The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-08
Africaa slavers and Black Kspublfc "a
OuxAtters.

Africaa slavers and Black KspubAfcaa
Ouxhtters.
The sudden and great increase Of the slave
trade on the coast of Africa has startled the
abolition philosophers of the Tribune and
Times, and they are puzzled to know why they
should each have received the same letter
about il at the came time. Greeley's note to
the Times the day before yesterday confirms
our suspicion that the letter bad been accom-
panied by private note to the editor, asking
him to pitch into the subject editorsIy,
although the smal-soaled editors of that sheet
have not the mauiiness to acknowledge. after
the proof was before them, that the Tribune
did not copy from its columns, and they still
claim that matter in which they were made
easy tools was obtained solely through their
own enterprise. Long practice 10 journalism
has made US perfectly familiar with the tricks
Of political jntriguers, and as soon a. the fact
the two papers, we knew at once the precise
character and fattering tone of the private
note which accompanied them.
Months ago we denounced the nefarious bu-
siness of Citing out slavers that was going ON
in this port and those Of Connecticut Rhode
Island Massachusetts and Maine. But the abo-
litioD sheets would not perceive the fact that
was patent before them, and the black repubii-
con politicians loaned their efforts to keep the
| thing qnet and get the slavers of. Some Of
| the inner communicates Of the black repubii-
! can church are suspected to have gone to Ha.
vana to confer with the great slave traders
there, and to offer them facilities for fitting out
| vessels in our Northern ports. A Presidential
| election was coming on and the anti slavery
| Tyre required new string, the old Kansas cat
| gut having been harped upon till it was turned
into most unmusical shreds. But there would
be music in the slave trade, and lively tunes
for Presidential campaign, if few cargoes
| of real Congo niggers, all alive aud bowling,
could be caught trying to get into slavery in
the Southern States. But to do this the slave
traders must have assistance. Congo niggers
will not come of their own accord, even to
help elect an abolition President.
! Under these auspices the African slave trade
has received an immense impulse; and during
! the next six or eight mouths we may expect to
hear of more slave landings in Cuba than have
ever before been witnessed in an equal period
of time. How many will be able to slip into
the shoal bayous and coast waters of Georgia.
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi aud Louisiana
| no one can tell The black republican in
triguers will find there enough foolish fre-eaters
| ready to jump with their plans for reopening
the slave trade There is another curious CO.
incidence in this matter, which leads us to
| suspect that our Northern slave traders have
sharp eye for pecuniary as well as political
! profit in this matter. The great competition
which the African slave traders in Cuba have
| suffered from arises from the importation
there Of large numbers of Chinese slave
coolies, mostly in Boston and New York ships.
What influences have been brought to bear on
Gen. Serrane we know not; but the practical
effect of his recent decree prohibiting the ina
portation Of slave coolies from Asia is to en-
haDce the price Of the bozale negroes which
our Northern traders have prepared to pour
INTO Cuba.
There is big niger somewhere in this wood
pile and we want him brought out, in order to
see who he belongs to and what he was put
there for How is it that the hotbeds of abo.
litionized black republicanisn have become the
greatest outttters of African slavers? How is
it that the abolition and black republican
leaders and orators never discover what is
going on under their very noses till good
time comes to balboa? We are sorry that
Horace Greeley did not preserve the private
letter which he received with the verbatim
copy Of the communication to the other black
republican paper. Was the handwriting any
thing like that of any Of your old politicst as,
| sociates, Horace
GEOLOGICAL. GARDENS IN THE CENTRAL PARK
We see tbata bin has been introduced in the AS
senbly char,eriDg Geological Society. and set
ting apart for it sixty acres of the land appro-
priated for the Central Park. We believe that a
feature of this kind in the new Park would ada
greatly to its attractions: but the amount OF
space demanded seems to US much more than is
| required. Neither the Geological Gardens in
London, nor the Jardn des Plantes in Paris,
cover any thing like this extent Of ground. and
yet we have never heard il stated that they
were limited in accommodation.
We are strongly opposed to any unnecessary
curtailpent Of the area of the Park appro-
priated to the public promenades and drives
We admit the advantages resulting FROM tie
establishment of Geological Society within its
| precincts, but we are satisfied that twenty, or
at most thirty acres would amply suffice for its
wants. There is another provision in the bill
to which we have still more decided obiec
ton, and that is the one excluding the public
on Sunday. Unless this is expupged, we
| hope the measure will be defeated; for what
will be the benefit Of geological exhibition
to our city population if on the only day on
which the working classes can visit it il is to
remain closed? This Sunday clause furnishes