Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-07-24


ago the Hesperian remarked on the fact that the
presses whose wall was louder than The Widows
of I.Sliur, when five hundred people were drown
ed in cofin-ship, are now silent, while thou
sands more, forgetful of the rotten planks, are
traversing the same invisible causeway of bones
The admontion was given by a woman it was
{ like shroud shook by some warning spirit
from the high and terrible walls of heaven We
looked and read, and 10 the very types which in
the disaster time had given shape to the most
curseful words, had been transposed to n Turing
advertisement of the coffin ships.
What life assurance has been given that the
warning has ceased How much stronger are
the ships, or less rapacious the cavcrns Of the
sea in which five hundred skeletons are nodding
to the lullaby of the waves? Where are the
worm eaten timbers that were about to break
over the fathomleSs depths which hold human
dust in solution Look up coast trembling
and groanng under their loads of h0li-dcmeuted
emigrants, are the same aquatic dcadialls of
which we have had so eloquent admonition The
same company of homicides have found favor in
the sight of our government, and they are char
tered to another years piracy on the highway of
the seas We have already written of the cnor-
nous plunderings Of that Company of ocean
Thugs we mag refer now only to the damnable
conspiracy by which they have wrung the labo-
rous earnings from thousands who have fallen in
to their snaves, and are now helplessly wrlnging
their hands in destitution in an inhospitable
country, where the rigors of winter and starva-
tion will soon be upon them. Is there no power
by which these corporate lelons can be forced to
bring back the victims of their deception who
are standing Oh the beach, penniless, despondcni,
looking seaward for some craft on which they
may escape from famine The laws of eivilza-
tion condemn the wretch who dccoys the negro
barbarian from his native country, and how much
greater should be the punishment Of those who
by systematsed falsehood and conspiracy have
populated desert place with their countrymen,
and left them to famine aud frost The individ-
ual who by fraud and misrepresentation becomes
possessed of u hundred dollars, is punished for
obtaining money under false pretences, and OF
how much greater punishment are they deserv-
ing, who by living agents and printing machin-
cry have feonously obtained hundreds of thou
sands from the credulous and the needy =?
We suppose there is no law constructed by
which these actual kidnappers may be brought
to justice and compelled to bring back the expa-
triated we despair of hearing them so admon-
ished by the united manly and imperative voice
Of the press, so long as they can pay for silence
by the meogre sale of an advertisement, or an
ing. We should not expect to hear them gener-
ally denounced until they had become poor, weak
and powerless There is no effective warfare to
be waged except on the principle fight the dew
IL with fire !; gold must be made to combat gold.
and the hope of pecuniary reward, added to the
benedictions of community is the omnipotent
power to which we look for relief. An organiza-
ton is maturing in New York. called The Peo.
ple's California Steamship Company VIM. r.
Coleman, of San Francisco, and d. O. Mills, of
Sacramento, are engaged in the enterprise which
gives appearance of practcabilty and certainty
The stock is to be 81 800 ,O0O divided into Is, 900
shares of 500, each of which entities the hold
er to one passage year. The vessels are to be
screw steamers, bark-rigged, and of 1000 tons
register Thus with competing power with per
petual injunction from selling to the enemy, we
may hope for relief in the meantime more par
tcular details Of the plan are reserved for an
other place.