Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-18

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This Is the next demand for slavery. 1t has
been limited at long since, and it is made now
in no equivocal terms. There is no hesita-
ton, no attempt to soften or to color the plain
proposition that it is the interest of ciyiliza.
ton to reopen the traffic which has, by com.
mon consent, been declared piracy. And it
must be confessed that the arguments that
sustain slavery on any other ground than as
an unfortunate necessity-the argument that
sustains slavery as moral and political and
economical good, sustains also the re opening
of the African slave trade. Once grant the
premises upon which the South now insists
that slavery is a blessing, and it follows that
the slave trade ought to be e couraged.
The re opening of the slave trade will prob
ably be soon incorporated into the creed of
the Democratic party. We say this in entire
seriousness. From the point at which slavery
now stands to the reopening of the slave
trade,Sit would not beso great an advance as il
has made within the last two years. We
think that, upon the whole, the attempt to
force slavery upon Kansas, against the wishes
of the people, and by fraud and violence, to
which the administration has lent its counte-
nance, is an act not inferior in wickedness to
that contemplated in the revival of the Afri-
can slave trade.
The following extract from an article in the
Richmond Enquirer, shows the view which
the friends Of slavery already take of the mat
ter and the arguments that will soon be re-
produced in the northern Democratic papers,
coupled with loud denunciations upon the
"Black Republicans" and "Abclitionists,
and "Nigger Worshippers, who resist such
emlnently just and national" sentiments
"The Convention with Great Britain was
triumph Of English Abolitionism over he
good natured stupidity of the American gov
eminent. At the foundation of the Treaty
lies the principle that negro slavery is an in
iquity and an outrage against human and di-
vine law: # slavery be morally right and
ETY., much less guilt, in extendingit. If slave
ry violates the laws of God, outrages the in
stincts of human nature, and contradicts the
ends of political sobiety, then the slave trade
is a crime which governments should suppress
by adequate penalties. The accusation against
slavery, involved in the Convention with Great
Britain, was seized upon as an advanced posi-
ton, whence Abolitionism might discharge its
battery against the guarantees of the institu-
ton, and is the remote origin Of the violent
agitation of the present day. We do not pro-
pose the revival of the slave trade, for, as the
slave trade has never been suppressed, it needs
no revival. We only protest against the prin-
ciple Of a treaty which is based on an assunp.
ton that slavery is an evil in politics, and
crime in morals. The accidental evils of the
slave trade are legitimate subject of inter-
national convention, and may be corrected by
regulations which shall afford adequate pro.
lection to the personal security Of the negro
The Convention with Great Britain, while it
has failed to accomplish its object, infinitely
aggravates the suferings of the negro, and
prevents the supply of African labor from
fho ,lo, L.,
agriculture which is essential to the wants of
civilization. For these reasons we say a6ro-
gate the Convention.
"But the demands of civilization are not
evaded with impunity. The soorld mast haze
supply cftropicGl productions, and there can
be no tropical productions aoithom compulsory
labor. The distractions thrown in the way
of the African Slave Trade have not arrested
the traffic, but they have reduced it until 1t is
altogether inadequate to the soaats Of mankind"
-ProUsdence Journal.