The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-27
heated psvo,neuts and feiia atmosphere OF the
The SLAYER Arslea.ee~-Usutse amt s<.Hsossl "a
iIse AfstcGm slave Trade

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TIE SLAYER Arslea.ss-- Ususse ana AA.Hiossf "a
sIse Afstcom slave Trade
We give elsewhere to-day detailed report OF
the case Of the bark Ardennes, which arrived
here On Saturday, having been captured GA the
coast OF Africa, as SLAYER, by the United States
steamer Marion.
The ArdeBnes is one OF a puDber of vessels
fitted out about year since at Havana for the
coast Of Africa The American Consul there
refusing 10 give her clearance, on suspicion OF
being chartered or purchased for the slave trade,
she went 70 Jacksonville, Florida and after ex-
animation obtained clearance Mt that port for
the Canary Islands She has again fallen into
the hands Of our authorities having been cap
tured under very suspicious circumstances on the
coast of Africa, and has been sent here for trial.
We have little confidence that conviction Of
any OF the parties concerned will be obtained IA
our courts, although possibly the vessel and her
cargo may be condemned. Every effort has
been mace by the government during past
wears 10 obtain conviction Of persons
engaged in the slave trade, but without success.
AT frat toe prizes were brought into Northern
ports, where, perhaps public opinion might FUR
ther the enc OF justice. But the Northern mig
ger worstipping juries could not OF would not
convict Perhaps they thought that were the
slave trade stopped their political capital would
suffer large dimnption. Then the venue was
changed TO the South. The SLAYER Eche, with
full cargo of freshly caugh, niggers, was taken
into Charleston. But lt was Of no use. Not
only were the captain ano crew permitted 30 es-
cape, but The sight of three hundred fine, tat
healthy young niggers, that could DC got rom
Africa just for the cost Of catching and bringing
over, made The mouths Of our Southern Niger
drivers water TO that some OF the young ones
Cited out vessel and msorted lot Now We
are TO try our New York juries again. We be
ieve the only conviction under the Slave Trade
act obtaiEed in this country was that of Captain
Fiowery, who was sentenced some years since in
Boston to term Of Imprisonment, which he
served ont ia Salem Jail. This case bad for II
time good effect GU our psalni-siDging Niger
traders down East, and largely dim nisbed the
number OF slavers fitted out there But from
Developments during the last few years, we
presume they have forgotten it, for they now
push The business us actively as ever
Something more than acts Of Congress aud
Parliament, fleets of cruisers on the coast of
Africa, and anti slavery societies in New York
aud London, are necessary 10 stop This barbarous
traffic. These things only iop off the branches
but DO not strike at the root of che evil As long
as Ubiquitous governments any where will wink
I..rA ~ t.,n aI- hon.
prohibited by law So long will the trade flourish.
Nnen the Emperor OF Brazil determined ia 1850
TO stop the trade ia his domains, it WAS stopped
ard even the British Adnrals aud the British
Commissioners there cerJify that nor negro is
srnuggled into Brazil, though she has thousands
OF miles OF unprotected and unlnoabited coast.
The goeernmcnt of Cuba is the only one that
uow fosters the slave trade Certain that they
Can find ways to procure the official cedulas,
and that these will cover their negroes,
however new they may be, the Spanish
slave traders establish their agencies on
the slave coast, fill them WITH goods from
Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, and
then charter or buy American vessels to bring
the slaves to Cuba. 1t il idle for the Spanish
government to cay thatit cannot stop this traffic.
1t boasts that not flibuster emissary can
land any where on the island, or q Cuban patriot
begin to conspre within it, but it has instant in
telligence of the fact. How, then, does it iguore
the Landing of tbous inds of slaves annually from
Africa? Its acts 60 further, and endauger good
neiehborbood. The slave traders it harbors in
Havana make engagements with some Of our
foolish young Southerners to deliver negroes to
them at the Spanish agencies on the slave coast,
and thus endeavor to build up an American
slave trade This gives our government great
trouble, causes it great expense, and leads young
Southern bleed into Improbable courses which
1t will Itself condemn at a cooler age
When the United States and England combine
and say 70 Spain that she must transfer Cuba to
The United States by pacific negotiation, not only
to stop the slave trade, but TO preclude grave
difficulties in The future then the trade will BE-
stopped, aud the costly fleets Of those two Pow
eis may be withdrawn from the deadly Afiicao
coast for there will be no market for the sale OF
kidnapped negroes,
OUR DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERvICE.-We