Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-29
More Democratic "Progress.' -


that the fathers of the Republic, including the
leading Democratic statesmen, were opposed
to slavery, while, at the present day, the
public men Of that party favor it. The seed
sown by these modern champions of human
bondage is having the desired effect, if we
may credit the New York Herald. paper
which used its influence to secure Mr..
Buchanan's election. In its issue of the 18th,
under the head of Progress of the Slave
Trade" it vouches for the accuracy of a cor
respondent who states that, from May, 1S48,
to the present time, there have been landed
Oh the shores of the United States, on an
average, six cargoes of wild Africans annually,
or about twenty thousand in little more
than eleven years. The Hsrald's CORES
pondont further states that he is informed,
through a semi.con6dential source, that,
within the next ninety days, twelve slave
vessels, whose names were unknown to him,
would discharge their freight upon our shores.
The Herald, in its editorial comments, says:
which we publish to-day, taken in connection
with the recent fre-eating speeches Of Alex
ander II. Stephens, of Georgia, and K. Barn
well Rhett, Of South Carolina, pretty clearly
establish state of things in the Southern
Democratic camp of the gloomiest possible
description, in relation to the national re- union
of the Democracy at the Charleston Conven-
ton. This new Southern slavery agitation
has assumed shape so formidable that the
most logical prophecy now would be the vio-
lent dissolution of the Charleston Convention.
With regard to the African slave
traffic, when we are told, even by careful
correspondent, that, since May, l848, between
sixty and seventy cargoes of wild Africans
have been introduced into our Southern
States, and that twelve different slave vessels,
whose names are unknown, are expected
within few weeks along our Southern sea-
board, we may, at first blush, feel somewhat
incredulous; but this incredulity will be
much diminished when we consider the
world wide notorious fact that the yacht
Wanderers cargo of Africans -four hundred,
more or less landed in Georgia were all
spirited away in the face of the public author
tiles, and readily distributed in various
directions, to different purchasers, from
Georgia to Mississippi"
1t argues from this that there is now
dividing chasm on the question of slavery
which will defy all attempts to bridge it over
in the Charleston Convention. But we
apprehend that the Democratic party will
become "unit' on this as on all other issues
which have from time to time been presented
as tests of party fealty.. The great lights Of
the party at the South have determined that
the slave trade shall be legalized, Gt is already
re-opened) and that a slave code shall be
enacted by Congress. They will find their
doughface brethren Of the North ready to
accedc to their demands to the uttermost.
But will the free and enlightened people Of the
North quietly acquicsce in these infamous
measures? Aye, ''there's the rub!' The
result will be the Northern and Southern
sections of the Union arrayed against each
other. We deplore such state of affairs,
but the North is bound to resist the encroach-
ments of the slave power. All the evil conse-
quences which may at last result will be
directly chargeable to the South and to the
progressive Democratic party.
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