Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-08
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Tine FOREIGN AND Domestic SLAVE TRADE
CoAPAREp. The question is, notwhat has been
the accidental features of the trade, but what
are its essential conditions; and these, we be-
leye, are as conservative of the wei.bcing ofthe
negro as the most enlighteiIed philanthropist
could require 4
The slave trade exists, and as long rs there is
want for slaves in the South and w est it VIII
continue. at present. they are torn from homes
IN Maryland, Virginia and North and South Car
olina, and the question Is, should they not ra-
ther be brought from Africa? From thence
they can be brought with less inhnnanity than
q la5oring population can ever be taken from
one country to another, and infinitely less than
ieharacterizes the trade between the states
They como with the rupture of no pre-existing
ties. They come from the depths of barbarisnl
70 the very brightest light OF civilization from
Restitution to abunlance-fr oin social mortality
to usefulness and life, and, they come to tho
support and advancement of our existing insti-
buttons. Coming from this source, they will
exclude from market the slaves OF Maryland and
Virginia and Maryland--th will render 1t in
cumbent upon masters therc to find permanent
employment for their own slaves, and defeating
them Of the ability TO pass through profit in the
domestic slave trade, to a profitin philanthropy,
will fix those states in permanent SUPPORT of
southern institutions.
Now, in fact, if there be greater inhunanity
in the foreign than in the domestic slave trade,
do we, upon present modes of reasoning, incur
a share of it by opening our ports to foreign
slayess We feel relieved from any odium at
taehed to the domistic slave trade because we
do not engage in it ourselves. Weonly buy tue
slave from the trader, as we would buy him from
y neighbor. and are not TO know the means
through which lie comes; and, for the very same
reason, we may be equally uHeoncerned about
the horrors of the slave trade. We have only
TO open our portsto the foreign slaves, aud the
MERCHANTS of England and the North will readily
incur the cdiuIn of bringing them to us II die
trade can be legihmaied in the tribunals of in
ternational law, they will bring with every con-
sideration for their health and comfort, dictated
by an enlightened perception of their interests;
buff not legitimated, they will run the gauntlet
of every squadron of observation that cnn DO
put upon the coastof Africa. They will bril-
them to US, right or wrong as fast US we viii be
ready to receive them And the capital and en-
iterprisc of England and the North, finding
profitable employment in this business, 1t is not
improbable that both people will come to look
fnponi it with indulgence, and ceasing to war
against the trade, may cease to war against the
Institution.
So long, therefore, as sIavery is right, anditis
right to buy and sell slaves, there is no wrong in
the foreign slave trade. and every consideration
Of policy is in favor Of it; but If it be wrong
If il have no vitality and no inheritance but is
TO be tolerated only until il can be laid asidethen
every act Of sale OF purchase ism wrong Itmay
be difficult TO see how even the introduction Of
. slave can give us right 10 hold him, il lie be
the member OF q race which has native right
to freedom; but admitting this, it can confer no
right to sell him, much less can the Inheritance
nfssiaye'by one person confer the right upon an
other to buy shd hold him. 1T last we hareto
meet the question: fae1 10 face. We must deter
mine TINT. in the natnr6 of things, there may be
unequal races; that, in the nature Of things, such
unequal Faces may co-exist; that il is right to
promote as well as erpetuate such co-existence;
and 50 determining, we mnst be as ready to take
the slave from africa as from any other section
OF our own country, and be influenced in our
choice BY simple consideration of It's policy.
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