The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-25
Georgia Against the Slave Trade.

Almost the frs action of the Georgia Con-
vention has been 10 pass uaanfm ously an or
dinonce against the african Stare Trade,
making the penalty Imprisonment in the Peni-
tertiary:
Here is another Republican gun spiked -
We republish below an article from the Co
lumbia IS. c. Presbyterian, a paper which
represents the highest talents and moral
worth of that denomination i'll the South
Wemay add, as the result of recent personal OBJ
servation in the Southern States, that there is
no more intention to revive the slave trade
there than in Virginia. <Ft is weak and ma
licious device of the enemy
From the Columbia IS c. Presbyterian
We have just read what we ought TO have
done week ago, with special care, the editorial
erter, under the title Progress and Prospects OF
Disunion.' The manifest tendency of It. if ao'
t. produce jealousy and dissention between dif-
erent parts Of the South, in order to cripple and
defeat the southern movements in defence OF
southern rights. We will MT waste time In a
discussion Of It's various suggestions and CON
me me or remarks on Il to the following extracl
ready, we have the most contenlptu0us Language
addressed to Virginia. who is distinctly Informed
That she Is not wanted in the republic Of the
south The reason for this repulse Of any ad-
xancee from Virginia is easy to be understood.
The leaders OF the Cotton States expected to
control Of Southern Government The Obserrcr
lhen refers to the opposition Of the Northern
saVehodIng states to this project, and says: But
the men below, who intend TO revive the traffic,
are fearful Of the iDhuence of MARYLAND, Virginia
kentucky and Tennessee, and would rather keep
them out than have them in, when the new empire
Is set up IN the South
We find it difficult, we confess. to restrain the
feelings Of Indignation with which we au oe these
passages, but we will try to speak Of them ca lmIy
We cann0t do less, however, than pronounce them
in substance and effect grievous misrepresenta-
"A isl yAars S.Anfn
Carolina has used 'cOntemptuous language in
reference to Virginia but the Observer. which is
constantly telling the South that the North ought
not TO be held responsible for the wild rawlings
OF Northern fanatics, ought to be ashamed OF
ana we nnhesitatingly assert that nothing could
pc more false and uni lust than to insinuate that
DO not desire the Northern slaveholding States
70 be united with them IN the Southern Repub-
nc unless 1t Is the intimation that they desire
and intend 10 reopen the African slave trade.
The heart of South Carolina beats in warm, loyal
loving regard for Virginia; She has proved
il in trying times. 1t was that more than any
thing else that decided her to yield in the purpose
Of notification, when Virginia sent Commits
.i9ner 10 ask her to stay her earnest resolution.
AHer John Browns invasion, she sent Commits
Sl"ncr herself TO Virginia To convey her desire
and determination to act with the ''Oid Dominion
IN whatever course the latter might judge to be
best: and when Virginia said she desired nothing
more 70 be done, South Carolina acquiesced and
now, II constrained by sense of overpow ering
necessity, she takes action alone and Of herself,
one universal shout of 10y and cOugratulation
would tcno from the seabOard To the mountains, If
Virginia and the other border States would pro-
claim their purpose to mite their destiny with
hers. And we hope the misrepresentation Of tho
Obserrer will meet III Virginia with the contempt
they deserve, as apparently designed to awaken
iea lousy nd dscord between the Southern States.
II is time that Southern readers ceased to listen to
the suggestions of those wins do not and cannot
understand our interests, or our relations to
another.
LAS to tie re-opening of the slave trade, we
shall content ourselves with affirming again that
there is not the slightest danger of It. The south
ern people are not going to do anything foolish
and wicked AS to engage in that =,