The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-03-29
Tbc Anicuu slave Trade.

The revival of the African Slave Trudr in the
Southern States under the auspices OF Democ-
rucy has given 'Iesh impetus % negro piracy on
the African coast. The regent intelligence re-
ceived by the New York press from corrcSpon-
dents on board the u S. squadron ostensby eu-
gagged in suppressng the slave trade, establishes
the fact that ut 10 time since the conclusion OF
the Aug 10 American treaty has the traffic been
as actively and successfully prosecuted as al
present-that three out OF every four vessels en-
gagged in it get to sea with !heir human curgoes
in satety-that nearly all the mans stealing is
done under the AmeIicum lag and that our
squadron, maintained nt great cost, offers no
serious obstacle to the prosecution Of the traffic.
The n. Y. I incs, whose letters from relisble
sources establish the sham of American ine fiic
icncy if not culpable crminality, says:
The startling statements are supported by such
facts as that from the Congo River, within the
last four months, forty five hundred negroes have
been carried olT-that the American squadron
spends great part OF Its time at the Canary
Island, Maderis, and the Cape de Verdes. the
dag ship having recently passed eight months at
d point i'll one Of those groups OF islands, at n
time, and all The her ships spending an ndch-
mite period--always three months, and generally
good deal more in the same way; So much
so, that there arc frequently not more than TWO
OF three ships at their posts on the costs. The
station but this is ignominiously disposed Of
by the example of the British end French who
claim no such indulgence. Any climate which
these can support in the discharge of their duty,
has not aud ought not TO have, any terrors Tor
our own officers There is, in short, al the bot
tom OF this startling remiSSness, either apathy
about the work. or secret sympathy with the
offenders. We call this remissness startling
because i. is our opinion the most disheorrenng
in ncident in the de 'aIls which we are now receiv.
ing fom the slave coast We have long ceased
to hope for any assistance from the law US rxe-
cuted by juries at home, in putting an end to
this great crime.
The horrors Of the slave trade have not been
lessencd by timo, but rather increased. The
descriptions are harro wing the suilerings on a
SLAYER with cargo Of human beings slowed n
way between decks where they can neither stand
uor sit down, being such that even our Stout
hearted naval officers can hardly look upon
them. A letter TO the Times says:
Now their suheTngs become, dreadful, hor
rible indeed, human language is incapable Of
describing, or imag tion Of sketching c, cn the
faint outline or dimly floating fancy, of what
their condition iS--home-siCk sea sick, halt
starved. naked, crying for aid, for water, the
strong killing the weak or dying in order TO
make room the hold beco mes perfect charnv-
house OF death and misery--a misery aud anguish
only conceivable by those who have endured it,
0pthalmia breaks out every new case is thrown
oyeTboard under the supposiuon that the dis
ease is contagious aud those who are dying
mret the same fate. This is no fancy sketch
Only the other day men orabe instance of il
came under our immediate observation