Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-06-04
ns- Yancy, of Alabama, in his speech

NJ Yancy, Of Alabsms, in his speech,
before the Southern Disunion Convention,
on the revival Of The slave trade, says II a
Louisiana planter has a right to buy a
negro in Virginia and take him to New
, Orleans, he has the same right to buy one
In Cuba, or on the coast Of Africa, and
Import him. This is strange logic, indeed
TAa organic law Of on rcountry recognises
sasses as property, and transferable, like
sny other species Of property-subject to
such restrictions a. each slave State deems
It proper to impose. Slavery existed here,
too, previous to tho organization Of the
federal government and the recognition
Of its existence was condition precedent
to the formation Of the Union. The slave
trade, then, is legitimate between the States
that are holding, and would be be-
tween these last and Cuba, were there no
laws prohibiting it, because Spain re.
cognises slavery, and, like ourselves, puts
slaves upon thesame footing, commercially,
with other property. When, however, we
60 to the coast Of Africa we find bar.
barous people, with no governments, re.
eognized as such. There the people are
ell equal, as il regards political rights
Slavery is not there sanctioned by law,
and slaves recognized as property; and
the right Of one individual over another
has no other foundation than the chances
Of war. And If brute force enable the
captor to sell his captive az a slave, the
right Of the purchaser has no other sane
ton than the same lawless exercise of brute
force over unresisting weakness. This
species Of slave.trsde is nothing but kid
mapping, and the barbarous practice ought
not to be sanctioned by any civilized gov.
eminent. II incites the barbarians to con-
tinual wars, with the hope of gain from
the sale OF their brethren into lifelong
bondage, and stimulates the avarice and
iDhumanity Of the brutes who engage in
the nefarious traffic. Why not carry out
the position Of Mr.. Yancy little further,
aud contend that if northern white man
get into fight with a free negro, and con-
quers him, he may sell him to the first
aontherner that offers to buy No, no
that will not do, because the law declares
that kidnapping. Well, then, repeal the
lsw--place the free negroes of the North
upon the same footing with the free negroes
of Africa, and let us carry on slave trade
nearer home. IF negro is, everywhere,
property by birth, there can be no objec.
ticn--aside from humanity-to this policy;
if he be not, from whom does the trader,
Oh the coast of Africa, get his bill of sale ?
In what Constitutional provision, or statute
law does he find his authority for taking
mere prisoner of war from his native
land and making him slave for life p
The same brute force that constitutes the
sole law governing the African slave. trade
would, the circumstances being equal, ex-
tend the same sanction to a traffic in the
white prisoners Of war in every country in
Europe. In the barbarous ages, the
captive was slave; aud it is one of the
boasts Of civilization that this barbarous
usage has been superseded by wiser and
moro human practice. Yet, in this en-.
ligbtencd age, and in the freest country
on earth, men arc found ready to return
to that usage and make the prisoner slave
for life, without the hope, and beyond the
reach of ransom, 1t is our right to buy
as many slaves as we can, from those who
have slaves to sell,--buyer and seller act.
ing under the sanction of law-but we
deny the right to make slaves of prisoner:
Of war, and whenever and wherever it il
done, il is lawless exercise of brute force
Unjust in its effects, and degrading in
its tendency,
Sar The bill to repeal the Fishing
bounties was promptly and properly me
by an amendment to repeal the duty or
sugar The Fisheries have ever been es
teemed an invaluable school for seamen-
the nursery of our navy and because tn,
trade is carried on By northern enterprise
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