Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-08-19

the duty of the United States officials
to make very thorough examination be-
fore the vessel is allowed to depart. In
view of these accommodating rumors of
vessels fitting for the slave trade, the fol-
lowing extract from the Washington cor
respondence of the New York Herald,
becomes of unusual interest:
"The consequences of the re-opening
of the African slave traffic are already
beginning to be sensibly felt in the South
ern States. Difficult rs it is to get at the |
truth in a matter where all concerned are
directly interested in maintaining invlola-
bic secresy, do not hesitate to reIterate
my conviction that every syllable wrote
you few weeks ago, in relation to the
landing Of large cargoes Of imported
sayages' on the coast of Florida, was
strictly correct.
In conversation, within the last thirty
six hours with the very United States
Senator who gave me large portion Of
the facts which | enumerated under the
date Of July 10, remarked that they
had been universally discredited, and
seemed to be borne out by but scanty ev-
idence in the Southern papers. He re-
piled, Nevertheless, every word l told
you was substantially true, and all doubt
about it will have passed away from
every mind before the 18th of December
next He added that the silence of the
Southern press was a signal proof that
the accusations he had made were well
founded; that they did not dare to stulti-
fly themselves by denying what every
intelligent Southerner knew to be the
truth tina; of the Heralfs remarks had
no foundation, there would have been an
outcry made by every journal from Mary
land to Galveston. He continued to say
that the silence of the conservative pa
= pers south Of the Potomac would proba-
bly, not be Of long duration, as a feeling
y Of Indignation was spreading among the
planters and large shareholders at the
IS disturbance of the old order of things,
which must soon lead to an outbreak
An accoint which appeared on the 23d
ult. in the St. Augustine (Fla.) Eranai'a-
er admirably illustrates the manner il
which slavers are treated, even when no
tice of them is given to the proper Fed
eral authorities. 1t seems that the Dep
uty United States Marshal, upon bein;
informed that such vessel was off tn
coast, made inquiries which resulted il
his hearing Of no SLAYER, and only ru
NOR that negroes had been landed to til
southwark Proceeding in that direc
ton, he found that about six weeks pre-
n vious four sailors had reported that the
On were part Of the crew of the schoone
Experiment, had landed cargo of Afr
sell The Deputy Marshal did not, c
course, find at that late hour in the da
any sign of ringers or ship; and the et
itor of the Examiner closes his accoul
by saying At any rate The birds ha
flown before he got there. We unde
stand more are expected shortly
light watch is in fact kept along Il
coast between Key West and Peusacol
that 'rumors' of the landing of sla'
cargos may be considered to travel pref
, swiftly if they reach the ears Of Cover
ment officials even six weeks after : [
bird has fown,' and no rule of caution
thought 10 be violated by the newspape
in Boosting that more are expect
shortly neither is the traffic commei
ed on with the slightest sign of surpri
or disapprobation.
! have no doubt that time will devel
some startling facts in the history OF sla
OiJ SiHCC 4udN 1000 mere isIe n
to exist depots Of savages' in over tw
ty large cities or towns at the South,
some Of which the initiated may
them, at times, to the number Of seye
hundreds. Among the places VIII
these depots are to be found, Charest
Memphis and Columbus have been NJ
ed to me by person whom l think tri
worthy and reliable, who informed
that he had visited them, and that he
seen altogether, in these three pla
about nine hundred imported blacks
He said that it was notorious, through
Georgia and Alabama, six weeks
that quite feet Of slavers was expet
to land cargoes within a month or tw
one Of the Florida inlets, not far Fl
Key West. You will recollect |
ri, you before that gentleman Of the d
undoubted veracity had informed me
the boast had been made to him, 81
confidently, by an interested individ
ID in whose name is known throughout
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