The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-04-17
Ne Foreign slave Trzas % be Revived.

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open the foreign Slave trade a bill was
introduced into the Legislature Of. Louisi.
ana, at its latesession, Incorporating com;
pany to import into that State q given
number of apprentices from the coast oi
Africa, who would be bound to service
for the term Of fifteen years. Atthe ex-
piration of that psriod. the Christian Leg
islasure of Louisiana would undoubtedly
declare these agEssatiiess to be aeataea, moi
qualified for liberty, and by act of law
make them and their pos.erity slaves fol
all time.
Bills of a similar character have been
introduced into the Legislatures of Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, Georgia and sonth Car
olina.
The New Orleans Delto, of March 9th,
shows the progress Of this movement in
the following paragraph, which we copy
from that journal =
THE WORK GOES eE.-There was a
rumor in town on Saturday that one hun
dred and fifty Africans, justimported, had
gone up Pearl River. We also hear of an
offer TO land cargoes on any part of the
Mississippi Coast. This importation is
hardly fair; let Mississippi pass Hughes
bill, and Louisiana pass Faylor's bill, SO
that rich and poor viii have an equal
chance to procure labor
But this movement is not to be limited
20 State Legislatures. The Federal Gov
eminent has been retrograding for years.
The signs of the times now indicate asim-
ultaneous effort on the part of Southern
members of Congress. sustained and back
ed up by the whole Democratic party, to
secede from the legislation and even the
express stipulations of the Convention
which framed the Federal Constitution,
and reopen the slave trade with all its
horrors. The following resolutions have
been introduced into the Legislature of
Texas, and win no doubt be passed as the
expression of that body:
Be it resolved By the legislature of the
State Of Isras, That our Senators in Con.
gress be instructed, and our Representa-
tives requested to urge upon the Congress
of the United States, the repeal of all
laws and the abrogation of all treaties
prohibiting the importation of African
slaves into the slaveholding States and
Territories of this Union, and the passage
of such humane laws as shall efectually
guard against every species of cruelty, in
such numbers, on board of such safe
guards as shall be necessary to their
healths comfort and general protection OF
life and person.
Res0Eved further, That the Governor be
requested to transmit copies of these res
olutions to our member of Congress, and
the Governors of all the States in the
Union.
The New Orleans Pieayune expresses
serious apprehensions that this movement
of the South will succeed. 1t represents
that it is claimed in some quarters that ii
is hoax, practised upon anti-slayery men
in the North, to divert their attention
from their real transactions; but, it con-
cludes, there is no pretense in that quarter
that it is anything else than the fixed de-
termination of leading men of the entire
slaveholding party of the South, and those
who think otherwise are only deceiying
themselves.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, writing from New Orleans on the
7th of March, says, among other things /:
81 have not the slightest doubt that the
project for re-opening the slave trade is a
serious and wide spread movement.
have good reason for supposing that mil
lions are interested in it. =
The Legislature has actually adopted the
bill, and you need not be surprised if it
becomes a law. / hear that Governor
Wickliff is not opposed to it.
/" 1 am almost ashamed to write you
seriously on such subject. but truth COM
peis me to go further I fear that more
than one Southern member at Washington
favors this inhuman and horrible enter
prise. Indeed, l know that more than
one of them thinks it practicable"
Once it would have been supposed that
James Buchanan would have interposed
the authority of the federal arm to prevent
the consummation of such wickcdness:
but after knowing his policy on Kansas
affairs; after his attempt to force a bas-
tard Constitution upon our people and
after he has humiliated himself and his
position to become mere tool of the
southern oligarchy, we are ready to ex-
pect anything from his hands. There is
amere possibility that he may change his
course on this subject, but with our past
observations, we are more disposed to
think he will lend his hand to it, and that
twill, by another session of Congress be-
come an administration measure.
a New Parry.
The Democratic party are on the high