The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-11-18
JOURNAL
L. A. & III. A. TAYLOR, Editors.
River Falls, Pierce County, Wisconsin.
JOHN HEE,ECHELL ON THE
SLAVE TRADE.

John Mitchell, the brilliant orator, the
patriotic Irishlnan, who WIS toasted and
praised By Americans, is now publishing
a paper ct Knoxville, Tenn. called the
So4thern citizen. John has made him
self famous. but the fame he has won is q
fame that should be Stunned as a pest
ans! dreaded like devil-the fame ofcyl.
He has proved recreant to the cause of
liberty, and falsiiiod the bright promise Of
his earlier days. Instead Of battling as
of wore fol- Human freedom, It IS now his
aim to sustain and encourage African
slavery by reyiving the Slave Trade.
The great want of the South hc says,
is labor. BY this want she has<lost Kan
sas, the North could spare men, the South
could not. Want Of labo1 prevents her
from manufacturing hcn Gym cotton, from
establishing direct COMMUNICATION with
Europe, from keeping lace with the
North i'll developing her resources and
from inaugerating q broader system Of
internal Improvements. This want is to
be met by re-opening the African Slave
Trade. He says:
'frhe enlightened century which hatters
itself it is the 'niueteenth,' has sgnalizcd
its history by one gross b'undcr-has af-
firmed one INDUSTRIOUS heresy and false
hood--that the races of men are equal.
Some nations have enlc,yored (througrl
policy or philanthropy, it matters not
wllich) to carry out that heresy into prac-
tice, and it las needed bat g few years to
bear its bitter fruits These Southern
States, though they did not, and could
not carry it to the insane length ofenlan
cipating theinnegro slaves, yet did so far
give way to the prevalent folly as to cut
offfrom themselves all fresh supply ofthe
only kind of labor suitable TO their eli
mate and soil, to their own grevious loss
and damage, and without any benefit to
ANYBODY else. Hereby Africa has sutf-
cred, perhaps more severely than Amer
lea, Ga proposition which we shall take
other opportunities Of verifying,) 'philan-
thropy' has stultifed itself, and agricul-
ture has cut off its own right hand.
Other nations have already seen their
mistake, and are continuing means and
pretexts to repairit. The North has stlff-
cred nothing by its emancipation Tor sale)
Of its negroes; because in the first place
she had but few; in the second place, the
circumstances Of the European world have
poured into her fields an unlimited supply
of labor, more suited to her climate and,
in the third place, as her interest in s!a-
very always lay, and now lies, rather in
the Slave Trade than in slave labor her
commerce in that, to the Southern States
has been compensated by c!andestine trade
to South America and the West Indies.
But those nations which have a real
interest in the la6or of slaves have seen
their error, and are about to repair it.
VIII these Southern States, which lave
The largest interest of all, be the last TO
see that error? If so, no Cassandra can
predict for US too gloomy a future. 49,
No Cassandra can predict too gloomy
a future for John. He has linked linn
self with the fortunes of a wfetched and
unjust cause, AMI the dark, prophetical
dream of the Trojan woman will be
brightness compared With the fame that
awaits him. No language can be too Sc
we're to apply to man who advocates a
revival Of the African Slave Trade.
Heneeforth Mitchell will be deemed an
apostate from noble cause. tie will be
enrolled with the Arnolds and Judases
whose heritage is an immortality o.
ss1alne