The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-11-29
THE DAILY DISPATCH:
: -.- .c~ ,Sorniox, November %, 1900.


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--~ - s,.~e Trade south Carolina.
- already noticed the message OF GOV.
~. :, the South Carolina Legislature los'
Columbia. The Enquirer. OF yesterday
me' -, article of considerable length 70 inc
..,,.r,,,.. Of South Carolina politics genera'iy'
- ..nac,.llv TO the views Of Governor ADAMS
$50, ,ba revival Of the Slave trade. The En-
80 .w.rds to the South Carolina politicians
~. nr.,.e Of being candid, fearless and thorough
=. Mo ro,icv-ofbeins In their discussions bold
-, .ra r. scaIlv consistent, even to the most
.s.u,s conclusion" II considers the qualities OF
go ard bo,duess, which South Carolina
.,,asm.nship has brought to the defence OF slave
nv A of infinite service to the common cAuso
W, 4, considers that there are errors resulting
from the absence Of the opposite qualities OF
.,.,,on and prudence, and 1t cites the movement
Of Governor Adams In behalf OF legalising the
Slave trade upon the seas as one of these errors.
The Enqairer takes ground very decidedly
against the position of Governor A., rs well as
the reasons which led him to his conclusion
These reasons are:
lst. That the supply of cotton is gradually
growing unequal to the demand. ID. That tbs
but Of deficiency of labor. 80. That THIS con
stantiy increasing deficiency, will stimulate 'ne
production Of cotton In other countries, ana 10. 80
destroy our monopoly Of the staple. AUD: aAss
slave labor 10 valuable only in the produc.son "
cotton. and must become a burden upon the So ~
whenever we lose the monopoly OF supply; Ivy
That then the South will be driven 70 soo''A
slavery.
The Enquirer without undertaking to answer
these Sreasons seriatm, contends that though tno
supply of cotton may no. keep pace with the oe'
mand, and the deficit may have 10 be mace up
from other countries, it by no means follows that
the production of the South will be superseded or
even diminish In value. 1t then ridicules the
apprehension Of an excess of supply over demand,
which has at some period affected every industrial
and commercial interest, and through Malthuss
Theory even afffighted some with regard to the
excess Of the human species. 1t wisely con.
cludes:
Providence is perfectly competent to take care
OF the interests not of this globe only but OF the
universe of worlds, and these vagares OF philoso'
ply are remembered only for their folly"
The Governors reasons, the Enquirer thinks
are insufficient TO demonstrate the necessity Of the
revival of the African slave trade, and were they
not 30. the thing itself 1t considers possibilsy
Itthus concludes:
THE States of the South are not yet prepared
to defy the public opinion and to provoke the pos
tive hostility of the foremost powers of Christen
dom. Can any man fail to observe how much OF
stimulus and strength the mere agitation of the
scheme, imparts to the antislavery sentiments OF
the Nerthf The States from the South are cut OF
from the sympaties of the most despotc as well as
the most popular governments of Europe. Vine
Their from honest conviction or the suggestions OF
hypocrisy, they all JOIN in the clanor agains: U.s.
Even Spain, ia whose dominions slavery exists,
affects sort of moi al antagonism to the South
Is 1t the policy of the South still further to embar-
rass its position, still scornfaily to defy the
opinion OF the wOrld-to inhame the zeal and null.
tiply the number of its enemies And ALL too, in
pursuit of an impracticable enterprise and an
equivocal advantagel If not then let us stop this
talk about reviving the African slave trade"
We have thus referred to the views of the En-
quirer. because that journal is leading organ of
the party that triumphGd In the late momentous
struggle which in SO great degree involved the
peace and the permanency OF this Union. The
conservative views Of the Enquirer are certainly
worthy of commendation The policy of the
South should be to maintain firm and decided
stand in her own defence but to do nothing to
provoke or invite attacks. Let us leave it to the
North to bit out slavers to carry illicit trs fc
upon the seas in negroes; aud let US take care of
those beings which Providence has placed under
our protection as slaves, and continue to show TO
the world condition of slavery without an exam
pie for its humanity and the general comforts and
happiness by which it is surrounded II is true
that the slave trade, SO far from being suppressed
Is conducted with attendant circumstances of in.
creased suffering indescribaby horrible But that
is the affair of those who have undertaken its SUD-
precision, and what course ought be pursued now.
it is for them to decide If slavery is an evil which
do not believe, the fault of its existence here ia
the fault of the British Government, and of the
ancestors of our Northern brethren who are now
preaching such crusade against it. 1t was accom-.
plished against the earnest circumstances of the
ancestors of those amongst whom it now exists. Ii
is their part to protect an institution which bears
the signs OF aprovidential decree,-to regulate it
properly, and continue that blessing and ma.
tional benefit, which no human foresight has yet
been able to show practicable mode of abolishing,
were it proper desirable that it should be aboI.
ished.