The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-28

The SLAVE TRADE AND THuRIow WEED's
DsCiAMER.-From the Albany Eueai,g Journal
we learn that Thurl0w Weed Ia very indignant
that the New York HERALD charges that the
chip Atlantic, fitted out at New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts, ostensibly for whaling voyage, but
seized = few days ago by deputy Of Captain
Rynders az q suspected SLAYER, was fitted out
by black republican slave traders" Now, what
ever We thought, we did not say that the ship
was fitted out by black republicans. We simply
ssid we should like to know who they were who
fitted 1t out The cap must therefore, have fitted
admirably when Thurlow Weed thus put it on
the head ofthe black republican politicians.
He says that the foundation of our paragraph
is based on the account given by the New Bed
ford Standard of July Fl, which we copied into the
HERALD, and which he now copies into the Euen
ing Journal He admits that the ship is SLAYER
He says, Here is In oil probability slaver;"
aid again, the parties are doubtless engaged in
the slave trade" or course, ThurIow Weed
knows, and can speak from the book. The ship
WAS seized ION information lodged by parties
residing in New York." The Information un-
doubleday came from black republicans in the
secret, and Thurlow Weed can probably tell all
about it, and how much was paid, or is to be
paid, to the informer. The seizure was made
not wholly on account Of the manner of outfit,
but upon circumstances not known to the pub
lic." Should Thurlow Weed only let out all he
knows, the matter would soon be plain enough.
Where is the ship fitted out? Not in South
ern port, but in New Bedford, the very hotbed of
Northern abolitionism. Who fitted her out! No.
the Shareholders of the South. but the sleek abo-
litiOnlsts Of the North. We are told she had
finished her loading, and was about to sail next
day, when she was taken in charge by deputy
marshaL She was found to have on board
cargo of twelve hundred bushels Of corn, besides
provisions. Who supplied all this? Not surely
the elave0wners of the South, but the slavedeal-
ers of the North. She had vast number of
water casks Who furnished ali these? Not the
Southern Shareholders, but the black republican
slavedealers.
But, says Thurlow Weed, ''the ship was owned
and commanded by Portuguese, and pur-
chased with the money of house in Havana by
Spanish house in New York" ALI this no
doubt, is very true; and 1t /, also quite
true that there were nineteen Portuguese pas
seDgers engaged, who were probably portion
Of the crew, for the Portuguese are just the men
who are employed as sailors in slave shps-they
are generally of desperate character, they can
not speak English when they are questioned, and
Portugal continuing to recognise the lawfalness
of the elave trade after other nations had abol.
ished it, her sailors have followed the business
more than the seamen of other nations have DONE
That "those concerned in the offence are Portu-
guese and Spaniards" may be most true; but will
Thurlow Weed deny that Americans have any
thing to do with it? He does not and he will
not deny it. How could these foreigners, who
cannot speak word of our language, fit out
slavers in the abolition ports Of New England
without the aid, cooperation and connivance Of
the black republicans? Impossible.
THE SLAYER was purchased with the money of
house in Havana by Spanish house in New
York" But who are the secret partners in these
houses? Do no black republican leaders pocket
any of the profits? How do we know that Thur
low Weed does not make good thing by the bust
ness? He got $4,000 to assist in abolishing the
protection on wool, which, by his political prin-
ciples, he was bound to protect. W. II. Seward,
as secret partner of one Rhodes, in house in
the liquor trade in Auburn, received his share of
She profits Of the thriving business, while heswas
agitating for the Maine law Throughout this State,
and was riding into political power through the
prohibition party !. thus, like rover looking in
one direction while his boat was moving in the
opposite. In the same way, short time
ago, Horace Greeley, while he denouncGe Aoiiti-
cal corruption, was the go-between Of AeDes
Moines Railroad Company and Of the immacu.
late Matteson, member of Congress, and carried
in his breeches pocket thousand dollars, which
went into some other mans breeches pocket, as
The wages o.. political integrity. That transac.
ton has never been cleared up to this day.
So In the case of slavers fitted out in New York
Or New Bedford-Por.uguese may be their cap
sains, and Spaniards may be the ostensible CAPT
'slists Of the firms who are engaged in the enter
prise; but the question is whether the black re.
publican leaders have not an interest in the con.
Germ, and whether Thurlow Weed himself does
not make as much out Of every successful cargo
Of woolly heads as he formerly made by his very
successful operation in " free WOOL
iHE SUNDAY QUESTION IN THE PROVINCES
We perceive that the question as to the proper
observance Of the Sabbath is as vital in Phila-
delphia and St. Louis as In this city. In the
steam and 1atboat emporium they are to decide.
on next Monday, by popular vote, whether or
not houses Of public entertainment shall be closed
on the Sabbath and the agitating topic in