New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-22

the African slave owner murders, roasts and eats bis
slave, he is not punished at all. That is one of the
established customs of the slavery known to that en-
Hghtened country. And, as intimated above SO far
as mere ownership has any bearing upon the contro
versy we believe we have clearly set forth the mate
rial distinctions and differences.
This being the case, where is the difference be-
tween the African and the interstate slave trade
We put the question in all seriousness and candor,
and should like to be favored with logical answer.
There is difference, however, and we will proceed
to state it, for the benefit of those quasi Southern
philanthropists who denounce the one and advocate
the other and in doing convict themselves of the
grossest inconsistency well of an utter lack of
any quality pertaining to genuine philanthropy.
The ancient slave trade redeemed from barbarism
and cannibalism large numbers of Africans, and
their descendants now number some three millions
and half of civilized Chrstianized human beings
contented, joyous useful human beings This is an
indisputable fact The keenest and most unscrupu-
ous casust cannot pervert mseonstrue it. Conse-
quently, in all eIevating circumstances, in all Chris
tian senses, in all ennebling senses, the African
slave trade has been productive of the grand
est results known to ancient or modern history,
in the disenthralment and Christianization of the
heather. The whole civilized earth and all the
missionary enterprises that have flowed out from it,
sustained as many Of them have been by powerful
governments, by armies and by navies, have not,
from the commencement down to the present mo.
ment, succeeded in converting to Christianity one
twentieth part Of the heather the slave trade has
been instrumental in converting This may appear
bold assumption but it is no less bold than true
II is true truth ITSELF and cannot be gainsayed
Therefore, in all Christanizing aspects, the slave
trade has been productive of auspcious results and
should it be renewed, of which there is little pros
pect doubt can exist but that it will be attended
with similar consequences. Savages and cannibals,
useless to themselves and dangerous to those around
them, will be transformed into useful human beings,
and eventually civilized and Christianized.
For these reasons, and many others that would be
named if necessary, the African slave trade, and the
humane servtude which succeed it, is in the highest
degree beneficial and advantageous in all conceiva
BILE respects to the awful slavery the native African
is compelled to endure at the hands Of savage mas
ter He, at all events is benefited by the prevalence
of the African slave trade. But, how is it with the
Interstate slave trade? Barbarians, sayages and
cannibals, who have no home, are not bought from
savage and cannibal masters Nothing
Of the sort. Civilized and Christianized negroes are
purchased from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri not to advance them intellectually, not to
improve them morally, not to make their physical
condition more comfortable but to promote the pecu
mary interests of their new owners! Phanthrophy
and Christianity have nothing to do with the inter-
State slave trade, and nothing of that sort results
from it and, no matter what the motives of those
who engage, or have engaged, in the African slave
trade, the elevation and comfort of the slaves thus
bought flow in as natural, inevitable consequence.
1t strikes here is substantial difference between
The two trades If the is Objectionable the other
s still more obnoxious The reason why the Abo-
onists have not assaed the interstate slave trade
because they want to drain the border States be-
fore they make their final attempts to reduce us to
humiliating provincial yassalage.
We have no objection to either trade, on moral
grounds. We believe the African was created to be
servant and for nothing else. Still we have warned
and do now warn again, those Southern opponents
of the African slave trade, not to build up, in the
recklessness of their dennnciations, impregnable
fortresses for the Abolitionsts to use, and from be-
hind which they can assa the institution of South
ern slavery with almost entire safety.