New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-07

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OF the efforts now in progress for still further eA'
tending the benefits Of this blessed itsetdtion.
I They must understand that to- restore slavery 'n
/ ST Domingo Mexico and Central America ani u
/ FIJI Cuba and our own Southern States WITH
dens. population of negro bondmen, Is one Oh tue
largest as well "a most benevolent enterprises
ever conceived by man. Thus il appeals to our
,ubi,iop a.. we'll as our humanity. Ought Ameri-
c,n. To be content with redeeming from African
I darkness and degrsd,tio three millions Only vi
psproesl Why not thirty millions why not
! three hundred There they are ia Africa Ian
suishirg in superstition and ignorance enslaved
slresd, many of them, waiting for our model phi
ls,,broni,t. 10 transport aud transform them. Let
ma then never res. upon the email things We have
already aehiered, but bring the Africans By
tbou.snds and millions 10 the more efectu,l
"eiviliza,ion AMI Chrstianiz,tion' afforded by
Slavery in Americs. 1t is sublime duty that
ought not TO be neglected
Nor is this duty likely to be neglected. 1t is
true that there are some timid and heststing per-
sobs among the advocates OF Slavery, who doubt
that it il DUTY; but logic, the pecuni,ry interest
of the most energetic class of slave drivers, and
the force Of circumstances are all on the other
side. and the doubters will have to surrender.
Already we are taking hold Of st. Domingo and
doing our utmost to acquire Cuba; andwith these
the revival of the slave trade becomes necessary,
and will be attempted whether its philanthropic
character be recognized or not. In view Of this
eventually, il must be cheering to those who,
like The Examiner, put the question on these
elevated moral grounds, to know that the high
wrong BIT pictures of horror that have been circu
lated with regard to the trade, mainly by English
fanatics and bypocrites, are altogether exsgger-
ated, and that that it il even more profitable to
conduct il in humane and considerate manner
than in a cruel one. On this head the testi
mony OF Capt Theodore CanOt, who was him
self engaged in the business for twenty
wears, may be received with confidence. In his
recently published narrative. he describes at
length all the arrangements for the Transports
ton of negroes, showing that, though they
may lack some comforts on the passage, they are
on the whole much better cared for than in their
own country and better of as regards cleanliness,
exercise, feeding and health than the white emf
grants brought from Europe to the United Sta:es.
Besides, most of the serious inconvenience they
are made 10 suffer arise from the fact that the
traffic is Illicit and pursued under heavy risks.
Restore to it tie protection of the laws, and it
nav be resumed with all the modern improve
nents that the more enlarged spirit of Nirginian
and Carolinisn philanthropy and religion would be
likely to suggest.
The fact that other nations have called the
traffic piracy ought not to deter us from asserting
its true Oh aracer. They will never go to war for
mere abstraction, especially as we have the
best side of the argument And are we to
obey the dictation OF France and England More
over, We have never acted Oh the doctrine that
the slave trade is piracy. 1t is true we have said
SO abroad, but never at home and it is time our
foreign policy was brought into unison with our
domestic AS the same Can0t asked In letter to
Lieut. Bell, Of the L. s. Navy,-who had threat
ened to destroy his slave trading establishment
on the African coast,-if il is pira,ical to deal in
negroes, why do the southern States o. your
great confederacy allow Slavery, public auc
'tions, transportation from one State to another,
mot only Of civilized black native subjects,
"but of nearly white American Christian citi-
'zens Such is the case with your free and in
dependent country; though the slave trade is
carried on in the United States with more bru-
tally than in any other colony" Let us then
have done with the absurdty of prohibiting and
calling that piracy abroad which we not only
practice at home but which bears the lofty char
ac,erstics of civilizing and outstanding power
for millions else los. in fetichism and bestiality
Our Government is evidently favorable to the
movement; Messrs Pierce and Marcy are doing
their best to acquire territory which will
be mainly useful for the purpose OF
transplanting the wretched Africans to the
light and happiness of America. Under such cir.
cumstances who can be allowed to interfere and
arrest the scheme Certainly not the North.
II the fanatics AbolitioDists and Freesolers dare
TO raise their voices against 1t, let short work be
made OF them. Dissolve the Union, Leave the
fanatics to 20 to ruin by themselves. while in ma
iestic splendor the new Southern Confederation
with Eternal Slavery for its base, rises TO power
prosperity, and philanthropy unexsmpled since
the beginning Of the world.