
tation to the highest degree, and to face the
consequences be what they may. Besides
the object and design of the article the read
or will be struck by the accumulation Of
terms of unmitigated 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
early Congress which passed laws to carry
this provision into effect-and to the Con-
gress under Mr.. Monre in 1920, which made
that traffic piracy, punishable with DEATH
Seeing to whom among the illustrious dead
terms arc applicable we may expect them
to be doubled, il possible, upon the living
men who may oppose their plans. We
feel, too, that it is honorable to the heart TO
disbelieve such thing. but nevertheless it
10 staring and startling fact. There is
such design. 1t is as old as notification.
1t is more bold and daring than ever twas,
and has made more progress under Mr.
Pierce's administration than in twenty years
under Mr.. Calhoun.
From the Charleston Mercury.
Revival Of the Slave Trade.
1t now nearly half century since the
people of the south, in spirit of honest
but mistaken philanthropy, consented to
| measures for the abolition of the slave trade.
| 1t was the 6rst step towards a grand con-
sumation-the extinction Of slavery itself,
In England, the same policy had been pur.
sued, and in the end, emancipation in the
British colonies crowned with success the
untiring efforts of fanaticism. Out of this
last act Of folly, grew the FIRST sober refec.
ton, and mankind taught by it's terrible re.
suits, were forced to look tthe question BY
more practical and truer lights than fickeree
in the extravagant rhetoric of Wilberforce
and his coadjutors. Indeed, so rapidly did
these islands fall from prosperity into decay,
utter blight and desolation, that Mr.. Ma
cauley, 80 far back az 1910, just seven years
after the act had gone into effect, declared
in the House of Commons, that "if twenty
five years hence, those colonies in which
slavery continued should be able to point
to those in which it had been abolished, ru-
ined, and the plantations in them abandoned
then he would say, that although we should
indeed have wiped stain from our own
land, he questioned whether we should have
conferred a great and signal blessing upon
humanity in general" The world knows
how fully his apprehensions have been jus.
tilted, one how emancipation has come to be
word significant only of impoverishmen,
and destruction. But it is not merely &c
institute parallel that we now allude to il
| We wish to show that governments have
always failed to effect any good by interfe.
ring against slavery; and that as emancipa
ton was followed by the direct consequen
ces, so measures for the suppression of tbs
slave trade have only aggravated the evil.
| they aimed to extirpate. This done, we
shall proceed to an examination of the slave
trade itself, as question of vital interest t
the American continent, and with which III
future development is closely bound up.
Our readers will remember that this is M
new question with US. II was long sine,
discussed in the columns OF the Mercury
and now that public opinion in the Who'll,
country seems attracted to il, we return t
it with stronger convictions and renewc,
assurance.
In the first place, then what has the in
reference of government achieved in anne
lora ing the evils of the slave trade! Thi
trade had its origin in the wants of new
continent. The discovery of America re
vealed to the world vast regions of riches
fertility, and mines of fabulous wealth, L
tempt the acquisityeness and stimulate tn
enterprise of men. There was but one thin
, needed, and that was labor. Just then All
. RIGA threw open her doors. There wer
millions of savages, split up into thouss
tribes, living in perpetual wars, practicin,
the most disgusting rites, and buried in tn