The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-21
for Seward, and we may expect apathy aad
Indifference to take the place Of zeal and faaatI.
cal energy


INCREASE or THE SLAVE TRADE.-On Saturday
the President communicated to the United
States Senate an account of the capture of the
SLAYER WiId6re of the coast of Cuba, by the
United States steamer Mohawk, with 5O7 Afri-
cans on observation-disclosures which we published
week ego. On Saturday afternoon, at this
port the bark Cora was attached while on her
way to sea, on the ground of being fitted out as
a SLAYER, and Judicial examination is to take
place to-day. II was only the other day that
another was seized at the wharf, and still
another SLAYER escaped from New York to her
destination on the African coast. 1t Is evident
that the traffic Is increasing every day; and in
connection with its increase there are two facts
which are very remarkable, both showing that
it is owing to the oonnivance of those who are
loudest in their professions against foreign and
domestic slavery.
In the first place, the English government
could put stop to the African slave trade II it
desired to do so. The only two points to which
the cargoes are conveyed from Africa are Cuba
and Porto Rico. These islands belong to Spain.
England has . treaty with Spain against
the slave trade, and yet permits these Spanish
colonies to carry 1t on; whereas, II it assumed
the proper attitude and compelled the mother
country to observe the treaty, there would be
an end to the slave trade. Spain is dependent
for her national existence on Great Britain, but
for whose interposition France would swallow
her up; and no one can doubt that II there were
any sincere desire on the part of the British
government to stop the traffic by enforcing the
treaty obligations of Spain, that government
could easily accomplish it. II makes show of
philo-niggerism by keeping up squadron on
the African coast, which, for all that 1t effects,
might as well be stationed on the coast Of Van
Diemans Land Around Cuba and Porto Rico
it might do some good. The nobility and lead
ing citizens Of England keep up clamor at
Exeter Hall against domestic slavery in the
United States, and they send over money and
emissaries to revolutionize the country, and
overthrow the government, out Of pure leve
for the African race, who repudiate their In
reference and luxuriate in the maintenance
and protection for life which the laws give
them, and for which the white slaves of EGG
land Sigh in vain.
The second fact which is worthy Of attention
in connection with the slave trade Is, that the
slavers are chiefly fitted out in the Northern
ports of the United States, where the anti
slavery sentiment is most rampant, and where
the afiliation with British abolitionists has q
local habitation and o name, but where the
slave traffic is connived at for the profit which
It brings. 1t is impossible that slavers could
be prepared for sea in Northern ports without
The knowledge Of the black republicans. On
the contrary, 1t 10 well known that they are the
| men who embark the capital, furnish the pro-
visions, supply the crews, and got the con-
tracts for the necessary carpenter work, sails,
rigging. and other outfit The agitation against
slavery, therefore, in the sesboard States Of the
North, Is all CANNON, and the Almighty Dollar
is greater god than the Almighty Niger.
INCREASE or BUSINESS ON THE CASAIs-THE
LESSON IT TEAoHEs.-We learn that the receipts
of canal tolls In this State, from the opening of
navigation, for one week in April and two
weeks in May, have largely increased. The
receipts for the first four weeks last year were
sl6l, GOO; for the first three weeks Of this
year, $222 1851 increase, $60,656. Add an
other weeks receipts ct the average, and the
amount would be $2s6,342 and the increase
on four weeks So, s74-an increase Of hfty per
cent This il indicative Of the prosperity of
the State, and is another argument why politi-
cal revolutionary factions should not be per-
mitted to break up the Union, and arrest the
rapid progress Of the development of the re-
sources Of the country by the arts OF peace.
In civil war and war with foreign Powers, when
the theatre Of It Is in our own country, every.
| thing il rendered stationary or retrograde.
| The preservation Of the Union Il calculated to
prevent war at homo and abroad The dis
memberment would be the sure pre-
cursor Of bloody internecine strife,
and would hold out an invitation
to the nations of Europe 10 take . part In the
fray--an invitation which they would not be
slow to accept They envy our prosperity,
and they desire to recruit their decayed and ex-
hausted energies at the expense Of this fresh
young country, which, IL true to is own int
rests. il destined TO ovenhsdow them all before
the rising generation sball have passed of the
stage of existence. But the fact cannot be dis.
guised that in this country exists powerful
party who have nominated . candidate for the
Presidency on sectional issue, and that the
tendency Of this party Is to shattcr the Union
into fragments, and nip the prosperity, great
ness and glory Of the American republic in the
bud II remains to be seen whether the con.
eervative interests Of the country, including
this great commercial city and the other COM
Fmercial and manufacturing cities Of the North
will permit such wsnton folly to accomplish Its
designs.
THE ForR PoEurcM CosvESrrcSs.-H Is a