The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-28

Russians are proving that in the defence of
their own SOIL they are most formidable
enemy. The allies have perhaps been little
hasty in laying siege to Sebastopol. Per-
hans It would have been better if the ''timid
counsels" referred to by Louis Napoleon had
prevailed Sebastopol cannot be taken ex-
cept at loss of life which will cripple the
victors, and render their success barren
victory. 1t may well be doubted whether
reinforeements can arrive in time from
France to affect the fortunes of the siege
They will, at all events, be neutralized by ad-
ditional Russian reinforcements. The allies
are in hazardous position. Instead of ia
king Sebastopol, they may be taken them
selves, and their reinforcements may arrive
in time for similar fate.
But, granting that "Sebastopol is fallen"
how long will it take, at the rate of one sum-
mer inthe Baltic without any results, and nine
months in the Black Sea with but one vic
tory, to conquer The whole Russian empire
SLAvERs IN New YoRK-The New Orleans
Picayune justly remarks, as has been indeed
often shown, that when the slave trade was
legal the great bulk Of all the importatiOns
was made by Northern men in Northern
ships, on Northern account and that since
the passing of the prohibitory laws, the ILL
cit traffic, whenever detected, has been inva
riaby traced to the capitalists and adventu-
rers of the North, and that the South is en-
tirely clear of any participation in it, direct
ly or Indirectly.
The Picayune refers to the case of James
Smith, commander of the brig Julia Moul-
ton, who has just been convicted in the u.
s. Circuit Court of New York, under an in
dctment for piratieal slave dealing. The
whole enterprise vas Northern; the brig was
a Northern brig, purchased in Boston by
Capt Smith, in February last, taken to New
York, where her crew were engaged, and
where she was fitted out as SLAYER. She
took 664 negroes from Africa to Cuba; after
which, the captain and mate returned to New
York, when Il quarrel about wages led to the
disclosure of the affair, and the trial and
conviction of the captain.
According to the declarations of Mr. Nc.
Keen, the U. S. District Attorney the slave
trade is carried on largely in New York
That gentleman affirmed, in his speech, that
New York is the very depot for this nefari
Gus traffic. and intimates that the parties
are dangerous and desperate. He says,
'there are real daggers in the hands of the
persons engaged in this traffic in this city,
and any mans life is in danger who attempts
to expose them
The Times owns that "scarcely month passes
in which there are not one more vessels cleared
in this port, New York; which embark at once in
the slave trade, and land their cargoes on the coast
of Cuba The facts given in evidence on this trial
show easily this is done, and with whist perfect inn
punty go long all the parties engaged in it are
paid satisfactorily for keeping silent"
The New York Tribune says:
It's, of course certain that the captain and crew
of the ship not the only pirates engaged in that
particular transaction There ship builders
and mercantile spectators involved with them,
though not with them brought to justice. 1t is
equally clear that the case OF the Julia Moulton Is
one OF many, with the single difference that this one
i found out.
There are now in New York, wallowing in wealth,
living in sumptuOus palaces up town, and driving
splendid equipages, men called merchants, ('mer-
cndnt princes ID a term someone's dpplleu) WHO
have for years, uninterruptedly, been engaged In
the internal slave trade and who, il they had their
deserts, according to law, would be swinging on
gailows as high Hannah By chance, the way
is now opened; villain is finally convicted; let
the authorities do their duty, and score or hun-
dred more may be found equally guilty.
We agree with the Picayune in thinking
| that the New York abolitionists would bet
ter cleanse their own atmosphere of this foul
pollution, instead of denouncing as the pecu-
| liar feature of the hated traffic, the South
which never respected and little practiced
| it, when it was lawful, which turned from it
| with instructive rectitude and Just pride of
character when it was forbidden, and which
notwithstanding its mighty interest in slave
holding, has refused to respond to the sugges-
ton among few of her own sons, that the
re-opening of the trade, under legal restric-
tions to deprive it of its seventies and hor
rors, would contribute to her own strength
and security"
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