Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-09
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TUESDAY. MARCH .. 1883.
R.-opening or The Slave Trade.

In another column we publish the article from
the New Orleans Delta, about which so much
sensation has been created, in reference to the
re-openinR of the African slave trade at the
South The facts therein disclosed exhibit de-
termination on the part Of the slavery propaganda
its to make another desperate move for the per
petuation of their "dsrling institution" Having
secured the repeal of the Missouri compromise in
order to insure the spread of slavery over terrific
~ from which it had been restricted, and not sue
ceediug so we'll in that scheme as they anticipa-
ted, they now turn their attention TO new field,
thinking to secure the ends sought for, the as
esndancy ofthe slaveholding interest in the ma
tional councils, by another process. Having al
ready partially succeeded in the practical accom-
plshment of their new aim, according to the
Dsita's article, in spite Of the restrictions exist
ing by act of Congress, they have now, it thinks,
bat to plead the necessity of their case, in urging
Congress to repeal the law of 1908, which alone
prohibits the traffic, wLich if extensively carried
on,s to bring such untold wealth iato the South
sra Golfers.
Once, we should have thought that the idea of
repeating the restriction against the foreign slave
trade. however urgently it might be demanded in
certain quarters, preposterous in the ex
IRENE; but, after the experience Of the last few
years of Northern concession to Southern de.
mands, we are prepared for almost anything,
pecially when we consider the manner in which
this new proposition or demand for Southern
''labor" is met By the organ of the administration
at Washington. The UnsOn commenting upon
the Deita'S article, says, in article headed
"politcal remedies"
1.-The Northern States of the Union enjoy a
large portion of its commerce. and doubtless ex-
act large commissions and profits which are sat-
s6ed out of the various productions of the whole
country. The South pos esses favored latitudes
and Soils and commands almost exclusive
monopoly in certain agricultural staples, which
all the world find it necessary to have, and which
every people, of course, compelled to pay for.
Monopoly is word Of peculiar significance. 1t
to production what absolutism is to politics,
especially when the former happens to be of such
character that everybody must have it. 1t is
not wonderful, then, that the great cotton fields
Of the South should draw heavily upon the labor
Of Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and North
Carolina, because labor like produce, will always
find the highest market Some of our c9ntem-
poraries of the Old Dominion begin to realize thu
operation Of this law in the sensible and annoy
ing scarcity OF labor, and suggest, as remedy,
that the foreign slave trade should be reupened
for supplies We merely allude to the disease,
and to the proposed remedy as one Of many
which reach us from every part Of the country. 1t
is certainly to be regretted that the social, polit
cal, religious, and industrial institutions of the
world are not absolutely perfect; but we doubt if
all the prescriptions which we find floating about
were taken and applied, whether the general sys
TEN would be any better than it now is"
Do we find here any denunciation of the pro-
posed scheme Not at all : but a recognition
Of the restriction against that traffic as one of
the RESTRAINTS" or ''nevitable temporary evils"
of the time, with the mere expression of the opn.
ion that the proposed repeal of the law of 1908
would not be exactly wise at present. The Union
is fully sensible of the disease" e. the pres
emit want Of slave laborers at the South, but has
some doub, just moo about the ''remedy propos-
ed OF course it will entertain no such doubts
after such measure shall have been agreed upon
BY the managers of the same, at Washington, to
be in accordance with the creed of the party, as
the chief plank Of its platform, hereafter when it
shall have finally driven Douglas and all other
decent men from its connection.
The Boston Post publishes the article from the
Delta which s.a good administration print) and
the only comments 1t makes are, that it "gives it
to its readers for what it is WORTH, not daring to
utter even a caveat against the abominable prop
ositions contained therein.
The Richmond (Va.) Wing, which, is sup.
porter of the Lecompton policy OF the adminis-
traton, in long article bewailing the increasing
scarcity of labor" in the Old Dominion, owing
TO the transportation of her slaves farther South
proposes ''remedy" similar to that recommend
ed by the Delta, viz; reinforcement from Afri
ca. The Whigsays
1.-THE preventative remedy is some new source
OF labor to supply this increasing deficiency. The
alternative lies between Yankees and negroes.
We must resign ourselves to see our lands under
go ruinous depreciation for the want of sufi
Gent labor to till them, and then be appropria
ted by the Yankees must augment the
number OF negroes by direct importation from
Africa, so a to supply every white man in the
State with enough for his own use"
The Old Dominion must be reinforced by more
slave laborers imported from Africa, or else be
overrun by Yankee emigrants from the North.
To this end, the restriction of 1903 must be re-
moved BY Congress, in other words be declared
'inoperative and void, by reason of its being
Unconstitutional and be forthwith repealed"
by formal statute. And every l"Lecompton"
Democrat is expected to yield his assent thereto.