Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-27
REoPEEING OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

When, in 1856, many Republican newspapers
and speakers pointed To the fact that the natural
and legitimate result OF the Democratic" policy
respecting slavery in Kansas. would certainly lead
! to n direct issue, in which that same party would
go for the reestablishment of the Slave Trade they
were laughed at MS fanatics and vsiOnaries. We
were not prepared to see the issue made soon
as this, because did not think Buchanan quite
so bad as he has turned OFT to be. We al.
ways kEeY him for a doug gbface, political trick
ster, ready to do anything to secure his own per.
sona advantage, hot did not look to see him
employ quite much steam on the car of NATIONAL
Standardization and political ruin. In the natural
course and flow OF events it ought to have taken
about six years from the passage Of the Nebraska
bill but the election of Buchanan has hurried the
drama to n deHouHem sooner than what may be
called the Lruprieties" would seem to demand
II the principle nf the Nebraska bill is right then
The slave trade is right The Dred Scott decisiun
flowed naturally from the lOcUtOco doctrine ui
Squatter Svverei nty. The Nebraska bill says
that tho vote of u majority in Territory makes a
man chattel. The bred Scott decision says that
black men have no rights which white men are
bound to respect; that man has the same right
to carry slaves in the Territories OF the Union aud
hold them there any other property oxen ,sheepo
rum that slave s rs much propert, to his holder
as'is Bigler or beef 1t this be true, by what rs sh
did Congress assume to forbid the traffic in men
brought from Africa 1t the r,ght to slaves stands
on the basis the right gold or ivory. why
niightno: Congress with equal propriety make the
trade the African coast in the latter articles,
i,irr..J az we'll as in The farmer 2?
Acting upon this logical view Of the case, we
shall have assent to the reopening of the slave
trade, the test of Democracy. 1t is virtually
mnde so in the New Orleans Delta. (Feb. 90 al. |
eady. We publish the whole article from the
Detfa. 1t will repay peru>al, and we put it on
record a toretaste Of what the Democratic party
in the north will have to come to. There is no
escape from the design foi shadowed by the article
We copy. The issue is made fairly the ruins Of
all the bulwarks which the fathers of the republic
erected against the encreachmeuts of Slavery
Very well II these men think there is uU Gud
et them act, and when the time comes they
will reap the harvest Of the wind
a great hue and cry is being made in many
quarters this new feature of barbarism. Wei
jnntess we are not at all surprised. In what way
is the African than the domestic slave trade?
Will anybody he kind enough to tell US how much
more OF Christianity there is in a gentleman OF
Virginia or Kentucky selling his sons and daugh
ters (it is no use to mince the matter) to a negro
trader in New Orleans, than there is bringing some
barbarian Quashee from Dahomey Asbantee or the |
Gnb1on 10 work in Mississippi or in the swamps |
OF Red Riv-r? We see very Dod reason for think !
ing that the slave trade between Virginia and
Georgia OF the one part and Kansas the other ,
is more hateful than between Louisiana and the |
coast of Africa. But perhaps such sentiments are
unchristian, and calculated to work |
''dssoluton Of the Union" so We will here and
now simply suggest them for the consideration of
nur readers and wait until can find what the |
Nep York OjSercer and the Journal Of Commerce
NAV think upon the pont.-fts6uYA Gazette.