Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-20
THE FOREIGN SLAVE TRADE.

Statements since our publication last week.
seem to confirm the account OF the New Orleans
Delta, that the African slave trade is actually in
successful operation, in bold defiance Of tie law
Of Congress. Many papers, especially the Bu
chanan papers, discredit it, and treat it Ms n houx.
Bot the vicksburg Southron says it has good req.
son for believing the statement true. Wild Afri.
cans, it asserts, have really been imported into
both Mississippi and Louisiana
The Philadelphia Press says:
at will not surprise US if, at the end Of another
year, the e.opening OF the slave trade, under the
Joint auspices of Mcssrs. Toomhs and Green and
Slidell, is made the new test Of Democracy. Let
those who doubt or deny the prediction fall back
to this time last year, and tell Us how they would
have felt if at that time it had been stated. M u
Democratic princi pie, that the will Ut the majority
Of the people should not prevail in the Territories.
The re opening of the Slave.Trade goes Ltuvely
on, ADD so does the minority rule in Kansas.
The Washington States takes he following view
Of the matter. The States is the Douglas organ.
"LouIsiANA AND AFRICAN MMIGRArIoS.-The
New Orleans Delta, of March 4, has another arti,
Gle on this subject. in which i, says that a bill has
passed the lower House Of the L ,uisiana Lcgisla.
turc by n large minority, authorizing " company
already organized to import $500 free blacks from
the cunst Of Africa, to be indcuturud for not less
than fifteen years. The Delta throws out the sug.
gestion that the Mississippi and Louisiana compa.
niee might be advantagecusly consolidated into
one, having New Orleans as its consultative and
financial head quarters. The same paper thinks
that the same company might include st. Domingo
in It's sphere of operations, its black inhabitants
being certainly as capable Of voluntary emigra.
ton as the native Africans; and it is so near, con.
venient, and inviting, that it would seem almost
IiEp thrnwinp away an AHypntupn in pOpgaaainp
to pass it by and go all the way to Africa!
The New Orleans Bulletin evidently does not
disbeliere the statement of The Delta, but is oppos-
ed to the introduction of slaves from Africa, either
in open defiance of law or under cover of fraud ms
apprentices. Speaking of public sentiment in the
city it says:
w occasionally come across an advocate Of
this interdicted traffic, who believes that an acces.
sion of our slave population otherwise than by
their natural increase, is essential to the continued
prosperity of the South. The few whom we have
met who entertain these views, speak out their
sentiments freely and boldly, and contend that as u
preliminary to opening this now contraband trade;
existing treaties should first be abrogated, or rath.
er an attempt made to do SO, and the present laws
prohibiting it should be repealed We have not
yet cunversed with any who are disposed to carry
out these schemes in violation Of laws and treaties.
Not long ago Governor Adams. Of SOUTH Caro-.
lima, in his message to the Legislature of that State
strongly favored a revival of the trade. But nc
invoked Congressional action ~ II preliminary and
Indispensable step. The idea met with but little
favor from the public, and no action was taken
upon II by the Legislature.
The Representatives of the people oc Louisiana
hive adopted a different, ard certainly q more
dlscreditable, mode of effecting the purpose
They design to accomplish, in an evasive aud sin,
lister manner. what u few mistak en- but candid and
ingenious class of our citizens desire, by open and
legitimate means.p