The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-10-13
THE SLAVE TRADE.

| IN Europe.
THE SLAVE TRADE.
1t was the policy of Slavery Propagandsts
some months ago, to assert very confidently
that the African slave trade had been actually
revived, and to give the particulars of the ar
rival Of cargoes of negroes on the Southern
coast. But being detected in their falsehoods
and finding at the same time that the trade i.
less popular, even in the South, than they
hoped, they are now endeavoring to pass of
the matter as joke. The New Orleans Ores
cent is one of this class of journals. 1t nov
says
ave are free to admit that we like good
laugh, particularly at the expense of those
whom we despise, and that sometimes, but not
very often, we hint things calculated to super
| induce the opportunity Some time ago, we du
biously intimated that there was possibility
that the African slave trade was in full opera
ton, and that cords of Congos would soon
throng every Southern port But we didn't
state it directly or indirectly. We only com
mented upon Northern FreeSoil text Well,
| in due course of time, the mails brought us
| Northern Free-Soil journals Didn't they howl.
| and rave, and rant, and lie, and didn't we laugh
immoderately? Assuredly they did, and we
enjoyed ourselves hugely while perusing their
a 1sfE dghtd de 1t & A tfd h; But We have
high authority to justify its use. Holy Writ
says, when you are in Rome, do as Romans do;
and when we deal with Abolitionists, we have
no idea that we are subject to the rules which
govern honorable men in their intercourse with
honorable neighbors and, consequently, think
if we can make any fun out Of them it is alike
legitimate and proper to do So"
This is lame excuse for an acknowledged
false statement, and will not reinstate the char
acter Of the Crescent as reliable journal.
But what of those other propagandist falsehoods,
which were accompanied with circumstantial
details, names, dates, &c.? And what of Mr..
| Douglass statement that he saw three hundred
native Africans in slave pen at Vicksburg,
and as many at Memphis? Was that joke,
| too2
In regard to the revival of the slave trade, all
that we know of it is briefly this, viz: that the
leaders of the Black Democracy in the Gulf
States are for it; and while they so declare they
are deferred from making it a party test, from
a consciousness that the whole North isagainst
it, as well as a majority of the Southern PEG
pie.
DISCOVERY OF A BAND OF YoUNG THIEVES.
A resident of Medford, Mass having occasion
to enter an unoccupied outbuilding on his
premises on Monday last, discovered that it had
been converted into a rendezvous for an organ
lied band of young thieves, about six in num-
ber whose names were enrolled in book found
in the building The list was headed, Chief
A. j. Winnech Treasurer, r. r. Sanborn'
The boys thus organized appear to have com
menced operations within a few days. On
Monday, the boy Winnech was lettering about
the store of Mr. Savage, and his school books
were found in the outbuilding, together with four
portamonnaes and other articles, which have
been identified as the property of Mr.. Savage.
The boys thus associated are from ten to four.
teen years of age"
To one who has been an observer of society
at the North, what lesson the above paragraph
teaches in favor of Southern institutions
What more can be expected of boys, when the
example Is set them, not by isolated individuals,
but by whole communities and States? After
robbing the South of her property il is not to
be wondered al that they occasionally turn and
practice on one another Montgomery Ala. J
Advertiser.
What says our Alabama cotemporary to the
recent instance of organized scoundrelism in
Louisiana If society in that slayeholding
State is infested by bands of thieves and muir
derers so large as to defy the authorities of the
State, would it not become the AdUertiser to be
little more guarded in its wholesale charges
against free society? What is the band of six
juvenile thieves in Massachusetts,, in compari-
son with the hundreds of full-grown thieves and
murderers who have organized themselves into
an independent community in Louisiana, and
who live BY depredations upon society, like the
Thugs of India? Or what says the Advertiser
to the similar gangs Of outlaws and villains
which made vigilance committee necessary
in New Orleans last year? We might put the
same question in regard to the rowdyism of
Baltimore, Southern city, which, though hay
ing few slaves, has ever been subject to Pro-
Slavery rule. When the Advertiser answers
these questions satisfactorily, it may with more
propriety reproach free society with its ac
knowledged evils.
We have never attempted to trace every
crime committed on Southern soil to the insti
tuition of Slavery. We have never sought to
find in every case of murder or violence the
legitimate fruits of the peculiar institution; but
it is nevertheless fact, that Baltimore and
New Orleans, the two largest cities of the
South, have been more distinguished for rowdy-
ism and misgoyernment than even the great
cities of New York and Philadelphia. It isto
be remarked, further, that those great cities,