The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-03-06
SOUTHERN SLAVE TRADE.


FROM New ORLEANs.-We are indebted to |
the polite clerks of the elegant steamer En- |
press for the latest New Orleans papers.
The Delta contains startling article upon
the subject of direct slave trade from the
Gulf shore to the coast of Africa. II says it
is already opened and isifoand to be SO prof
ltasle that it will not be possible to arrest it.
II says: ,.--.., r,-....,..,-.-.,.
Some strange and significant facts have
ccnfe to our knowledge. We have hesitated
to disclose them, but after inquiry. examina-
ton and consultation, We are convinced that
both duty and policy demand disclosure
The facts. we say. are startling; they are
crucial. They will surprise and encourage
many in orr counting rooms and Offices, and
many on the plantations and in the towns,
but most of all they will astonnd the Cabi-
nets Of Western Europe, and eminently as
sist to confirm between the genial French
people and our own Norman and Huguenot
South, an unwritten but hearty, magnani-
nous and unconquerable league against The
allied avarice aud envy, cant and rapacity Of
| England and tina Northern States.
Let it 90 forth that Southcrners have taken
into their own hand the law, and opened the
African Slave Trade with the South; that
Africans arc now imported into Mississippi
and other seashore States; that in Mississippi
there is market for African slaves, and that
on plantations in that great and intrepid
State, negroes recently, imported from Africa
are at their daily work. The authority on
which we make this announcement is indis-
putable. We even have advices that in Mis-
sissippi, Henry hughes and some Of his
! party now privately urge the Labor lmmi
grafton movement, not 10 open the supply OF
/ Africans, but to legitimate, moralize, rcgu
late and equsl,ze the supply lready opened
and impossible to be closed. We have some
further details. Some negrosc are disem-
barked on tho Atlantic coast and brought
overland to the Mississippi cotton fields, but
the Mississippi seaeoats peculiar facilities FOL
/: nding and secreting cargoes, and the con-
veniences of Pearl River as a channel for dis
tributien, are not overlooked.
, The profits Of the Mississippi Slave Trade
! are enormous. We have been so fortunat,
. us to procure from undoubtcd authority some
interesting details. They relate to tn,
operations of tho Mississippi Slave Trade
, and are authenticated by operators.
: The Delta gives full details of the manne
in which Slave ship should be fitted on
! and differed, and closes in the following at
i tractive and exulting exhibit of the enor
s nous profits of the traffic.
GAS to the expenses and profits of the voy
age, the latest adviccs were from the Capitals
: OF a bark which sailed from ono of the Geor
gia ports. He has quite recently returned
and reports that on account of the vigilanc
of cruisers, negroes had accumulated on tn
coast, and in manner glutted the markets
aud that in consequence of this the price ha
a fallen to under thirty dollars head. Til
= payment. however, must be IN gold or silve
as the head men will not, as formerly, bartc
70, merchandise.
% We may estimate cargo to number scye
+ hundred negroes, although many more thai
Of ithat are often carried; but whatever the mum
her, none purchased should be over twenty
five years Of age. Seven hundred, ut an ave.
&c age cost of thirty dollars a peice, will amour
II to S2l 900, and their price in this country
e Cuba, will range IRON $3.50 10 l,2QO. But
!, sold for $500. say, the cargo will net $3.50
- 900. Freely allowing, then, $3.50. 900 for Il
10 entire expenses Of the voyage, ard oil poss
l. bic loss, the profits of one round voyage wi
amount to $500 900. Where the profits a
f. so eyorbitant, We can we'll understand wi
the business has been begun in the Sout
l. We can we'll understand the impossibility
60 closing the trade now begun, ard mos. Of o.
10 we now can understand that the great que
tion is not whether there shall be for Il
South supply Of African labor, because tn
ca is now settled, and the great and absorbir
l. question is whether, according to Hughes
,e method, the supply shall beso modified as
be legitimate, fair, regular and equal.
: What would have been thought of sue
!, statements, and defiance of the Laws, hs
- they been published in an American new
!, paper three years ago.