Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-12-11
Rsvlv.l q ths Atrlean Slave rraas.


Arguments Of an opposite character, from
sources which show that the project is likely
to be met with almost universal disiavor and
roprobalion. The whole question, indeed,
might be safely left with tho South, since ii
is evident that it is impossible for il to make
any Roadway even in that section of the
Onion. Among the most able, searching
and conclusive articles on the subject, is one
from the pen Of the Editor Of the Richmond
Enquirer, published in that paper of the 2sth
ult. After reviewing in detail the arguments
used by Governor Adams as the basis of his
recommendation, the Enquirer proceeds to
discuss the measure as a matter OF policy.
On this point the Enquirer says
Z" And here We encounter the obvious and
lincontestible fact, that the revival of the AT
rican slave trade as legal commerce, is pO-
llitical impossibility. Our own laws condemn
the traffic; and there is no chance of Their re-
peal. The laws Of the civilized world de-
nounce the severest penalties Of piracy against
it; and they, in any event, are beyond the
range of our control. Is there anything in
the tone Of public opinion in this or any other
country, which warrants the idea that we
NAV procure the re-establishmento OF the slave
trade as a legitimate branch of commerce
Is the thing possibleg Certainly this inquiry
touches the most essential point of the con-
troversy, and yet Gov. Adams entirely ig-
nores it.
Tt being apparent from the mere statement
of the proposition that the revival of the
slave trade IS moral impossibility, there is
no need of any further discussion on the sub
iect. The States of the South are not yet
prepared TO defy the public opinion and to
provoke the positive hostility Of the foremost
/ powers of Christendom; ami as the attempt
! to reopen the traffic in African negroes
would inevitably draw this penalty upon us,
we may rest upon the conclusion that the
policy is unavoidable and will never be SUBJ
liected to the test Of experiment
But we have word in illustration OF the
improperly and folly Of even discussing the
re vival of the slave trade, as an object of
Southern ambition and enterprise. Can any
man fail to observe how much of stimulus
and strength the mere agitation of the scheme
imparts to the anti-slavery sentiment Of the
North?-how much of odium and resent
ment it proyokes against the aggressive
spirit" of slavery propagandism?"-to what
iextent it impairs the moral security Of the
South, and SO injuriously affects the stability
of its institutions? 1t is Idle to deny that
slavery is condemned by the public opinion
of the world. The States of the South are
cut off from the sympathies of the most des-
potic as well as the most popular govern
ments of Europe. Whether from honest
conviction or the suggestions of hypocrisy,
they all join in the clamor against us. Even
Spain, in whose dominions slavery exists, af-
fects sort of moral antagonism to the South.
Is it the policy of the South still further to
embarras5 its position, still more scornfully
to defy the opinion of the world-to infame
the zeal and multiply the number of its en-
emies? And all, too, in pursuit Of an i'm
practicable enterprise and an equiyocal ad-
vantage? If not, then let us stop this talk
about reviving the African slave trade.
In regard to the Northern hue and cry
about the atrocities of the recommendations
Of Governor Adams, the New York Herald
makes some. suggestions that might well
make anti-slavery Puritanism blush for its
mercenaryssgreed and hypocrisy. That paper
says that the difference between the Gov
ernor and our Northern Puritans is simply
the difference between doing the same thing
under all the projections of law, and doing
it in violation of all law and under the ban
of piracy. AS it is, under the ban OF
piracy, this infamous traffic has been sys-
temizcd branch of business in the ports of
New York and Boston. Constantly cases of
an African SLAYER or two are before the Courts.
As active or silent partners, some of our
long-faced religious disciples, who lift up
their hands in holy horror against the extern
sion of slavery into our territories, make a
good thing occasionally of a SLAYER sent out
of those ports, transferred to slave-catching
Captain and crew, and run over to Africa,
and thence to Cuba, with five six hundred
niggers. The Herald says it is safe to esti-
mate the annual capital involved in the
slave traffic in the port of New York at a
half million of dollars, and Justly con.
cludes. therefore, the least said on the sub
ject by our Northern anti-Slayery Puritans is
/ the soonest mended.
The revival of this question at this time
by hand full of Southern ultras, apparently
for the purpose of tanning the flames of sec
tional discord into an open and abrupt disso-
luton of the Union, promises to result in a
manner quite the reverse of what was an
ticipated. 1t serves to reveal the gratifying
fact that there is enough of the conservative
and Union-loving spirit in the South to meet
at the thresh-hold and to effectually put
down project which openly defes public
opinion throughout the civilized world.
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