St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-03-10
The Slayc-Trade.

IN iScGSiiihS VI WV 'N'o
slavc-tradc as q measure OF its plat
form, and Mr.. Buchanan had advocated
this in his letter of acceptance, the
whole country would have rung with
.denunciations of the infamous scheme.
Not all the bribery and corruption en-
ployed in Pennsylvania, and which MIR.
Buchanan confesses and lamcnts in his
Fort Duquesne letter, would have
sufiiced to secure his election. But
the foreign slave-tradc is re-opened al
ready, and there is hardly a protest
against it, hardly a murmur of the
public conscience-nothing but a feint
of opposition from the officials of the
federal Administration, and the cfamor
of those interested in the domestic
slave-trade against this invasion of
their monopoly. 1t is now proved
that the Wandcrer brought her cargo
of slaves direct from the coast OF AZ
RIGA and landed them upon the coast
of Georgia and it is crcditably re-
ported that other slavcrs are lowering
about the Southern coast watching an
opportunity for the successful debarka-
ton of their cargocs. What now will
be the inevitable result of these bold
adventures ? Will an indictment be
found against any n engaged in
them? Or if for deccncy's sake a
case of alleged completely in the slave
trade should fairly come before a Uni
ted States Court, would the constitu'
tionality of an act Of Congress which
declares that traffic to be piracy upon
the sea which the constitution itself is
said to guarantee upon the land, be
admitted by a judiciary which is now
represented by the bred Scott deci
sion? Or if, for the sake of expedicn
CIV, the act of 1908 should be sane
toned by the courts, would the Soutf
! rest satisfied while the stigma Of pira
5 cy remains upon her principal domcs
I tic traffic, and upon the origin of he1
I divine institution of civilization ? Th'
foreign slave-trade tacitly and sue
a cessfully re-opcned, will be prosecuted
t with the connivance of judicial officers
n and political leaders at the South, un
o til the fit moment shall come to avov
n it and to lcgalize it. Like the Fugi
q tive Slave Law and the Nebraska Bill
c it will be sprung upon the countr.
unawarcs. and then, after an ineilcctua
IF protest, the interests of commerce an
d of party will be enlisted in its sup
T. port. True, the immediate interest
of Virginia and other slave-breedln!
states are opposed to any competitlo
in the slave market of the South an
n the Southwest. But the interests
the slave-buying states were equal
r. opposed to the extension of slave tie
a ritory, which by charging the markt
,e would keep up the price Of slaves
Il and those interests having been one
" sacrificed for the institution as a who'll
ID will now claim to be regarded as
[e measure which is equally for the ben
st fit of the institution as a whole. I'll
South will be a unit upon whatcv'
measure shall tend to strengthen al
IL perpetuate slavery. And what II
Is South demands the commercial spin
Of The North will yield.
al. Already the commerce Of New IoI
is directly and largely interested
Us the African slayc-tradc. Within
IT. few months we have heard the publ
IL testimony of two reliable and cand
l. witnesses from the coast of Africa
to the open participation Of New 70
vessels in the slave-trade at the q
a boon. Rev. Messrs. Bushnell a
'h- Walker Of the Gaboon mission DO
;" testify that the number of slave
ey from the port of New York which 9
's' nually visit the coast of Africa I
slaves, is greater than the number
en- missionaries upon that coast furnish
gu by all the missionary societies Of Chr
tendon.
D How shall we meet this alarmil
ier and humiliating state of facts lie
III shall we deliver our country from t
shame and guilt of this wholesale
Is racy? Our greatest danger lies
go the apathy of the public mind, a
its incrcdulity with respect to Il
III m~editated wickcdness. The conscien
icy of the nation must be stirred by
press and the pulpit, by conventio
ny and addresses, by whatever can rou
Vi men to Il sense Of danger and of gu.
New York is a growing center
the African slavc-tradc. Men who
'he wealth is coined from the tears a
OIL groans and blood of that traffic, the
ier move in good society and worship
.hu Christian congregations. This lepro
VI is upon our commerce and our politi
and it will soon break out openly VI
the walls of the Capitol at Washil
lie ton.
wi
YER The Queen Of England is a gra
ned mother before she is forty years {
lin The Princess Frederick William,
If Prussia, has given birth to a IS
to There is, according to the telegra
lor- rejoicing in Prussia, and "satisI