New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-11
Wem Orleans 1ailp Crescent.
Rc-opening OF the Slave Trade.

1t is not often that We find sentiment says the
Savannah Republican of the 4th instant, on public
affairs, in the Federal Union that we can conscien-
tousIy approve as indicating wise public policy,
and hence VIC take special pleasure in copying the
following brief and truthful comment on a prominent
topic of the late Message of the Governor of South
Carolina. The Union says:
Gov. Adams, in his message to the Legislature Of
South Carolina. recommends the revival of the Aneri-
can Slave Trade We do not believe Governor of
another Southern State can be persuaded to make
similar recommendation. The Southern people have
no more idea of reviving the African slave trade,
than they have of admitting their slaves to the rights
and privileges Of citizenship. A few men at the
South are unhappy and restless if they cannot keep
the Northern people in capital wherewth to harraqs
the more quiet and peace loving Of their brethren
The Southern people must keep wide awake, if they
would save themselves and the Union under which
they live The suicidal hand is ready to do the work
Of destruction.
The Baltimore ENTHUSIASTICALLY one of the
most respectable and influential of Southern journals
thus alludes to the recommendation Of Gov Adams
of South Carolina:
So long as the deoralizing scheme for the revival
of the slave trade confined to the columns of the
South Carolina newspapers, and few of their polit
cal coadutors elsewhere, its agitation made little diff
ference to the great body of the Southern people, but
now that it is quXotically displayed in the official
gislature is called upon to initiate policy favorable
thereto the question presents itself in different
light: Ofcourse. however, there is nobody North or
South OF any pretension to intelligence who believes
the thing to be other than trick of political
chess playing, and who thinks for moment these
people expect practical notification of the moral
sense OF the world in revival of this odioustrafic
It is part and parcel of the shallow sectional lug
Cling used to offset the fanatics of the North by
the extremists of the South. Reasonable men of the
Democratic party of the South satisfied with what
has been done, and are willing to extend to the Presi
dent elected by their sufrases support divested Of
minor shades OF difference and looking only to what
they doubtless believe to be the true interests of the
whole country But this will not suit that wing of
their organization, comparatively feeble in numbers
but potent in mischevous activity, whose selfish
AIMS and frantic sectionaism, nvisbly to the plant
rank and file, sVayed the whole contest and stamped
upon its result character which greatly fear is
to prove prolific of evil in the future. Elate with the
success Of their experiment upon the credutv of
their own followers, they are prepared to inaugl-
rate upon the whole country system of similar tao
tics, and with sedeusion destined to be as disas-
trous as the " fatal love OF the Roman people, think
by alternately cabling the South with alnorolls pro-
teStatlons and menacng the conservative portion of
the North with impossible dangers, to consummate
the triumph of measures which the entire South has
again and again repud!ated in times of calm delibera-
ton. This system of sectonasm it was which the
great conservative masses Of the South We're warned
against before the election; this system it is that
they are now thus called upon to check at once before
It klndes flame finappeasable wrath to the whole
Union this system it is that the of the South
who still deplore the defeat of aIr. Fillmore composed
to large extent of the Whig party in that division
OF the country, have batted against, will battle against
to the very last.
The South Carolinan, published at Columbia, takes
exception to the proposition, and personal friend of
the Governor, who has generally approved Of his ad-
mnistration, thus expresses his dissent through the
Charleston Courier:
It is not only mpracticable bat undesirable in
every point Of view Humanity and the interests of
the South alike forbid it. 1t would array against us
the sentiment of the civilized world it would revive
or at least extend, the hcrrors of the middle ages
involve Africa in intestine wars furnish subjects for
the proposed traffic, and convert her into an aceldama
field Of blood and it would render slave property
so cheap as to he worthless and perhaps so worthless
as to be dear at any price. Our slaves multiply in a
ratio quite rapid enough for the good of the South
An importation of $4,000 (the entire importation
into the Union, as coonists and as States from the
commencement of the slave trade to its abolition in
lS0S) has mutitudnously increased into four mill.
ions and we need not the aid Of new importatons to
swell the already "popuous number of savcry-ofa
fresh horde Of svages and heathen to barlarize and
uncristianze our now civilized, gentle and religious
peasantry. have neither time nor space to pursue
this theme and must conclude with the expression of
perfect confidence that the unwisc project will scarce
ly enlist a decent SuDOOrt