The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-16

oiPle, anu tnaC not so much on anv humanitarian
ground Tor the sake of the imported neoro as nnoI
considerations of the interests and tbn 6onor Of H.
Htate' we do not doubt that nineteen-twentintbso n
lc negroes anywhere IN Africa would be positively
oehehtted by being transferred rom thernativa IanI
10 the Southern United States; from condition ~
want, ignorance and constant SUFFERING as hru+al
masters or brutal slaves, to one of assured oonfort
Plo'eGLoh ana abundance, dependent and con-
tented laborers under the mild sway of n civilized
ana Christian race. But there are means g.
bringing this about which are abborrant to go ,o
sense OF what is right and what is merciful and
| these make the Slave-trade a horror to MANY who
GonSclentlously uphold the institution of Slavery as
| IL exists among ourselves A direct ,,ronoo;t;o.1 -
rertce the A Africdn Hare-frade ,roId meet re Hs a
$'0n" suggestions haze already met a strono. nud ,o
oe''ere' a Predominoting opposition IN the Southern
$%oe-noed'"9 States, on grounds Of policy and SELF
interest as much of conscience The new nroia.o,
Tor importing ''tree" immigrants into Louisana' is
eerh IL as we may, traffic in slaves and one of its
features Is, that it is traffic in slaves from the
| Tor making them free negroes here
The plan is, in substance the same nc +bot rooo.
| ~ so much debated which the French Govarnmen+
% pas authorlzed and is prosecuting through the St
heSls contract for providing negro laborers from,
Rm VIast @ 1or the use OF her West India possessions
f put sne wrench Government does not disouise the
iac' mat IL deals in slaves All experiments unon
eG eig contract Tor voluntary emgrants have proved
d .dilules. Inc negroes can only be obtained from
sllNe uealers and are sold to the French
toIi ac,9rs at so muck per head-iust as they used
10 De sold IN the old tines OF the trade-from the
9arTacooas OF the Spanish and Portuguese slave
ueaierS; Ihere Is no such thing to be had ON
! the African coast rs NEGRO wiIlinC t
contract and able to contract uhdarstandiroI,,
Tor free laborer. The whole country is drive fo3
the chlefs, who monopolize the traffic and whom
the new French market has melted to new wars for
the purpose OF getting captives to be sold on tn.
coast, or made ''free" emigrants Of by the French
contractors. The French indeed defend their svs
tenn on the ground that Slaverv-brutalized and
apsolute-ls the normal condition of the native fri
their INN Il,
cpatlon plan-a system for the Withdrawing of tba
savage from the expressions of his native master and
making him free man in the West Indies. after he
- patpareu lor the condition by some years of pre-
paratlon IN state of legazed servitude
The people of this State, when they examine the
2eaIIigs ol theSe projects, will hardly consent TO
the introduction among their own well-trained and
u"h'enteu population, OF a multitude brOught here
@"ec'y Jro"t me to'oed and most depraped state Of
bdlb0rism and nrlessness as o.free'' el,ioro,t T;
Pohcy OF all the laws Of the State for MANY wears
mas IA Deen to repress the growth of the number of
itee hegroes-to restrain the power of emancma-
ti0h, ana 10 demand the exodus from among us of
all OF the free or emancipated class who have not
some special claim upon our good faith or some
special merit to exempt them from the operation Of
a rule OF established and necessary State policy
How can this policy be reconced with the scheme
Tor authorizing the entry into the State in the as
suned character of ''free" negroes of the untamed
and untaught Pagan, clothed with rights of which
1hey cannot be divested but by new acts of egis-
directly into a slave
rhere Is no demand by the individual interests of
LOUISIANA, Tor the increase of her laboring pOpua
tlon, by such means, of such a class and with the
inevitable mlschiets that must follow If they are
not TO be treated ''frec but the contract TO be
made device, by which the Save-trade is to be co
Eertl Practced under the authority of the State of
Loulslana-a mere ecasion Of the lars of the United
states against the African Slavetrade-t is hardly
less Objectionable in its character will be of doubt
iu success under the definitions of the statutes which
are the laws Of the land and is not ,rory Of Hema
"ess ""d loyoLy ~hich o"g to perade tie legislation
u" S''G'c'y9 S"fe or the good faith rhich IN main
and PmctdioWS tWlfIment of her obIiqatioas.
II 1t IS this African project which has been in
up,seG py tle house OF Representatives, We hope
% gre Is tne ior reconsideration, or that the Senate
VIII put ltS lace against such innovations.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
PROTEST. AGAINST THE MOVEMENT.
