True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-11-18
The, Revival of the African Slave
Trade.

eel6ES anu lullthauVhS w 'o' 'NhSNs nav
frequently been thrown out, for the past
few months, and the way is being prepa'
red 10 introduce the revival of the African
Slave Trade as a plank into the slave
Democratic platform.
And why nOtl What atrocity is there's
what crime against humanity to which
that party is not equal? Look at its stea-
dy progress in decentralization. How in
dignant were Democrats North, at the
passage of the Fugitive Slave Law; and
now the same Democrats uphold, sustain
and justify it. So with the repeal of the
Missouri compromise and the passage
of the Kansas Nebraska Act. The Nor
thern members Of the party who denoun-
ced those acts of legislative outrage, now
commend and uphold them, until de-
bauched by the subtle but internal spirit
of slavery, they can now stand by the
\ Dred Scott decision, irample upon the
Jeffersonian doctrine of ofinalienable rights,
and under The assumed shield and sane.
tion Of the National Constitution, drive
freedom from all our territories, and plant
slavery in its stead. From the position
, which the Slave Democratic party nov
occupies, single step will bring it to the
advocacy and companionship of the For
eign Slave Trade, and that step they are
preparing to take. Such is modern De-
mocracy.
The Southern Citizen published at
Knoxville, Tennessee, is even now boldly
and openly advocating revival OF the
Slave Trade. The Citizen takes the
ground that the south is dwindling away
before The north-laments the absence OF
manufacturing and other industrial pur.
suits, and anxiously asks, " Is there a
remedy ?" and says, "several Southern
= journals have already supplied us with
The answer--iI is to increase largely ouI
| labor power." " lowing to this want o.
| labor power" says The Citizen, "the
: South cannot take possession of Kansas
. cannot establish manufactures, cannot es
= ablish direct intercourse with Europe ant
4 with all the world" and adds,
: Politically, We may assert and vindi
\ cate our right 10 settle Kansas, but thu
i North has a continual new influx Of labo
= from abroad-we little nor none. Nature
t and the laws which regulate settlement
e and popula alton, are stronger than ou
}. constitutions and our guarantees Of non
intervention. The North can pour he
, myrads into Kansas, and never mis-
" them. Ii we cultivate an acre there, W,
n leave an acre untitled here. For every
l. hearth we make to smoke in Kansas
:. there is hearth lef. cold in Georgia 0
Alabama. Striving extend our institu
tions into Kansas, under present circum
Il stances, is cutting piece from one en-
as of 4 garment to sow it upon the other
T. it is giving hungry dog piece of hi
Ie own tail to eat.
! On all sides, then, want of labor meet
US. II is our sole dificully-the one ant
. sufficient reason why the South canno
o hold her own.
d The enlightened century, which flat
!ers itself ii is the nineteenth" has sig
naiized its history by one gross and sig
nal blunder--has affirmed one monstrou
heresy and falsenood- the races q
III men are equal. Some nations have en-
- deavored (thlough policy or philanthropy
. it matters liltle) 10 carry out that heres
=. into practice, and it needed but fe'
y years to bear its bitter fruits. The:
III Southern states though they did not an
=. and could not carry it 10 the insane leng'
y. y, of emancipating their negro slaves, y
y did so far give way to the prevalent foil
~ g as 10 cut off from themselves all fres
10 y! supply of the only kind of labor suitab
%. - to their climate and soil to their ow
nc liz grievous loss and damage, and witho
'at c any benefit to any body else. Heret
u Africa has suffered, perhaps more seriou
.od ly than America IA proposition which
'oo ea shall take other opportunities of verifying
% philanthropy" has stultiied itself, al
-. agriculture has cut off its own right han
al Other nations have already seen lh'
"a. d. mistake, and are con,riving means a
=t sn' pretexts to repair it, The north has 81
tm' on, fered nothing by its emancipation
W W sale) of its negroes; because in the f
~, io place, she had but few; in the seco
'nu n place, the circumstances Of the Europe
~ world have pour ed into her fields an ,
w limited supply Of labor more suited 10
lI'' .% climate and in the third place, as
WI , ~ interests in Slavery always lay, and n
; VI lies, rather in the slave trade, than
o slave labor, her commerce in that W
~ ~: to the southern States, has been comp
n"e y =, sated by clandesline trade TO South Am
L y lea and the West Indies.
aI aI Both those nations which had a
W u1 interest in the labor Of slaves have S
a." anu their error, and are about TO repair il
'n", nc, Will these southern states, which h
o: :. the largest interest of all, be the las
you see that error? If so, no Cassar
ns ,h9 could predic. for US too gloomy fatu
his Thus reasons the Citizen in favor
him revival Of the African Slave trade, an
WIN this monstrous doctrine we shall {
;.h y hear Northern Slave. Democratic dol
v to faces all around us crying amen,
this Our readers cannot have forgotten
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