Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-07-05
The Slave Trade.
The Mobile REGISTER of a late date says:

90 There seems to he but little doubt thal Iouf
hundred barbarian African slaves were landed
on the Florida coast, not remote from Mobile
The trade seems to be getting quite brisk be.
fore long the south will replace ali the slaves the
Abolitionists have stolen from her during the
last twenty wears. The Yankee Shippers Will
soon be skipping into tins trade It pays too
brilliantly to leave it TO the Lamars and Wan
derers of the South. Just think OF 1t, We Shrek
ers of FaDeuil Hall. and We Salem whalers i
We have no doubt that Yankees can be found
degraded enough to pitch into any mire where
gold is at the bottom. In fact since the events
Of the last FIVE years no depth of depravity
would surprise US Yankees assisted to pass
the Fugitive Slave Law. Yankees repealed the
Missouri Compromise. Yankees passed the Lee
compton Bill, Yankees justified the ontrages on
human rights in Kansas, Yankees endorsed the
bred Scott decision, and Yankees voted for
james Buchanan, and would do 50 again if their
soul masters commanded it. And If they
agafl al rnen from the African coast. It viii
be onlv short step further in that desccns's
nrerni on which in connection with the Demo-
cratic party. they have been progressing for a
series of years This is only another evidence
of the Decentralization Of public sentiment which
has taken and is now taking place through the
whole extent OF the country
We have an Administration with the " favor
tie son" of Pennsylvania at the head; we have
laws making the slave trade piracy; we have
Narshals and Judges deriving their power from
that Administration. whose duty IT Is 10 enforce
those laws This President, these Judges, and
tbese Marshals have used the money and the
army Of the u s. for the laudable, patriotic and
humane purpose of catching runaway niggers-
who prefer bloodhotfnds bullets. prisons, star,
yation and the frozen winters of the north, to
Slavery. But this President. these Judges and
Narshals, with humanity, civilization, law, and
the sentiment of Christendom on the side oil
Justice cannot stop the slave trade on our own
free soil. They can punish man for assisting
n fying brother in his escape from the horrors
Of slavery, but cannot find one guilty who mas
stolen men, women and children from their
homes and subjected them to the horrors of the
middle passage" They can pack Juries IN the
Northern States who will outrage by their YER
dict the sentiments of free people. but they
cannot secure jury in Southern State who
will find a man guilty. though the evidence be
clearer than MONDAY, for engaging In the slave
trade.
Then what better can We expect of \ aDkees
who sustain such an Administration, than that
they will carry out the principles of that Adj
ministration in protecting and extending sla-
very. and stealing negroes, buying negroes car
rying negroes, and selling negroes We know
this Is strong language. but an Administration
that permits this 10 be done with IMMUNITY Is
rs guilty as one that authorizes 1t; just as the
man that stands by and sees his neighbor muir
dured il cold blood. and raises neither his hand
nor his voice to save him, is guilty OF murder.
The re-opening Of the slave trade under the
sanction Of law. is live issue, and the Charles
ton Convention will have it to meet VIII the
Democracy take open ground against itf Will
they dare to do it? Has not the Northern wing
q, the party always caved in at the demand of
its Southern ally? Is the opposition to this new
article of their creed any stronger than what
was made to the Kansas and Nebraska Bill and
to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise? And
did not the North yield and acquiesce in these
measures? How then, could we be SUI prised At
the insertion in their new platform of plank,
sustaining re-opening of the trade IN human
chattels? a few years since, slavery was great
curse, although necessary evil; now man
who asser;ssthis doctrine In the South g a po-
ltical hereto, worthy oaly of trial by Judge
Lynch. II is not orthodox Democracy. and De-
Inocracy being nctionR aud not sectional. and
the South not accepting the Ideas of the North
this ques,ion.-whv. in order 10 be national
the Northern Democracy must of necessity, ac-
cepi the Southern view And have
National Democracy Now. the Democracy of
the South being In favor of the slave trade, and
Of the rereal of all laws interfering with it, there
comes clash. How will it be reconciled? OF
course. nasmuch the North alv avs yields To
.he South, and the South To the North
this issue must be accepted. and free trade In
negroes become a cardinal principle. Yet We
do not believe it will be SO in words, for that
would insure destruction in the free States; but
we do not believe that the next National Con :
yention will dare 10 say anything against il. so
that in the South silence will will be interpreted
As assent, while the scruples of the north may
= overcome by the use Of The customary soph-
istry. and the love Of spoil for which Yankees
as well as Vi-ginians proverbisl.