The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-26


Journal has worked himself into very savage
and uncomfortable state of mind upon the sue.
ject of the reopening of the African slave trade,
with which movement he and some other promi
nent black republicans of the Middle and East
ern States have been implicated by public ru-
NOR. This pnblic rumor having appeared in the
New YORK HERALD, Weed proceeds to abuse US
like pickpocket, accusing us of fAlsehood, and
SO ON. Now the case stands thus:-Some time
since we published letter from Washington,
stating that during the past year many cargOes
of Africans had been landed In the United States.
Thurlow Weed adopted this statement and
vouched for the truth of it-somethlng that we
never did. He now accuses us of falsehood,
when perhaps it would be as we'll for him to
commence by overhauling his own log. The
pnblic will remember that there are some stains
on the escutcheon Of the veraciOus Weed. He
rows the boat in which we find Seward aud the
others of the same party, always on the look out
for any drift wood by which they may turn
penny. Several years since, when Seward was
high priest of the Prohibitory Liquor law, he be-
came engaged in the business of selling Wines
rum, brandy, gin, whiskey, &C., in Auburn. Aud
Weed, though Ostensibly in favor of protection
to American agricultural and manufacturing in
terests, received five thousand dollars from a
concern in Boston to assist them in removing the
duty which acted as q protection to our wool
dealers And this has always been the course of
the Weed.Seward faction during its whole politi.
cal existence. They have always maneuvred
politically in such way as to reap their reward
pecuniarily. Money first, principles afterward,
is the motto of this set of 6nanciers. Again,
if they should engage in the slave trade
they could make it pay both ways. In the
first place, the profits would amount to
not less than seventy-fve per centum on
the outlay, and in the second, they would have a
great war CRY for the next Presidential election.
By landing Africans in the South the republi-
cans could make Northern issue on the reopen
ing of the slave trade and feather their own nests
at the same time. Fifty or seventy-6ve slave
ships could be fitted out with capital of half
million Of dollars, and as such ships are always
tilted out at the North, and especially in New
England, where the black republicans are para
mount, it cannot be considered an unreasonable
hypothesis to state that the black republicans Of
the North have really more to do with the re-
opening of the slave trade than the shareholders
OF the South. On the one hand it is the direct
interest, pecuniarily and politically, of Tnurlow
Weed and his friends to engage 10 the African
trade, to pocket the spoils, and charge the odium
of the traffic upon the South and the adminstra-
ton, whose interests in every way are opposed
to the Importation of wild Africans. On the
other hand it is the interest of the South and the
administration to discountenance and put down
the foreign slave trade by all legal means
And we put it to any reasonable man,
if judging from the antecedents Of
the Weed-Seward party, 1t is not more
probable that they should be engaged in the
trade rather than the Southern democrats who
could reap no possible benefit from it. We are
quite willing, nay anxious, that the whole mat
ter should be thoroughly investigated. Perhaps
the story about the landing of so many Africans
in the United States may have been set on foot
by some political charlatan, exactly as the char
latans of the Weed school start humbuggiog
statements about tho South. But let us have all
the light that can possibly be obtained on the
subject. Captain Rynders has not yet given us
the full particulars in relation to the fitting out
of the alleged slave vessel which was recently
seized at New Bedford. Will Captain Rynders
look sharply about and let us knsw whether
or not some of Weeds black republican cronies
had something to do with it? They gave their
money to Kansas to make party issue, and why
should they not invest in the direct slave trade,
which will pay-an important consideration in
Massachusetts, better than Kansas?
CoLoRED JUBMEEs Down EAsT.-The CARR
sonian abolitionists of Massachusetts, have two
rural celebrations Of the anniversary of West
Indian emancipation on the first of next month.
The call for the regular Garrisonian affair goes
on in this terrific way
The liberation Of eight hundred thousand slaves by the
government under which they held an act OF dis
ereeted philanthropy, as uncommon In human legiss
ton as 10 full Of righteous rebuke aud touching appeal to
thus slavehoding republic Let the friends Of Immediate
and unconditional emancipation gather from every quarter
TO the cry OF the victims Of its relentless tyranny and
church BY whose remorseless com pcy these
millions OF the Israel Of God held 10 chains to reded
cate their ves and fortunes" to redemption of the
when they too sha be brought forth from the ineable
misery bondage to be comprised about with the songs
of deliverance.
We hope that some one Of the speakers will
make touching appeal for the Jamaica negroes