The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-16
From the N. o. Delta, March 4. !
THE ATTEMPT TO LEGALIZE THE nIPOl
TATlON OF FREE NEGROES IN LOUIS
ANA-COMMENTS OF THE PRESS

ANA-COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Since more than year ago, when we commenced
advocating the importation and employment of AZ
rlcans, under system similar to the English and
Spanish Coolie SYSTEM the idea has made indisputa
BILE advances towards accomplishment Convinced
that labor was the great want of the South: con-
vInced that Africans the descendants of Africans
could only safely and effecually supply the want:
and convinced that however wronefully the foreipn
Slave-trade was closed to the South it was if NOT
vain to urge and idle to expect, at least impolic to
wait for its re-Opening we turned to the introduc
ton OF voluntary immigrants from Africa as an ex-
pedlent at once practicable and for present necessi-
ties, sufficient. Since then. we saw the idea has
grown apaee Southern men have begun to think
upon it, and think in earnest; and such thoughA
the Legitimate parent of action. As men Think they
are and do, individually aggregately. If Louis
idId thinks tic0n Immigration, Louisiana trM az
snredg enJoy the 6enGts Of african Immigration. 50
Of 1ecos, so Of Wississippi 50 Of Alabama and he
rest.
That the Louisiana Legislature has been thinking
IN this connection, we have lately had some verv
wholesome indications. We have seen notbino for
some time of Senator st. Paul's proposition to au-
thorize the Governor to import 5000 free Africans
This was rather a crude shape to put the question
n and it is quite probable that it has been with
drawn in favor of the bill reported in the telegram
yesterday as having passed the House bv LARGE
majority, authorizing Company, already oroan-
ized to import 500 free blacks from the coast of
Africa; to be indentured for not less that fifteen
years. So far, very good. We trust that the CO.
sppi in the same direction, may lead to a viporous
cooperation of the parties in each State who have
the execution of the details of the African Immipra
ton project Nay, we do not see why they could
not be advantageously consolidated in one compa-
ny, having New Orleans as its consultative and
financial headquarters.
Of course there would be-no legal impediments in
the way OF such an association importng free blacks
from Canada, Jamaica or s. DomiHqO Indeed
the last island especially is near convenient and
inviting, that it would seem almost like throwing
away an advantage in possession to pass it by and
go all the way to Africa. Its black inhabitants are
certainly capable of oluntary emigration as thn
native Africans and for that matter it is every iii
as proper subject to be cOlonized civilized md
reclaimed by the country along the Zambrsi !
River is to be occupied and converted bv tbe Enc
lish into cotton fields, in the name of civilization
and the Gospel Hereby, at least. hanos a sug@es |
ton, which Will have all the more pith and sub
stance the more it is suminated
THE OTHER SIDE.
From the New Orleans Picayunc March s.
IHE THREATENED AFRICAN IMMIGRArIox-Ou cit- |
zens were quite startled by the teegraphic an |
~ mnouhcement, yesterday morning, of the passage,
through one house of the Legislature of bill au
thorlzing the importation Of $500 negroes from the
coast of Africa into this State to be indentured for
a term of not less than fifteen years. 1t has been |
known that some such project was entertained at |
Baton Rouge and had some advocates out of it, but
it has never been thought there serious nten-
ton to press it through any prospect of its final
success. We believe, that if it had been supposed
that there any danger of the States embarking
in scheme to revive the slave trade, bv indirec
tion, and bringing into Louisiana, gangs of 1oooD
ldbOrers, fresh from the bloody and bdrbdric ,carS of
the Africa" coast, there could haze gone up from III,