Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-17

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Chairman Republican Central Com.
Brrcot or Tho slave Trade on tho South,

Effect OF the slave Trade on the south,
The St. Louis Intellgencer is an able paper
published in a Slave State, which speaks right
out with fearessness that might we'll be imi-
tated in free as well as slave cities The sa-
gacious editor sees that if the promptings of
cupidity and ayarice succeed in continuing the
African Slave Trade re opened under the adj
minstration OF Buchanan, with oil its horrors
and denominations, il will in the end prove
source Of untold evil to the section it is claimed
by the slaye-traders it would benefit, and he
does not hesitate to tell the South So We
copy potion of the Intelligencer's article
The ro-opening of the African Slave Trade is
an accomplished fact The enterprise is not
one to be discussed and considered, with view
to she propriety OF carrying it out. 1t is at
ready being carried out. At this very time
cargoes of gnorant, barbarous and heathenish
Africans from Congo and Ashantee are being
landed in the nlets and creek mouths on the
Gulf coast Of Florida, Alabama, mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas, driven into the interior,
and distributed among the cotton plantations.
A fleet Of vessels fitted out in the ports of
New Orleans and New York is engaged in the
prohibited troffic, and barracoons, OF dcpots
have been established in several large towns
near the Gulf, where the freshly imported ne
groes are confined till they can be disposed of
TO the ncighboring planters. Occasionally, we
receive despatch announcing that one ofthese
vessels has landed a cargo of negroes at some
obscure point on the Southern coast; but there
is reason to believe that five cargoes are landed
uuamounaed to one of whose arrival we are in
formed
The Southern papers know how to keep ST
lent when reticeucc i advisable; and as nearly
all those published at the extreme South are
rabid advocates of the revival Of the trade, no
intmauon of the business so Jarkly and Sc
crety yet so actively and resoutely carried on,
ever reaches the word through their friendly
columns The Washington correspondent of
New York paper reports that twelve vessels
are constantly engaged in the trade, and that
no less than 10, 600 Africans have been imported
into the cotton States during the last twelve
months
Now what is to be the result of this new
piece of madness into which the extreme South
has plunged Just this: A division at the
South that will array the eight powerful Slave
States Of Virginia, Mayland, Delaware, North
Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee Missouri and
Arkansas, against the seven cotton States of
South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama.
Mssissi pi, Louisiana and Texas; a contest in
Congress on the question that will leave the
Slave Trade States vauquished; and the devel~
opment of a sentiment throughout ChrstondOm
against the vile and iniquitous business that will
estranue all civilized nations from these States |
and leave them dsgraced and friendless. Are
the pecuniary benefits of the;Slave Trade am
pie enough TO compensate the cotton States Tor
these sacrifices and disadvantages! Are South
ern statesmen so blind as not to know that no
material advantage is worth having that is pur |
chased at the price Of an outraged moral senti
menu Will they persist in this wicked meas
ure until it leads them into secession, when
secession and the Slave Trade together will
array the world against them, and lead to wars
that will end in their utter desolationl