The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-06
The Revival OF the Af5toan Slave Trade In
sne south, and ATS northern Affiliations.

We publish to-day another letter from Wash
pgton on the practical revival OF the African
slave trade in the South in which our intelligent
taips the authenticity of his startling informa-
ton upon the subject through he'e columns
few weeks ago. We are thus assured that " every
~ llable" OF that information "ia e ion to the
landing Of large cargoes of imported ssvages on
the coast of Florida, was strictly true" ard that
this contraband business along the Florida coast
is carried on very extensively. We are further
informed that there are depsts for the reception
O! these "savages" in over twenty Southern
cities and towns and that in three of these de
po,s one gentleman bad seen altogether some
Line hundred Africans Another gentleman, in
terested in the business, estimates the humber of
caIgoes successfully dispersed INTO the Southern
interior, within eighteen months, as high as be.
tween sixty and seventy, including an aggregate
Of savages" of perhaps over fifteen thousand
| Now, q antipg that the secresy and mystery
| necessarily connected with such lawless enter
prises DO inevitably lead to exaggeration, we still
o4,ve that, touching The practical revival Of the
| African slave trade in our extreme Southern
States, our correspondent may be relied upon.
His means and sources Of information on the sub
Jet extensive and respectable, including some
of our best informed Southern politicians; and
We 6aIe say that it is to a well grounded alarm
on ibeir part at the drift of this dangerous move
ment, socially and politically, that our cores
pordent is mainly indebted for his astounding
disclosures. Nor does it require any violent
STREET h of credulity to accredit his statements,
considering the facilities which were afforded for
The successful distribution Of the slave cargo of
the yacht Wanderer in the very face Of the
guardians of the law, local and federal, and con-
sideripg the temptations of the almighty dollar
to the importer, his consignees and the contract.
ing purchasers Of these savages."
| This is the Southern side Of this alarming
movement; but it has also Northern exposure.
1t appears that most Of the vessels engaged in
| this nefarious traffic are not only built at the
North, but are fitted out at the North, "with a
full knowledge Of the use to which they are des-
tined, and with an eye to share of the profits"
| We are thus told that there are of least "two
vessels being prepared at this moment for Lave
| trip from the port of New York, and that coz
! siderable number Of such vessels are being made
ready for sea in the New England States" Thus,
while the extreme Southern States are furnishing
the depots, the extreme Northern States are sup.
plying he vessels in these joint stock specula-
tions between Southern nigger-drivers and North
ern gger-worshippers. The almighty dollar
is the charm which makes them band of
brothers in this profitable business; but beyo
their common financial interests. they are as
widely separated as canting hypocrisy and bra
zen defiance Of law.
The Southern African slave trader boldly
avows his principles and his purposes; his North
ern confederate while jingliDg in his pockets the
dirty gold received from the profits of slave
cargo, will preach by the hour the atrocities Of
Southern slavery and the impudent demands Of
the "slave oligarchy." We have expressed our
suspicious that Thurlow Weed, for example, be-
longs to this class Of Northern nigger-worship-
pers. And lie he not open to such suspicious .?
| Is not everything fish that comes into his net,
from "free WOOL lobby fee of five thousand
| dollars, to joint stock lobby speculation in a
Georgia navy yard? And if the cotton planters
of Georgia will pay good cash price for import
is Weed the man. or is any such slave.pityiDg
and slavery. hating black republican lobby spec.
ulator the man to refuEe venture to the coast
of Africa?
But while our Northern Puritans and black re-
publicans are financially implicated in this Sin
famous traffic. we protest against their thrusting
political responsibilities thereof entirely upon
the democratic party, OF the controlling Southern
wing of that party. The simple truth Of the mat
teris, that these Northern abolition confederatee
in this African slave traffic are endeavoring to
make double system of profits out Of it-frst,
from their slave ships and cargoes, and secondly
from hue and cry against the Southern demo,
cratic party as party resolved upon the revival
Of this African trade, with or without the autho.
,ity of law. The pot may call the kettle black
amoor, but we do think that while our Northern
nigger.w orshippers have their "long, low, black
schooners" dedging In and out among the creeks
of the Florida coast with "savages" bound "for
Cowes and market" they should touch ginger.
ly upon the horrors of the African slave trade
THE LAST AND THE GROWING ED1cr FROM
GOVERNOR WIsE.-It was a shrewd remark of
! Tony Lumpkin, that 'the inside Of letter is the
cream of the correspondence and 80 an inside
view of an ambitious politician, like that which
has been furnished of Governor Wise in the dis
closure Of bis last manifesto on New York poll
tics, is worth all the outside embroideries of
hundred learned essays intended for the public
eye. Our city contemporaries, with one excep-
ton, accept this remarkable edict from Rich
mond as the genuine article, aud they are right
in doing so. The exception is the Daily Ne,cs,
which naturally enough besitates to whistle its
chosen hero down the wind But the Neus will
be compelled to admit the soft impeachment, and
the sooner, perhaps the better. Let Governor
Wise be laid aside for the present, and let the
l.