Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-05
From the Pittsburg Gazette.
THE SLAVE TRADE IN THE SOUTH.

There are evidently two opinions maintained in
the Southern States with regard to Slavery. One
party supports the institution It exists at pres
ent, but has no desire to increase the number oi
slaves in the country by further legislation regard
ing the system Of slave labor an evil which from
a combination of circumstances has become ne.
cessty to the welfare of the sayeh0dng commun-
tiles. The other class, which seems to have con-
trol Of public sentiment in the south, not only up.
holds slavery excellent and Indispensable in
stitution founded on high moral and christian prin-
ciples, but it regards with jealousy and displeasure
any interference on the part OF the government
with the slave trade. which even the horrors Of a
middle Passage" and its other barbarous features
do not prevent it from advocating and defending
on grounds Of public policy and sound economy
In the Southern Commercial Convention, which at
at the time of writing these lines was in session
at Knoxville. these two parties had trial Of
strength in vote motion that was sprung up
on the Convention from that hot-bed Of heresy
and abstractions-the grea; State Of South Caro-.
lna where the people prefer q direct tax to the
payment of tariff duties ana desire repeal of the
fishing bounty laws in order to starye out North
ern manufacturers. On the second day Of the
sesson-according to the reported proceedings
after prayer, which by the way was q singular pre-
lmnary TO so a bominable proposition, and to say
the least of it was little short Of blasphemy, Mr..
BRYAN, of South Carolina, the home Of the modern
chivalry," offered the folio wing resolutions which
propose tne revival OI u tTdlc IN HulHn sOuis ana
human bodies, that half q century ago was 80 re-
voting to the humane feelings of the shareholders
of that period that they erased it from the Statute
book and consigned it to Il deserved oblivion:
Resolced, That in the opinion of this Convention
the eighth article Of the treaty of Washington,
ratified on the 10 Of November, 1912, ought to be
annulled, under the provision Of the first clause Of
the eleventh article of said treaty.
Resolred, That copy of the above resolution
be by the President of this Convention, to the
Senator and Representatives in Congress frcnl
each State here represented, with the request that
it be laid before tho legislatures Of their respective
States for their consideration.
The eighth article, above referred to, provides
for the keeping of squadron on the coast of AT
rica for the suppression of the slave trade and the
eleventh article provides that after five years from
the ratification Of this treaty, it shall continue in
force until the other of the parties shall sig
nifty wish TO terminate it.
A motion was made to lay this resolution on the
tabeand the vote on this proposition shows that the
old Southern States with the exception of Mary
land and the cotton growing Southwestern States,
are the most devoted to the peculiar institution,
and cling to it with tenacty characteristic of q
rode anu barharous age, The following States
voted 10 table Mr., Bryan's resoutions:-Kehtucky,
Tennessee, Marland and North Carolina, casting
forty-two (42) votes, while Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi South Car
oIina and Louisiana, casting sixty.two (G2) votes,
voted in the negative. Missouri and Texas did
not record their votes, and we presume were not
Represented. The resolutions were subsequently
referred to the Committee on Business, of which
Mr.. Lyons, of Virginia, was the Chairman, and
and such was the favor with which they were re-
received in this branch of the organization, that
they were reported back to the Convention at the
afternoon session, when their consideration was
postponed for the time. They have no doubt been
passed by the Convention ere this, although we
are not advised of the fact. and thus tho majority
of the Southern States will have arrayed them
selves on the side of the odous slave taade at a
period in the orld's history when even semicivil-
lied nations condemn it on account of the inhu-
manty and cruelty involved in its prosecution -
Will our Southern neighbors make the aOrogaton
of tie portion of the treaty which cOntempates the
suppression of the slave trade plank of the future
democratic platform? And will they require their
Northern allies to support this exclusively South
ern measure-this precious offspring of the Null
iers of South Carolina? We shall see. In the
meantime the dough faces can await their South
ern masters mandates with fear and tremblingf