Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-28
A white Slave Trade.


Every day discloses fresh sores in the bosom
of cur modern civilization. Every day en-
lightened Investigations furnish something
more TO rebuke fahsJicisn. Even apart from
the constant theme our own city life affords
for the reforner and the philanthrOpisr, we
need no longer wander into the tropics or
explore the coast of Africa 10 find a real
slave trade of aspect a. portentous as any that
has ever disgraced mankind.
In the case which we are about to treat,
rf.e-e is 40 purpose of civizttion-no pressure
Il h'usn necessity to palliate its bare and
unred, ened atrOcty. White flesh and blood
the graces OF the tenderest sex and year.
are The sacrifice claimed by hideOus vice To
20 tie utter ruin of body and soul. The
couch of this fer is strewn with the fairest
flowers IF all the garden; female helplessness
and beauty are his cho4en prey; the bereave-
InenI of parents and friends and the desoation
OF holmes lIis tribue.
Last week we briefly noticed some horrible
revelations recently made in England. upon
tAs sulisci of traffic which needs only To
he named 10 awaken universal Indignation
From he correspondence of an important
German paper We now translate the folio wing
de aile
"Ihr traffic in girls between England and
tte Affi ihtllL II ~ OI IA q Uetn carried on II
lot up u So large a scale or so openly as that
o: C,rca--ia aud Constantinople ut least in q
far more shameful manner, without our boas
tel civilization nterposns any remedy. The
Hessian broom girls-tbose poor little faxen
haired creatures, who are purchased or stolen
from Hesse Ia be employed by their thieving
masters as beggarsi the streets of London
are Heaven be praised, less and less frequently
seen here, but in their place we notice among
the cypriaas with whom Hay market and
Leicester Square are constantly swarming
more and more German women. These are
enticed thither with specous pretences from
Hamburger, Bremen and the Rhine countries
taken in charge 10y PROGRESSES, reduced to alb
ject dest tuition. and at last turned out upon
the streets. On the other hand, the German
and especially the Hamburger brothels have
their regular agents here by whom English
girls nre, through Thousand villainous arts,
sllured on board ship aud carried off to the
Continent. Not long since, one of these cases
was brought before the city magistracy.
young girl had been taken away from her faith
or almost by force. Ia the deepest distress he
applied to Sir Robert Garden for aid in recov
ering his child, and fortunately in time to OBJ
tain it Sir Robert telegraphed to the Ham
burgh P1lioe to arrest the kidnappers and at
once sent over two trusty agents to release
the girl. Smith aud Munger-the agents
employed-state that they succeeded in this,
only after much effort; that the prOcuress who
took the girl had reported her a. a thief, and
that they had reason to suspect that said pro
curess was on excellent terms with the Police
who raised all sorts Of obstacles in their way
that many other English girls were kept at
Hamburg upon various pretexts; that the
traffic was thoroughly organized that the
British Consul was aware OF the facts, but
could do absolutely nothing unless Lord Clar.
eudon should see fit 10 take decisive measure,
and finally, the wretohed condition of these
unfortunate victims was heart rendering.
Here is a commentary upon the administra-
ton of justice in the great European CONNER
cial capitals Here is u slave trade and sla.
very. Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland.
Amiable aud benevolent rs that lady is univer-
sally reputed to be, may ponder with profitable
reflection. The victims are of her own color
aud her own sex-many of them, il appears
her own oountry-women. What Thompsous
and Garrisons shall out az missionaries 10
preach against this traffic on the borders of
the Elbe! and what sweet Florence Nightin-
gales will hurry to rescue their sisters in the
hospitals of Hamburger.
But, pause a moment, reader! The hide.
Gus evil is commencing at your own doors.
1t is but lew days since we were informed
upon unquestionable authority that american
girls have, for some time, been and now are
shipped from this port for the same destination
and that numbers are, perhaps. 10 day languish.
ing 10 the stews Of Altoona and and Hamburger.
Nor are they beings recruited from our own
brothels but in very u.any instances have been
inveigled away, while still innocent, upon the
most tempting aud apparently honest promi.
ses.
One miserable case was cited 10 us, within
Q week, Of an interesting, attractive and in
tellignt American girl of American parent
sge ha ing been thls consigned, like bale of
marketable goods, TO a house of prostitution in
Hamburger upon the false representation by
the scouudrei who took her from her friends
tina she going to the home of his relatives
where he would rejoin her. shortly, ia a hap
Ply snd honorable union. Ruined and lost
she still lsngushes in that place of Infamous
degrad ton snd suffering, although justice
demands of Us that We should give our secret
pal ~ cr~hir tor the efforts they are making to
recover her.
hele is one more topic of our social civiliza
tiou which may Gall forth all the "shrieks for
freedom" that either Northern or a South.
ern Eastern or Western American, European
or African philanthropy has to spared
tiOaGl Democrat.