Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-06-24
For the Tribune 4 Telegraph
Consequences Of a Supposed abrogation
of the Right of Search.

England is under heavy bonds to keed
the peace with the United States. Hun
dreds of thousands of her people in Liv-
erpool, London, Manchester, Burning
ham, GLASGOW, &c. are dependent on
our commerce and its connected manufac-
ture for the very bread they eat, and
that commerce suspended or cut off,
they would be left in very destitute
condition. This state of things would
be likely to prevent any British Govern
ment from rushing into war with us.
unless upon matters Of very grave CON
sideration. But suppose the difficulty
here indicated, and the questionable at
titude of France, should dispose Eng
land to accede to the American demand,
and renounce the right of visit and
search of vessels displaying the Ameri-
can flag under all circumstances; would
the American People be prepared to re-
joice at the Triumph and welcome its
consequences. .ags
One consequence would be, vast in
crease of the slave trade. The princi-
pie opposition to that trade it is well
known,i from England. For, although
the American Government was a party
to the Treaty declaring that trade pira-
cy, yet for many years it has done little
to give effect to that declaration. 1t is
stated | believe on good authority, that
during the last few months the British
Cruisershaye captured tM enty slave yes
sels' Cie american nave captured only
two during. the last eight years. This is
not the way in which the American
Government or people, carry out any
project in which they feelaninterest. and
leaves great doubt of security in the
matter. Certainly it would not be EASY
to keep up even the appearance of a
pretense with asmaller amount of results.
And if the slave trade were left with this
government to be put down it would be
a safe and rapidly increasing business.
A second consequence would be the
more rapid Authorization of the Ameri-
can continent, and a vast increase of
our slave population. Virginia now
sells her negroes at eight or ten hundred
dollars piece, and there can be no
reasonable doubt that all our southern
range OF States on the Gulf of Mexico.
would eagerly welcome arrivals from
Africa If by such commerce they could
procure them at two or three hundred
dollars each. Even at that rate it would
be very profitable business, and we
should probably have an involuntary
emigration from Africa at the rate Of
two or three hundred thousand negroes
a year, filing all our slave states to the
brim with cheap slaves, and it may be
in some instances the dark flood would
overleap its barriers into some of the
States that are now free. Had the
English war ships been out of the way,
what an increase of slave population
should we have received since the an.
nexation of Texas, and since the slave
propaganda became completely domin-.
ent in the government during the adj
ministration of Polk. Instead of to day
having from three to four millions. we
should undoubtedly have had from eight
to ten. Remove the formidable oppo-
sition of England to the slave trade, and
the southern states will import an
amount of negroes from Africa, sufficient
to counterbalance the emigration from
Europe to the Free States, and it may
be, long maintain their present ascen-
dancy in the Union if nj their haste
and violence they do not dissolve
it. III tf ~ N. !
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