Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-17
The Re-Opening of the slave Trade.


By the following from the N. Y. Tribune it
will be seen that the SLAYER Wanderer is no
stranger to the u s. authorities. who general
ly wink at all such pirate ships:
The news from Savannah that the Yacht
Wanderer has been seized for landing slaves,
is significant. The laws against slave piracy,
as well as the fitting out of slayers in American
ports, are proverbally inefficient. We can re-
call but single trial of a save-pirate, Captain
Smith, in this port, and he was not hanged
Notwithstanding that slavers were known to be
built and fitted out here, to the number, it
was supposed, of two a month, any successful
seizure of such nefarious craft has been the
rarest of achievements So overwhelmingly
profitable is the foreign slave-trade that there is
evidence in the Treasury Department at Wash
ington that three millions Of money invested in
it nets seventeen millions of profits What
wonder, then, at the keenness of SLAYER enter
prises, and the almost uniform success which
attends their embarkation and return. As for
the efforts OF the American Navy-those
eighty guns on the Coast of Africa-it may be
safely asserted that they are next to null. The
recent open support of the foreign slave-trade
by Southern politicians, and the attempts made
in Conventions and Legislatures to sanction
LQdL supreme hTcug, GNel Ill lLE lace OF Tile
worlds civilization are simply evidences of the
growing lust of the slave-trade-proofs that
capital and energy are not wanting to sustain
and pe1petuate it.
1t is now credibly reported from Savannah,
that the yacht Wanderer has positively landed
slaves near Brunswick; that Mr.. Ganahi, the
District Attorney, arrived at the former place
with three men believed to be implicated, for
whom he refused to take bail and that the ru-
NOR prevails that the Africans were landed at
Jokyl Island, and that steamer conveyed one
hundred and fifty past Savannah to the river
plantations, where they were scattered over the
country. The cargo, it is said, consisted of
three hundred and fifty persons. A special dis
patch from Washington asserts that the Wan
derer is the properly of Capt. Corrie, the same
who had claim before Congress last session of
$4,000, which passed; and furthermore, that
the President was notified week ago of this
expected arrival.
On the 9th of June last, let it be borne in
mind, the Wanderer was seized here under sus-
pieious circumstances. Surveyor Norton of Port
jefferson and others watched her and the Char
ter Oak, cruising about the Sound, and came to
the conclusion that there was something wrong
going on aboard Upon the affidavit of Mr.
Norton, the District Attorney had both vessels
rying stores to the Wanderer The latter is
schooner rugged aud carries about $50 tons. Up
on being seized, Capt Corrie, planter of South
Carolina, her owner and commander then as
now, loudly protested against the transac-
ton, and the persons on board were very
fearful lest their names should get into the
newspapers.
In few days after this, we were not sur
prised to find that the Wanderers gallant cap
tain was acquitted of any completely with the
slave trade, and he was released according gly.-
Now we find, however, according to the rumor
or statement from the South, that the Wanderer
has been engaged in the slave trade, and accord
ing to the revived doctrine of the South, has
boldly landed slaves We make no direct as
sertion of this, but take the telegraphic news
from Savannah and Washington as we find it.
What wonder that a rich planter should en-
gage in the slave trade! Nothing is more prof
table Why should not the Chivalry indulge
in the foreign as well as the domestic business
1t is the less cruel of the two. Virginia-which
holds WashiDgton's bones, and so forth-has
slave trade of So, ,O00, 900 year. Why should
not Georgia buy Sl2,0O0,OOO of slaves from the
Coast of Africa Where is the moral differ
ence4 We can see none.