Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-13
STARTLING DISCL0sUREs-THE ARR
CAN SLAVE TRADE OPENED
AT THE SOUTH.

1.-THE following is the Editorial article from the
New Orleans Delta. of the Goth ult., which has
already been alluded to by the telegraph.
Some startling and significant facts have come
to our knowledge. We have hesitated to disclose
them, but after inquiry, we are convinced that
facts, we say, are startling, they are crucial.
They will surprise and encourage many in our
counting rooms and offices, and many on the
plantations and 10 the towns, but most OF oil they
will astound the Cabinets Of Western Europe,
and eminently assist to confirm between the ge-
nenial French people and our own Norman and
Huguenot South. an unwritten but hearty, mag
Unanimous and unconquerable league against the
allied f.varioe and envy, cant and rapacity Of
England and the Northern States. Although the
coiled and furious enemies Of our institutions may
shake up, uncJrk, and pour out on our battered
brows the fuaming walls of their wrath; although
The President may be shocked and embarrassed;
and although the great parties Of the country
may be bitterly disappointed and imbrangled, let
it 20 forth that Southerners have taken into their
own bands the law, and opened the African
Slave Trade with the South, that Africans are
now imported into Mississippi and other sea shore
States that in Mississippi there is a market for
African slaves, and that on plantations in that
great and intrepid State, negroes recently import,
ed from Africa are at their daily work. The au.
thority Oh which we make this announcement is
lindisputable. We even have advices that in Mis-.
sissippi, Henry Hughes and some of his party
now privately urge the Labor immigration move
ment. not to open the supply Of Africans, but to
legitimate. moralize, regulate and equalize the
supply already opened and impossible to be clos
ed, We have some further details. Some ne
groes are disemharked on the Atlantic coast and
brought overland to the Mississippi cotton fields,
bnt the Mississippi sea coasts peculiar facilities
for landing and s~ecreting cargoes. and the con-
veniences OF Pearl River as a channel LOT ulstrlDu'
ton, are not overlooked.
The profits of the Mississippi Slave Trade are
enormous. We have been so fortunate as to pro-
cure from undouhted authority some interesting
details. They relate to the operations of the
Mississippi Slave Trade, and are authehticated
by operators. 1t need not be said in the first
place that the bark engaged in the traffic to the
South must be n fast sailor for this is indispensa.
be to the security of the officers and crew. the
health of the cargo, and the ~rapidity of the
pecuniary returns. For a trip from the Missis
sippi coast to Africa and back, there must be a
captain, supercargo. three mates, three cooks
steward, and between twenty and thirty first-class
seamen. The vessel must be well supplied with
extra running and standing rigging, and alsc
s%rpernumerary spars, ropes, topRas's, and suits
OF sails. An assortment Of the flags of all nation,
will be particularly desirable, but the most useful
is now the French flag, because British cruisers
will not verify the colois and take the samt
liberties as with the United States flag. The fare
OF The Said B crew mubt Uo II NiJ pSpNb NV
their good will must be carefully conciliated, be
cause, during the voyage a mutiny is disastrous
and after the voyage. a treacherous or v'ndichv'
information is, to say the least, troublesome an'
expensive. To procure the good will OF the men
much depends on the mates. over whom the cap
tain ought to keep a strict watch. For the SUI
sistence Of the negroes there must be a plentiful
supply Of hard bread, corn'meal, rice, and ar
abundance of vinegar, red-pepper, pure watel
and drugs. In distributing diet, the creates
regularity is to be observed, and the very frs
symptoms of disease promptly treated. AS to thu
capacity of the superior officer. it may be safel,
said that a SLAYER requires in it more courage, tai
ant, honesty. fidelity. skill aud discretion thar
any other ship in any other trade.
Indeed. the captain and supercargo must be
tween them, act as navigator and naval off
Ger, merchant and physician, diplomatist an
magistrate, not to mention the functions OF tn
chaplain.
As to the expenses ard profits OF the voyage
the latest advices were from the Captain OF a bari
which sailed from one of the Georgian ports
lie has quite recently returned, and reports tina
ON account of the vigilance OF cruisers, negroe
had accumulated on the coast. md IN a name
glutted the markets, and that in consequence o
this the price had fallen to under thirty dollars