Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-16
The K,dunppers Rusy.

1t is understood at Washington that the
kidnapping agents of slavery are now doing
large business in Florida They are stealing
the Africans that were brought ashore at Key
West from captured slavers. The agents of
the government to whose care these Africans
were committed, have from time to time re-
ported great mortality" among them. 1t is
trived to account for the absence of those TAX
en- away by the kidnapping process. A letter
from Washington says 1T is suspected that
the alleged mortality among the captured Afri-
cans at Key West, is only sham to cover
nefarious designs which has been successfully
practced in some cases The solemn mockery
of CARRYING collins to sea for purposes OF pre-"
tended burial is well understood, and they do
not ALWAYS contain dead men. Suspicious YES
sells have been prowling around Key West
with sthe intention of carrying off parties of
these poor creatures, and it is believed that
many of them have already disappeared, who
are now working on plantations in Alabama
and Mississippi"
This kidnapping cannot go on without the
direct connivance of the federal government.
Congress made provision for removing these
negroes, and they should have been removed
long ago. There has been no good reason for
delay, and it certainly looks as though the pres
ident were keeping them in Florida for the
especial benefit of kidnappers. By some
means slavery has its will in this case, as usual
If the president does not wish to seem respon-
sibe for any conspiracy that may exist to spir-
it away those Africans iuto slavery why does
he not execute the law, as his oath of office
requires If they are not removed soon,
most of them will be missing when the removal
is at last undertaken. 1t will not surprise
anybody to hear the particulars of this Pecu'
liar case of kidnapping, to have it shown
in the most conclusive manner that its agents
are chiefly federal officials. Men in office at
Washington, who conniVe at the slave trade
and never allow slave traders to be punished,
are not likely to interfere if slavery has re-
solved to steal all the soundest and best of
these negroes.
Slavery is now, and always has been
kdnapper; and, by law of its nature, it
cannot easily be anything else. That bad
institution kidnaps everywhere, and breeds
crimes of all sorts. There are certain styles
of villainy that cannot exist without it. Almost
every day we hear Of the kidnapping of colored
men in the free states, by slave traders and
their agents and yet, most of this work is
never reported to the public, for, in most
cases, the victims disappear mysteriously and
moral pestilence is that institution of slavery
What an infinite curse What an amount of
the most amazing scoundrelism it must have
to keep itself in countenance and maintain
Its character! And yet there are those who
defend this institution and think it should be
permitted to rule the country! To speak
against it is "fanaticism ;" to denounce it is
to "assail the. Union - and to show up its in
fernal scoundrelism without disguise or equiv.
ocation is to become a ''most incendiary mon
ster," full of malignant hatreds and black trea-
sons. Even among those who think truly of
slavery and wish to see it driven out of exist
ence, there is sometimes hesitation and fear
to speak of it the whole truth Earnest men
are entreated to use ''holiday and lady terms"
All this shows what power it has among U.S.
Let it be treated as it deserves. All honor to
Charles Sumner who speaks the whole truth
without fiinching