New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-25
SLAVERY IN AFRICA.

SLAVERY IN AFRICA.
The African slaye trade is now fairly before the
country Is question for dispasionate discussion,
and i il undergoing 20 thorough ventilation that
everybody can view II in all it, bearings and bring
enlightened Judgment to aid 10 deciding as to the
expedency Of its formal reopening By abrogation Of
the laws Of nations. Probably our generation will
not zee this progressive and mutable as the Affairs
Of men and nations are that there y nothing more
practical in present discussion than the eject it may
have in exercising preliminary influence upon the
spirit Of The age--of bending the twig Of universal
sentiment Ia the direction ia which 1t may incline as
tho strong tree Of the future. We think it is not
srrogating prophetic wisdom to assert that the chill
drsn of the day will live to witness revulsion Of feel
ing On this subject throughout the enlightened world
and to acknowledge the fullment Of the foreordina
ton that the enslavement Of Africans is to be the
chosen agency for humaniaing and Outstanding
the dark-skinned and darkminded children Of Ham.
It has been sufficiently demonstrated that those in
duences cannot be successfully introduced into Africa
to any degree, and that the African imported to
civilized lands, brought to school as it were readily
yields to them. We cannot teach them there, but we
can bring them here and teach them.
Doubts Of the expediency Of slave labor and Of the
existence Of class Of people in bondage, were long
since 80 sufficiently set at rest by practical demonsra
ton on the largest SCALE that they exist no longer in
the minds Of the well-informed of any section or
country, and the very chiefest arguments insisted
upon BY it, opponents are the assumed cruelty Of the
act Of tearing the native African from his wilderness
home and the magnifed horrors of the middle
passage these latter being solely due to the quasi
phanthropsts themselves whose interference causes
the abuses which themselves and all men denounce
or deprecate the trade was authorized, interest,
II nothing else, would induce the providing of the
slaves with most comfortable and even luxurious ssa
accommodations, and no ocean steamer passengers
would DO more sedulousy cared for than these repre-
senttng important value.
We come now to the other argument advanced and
dwet upon BY those in the South and everywhere
else who are opposed to the slave traffic, towit {:
the cruelty Of taking the negro from his native land
and the best refutaton will DO found in the nara
ves Of travellers who have explored the nhospitable
regions whence they are removed to better. But we
will describe in brief what the scarcely human being
that 10 crammed into the hold Of SLAYER is before
he reaches that stage Of his career. He is slave
and has been for greater or lesser tine-perhaps
during his lite--not Of white master, but of one
Of bis own color and the most brutal Of monsters.
They are either enslaved prisoners Of war, stolen
slaves, or slaves by BIRTH and the constant objects Of
the cruel propenstes of their savage masters whose
hands not interest withholds from their abuse
OF even slaughter for such is the number in bondage
that they are bought and sold few hundred miles
from the western coast of Africa for three four
dollars head. A horse is valued at twenty men