Des Arc citizen., 1859-05-18

{ n K "A A'LA E. | OF Cor. I. N. DAvIs.-We invite care- full perusal of the letter of Col. DAvIs, of Mississippi, which will be found on the frs. page of this weeks Citizen. We have for near twenty years maintained that the African slave trade should be re- opened-that every negro brought to our shores has thereby had his condition bet tered, in every point of view-that the in stitution of slavery is right--and that Con- gross, in passing the law preventing the importation of slaves, transcended the power granted by the Constitution of the United States, and thereby infringed upon the rights of the slave holding States. There is no medium ground-Sou,hern slavery is either right, or it is wrong. We maintain that 1t is right, and, therefore, every resident of slave State should be encouraged to possess himself of this kind of property, in order that our interests may be co-equal. In commenting upon Col. DAvIs' letter, the Memphis .4ualanche presents the following remarks:
 After having vindicated slavery in the ab- stract, it will not be difficult to show the ad- vantages to be derived if the slave trade should be re-opened. And the whole question resolves itself thus: If it is right to buy slaves in the Southern States, why not in Africa? "What is the difference in Q moral point of view ? What rights have slaves in Africa, that they have not in America? Our readers will please bear in mind that we now speak of slaves-for they have slaves in Africa as well as in Ame- rica--slaves, too, for sale or slaughter, just as it suits the pleasure of their owners; and that such has always been the case, with this diff Ference in favor of the African market, that they are much cheaper there than here. Why, then, should we not buy in the cheapest mar ket? What is the condition of slaves in Af- rica? Each chief or ruler there has his reti- nue of slaves--in fact, their subjects are all salves--slayes of the most abiect character, whose lives are held as a tenure from their owners. They are slaughtered in war--they are slaughtered in peace--they are slaughtered to gratify the whims and caprices of their owners, and they are slaughtered to honor the death and burial of their masters. Whether, then, at home or abroad, in war or in peace, they are equally the victims of system of cruel butchery. Rights they have none, civil, religious, or political. With no civilization and no religion, they are the degraded victims of superstition and cruelty, whose fate it is to be bought, sold, and slaughtered. Such has been the condition of the African slave for thousands of years past, and such it will con- tinue while the Ethiopian lives and reigns. What great moral law, then do we violate, when we stretch forth the hand of civilization and transplant the slave from Africa to Ame- rica? When we give him religion for super stition; the freedom of the gospel for the thral- dom of Satan; the civil and religious rights of Christianity and civilization for the galling chains and fetters of savage tyranny and cruel- ty. What moral law do we violate when we convert savage of Africa to a citizen of America? when we make a lazy, worthless, idolatreus, non-producing inhabitant of that country, an industrious, useful. producing, and Christian member of society here? What rights has he there, and what rights are vio- lated by his transfer to this country?
 " How is it with the slaves in Virginia {? They enjoy civil and religious privileges there. Their lives, their limbs. their health, their happiness, their morals are all cared for and protected there. They are not savages, not idle, useless, ,non-producing drones. Why then disturb them in their peace and quiet there, and remove them to Alabama or elsewhere. Is the paltry consideration that they can grow more cotton in Alabama, than in Virginia, the reason of their transfer. Why not go to Afri- ca at once and buy, where all are non-produ- cers, all dlers, all idolators, all cannibals, all savages; and when by so doing, we not only supply the demands of labor on chea per terms, but answer the demands of religion at the same time.
 ssTe eur minds the reason and morality of the thing is in favor of buying in Africa, in- stead of Virginia. A slave is slave, whether in Africa or in America, with this difference, that in Africa he is wholly degraded, wholly oppressed, wholly worthless; while here, he is made to fulfill his destiny in subserving the useful and necessary purposes of life. We are unable, then, to see why it is wrong to buy in Africa and right to buy in Virginia. {"
 As an evidence of the prevailing sen timent in reference to the Slave Trade, we clip the following from our exchanges: ::
 RE-oPESIxe THE SLAVE TRApE--At a re- cent meeting of the Black Oak (South Caro- lina) Agricultural Society, resolutions were adopted, requesting the Legislature of South Carolina s' to take such steps as will induce change of the unconstitutional and iniquitous law of the United States, forbidding the intro duction of the negro from Africa into the Southern States"
 The preamble is in substance, that the South is in great need of negro labor, and that the plaRter is the best missionary to the African.
 ONE THOUSAND AFRICAN NEGROES WANT ED.-An advertisement appears in The News, published at Enterprise, Mississippi, addressed to ship owners and masters of our mercantile marine, offering $500 each for ,000 native Af- ricans, between the ages of fourteen and twenty, sound and healthy, to be delivered within twelve months, at some point between Pensacola, Florida, and Galveston, Texas. The advertisement is signed by eighteen re- sponsible citizens, whose character is voached for by the editor of The News.
 TIE SLAVE TRADE OF NEW YoRK.-The Washington Republic learns by private advi- ces that five slavers have probably been fitted ont and cleared from the port of New York, within the last two weeks.
 - Mir. Black, U S. Consul at the city of Mexico, who, according to report, has been ordered to leave the country by Gen. Mira mon, has acted as consul in that city for more A...e... man,