The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1860-06-23
The Revival Of an Old Branch OF
Commerce.

Ru III lUT tuc duu CCuIo.
smarting of conscience we may have about
any doubtful enterprise, may be crushed
outif a sufficient pressure Of gold is brought
to bear upon them. Show us that it s0a@
nan, and we will show you that it IS right
perfectly right and lawful to dds the
language of the Anglo Americans. Wheth-
er it be to steal a territory, cheat a neigh
Dor, burn hereto, preach sermon, or
buy, fog, or kill a negro, it is all the same.
First, does it pay? Second, how muchcan
/ realize by the undertaking? These are
the questions which, if once settled salts
factorily, our go-ahead spirit impels us head
long to the work, and no power on earth
or in heaven can stop us. If this be true
Of the Anglo American in general, how
-eminently so is it of those who have
facilities for enterprises that, if entered in
to, bring quick and immense profits. Who
can expect them to allow these facilities to
be idle on their hands, while great gain
while the actual dollars and cents-lie Just
beyo in the pathway Who can expect
our merchants, for example, to let their
ships lay at our wharves idle or engage in
comparatively proftless trade, when larg
er and more lucrative ones are open before
them-when robust captains, ready for the
work, are readily had, and able-bodied
seamen are on every hand desiring en-
ployment for the support of their wives and
little ones; men-yes, men, real Johnsons
alias Hicks if you pirates, bloody
pirates, but men Notwithstanding able-bo-
died men, men with wives and children, and
ready to engage in any undertaking their
superiors require for pay? The hanging
up, practically wise, at Bedloe's Island or
some other place, of one or SO now and
then, only assures us of their bottom-the
stuff they are made of-their tried mettle
their capacity for the service. We know
that they are from number of we'll
tested men, the remainder of whom inspire
our highest confidence of fitness for pc
culiar and lucrative operation.
With this business-like view, our marine
mercantile world have boldly revived an
old ssand, as the sequel will show, profitable
branch of comrnerce-one that will pay for
all risk incurred, for, according to the law
that regulates trade, the demand for the
kind of goods in question is far greater
than the supply, and (the trade once fairly
OPEN is likely to SO continue for many
years to come. The new branch of COM
merce-or rather the old one revived-to
which we allude, and which is so drawing
upon the keen business calculations Of our
calculating men of business, is nothing
more nor less than trade in negr0eS-Afri-
can negroes 1t bids fair to surpass in
point of profit all present commercial en-
terprises, and hence must command atten-
ton
But let us give few particulars, which
we obtain from reliable sourse, and
which will at once throw more light on the
subject than any speculations of ours: On
the 31st of December, the bark Iowa, OF
the burden of 1853 tuns, cleared at this port
for whaling voyage. The whales she
went to catch were running about, like the
"red herrings" in the nursery rhyme, in
the woods" She was fitted out for slave
voyage, and ere this, perhaps, has landed
cargo of Africans on the coast of Cuba
or in some lonely haven on our Southern
coast On the 21st of January the bark
VIM. G. Lewis, burden 264 tons, cleared
for the Rio Congo and a market. He
owners are probably expecting daily, j
they have not received already, the returns
Of her voyage, showing profit OF not les
than 100000 on cargo Of slaves. Or
the 18th of the same month, the brig w
r. Kibbe, Of 1919 tuns, cleared for the Por
de Selma. On the 4th of February, a weel
later, the bark Emily, of aO1 tuns, and Oh
the 9th Of March the brig Falmouth, o
2o8 tuns, cleared for the same port and OF
the same Grand On the 18th of April tn
ship Atlantic, Of 500 tuns, and on the 2otl
of the same month the ship Montauk, o
sos tuns, cleared for whaling voyages os
tensibly, but fitted as slavers and bound t
the coast of Africa for negroes On tn
ID Of last month the brig Storm hlng'
go tuns. sailed for the Congo River; an
on the 2Ist the bark Buckeye, of $50 tun'
sailed for the West Coast of Africa liner
is little doubt of the purpose of their voy
ages.
These vessels, it will be observed rang
from 200 to over 600 tuns burden, an
that is the size sought for for this trade
rI,hov ,,rot he fast sailers, of good capac