The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-05-28

/ of the natural dread which every iose' y
| liberty in this hemisphere must entertain,
should the only breskwater IN the old wo.Ia
| against the sea of European despo,ism Wv
way. and let ina deluge Of absoln'ism upon ~
the earth. What American would WIS.,, ,,, W
behold the fountain OF his own iaws, hoet
lies and lineage iefiled by the armed treaa Oh
ON Earonean desnotism; the land OF Shaks-
no.ra and Milton, the graves OF his ances-
20 ,roaacn down in triumph by a strange
snop Uannilv. there is no danger of
snch a catastrophe to England, TO The Uni
,sJ STATES which would be the next victim,
and to the cause of human liberty. The
| british feet is sufficient to meet the whole
naval power of Europe, and by the time
that a combination of European despots
could be formed, their plots matured, and
the details completed for an invasion Of
Great Britain, the whole militia Of the king
dom would be converted into one vast
camp of regular soldiers, who would dash
back their assailants, as the coast of Great
Britain dashes back the waves Of the sea IN
empty froth and foam.
The slave Trade and slavc stealing.
A S0utherner, who signs himself " A
Shareholder" has written letter to the N.
/. Times, which seems to coincide with a
suggestion of this journal, that one OF the
probable reasons for revival OF the slave
trade, -(from his approval of which, how
ever, we entirely dissent, is to be found IN
the constant depredations Of the Northern
Abolition:sts upon the property of their
neighbors, and the necessity that exists of
supplying the place of these thefts by
remedy entirely within the control of the
South" Before stating what the remedy
is. he gives, by way of illustration, an ac-
count of the famous Great Red River Raft,
which is composed of drift wood, lying and
combined together in every form AND posi-
ton. This raft ascends the river against
its own strong current, and maintains its
character through hundreds of years. Its
apparent increment, but real progress up the
rives is explained in this way: 1.-THE decay
at its lower end is about equal to the supply
of fresh materials at the upper end
The South therefore, he thinks, is justi-
fed in making up for the decay Of its labor
ing material at the northern end, by i'm
porting on its southern border a supply of
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Congress when it shall have repealed the
laws against the trade, or in open defiance
and notification of such unconstitutional
legislation. And not only are they going
to do this but have determined to import
at least ten Africans, to be civilized, en-
lightened and instructed, for every one slave
brought to that condition and run off by
the negro-stealers Faster than the rotting
off at the north end of the slave line, will
the new flesh be produced at the South end.
Two wrongs do not make right, and
abolition kidnapping from the South does
not Justify Southern kidnapping from Afri-
ca. But it is none the less certain that, so
long as the underground railroad is in ope-
ration, the slavers will ply between its ex-
IRENE Southern terminus and the coast of
Africa, and that no vacuum will be permitted
inthe labor between its termiui. We are OPP
posed to the slave trade, but abolitionists:
by their own wrong doing, are este pped
from becoming its censors.