Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-29

One of the principle subjects to which the late
Southern Commercial Convention, held at Knox
vile, devoted its attention, was the revival of the
African Slave Trade. This was quite natural, as
no doubt the trude in human flesh and souls OF
mem is the branch Of traffic with which the mem
bers of that Convention have the most practical
acquaintance. The Convention voted &C to 20,
every State except Kentucky in the affirmative,
that the 10Th article of tho treaty OF Washington of
Nov. 10, 1S42-the Ashburton and Webster treaty
by which we are bound to keep a squadron on
the coast of Africa, ought to be annulled. This is
the first step towards the revival of the slave-trade.
OF course it was necessary to disentangle ourselves
from our engagements with Great Britain on this
subject before we can prodeed to repeal the law of
1907, abolishing the trade, and the subsequent ad-
ditional statutes on the subject.
Some Northern newspapers, We observe are or
affect to be shocked az this movement of our SOnth-
orn brethren, while others denounce it as Wis
ionary and impracticable. But suppose one
of the predecessors of this Knoxville Convention
had, some two or three years before the passage OF
the Kansas-N Nebraska bill, preached the project OF
opening the territory west and north Of Missouri
to the domestic slave.trade, and had resolved that
the prohibitory clauses of the Missouri act ought
to be revealed, and had instructed the Southern
Members of Congress to take steps accordingly
as has been done as to the anti-slavery provisions
of the Ashburton treaty-would not every paper
at the North, from the Journal Of Commerce up
ward, have denounced the idea as not only a
wicked breach OF latin, but as lmpractlcaOie, ana
one which could only have originated in overhead
cd imaginations.
The success of the Slavery fanatics Of the
South, in obtaining the complete control of that
section of the Union their success in bullying or
bribing a weak and corrupt Congress into the pas
sage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and their still
more distinguished success in bullying and bribing
the Northern Democrats into the acceptance of
the opening of all the Territories to Slavery, as a
plank in the party platform, may well encourage
the ultra Shareholders to claim and hope every
thing, may well alarm the North with the appre-
hension of new and furthern outrages. In fact, the
opening Of Kansas and other Territories to Slavery,
and the revival of the African slave trade, are
measures which have an intimate and a logical
connection. The domestic supply of slaves is not
sufficient for the population of Kansas. In order
to make the legal introduction of Slavery into that
Territory and its recognition by the State Consti-
tuition of Kansas of any practical avail, a new
source must be opened whence it can be furnished
with slaves and what other source is there except
the original one of the coast of Africa Those
sincerely opposed to the revival of the African
trade, and to thereby setting on foot an Africaniza
ton of these United States, cannot better contribute
to guard against that evil now impending over US
than by aiding the Republican party in its efforts
to make Kansas free.