Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-18
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Inc African slave Ir ade.-Late puOI'ca-
tons in the South wherein the political econ
ony ard the history of the African slave
trade have been discussed with marked abili-
ty, have raised hornets nests at the North.
The newspapers of the order (politicaD of the
New York Tribune have gone half crazy over
the alleged probability that the Southern
United States are about to combine to bring
about its restoration by hook OF by crook. We
are glad to perceive public attention awaken
ing to the subject, because it is one of vast
Importance to the future of an immense por-
ton of the American continent that cannot do
its legitimate share in the commerce of the
world by and through any other than African
slave labor. Though the Holy alliance in is
took measures to stop the trade, and though
this Government, France and England subse-
quently, by treaty, agreed to do the same
thing at an enormous cost, annually, to all of
their treasures, it has actually doubled at
least in all its victims inundated on the pas
sage, while it has not lessened so far as the
number actually shipped is concerned. Thus
the result of all that has been done to put
stop to it has only been an increase of all its
bad features. No man Of common sense i'm
AGNES that the African negro is not in bet
ter condition in slavery in America, than in
barbarous captivity or even barbarous free
dom in his native land. humanity superin-
duced the adjustment Of the legality Of the
traffic and matters now look as though, with
the increasing horrible coolie slave trade
(which already equals the African slave trade
in extent when that was greatesD humanity
will ere long cry aloud for the removal Of all
existing restrictions on the old trade betw cen
Africa and America.
All The Fools Not Yet Dead The New
York Herald has q correspondent at Rich
mond, Virginia, famed for starting mares
nests. His very last is as follows. Viz:
Especial dispatch to the Herald
RICHMOND, Va, Nov IL
The last disunion manifesto of r. Barnwell
Rhett has much more in it than what appears
upon its face. II is the precursor of a series
of disunion experiments which will now be
rapidly unfolded, here and at other points as
the plot thickens The latest experiment de-
OF Mr.. Buchanan's administration or the de-
feat Of his election and if jefferson Davis is
not the master spirit Of this notable scheme.
he may be expected to profit by it to the full
extent of his powers.
On the first Wednesday in December, the
Presidential Electors elected are to meet in
tho various States, to cast their votes for
President and Vice President In tho inter.
val, 1T is proposed to bring Mr. Buchanan, by
letter, up to the maik Of tho Southern Null
hers, or to compass his defeat By giving a suf-
hclent number of the Democratic Electoral
votes Of the South to other candidates to throw
the election into the House The Nullifers
have their fears Of the Northern Democrats
elected to the next Congress in behalf of Kan.
sas as a Free State; and from recent disclosures
from Lancaster, they also have their fears of
Mr.. Buchanan himself. Hence this desne.
rate plan of bringing Mr.. Buchanan to the
marx, or Of defeating his election. The con-
spiratoIs do not expect any satisfactory answer
from Mr. Buchanan-they do not desire it.
Their object is disunion and the spols of
Southern Confederacy. They know that in
the betrayal of the people, by throwing the
election into the House, they may create an
excitement which will result in the abrupt
dissolution of Congress, the suspension of the
government, the secession of the Southern
States In body, and the bloody Southern
Confederacy which is to be the millennium of
their hopes. The late confidential meeting of
Henry a. Wise, and bis associate disunion
Southern Governors at Raleigh, you will dis.
cover by and by, involved something more
than treason and revolution in the event of
Fremont's election
Now, to set this silly story or budget of
stories at rest at once, we have to say that
from beginning to end it is wholly without
foundation; there is not single grain of truth
In 1t, not one, except that on the first Wednes-
day in next month the electors are to meet in
the various States, to cast their votes for
President and Vice President
No southern elector chosen as a Democrat,
that is no elector chosen in any southern State
except Maryland, has ever entertained the
idea of casting his vote for any one for Presi-
dent except James Buchanan; nor has apy
Democrat or southern rights man ever pro-
posed any other action on the part of any
southern Democratic electOr or electors than
that they were chosen by the people n con-
summate.
Cabinet Msking.-The Richmond Euqnl.
re' commenting on the efforts of various North.
ern opposition journals to influence the selec-
ton of Dir. Buchanan's cabinet, says:
Now, as to all there conjectures and ru
Inors, we may affirm with perfect safety. that
they are equally gratuit0us and groundless
Mr.. buchanan is doubtless competent to Sc
lect the members of his cabinet and "a he !,
not garrulous person, il is not at all likely
that he will disclose his purpose before the
proper time. In any event he would hardly
make the New York Herald the organ of his
to the country"
Continuing, the EnqUirsr aids, with force
and justice
AS to the particular principle upon which
the PRESIDENT elect proposes to constitute his
cabinet, and as to the individuals whom he
may appoint to Office, we have only this con.
Germ that he will not suffer any clique or
co'erie TO monopollze his favor and the influ-
ence OF the administration and, If he choose
to distinguish between ''wings' or sections" |
Of the party, that he will be determined by |
the predominant sentiment of the Southern
democracy. On neither Ct these points do we |
distrust Mr. Buchanan On the contrary No