Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-06
sIaTss and the Slave Trade.

slave bark of Cape Verde with 500 Africans
on board. They were brought to Key West
and discharged at the Government Station
there. Within two months three cargoes Of
slaves have been landed there and now over
100 native Africans are in charge of the o.
s. Marshal, awaiting the action Of our Gov
eminent in the matter Congress has just
passed an appropriation Of $500, 900 for the
the purpose Of returning the poor creatures to
Africa, and supporting them for limited
period. Il viii Eequire a large additional
sum to provide for the last cargo captured.
The law under which captured slaves are
returned to Africa was passed in 1919, and
The Colonization Society have an established
ouiony at Liberia for the care Of returned
aptives. The liberated Africans sent there
by the United States Government is l,244.
In December, ls45, no less than 756 were
landed there and taken care of by the agents
Of the Colonization Society, for which the
government paid $s7, 500 in all. Inl85s over
two hundred Of the slaves taken in the Echo
were conveyed to MonrOvia and distributed
among the various settlements. The sum Of
$4,000 was paid the Colonization Society
ior one years's care of the returned Afri-
cans.
What is 70 be done with the seventeen hun
dssl victims Of the cursed man-trafic eOngre-
gated ct Key West The law provides that
they must be sent to the shores of their ma
tive country. Southern cupidity urges that
they be enslaved and worked in the rice,
cotton and sugar fields until death The Sa-
vannsh Republican, one Of the most inhuen-
tal journals Of the South, declares that send
ing captured negroes back to Africa is both
wrong and inexpedient and says "when once
landed on our shores, it is true economy and
humanity to let them remain, to be incOrPO-
rated with thousands oftheir countrymen who
came here before them Thesame enslaving
spirit on the part Of some of the Southern
members Of Congress was exhibited on the
passage Of the appropriation bill for the re-
turn of the Key West captives. They op-
posed the bill by speech and vote, in the
House ffty-six voting against the humane
measure.
The re-opening and activity Of the African
Slave Trade along the Southern coast Of the
United States are no longer questioned. The
numerous captured cargoes, in American yes
sells bound to our shores, establish the fact
The Government by its slack, or rather nom
administration ofthe laws to punish and pre-
vent the piracy, invites the internal but profit
able traffic in human flesh. It is boldly car
red on under the protecting stars and stripes,
and slavers are fitted out in New York, under
the very noses of the United States authorities,
at an average, the New York Leader says, Of
two vessels each week. It charges that the
vessels bound for Africa and human cargo,
understand the prices of a clearance as well
as the price of barrel Of pork, and that the
government authorities have neglected their
duty for corrupt considerations, has been put
On record by the dismissal Of two Deputy
United States Marshals on proved charges to
that effect Is it q marvel that New York
should be disgraced as the depot Of the slave
trade, whers such men as Capt Rynders, of
the Empire Club, hold the Marshalship un-
der The pro-Slavery Administration Of Bu-
chanan2
Senator Wilson, of Mass, has introduced
bin in the Senate to 50 change the anti-Afri-
can Slave Trade laws, as to put a stop to the
horrors Of the Middle Passage, as far as Amer
leans are concerned in it. He advocated its
provisions with great earnestness and force,
but the bill. win, no doubt, fail to become a
law under the present administration. There
are too many men in Congress who desire the
fun re-opening Of the Guinea Slave Trade to
take decisive steps for its suppression. Mr.
Wilson's bin win doubtless be killed by tie
Judiciary COMMITTEES to whom it was referred,
or the Democratic major ity in the Senate vii
smother Il