The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-03-08
Rather Late In the Dav.

IL was announces 70 the pubic elk months
ago. by the New York Herald, that number
Of vessels in that and several other neighbor
ing cities, were fittinkout for the slave trade
Thoss watchful guardians Of Africa. the
Tribune and Times, perhaps were sleeping, for
they seem to have made no response In the
course of time these vessels have arrived al
their destination, and mot~ the Times ana III
bsne both received letter, Identical Ia ali re-
spects, from a correspondent who dates from
ON board the U. S. ship Portsmouth, lying at
St. Paul do Loando, detailing their opera.
tons Experience. the writer says. has con-
WINGED him that the whole slave coast is
lined with slavers, who are gsserai!y from Nem
York. cleared from the Custom House. and
bringing with them all the appliances Of the
trade and manGuvring about ON the coast,
under various pretences and DISCUSSES of legal
traffic particularly under that most specious
blind, the obtaining of palm oil, until the IA
vorable moment having arrived. the cargo is
shipped, and few hours finds them out of
danger, on their way to the West Indies.'-
1t is commonly believed, ne says, at home
that there is great competition between
us and the English. about the palm oil
trade, but it is mistake, for scarcely
any English vessels are engaged in that trade.
1t is used, according to him, AS blind by
the American slavers, and nothing else
The trade is Pigment, scarcely exists at all,
there being but three English vessels engaged
in any sort of trade on the coast. At Ambure,
where all these vessels 60, there is no oil atal',
and every where else it is at present extremely
scarce. What, then, can be the meaning OF the
vast merchant Navy employed on the coast OF
Africa by the Americans What, too, is the
meaning of the enormous supply OF water
casks carried by every one of them, under the
pretence of pumping out the water and sup
plying its pace with oil, seeing that water
casks and oil-casks are two entirely different
things, aud never used for the same purpose
These pretended American oil ships are met
by the dozen any day, on the coast Of Africa
The only way to put stop to their operations
is to declare any vessel, carrying more than
seven or eight water casks, five or six buckets
of size sufficient to stow away live mig
ger" and more than prescribed quantity OF
farina. rice, salt, salt fish, spoons, .galleys.
planking or lumber, when caught on the coast
of Africa, lawful prize. This would be very
comfortable to UNCLE SANS bold tars, and
would strike terror into all having it in their
hearts to transgress in this direction.
Now, all this may be, and, we doubt not, is
true enough. That there are many Northern
men, and even Northern women, engaged in
this traffic, has been stated over and over again
and when this writer reiterates the assertion,
he but repeats stale and worn out charge.
Yankee avarice will sickle at nothing to sat-
isfy its cravings, and of all avaricious Yam
KEGS, the much praying Pharisees Of the Abo-
lition Synagogues are the least easily appeas-
ed. But why bring up all these matters at this
particular juncture! The ships were perfect
ly well known while they were in port. Why
was the storm not raised there! Why was
not public indignation directed against them
and the scoundrels who owned them, in
manner SO decided that they burst not, even
though the law could not reach them, engage
in the traffic I! These men must be known.
Why are they not pointed out, and set up As
marks for public reprobation
The fact is, the Tribune and Times mean to
use this slave-trading business ammunition
in the coming canvass. They seem already to
have their correspondents on the spot, as they
had in Kansas four years ago. The astonish-
ing invention of these men was then a subject
of wonder to the whole country, and they
will invent as much about bleeding Africa
as they invented about "Bleeding Kansas"
then. We had "Kansas Shrekers' in any
quantity then we shall have "Afrca Shrek
ers'' in any quantity now. The blood and
bones of the Africans will be turned to the
most profitable account, of that we may rest
assured. Those who capture and sell them
will not be those that will make the most
profit OF of them. The public may look out
for a succession of horrors, such as REDPArH
used to treat the readers of the tribune to when
he was manufacturing "Kansas atrocities" for
that truth-loving journal. All that we ever
heard of the horrors of the middle passage
will be reproduced, with new actors and scene
ry, and an improvement upon the text. 1t is
unfortunate that REDrATH is, just now, M
der cloud. He would be the very man for
the situation of African horror.maker Can
his services be procured OH terms what