New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-02
THE SLAVE TRADE.

Speaking of the proposition to reopen the slave
| trade, made by Gov Adams of South Carolina, in
late message to the Legislature of that State, the
Mobile Tribune, of the 30th ut, has some very sens-
BILE remarks, which we subjoin with pleasure. To all
practical intents and purposes, our Mobile cotem
porary condemns the policy recommended by the
Governor which We objected to and condemned in
the columns Of yesterdays Crescent, in an article of
considerable length. Here is what the Tribune has
to say
publish ri: m957ng lon" exIss f from the messsse Of
some papers Of South Carolina the Delta of New
Orleans, have been arguing for the thing for
past But we believe that this is the first timea for
yealat the proposition has had Deliberate
We think TINT This question policy alone IF African
iii be not wrong what mors law offended by increasing the
Slave happier and higher condition ar tho negro Of IL
RIGA slavery elevate the negro not deense in morals
the Africa Of the SOUTH We think that there only
Well, then the opening the slave trade merely matter
of policy And giving full force to GOV; Adams
Union impossible and without, ihe non it would in
h Fl n w :" a S the 1
their labor The territory for the use Of This sort OF labor not
have suprrablndance Of put welfare these
States muc greater hazard than they be by
The argument of Adams narrow for this great
Prize umut s # hs ou S hc qe 4S to be
solved.
So far as African slavery is concerned, no honest,
practical, comnonsense man, possessing ordinary
degree of intelligence will dispute that the negro has
been improved and elevated under the system Of sa-
very practced in the Southern States, as he never
was improvedand elevated in any other country, or
under any other system. This is clear positive un-
misakabe fact which all the nnumerable falsehoods
of the abolition press of the North neither dsproye
nor refute. Rising above the waves Of fanaticism
stands the rock of truth procaiming to all the world
that the African has advanced under our order of
servtude, while he has letrogaded, become democrat
lied and debased under any system of enilanchise-
ment the civilized earth has yet adopted Here is a
pregnant mighty fact which OVERSEES the theories
and preachngs of would-be phianthropists- pseudo
friends of the negro race-and demonstrates beyond
the power Of controversion that if the black barba-
rians Of Africa were all brought under the benign,
sotening and outstanding influences flowing direct
y from the seryile institutions Of the South, the
greatest blessing that could be conferred would be
conferred upon the marked and branded descendants
| of Ham.
Let abotionists rave, and rave, and rave. Their
rawlings will only recoil against themselves. Their
mpracticable onsaughts will not interfere with the
operation Of the mmutable rules of nature and ma
! lures COB.
Under the existing system Of slavery it is clear to
our mind that single church in single Southern
State has chrstianzed more Africans than the abo-
tonists Of the North or the missionaries to Africa
have yet been able to clistaniZe. This may appear
rather bold proposition, but we are ready with our
figures to enforce it. Day after tomorrow the Ala
bama Methodist Episcopal Conference will commence
its twenty-tfth session. From the last reports we
take the subjoned statistical information, Which we
commend to our Northern readers as entirely worthy
tl,aiI rnf md .ilni.tti inn.