The national Republican., 1860-12-10
traffic is not now against the law Of nations, but

traffic is not now against the law Of nations, but
it could easily be made so by the concurrence
of the Christian Powers. The doctrine that
"might makes right" could never have more
desirable application and while the South Car.
olinians were amusing themselves with Grotius
and vattel, they would find themselves snubbed
in the slave trade, with as little ceremony as the
Barbary Powers found an end put to their
piracies.
1t is needless, perhaps, 10 add; that in this
work of crushing out the slave trade, the free
States would not merely cooperate, but would
lead of. The true> ground would at once be
taken, that they have such general interest in
the North American continent as justified and
required them to prevent any portion of it from
being overrun with African barbarians. And
they would take this ground the more readily,
il it was attempted to open the slave trade with
view to coercing Virginia and Kentucky into
Southern Confederacy.
To illustrate the strength Of this English
anti.slavery feeling, to which Mr. Floyd refers,
we cut the following extract from an article in
the Liverpool Herald Of November "a:
"The Southern States might certainly form
but what hideous spectacle it would offer to
the Christian world. At present, the horrors
of the domestic institution are screened by
the Union dissolve that Union, and its whole
deformity would be laid bare. The next ques.
ton to be asked is, could Europe hold relations
with such people by accredited resident am
bassadors England and France very recent.
ly broke off diplomatic relations with Naples,
on account of the horrible tyranny Of the King
and the infamous administration Of the law |;
but, atrocious as were the dungeons Of the then
King of the Two Sicilies they ,cere less diaboli.
cal than the sldre markets Of Ne,o Orleans. 1t
is impossible to conceive anything more har.
rowing to the feelings, than the negro breeding
States, ,ohere boys are reared for the lash, and
girls for prostitution. These iniquities now
existing in full force are disguised under the po
litical designation ofthe United States; but they
would glare upon us in unspeakable infamy,
when confined to the Southern Confederacy-
State set apart and based on crimes which
Christendom has repudiated with horror. Sad
is the retrospect, sad the present moment, sad
the future. There maybe q servile war, one
OF the dreadful calamities involving the desola-
tion of all the plantations. There may be a
second 81. Domingo. 1t is not permitted to us
to read the yet unopened volume and we can
only hope that its pages may not be saturated
with blood"
Itis these English abolitionists that the South
Carolinians are so much in love with, and with
whom they are so eager to open direct trade,
in order to CRAFTY spite against the pro sla-
very merch ants of New York and Boston. Or
rathrr, it is the pro.slavery merchants Of Bos
ton and New York whom it is proposed to con.
vert into abolitionists, by breaking up the
Union.
If the men who assume to manage for the
Shareholders, persevere in the career Of folly
which they commenced seven years ago, in the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, they will
terminate the existence Of negro slavery in
another seven years from this time. They have
already thrown Garrison, Phillips, and Gerrit
Smith, into the shade.