Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06
Prom the Pittsburgh Gazette.
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE,

The appearance Of any statement, for the first
time, in the columns of the New York Herald is
prima facie evidence of its falsi,y. Whatever is
original with that sheet is essentially worthy Of
suspicion. 1t was for this reason. probably, that
the country generally refused credence to the story
first published in that paper that between sixty
and seventy cargoes of Africans had been landed
in the United States since the successful landing
of the WANDERERS cargo. The story might be
true; it was not, in itself, improbable; but it would
not do TO believe it on the unsupported testimony
of the Herald.
We can readily understand. therefore, the in
~credulity of the public on this particular allega.
cation, but, while the unbelief, under the circum-
conclude that, because the Herald is mendacious,
there is no truth whatever in any story about the
landing Of African slaves on the southern coast.
We believe that thoro is good reason to fear that
the cases Of the Echo and the WANDERERS wers
merely unfortunate speculations in a grand enter
prise-unfortunate in being discovered, whilst 9th
er vessels succeeded in evading disco rery. The
evidences accumulate, daily, Of tho presence Of
numbers of freshly imported Africans at various
points in the South and the aggregate number is
too great to be accounted for by the NAL total
s~mugglod in on the WANDERER.
We remember, we'll, with what ridicule the sto-
ry was FIRST received, a year or two since. that a
cargo Of Africans had been landed on Pearl river,
Mississippi. The account of the successful dis
embarkation of this cargo, which appeared in a
New Orleans paper, was regarded throughout the
country as a clever abrication-an amusing at
tempt to play upon the credulity Of northern IA
natics. Scarcely any one looked upon i, as a YER
table relation of real events. 1t was sneered at,
laughed at. Knocked at and ridiculed; and he was
considered a monomaniac or a fool who was silly
enough to put faith in 1t. The country could not
then believe that there was a party in the South
desiring. in earnest, the revival of the African
Slave Trade; and it was only when the Echo and
the WANDERER were caugh: in the very act that
the eyes Of the public were open to the real state
of the case. What was, a year ago. thought i'm
possible, has to-day become a fixed fact.
Our own conviction is that the traffic is carried
on, clandestinely, to an extent which would alarm
the country if all the facts were known. We DE-
not believe the Herald's story; but we do believe
that the leading men Of the South are preparing
to take bold ground in defence of the traffic. The
will FIRST try to get Congress to repeal the law
prohibiting it; and failing in that they will en-
q dorse it openly, and encourage resistance to tn
0 laws which prevent il. When such men as Steph
ems and M'Rae and Forsyth take their position
: alongside of such fanatics as Spratt, we may reas
D onatly prepare ourselves for seeing the Who'll
8 South muster at their roll-call.
The revival of the Slave Trade is not a thing o
o the future but of the present. 1t already exist,
u The revival has been effected and will be mair
o tanned, if the South can retain its power to rul
u as hitherto. All tina. is needed to make the revive
complete is to give the party which the South wi
N favor, a triumph in the next Presidential election
The Southern politicians will secure, at Charlie,
ton, the man they need to carry out their design
and if The North aid in e~lecting him. ther
will be nothing wanting to the triumph Of Ii
he slave traders. That which is now carried on O.
c~re,ely will then be done openly and the trait
y accursed Of all civilized nations will be once mol
restored as a part of the legitimate commoree Of
so-called Republican people.