The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-06
The American SLAYER,

Captured by the L. ). brig Dolphin, off
the coast of Cuba, is the subject of an in
tense excitement at Charleston, S. C.. The
sight of three hundred fine negroes, worth
$500 each, has excited the cupidity, and
gives such visible evidence of the facilities
by which the passion could be gratifed, that
the event will have powerful effect in slim
ulating the desire for re-opening the slave
trade. The blacks are in some danger of
bondage from their liberators. The Charles
ton papers are discussing very earnestly the
question what shall be done with the liber-
ated blacks. y correspondent of the Courier
says:
They are here on the very Threshold of
civilizations; shall we send them back to bar
barism? They are at the dawn of christian
ity; shall we send them back to heather
darkness? They are almost within the pale
of law and social state, where they can
take relations; shall we send them back to
the realm of no law but that of brute force :
no relations but those that brutes take p
They are here almost within the pale of So
ciety where they will be safe, and where
every physical want will be surely supplied;
will we send them back to the precarious
subsistence snatched from wretches rs starv-
| ing as themselves?
! But why should we send them back? Do
we not want them They are wanted
everywhcre-our planters want them, our
mechanics want them, our railroads want
4 them. our waste lands are in want of them
Is it from any sense, among ourselves, of the
inhumanity of rendering them useful p.
We put our sons and brothers under masters
to learn trade, and is il humane TO do this,
and not humane to do the same to creatures
that are certainly as much in need of train
ing and instruction There is no reason
why we should send them back, but in this,
! that it has become agreeable to another Sec
ton of this Union to look with disgust on
our institutions, and we arc called upon to
make this sacrifice of interest and humanity
to propitiate them.
The following are the particulars of the
capture of SLAYER off Sagua la Grand, Gu.
ba, as reported by the officers ofthe Dolphin
The SLAYER was formerly the brig Putnam
of Boston.
"At daylight the Dolphin discovered q
sail ahead, standing on the same course a
the Dolphin, which gained on her very rap.
idly during the day. AT P. NJ. the sal
ahead hauled on the wind, as if trying tc
get out of the Dolphins course, which
caused her to be considered suspicion:
craft The Dolphin tackled and stood off in
pursuit hosting English cOlors, and fireC
a blank cartridge, which not being answer
ed by the other vessel, another was fired a
Al p ~, and this also being unnoticed, a
5P. NJ. she fired shot across the bows o
the suspected vessel, which had the effect o
causing her to display the American flag a
her peak, but she still continued on hel
course, and seemed TO be making her hes
endeayors to escape, when well-directe,
shot from the Dolphin took effect in her rig
ging, causing her to heave to and lower he
colorS.
Y On sending a boat on board, she proved
10 be brig from the African coast, Will
three hundred and eighteen negroes.
Her crew was Immediately confined, ant
the prize placed in charge of Lieut.. j. NJ
Bradford and Second Lieut.. ChaS. Z. Car
penter, and sixteen men from the Dolphin
with orders to proeeed to Charleston, Souti
Carolina"
Lieut.. Bradford, the prize master, VIII,
: brought the SLAYER into Charleston, make
), the following report Of the condition of tn
: blacks to the Navy Department. His con
munication is dated Charleston, and refers Z,