FOR some years past complaints have been made
IN this State of the increase of free negroes They
nave been justly deemed undesirable class of per
sons !" nave N Slaveholding State In conse
q"ehcc ol these complaints and OF this undesirable
ness past Legislatures have felt called upon to mass
such laws as would gradually rid us of the evil re
ierreG TO. Free negroes from other States were
orpiuuen' under severe penalties, from coming here
WIN the intention to reman and finally last
year. law was passed prohibiting absolutely any
further emancipation. This law has been so far a.
we know, generally acquiesced in by the people
VI tne sue; we nave not heard a solitary
word, IN fact, from any quarter against it. IN
der tins state Of things, and with the approval
OF the efforts heretofore made to rid the State
OF Tree negroes manifested by the people the
Pupic VIII view with surprise, if not Indignation,
an attempt on the part of majority of the House
OF Representatives completely to recerse this safe
PohcI, dhd to Food the State icdh free neqrocay 1t
would scarcely have been believed when the Legis-
laluie assembled that half dozen votes could be
obtained in either House for so strange and mis-
chleyous proposition. Yet it seems that the pro
poStlon actually passed by vote of forty to TWEEN
ty,one! By 'rhat authority do these peoDie act,
D'a me PeoPte eject them to change the settled policy Of
me STATE, and to nouJToie the dangerous measure Of
P0od'ny Louisiana 'oih free negrOesz Have the peo
pie called upon them to do any thing of this kind?
Have they expressed any dissatisfaction with the
lne oil legislation which has been adopted upon this
sublecH The bill announced bv telegraph au-
thoriZes the importation of $500 free negroes in
batch that is, it authorizes somebody to assist free
neJroes to enter this State in violation of existing
laws! But these free negroes are to be indentured
Tor period of fifteen years. What is to become of
them then? Are they to be left to wander about
the state, so many wrecks of humanity to die of
starvation or to be driven away to the inhospitab
Noftl' there to linger out a wretched existence
amld cold and want? Or are they to be sent back
to Africa? lfsO, at whose expense? and what pro
VISION IS TO be made to the faithful perform
ahce o1 the contract to send them back? Or, once
%e'e' ahd me Eteea gears hoci"g expired, they 10
be Sezed for being in tie State IN conrdrentioa of lac
and sold INTO sdreryI These are questions the peu-
pie of the State will be likely to require to be an
sWered before giving their assent to measure well
to create excitement among our servile
population and to demoraliZe it by lie introduction
Of a foreign, sdr0ge and hcaibcit element.
But we ought perhaps to apologize to our readers
for treating the subject in SO respectful manner
Everybody well knows that this importation of FREE
negroes from Africa is from beginning to end sheer
unmitgated, transparent fraud. 1t is an effort to
revive the slave trade under the hvpocritical and
iimmsy disguise OF rord. Free Africans, torsooh.
ODIpptOng tn axicf hat, 4 II
Save trade, and without a solitary redeeming fea-
lure ii the negroes to be real apprentices
ind not slaves, to be free at the expiration of
,heT term of service, then the strongest temp
atons will be held out to unprincpled persons
% extort from them the utmost possible labor that
lesh and sinews are capable of yielding, with the
very least possible expense for food and clothing
rom the master; consequently there will be oppor-
unltles for exercising towards them oppression and
cruelty. If, on the contrary, the intention or the
esut of the operation be to make the free negroes
eally slaves for ife-chch take TO be the real OBJ
ec h0cerer It man be disguised-then the pretenca
If bringing them here as free negroes and appren-
icing them is fraud that ought to mantle ,riH shame
he cheek Of erery honest, hig-minded sacaqe much
ess Of erery ciriiized man. The Legislature owes it
the dignity, peace and welfare of the State if not
o its own dignity, to put a stop to this thing at
nee. 1t can do no good, and certainly must result
n harm.
SUICIDE IN CAMDEN.-Between and o'clock on
sunday morning, the body of Olney n Lowell was
2und suspended in his room in the boarding house of
lrs; Price, in Second street. above market, Camden
he neck, and tied to peg against the wall. mpon
Inch clothes were usually hung. The deceased was
a his 32d year, and a native of Rhode Island. He
as been employed for nearly fourteen years. in this
ity, as an agent for mercantile firm in New Y YorE.
THOMAS WASHINGTON SmTH.-We learn that Tho5.
ashingtOn Smith, who was acquitted of the mur-
er OF Richard Carter on the ground of insanity at
he time of the commission of the act, is a con
rmed maniac. His condition is a source of much
egret to his friends.
PoIsoNED.-A family in Ohio has been poisoned
nd one Of the members has died. from using appla
utter that had been placed last fall in eartben
rocks, the glazing on the inside of which il nrn
ounced poisonous. P'-
Tho rtnomar palicon o,1