The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-15
The Black Republicans and Their African
Slave Trade schemes.


The Black Republicans and Their African
Slave Trade schemes.
Monsieur Blondin. having performed the won
dertul feat of walking across the abyss Of Niaga-
ra on tight rope, is about to uadertak7 till
more remarkable labor-being, 10 fact, that OF
crossing the same abyss with man on his
back.
His success in bis first attempt has lei to the
spripeiDg up Of several imitators, and the like
feat is to he attempted at the falls Of Genesee
and Others though we do not know that any Of
the spurious Blondins intend to carry rider.
But Of all the imitators of Blondin our old friend
Thuliow Wees, the political tight rope walker,
has determined to perform by far the most re-
markable feat. He is about to attempt to cross
the political abyss on the aotislavery tight rope,
and to carry VIM II Seward as rider on his
back We are told that at the bottom OF the
abyss of Niagara, the tide runs in fearful whirl-
pools and eddes which would swallow up None
Blondin and his rider in an instant should they
full, and that consequently, be walks very care
fully at first, gradually increasing his pace as be
advances and at last comes in With run. Just 80
is it with our friend Thurlow Weed. He has
got Seward On his back, and Is advancing eau
tiously on the anti. slavery tightrope. He knows.
too, that the eddies and whlrlpools beneath ran
as 6ercey as those of Niagara and will carry both
bimsef and Seward to oblivion If they fall ia
He will gradually increase his pace as the time
advances, and endeavor, like Blondin, to come
IN with run as election day approaches.
Thurlow Weed is not a novice in the art Of
walking the anti slavery tight rope. He has per-
formed several experiments on it, and the last
one was on the occasion Of its being stretched
across the political abyss three years since with
Kansas to tie to. 1t is the success that attended
that feat which leads him, like Monsieur Blon.
din, to try the next one with rider. He has had
no small difficulty in getting post to tie the
farther end of his rope to. He first tried to get
up an expedition to Arizona after the Kansas
plan, which was to erect pro slavery Territory
there; but from some giving out Of the funds
This scheme fell through, and the expeditions
have been abandoned. Since then he has turned
his attention to the reopening of the slave
has several congenial advantages over the
Arizona one. In the first place, the trade
can be carried on with great profit, which
has induced his black republican friends in
this State, Connecticut, Massachusetts aud
Maine to go into it largely. Then, notwith
standing the laws, it can be conducted without
particle Of danger, as is shown by the fact that
ID fifty years only one conviction by our courts
oas taken place, out of the numberless cases tried
by black republican juries And then the fire.
eating ultras of the South will hold up the other
end OF his ani.slavery tight rope just as long as
he chooses to dance upon it.
In pursuance of this scheme, the black repub-
licans are now fostering the African slave trade,
and pulling cheek by jowl with the ultra Sonth
ern bigger drivers. From an interesting history
Of the African slave trade, and how it is carried
on, which we publish in another column, it will
be seen that their coadjutors in New York, New
Bedford, Boston, Portland and other Eastern
seaports, fit out some forty slavers a year. and
bring over from Africa several thousand fne fat
young negroes, on which they make profit of
not less than eleven millions of dollars, on
capital of about four millions invested Bu
far greater profit than that accrues
to the black republican party by the active
prosecution Of the slave trade. 1t supplies them
with the whole Of the political capital on which
they intend to go into the next Presidential cam
paign, and gives them great hopes Of getting
into the White House, and handling it's eighty
millions Of public expenditures These, accord
ing to the Thurlow Weed free-wool scheme of
finance, it is estimated, can be easily run up to
hundred or hundred and twenty millions
year, or to four or five hundred millions during
the four years they calculate to hold office.
While Thurlow Weed was performing his last
great feat On the ansi-slavery tight rope, the
people were amused with the Kansas humbug
Henry Ward Beecher clanked his chains 10 the
Tabernacle, Professor Slliman sent Sharpe rifles
to Kansas, and the three thousand clergymen,
with their black coats and white chokers, went
through a staid and solemn minuet of the Roger
de Coverly style, to the tune of "Shriek for free
dom" The black republicans, under advice of
their great rope dancer, have taken care to
provide an abundance Of music for the coming
political festival, and the African drum will be
beaten with tremendous energy. The black re-
publican organs will pipe to the same tune, and
have already begun it. They know more about
the slave trade that is being carried on for the
South than any body else, and constantly give US
the fullest particulars. They have every facility
for so doing; for the traders being fitted ont by
themselves, they Of course know all about the
matter. We are glad to see that they have COM
bined their slave trade scheme SO well; it in
c]udes great profits, no personal risk, aud an
abundance of political capital for the black re-
publican party.
OFFICIAL AID TO CoNTAGIoN-DUNpING OFFAI,
IN THE BAY.-Hardly have the ebb and flow of the
tide carried off the debris of dead animals and
other denominations lately strewn on the shores Of
the Narrows, to the infinite disgust and Imminent