Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-25
Startling DiscIUsuFes--The Afrl'
can sIave Trade Opened at the
south.

TThe following is the Editorial article
from the New Orleans Delta, of the Goth
uIt,, which has alresdy been alluded TO BY
the telegraph
some startling and significant facts have
come to our knowledge. We hs'e hesl
tatsd to disclose them, but after inquiry,
Wa are convinced that both duty and poll
cV demand disclosure. The facts, we say,
are startling. they are crucial. They will
surprise and encourage many in our count
ing rooms and offices, and many on the
pIsptstiops and 10 the towns Lut most oi
ell they will satOuud the Cabinets Of wes'
tern Europe, and sminentlv assist to con-
firm between the genial French people
and our own Norman and Huguenot south,
an unwri,ten but hearty ,nagnanimous and
uncouquerable league against the allied av'
arice aud envy, cant aud rspsclty OF I'm
gland and the Northern States. Although
the foiled and furious enemies OF our in-
stitutions may shake ur, uncork, and pour
ont ON our battered brows tue foamlng VI
ais of their wrath; although the President
NAV be shocked and embarrassed; aud al
though the great parties of the country
may be bitterly disappointed and imbrAn-
glei, let il go forth that Southerners have
Inkeu into their own hands the law, and
opensd the African Slave Trade with the
South that Africans are now imported in
to Mississippi and other sea shore States
that in Mississippi there is a market fol
African Slaves, and that on plantations II
\ that great aud intrepid State, negroes re
Gently imported from Africs are at t"el
: daily work. The authority on which vi
: make this announcement is ndisputabIe.-
!. We even have advices that in Mississippi
n Henry Hughes and some Of bis party nov
a privately urge the Labor Immigration
movement, not to open the supply of Al
/" ricans, but to legitimate, ncralize, reguIat
n and eoualizo the supply already Opene
g and impossible to be closed. We hav
ps some further details. Some negroes al
di,smbsrked on the Atlantic coast an
Brought overland to the Mississippi cotto
I'd fields. but the Mississippi sea coasts peel
10 liar facilities for landing and secret'ng ca
Of ooes. and the conveniences Of Pearl RIv'
as channel for distribution, are not owe
:, looked.
'a' The profits Of the Mississippi Slave tra'
are enormous. We have been 90 fortuna
ses TO procure from uudoubted authority sot
81. interesting details. They relate to the 0
rth erations OF the Mississippi Slave Taac
lid and are authenticated by operators.
y; need not be said in tue first place that I
IN Lark engaged in the traffic to the Sou
YES must be a fast sailor; for this is indespe
ion sable to the security of the officers a
der crew, the health of the cargo, and Tapl'
lite ty of the recuuisry returns. For a
ical from the Mississippi coast to Africa q
urs back. there must be captain. superear
the three mates, three cooks, steward, and
II tween twenty and thirty first class seam
the The vessel must be wsll supplied with
ar. ira running and standing rigging aio
g. so superuumerary sPsrs, ropes toPma
plus and suits of saiIs. An assortment OF
on. flags of all nations will be particularly
ath. sirsbIe. but the most useful is now
an. French flag. because British cruisers
,ood not verify tive Colou and take the 81
all, liberties as with the United States nag
we The fare of the ships crew must be
ould yery best, and their good will must
carefully conciIisted, because, during
4 70 voyage a mutiBy is disastrous: and
: a..d the voyage, treacherOus or vlnd'ctlv'
ereu formstion il. to say the leass, troubles
t. and expensive. To procure the good
we of the men, much depends on the II
a or. over whom the captain ought to zee
II strict watch. For the subsistence OF
a., "'' NEGROES there must be a plentiful su
lam of hard bread. corn-meal, r'ce' aho
fort. abundance of vinegar, red-peper. pur'
lanan ter and drugs. In distributing dlet'
tberp greatest regularity is to be Observed
(, she yery first symtoms of disease pre-
] VOL Iv treated. As to the capacity OF IN
trades nerior officer, it may be safely aa'd u
SLAYER requires in it more courage
honesty, tidelity, skill and discretion
Phil any other ship iu any other trSae.
R'ch. Indeed, the captain ana sur
le vi must. between them, act "S pe''s"t'
y the naval officer. nercnan' ana p"yo''," y Nc
IRE, to plomstist aud msg'Sfa'e' "o' "
sy Cd, The functions OF the ehsP,a'u.
D mat. AS to the expenses and prohts
.l,o latest adyices we're tFC