Des Arc citizen., 1859-08-17
From the Vicksburg True Southron.] RE. E.OPENING THE AFRICAN SLAVE
 TRAnE

| The fierce assaults upon the advocates of re-opening the African slave trade, from their opponents, the open coalition of Southern men with the aboIitionists of the North in the advocacy of doctrines sub- versve of our most cherished institutions, directly in support of freesollism, have forced me from my seclusion to offer, through your journal, some crude thoughts upon the subject. l am persuaded to un. dertake this task, by the hope that should 1 fail to adduce arguments in support ot my views sufficient to bring converts to your standard, now wavering from the conflict in the opinions of political leaders, shall at least have the ratification of making the effort, as well as to show desire to cheer you on in the arduous task which you have assumed; as we'll as to remind you that ipnovators, through all time, have been martyrs, no matter how much good they may have designed to effect for their fellow men. This subject has at last spread from the Representative halls at Washington to our towns and villages and our homesteads, and has become the sta pie of daily discussion, as much so, as the most common topic of conversation. There was time when the enlightened philan. thropist of past generation gravely con- sidered, and openly debated, this matter with the settled and acknowledged pur. pose to the ultimate extinction of slavery
 But we should recollect that we had then no cotton or sugar fieds-no tropical climes. In order then fairly and properly to bring this subject before the public view, 1t would be necessary to collect faithful history of the times, the then existing per- sonal relations of slave and master, to es- innate the value of their labor compared with white labor, to weigh the causes then and now secretly but steadily at work in the sure and gradual concentration of slavery in the cotton, sugar, tabacco and rice fields. But political economists have exhausted this theme, and l refer your readers, for information, to the pamphlet, by Prof. Dews, written sometime after the South Hampton instruction in Virginia. when her Legislature, in panic, gravely debated the question, in open doors, of im- mediate emancipation as the only correc- tive to the frightful horrors of servile in- surrectons. This masterly production had the happy effect of quieting their fears, by holding up the folly and utter impossibilty of such an undertaking, and of giving to the world arguments in the advocacy of slavery, which have never been answered, and scattered to the winds all the sense- less slang and hypocritcal cant from that pes,-house, the North, which, from the day of the landing of the famed Pilgrims to the hour which now write, has been the hol-bed of political and religious heresies, pseudo philantrophy, and all the isms with which the licentiousness of lib. erty ever cursed humanity-a country ln which all the frightful views of Jacobln' ism are fast ripening to produce the same frieght.
 But, sir, why this unusual cry for more slaves? Is it cupidity2 No. The masses are not more avarcious now than they were formerly. Is it the scarcity of negroes No. For they are mora numerous now than ever before. What means this pub lie expression of a great want-necessi ", SlT--WllCu ID OOilotouliy hOuAu, oho NiA> call echoed back from one end of the Soutf to the other? Is not this loud clamor fol
 more labor in obedience to great law O
 political economy? The inadequate sup
 ply of our great staples to meet the want
 of the consumer, the abnormal relative value of white and black labor, the vas
 territory now wilderness and waste, only suited for our great staples, the production
 of slave labor alone. Sir, are we to be de
 barred from the occupation of our rich do
 main by the timid clamor of alarmist
 about the prepetutity of the Union! Why sir, the re-opening of the African slay'
 trade will bind us more firmly to th'
 North than all the railways. steamships
 rivers; yes, consanguiniiy, similarity 0 } races, of language, all dwinde into dwar fish proportions, compared with the won derful results growing out of the occupa ton of our rich inheritance. The slav' trade, which will be chiefly carried on bl Northern men, as it now IS elsewhere lno,wiihstandinc their elamof against Il