Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-11-03

From the New Nolk Times1
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NORTH AND THE sLAvE-TRADE.
Mr.. w. l.. Yaucey has produced very /
favorable impression upon the Northern audi
ences he has recently addressed by the appa..
rent candor and fairness which be has brought
to the discussion Of political topics.
In his speech at the Cooper Institute, in
referring to this subject, Mr.. Yancey said:
"Our forefathers were not only slavehold..
ers, but imported slaves from Africa. Nir.
ginia wished to suppress that trade, but
Massachusetts and other States ~ished n TOD
be carried on. Laughter Massachusetts
and those other States insisted that the SLAVE
trade shouldvlot be prohibited By any act Of
Congress, and resisted oil attempts to prohibit
it, until the Act Of Congress of 1905 was
passed for by an article of the Constitution,
which was beyond the reach OF Congressional
amendment, it was provided by our iorei
fathers that no change should be made in
this Slave trade until the year 1908. How
did that sound with the modern theorists as
to the existence Of on irrepressible conflict
Applause. Within the period that inter.
vened, something like 100000 slaves were
imported into the country, and their descend.
ants we're now scattered through the Southern
Slave States constituting an essential fea.
ture Of Southern prosperity"
In his Boston speech be reiterated this
statement, and is reported to have added
that the 900 slaves, according to the law
! of increase, now number million and that
| the ten millions of dollars which the New
| Eugauders received for them, owing to the
thrift and economy of the people, doubtless
amount to not less than one hundred millions.
lie continues:
| "Just think now Of the millions that are
invested by Southern men in property, which
was held to be property by your ancestry,
sold to US as property by your ancestry, our
titles resting now from your ancestors, and
traced back to them and yet the sons OF these
men want to take from them their property
by an Abolition law! [Applause, and cries
Of Good
Well, then, your fathers, in demanding that
the Slave trade, which existed wheh the De.
claration Of Independence was made, should
.Je continued; in demanding Chat the ins.itu.
tion Of Slavery, which existed when the
Constitution was formed. should hare a ,cider
basis in demanding that Sldres should be
increased in number in demanding that they
should hare the privilege Of trading in them,
of buwag them, and selling then, TO our pee,
ple-I ask You now candidy, did they not, in
demanding ali this, demand of their posterity
perfect good faith in securing the title to that
property? ['Non Yes! What man is
there here who will repudiate the deed of his
father What man is there here who will
take from me by force any property whatever
that his father sold to me, and got the money
for, and that be is now enjoying by inher
tence? Applause and cries of No man.
Some men may think that is fair way o
doing business but doubt if that is the Law
of the counting room among the merchants o.
Massachusetts"
Mr.. Yancey distinctly averts that the permis
sion of the slave trade for twenty years, by tht
trainers of the Constitution, was granted at the
urgent demand of the Northern or New Englant
people, or their representatives and he woult
have us believe tn al the South was either hostile
to the traffic, or Indifferent.
g 1t is true, as he alleges, that Virginia op
posed TO the continuance OF the Slave trade; ant
we are sorry to say that that is the only ,rutl
contained in the statement A reference to NJ
: Madison's report OF the proceedings of the Fer
| eral Convention will show that the whole coun
try north of North Carolina was opposed TO thu
Slave trade that Virginia, Maryland and Penn
), sylvania were uncompromisingly hostile to it
4 and that New England was decidedly agains
j it, but not dsincnej to compromise, on tn
basis of concedihg to the General Government
more ample powers Of regulating commerce AM
navigation than were contained in the first out
lines Of Constitution which had been agree
o upon. Rufus King of Massachusetts,, said
O "The admission of slaves was a most gratn
circumstance to his mihd and he believed woul
u he to a great part of the people of America
,. He had hoped that some accommodation wou
3 have taken place or this subject that at least
=, time would have been limited for the importation
of slaves. lie never could agree to let them b
J, imported without limitation, and then be repre-
Il sened in the National Legislature"
AN Of nar,ln nI