Des Arc citizen., 1860-04-04
RE OPENING OF THE AFRICAN
 SLAVE TRADE.

The Jsfsrson Independent of the 7lh ul., replies to our article upon this sub iect as follows:
 The reasoning of the Citizen is good, as far as 1t concerns the imported negroes them selves; they would certainly be vastly bene fitted, but we cannot think the slave holding States would be pecaniariIy benefited by the introduction of the immense amount of cheap fabor- that the opening of our portsto this trade would in twelve months food the whole coun- try. The reaction would be too great, and most detrimentaIiy affect the price of our leading articles of export produced by this class of labor. Cotton (the king) hasfo the past two or three years maintained an almost uniform price, and that very remunerative one. yiz about an average of ten cents per pound. And it would be a ruinous policy that would suddenly glut the market with this product, thereby causing sudden reduce tion in price. The supply now only keeps pace with the annually increasing demand. but were only half million of bales of cotton offered, more than was demanded by the manu- factories, the price would as soon as this fact was ascertained, at once decline perhaps fifty per cent; causuiBg an aggregate smaller price to be paid for heavy crop, than for the preceding small one. And the planter with perhaps third more producing force, receives for his whole crop a less amount than the crop produced with expense, because grown and gathered by fewer operators.
 l. is not sound reasoning to say negroes being reduced in price oSE-HALF, a planter ca~ have TWICE as many and raising TWICE as large crop. he can afford to sell at half- price Since FOURTH of crop ABOVE the actual demand, will reduce the price one half. perhaps more and there Is the increased expense of the increased number of negroes.
 At this particular time, when John Brown insurrectionists are teaching their incendiary policy to our slave population, we should be particularly careful how we introduce swarm of savages, fit tools to work Abolition vengeance. Among number of large plan tatiohs, the strongest safeguard the whites can possibly have against instruction, is the love, respect and faithful obedience that ne- groes, long owned in a family, have for their masters and his family. There could be no such feeling to enforce submissive obedience from set of cannibais that acknowledge re- venge as the only daty they owe for their forci- ble abduction. For these reasons we think it unwise to reopen the Slave Trade; not that we think the move of doubtful morality, or other than charity to the African negro himself, but we think there Is no good TO OURSELVES to be derived from it, and we do notwant the North to have even this excuse for their unfraternal opposition.
 
 The South needs more labor-eall 1t "cheap labor" or by whatever name you please. The opening of our ports to the slave trade could not flood the country, as no reasonable man would continue busi- ness beyond suficiency to supply the demand. The argumen, that the price of cotton would be reduced by additional slave labor. and the markets glutted with the great stable, is, to our mind easily an- swered. The increased demand for Eng lands manufactured goods by the colonies, and the great mass under her influence China, India, and now the new opening in Japan-will be Of such great, in- cFeasing character, tha. in less than ten years the cotton of the South will hardly supply the demand of England. Under she recent free irade' movement of Ma po'eon, manufactures will spring into ex- 'stsnce like magic. No country on earth can compete with ours in the production of co'ton-and both reason and instinct teach us that without more slave labor We
 cannot supply the demand. Where is
 'neI labor 10 come from. but from Africa !
 Even admitting that the South should