, 1862-02-22
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. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1862.
: THE .lNEVITABLE TRAIN.
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From the London American.1

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From the London American1
8ST. JAMES SrREEr. Jannava
Sin: The Daily Nems gives q co1nmr and q
half to Mr. 9ancey to explain his Views IN I,ia
nutmeg speech letter as bare Of jieas ~ ;s his
speech was Of morality, As the Hst coniee 4
entire, and other journals mike extracts. per.
tnaps you WI permit me to show up q feW Of
the most barefaced Of his f,llacIes. -" ~
Ny. Spratt Debate May, 1858, Southern con.
vennon nt montgomery moved: 0That tie
African slave trade be re-opened,', M. Var.
eey e5, moved q a as en amendment That the Fed
eught @ Ito to E. the African slave trade
One glance at their resolutions show Nessre.
1ancey and spratt to be partners in a foul
conspiracy to open the slave tfada Does mot
ploMbltory law repealed leave the ouestion
Is II vas before Repeal means removal Of OBJ
struct1ons. In England, it signided free trade.
Pass Yancey's amendment, aud repeal means ;
lTee Trade IN negroes, or the opening Of the
AFRICAN slave trade Spratt's failure mipht
nave proved Yancey's success. Hence tie
point OF opening the slave trade would have
6inr ea1ea ar ny beth resolutions
others galn-apparcntly; but being partners
the result is palpable f'N' '''o'3
1t Is not the first time Sprrtt has been
thrown over to catch a whale! Yet Mr.. Yam
h1;a rey PAS .a tne audaclty to throw dust in the
posed to be Tor, were really against the Afri-
can slave tradc,n and this, in the face of his
resolution cmbodying free trade in neerocst
). 1t is notorious that the convention ii cues
1 I,ou, eaneo lot commercial purposes, was con-
trade-Rogcr A. Pryor representing the slave
breeding interest of virginia; and Yancev
Spraft q Co., the slave consuming iutcrcst of
the cotton States. Pryor wanted protection
TO stimulate lls State to greater production
11tfra f1rr
to cheapen negroes, $50 that the poor could
have them as well as the rich" Hence lis
resolution to remove restrictions, and rive
importers their thousand per cent chance in
the speculation. The convention, instead Of
discussing free trade with England, "by cx-
changing Southern cotton, tobacco, corr and
naval stores, for the old worlds wooden,
cotton, silk, and hardware fabrics,'' was CON
verted by Mr.. 7anccy into debate Of free
trade with Africa-in African slaves! No
other prominent topic was discussed. 1t was
here that the light first broke on the hellish
plans Of the league.
This convention was the spark conspiracy
communicating with the barrel Of gunpow-
der-.trcazon! 4 different view Of Mr. Yam
eey's y explosive analogy: the position has
Of the cannon, CAME out at the breach instead
OF the muzzle. Shakespeare in our day would
have placed This soldiers to seek the bubbie
reputation behind the brecch loader, as the
muzzle is evidently the safest place to stand.
There have not been one hundred slaves
The Last fiffythree years, - says MIR. Yancey; and
| this when at the very time he was debatine
more than that number Of wild Africans, from
! the Wanderers cargo Of five hundred, we're
passing through Montgomery to the planta-
tons Of his brother slave-owners! and I am
not sure that Mr.. Yancey himself was not in
terested in the speculation.
Again" Yankee captains ships
Yankee ship: p:chandlers and Yankee capital
arc the notorious mali, spring Of that trade ~
as captains, slips. ship chambers, and capital
me all Yankee products, and all Southern en-
terpr1se generally comes from Yankee land,
! and energy displayed, Lean readily understand
t in anything in "Secessia," )" Mr. Ya1iccy III COM
mon justice would give the Yankee credit for.
But was G: 1: 4 Lamar, the importer Of the
Wanderers five hundred slaves, Yankees
Mr: Yancey wished to repeal the Federal law
as it was. dangerous precedent yet this
precedent, h1r. Editor, was eighty years Of age
the laws were made by Mr.. Yancey's Yankee
fathers, and were all ratified by slaveholding
Presidents! He quotes the action of the Con.
/ trade. Yet labors for the repeal Of general
laws making it piracyi # slavery is solely a
| State Rights Institution, how is it that the
new and improved constitution Of Seccssia
dares 10 invade the sacred soil Of sovereign
State by lcsislating at all upon tue slave ques.
ton?
D1r Yancey boldly asserts "that every
| Southern State had in force laws prohibiting
the African slave trudc,'' # Mr.. Yanccy
means to convey tie impression that cacI
tation of Slaves from Africa, I as boldly de-
ny it-and challenge him to proof-a1ld in
order to stimulate his researches I would va
ger hundred pounds that it is a random as
sertaon, and give him six months to produce
the evidence. will admit that each STATE
/ In3v- t1-ff11 rfrsn
negroes from one State to anotherbut en-
!iaticaliy deny that such laws apply to tAt
African slave trade as discussed, wien Mr
Yanccy tried to open it ut Montgomery by re
pealing the Federal law. It is difficult tt
prove negative, but would it not have beer
! absurd for the inland slave States to hayt
numbered their statutes, when the Unitei
States laws, which all States acknowledged a:
supreme before secession bcc1u1c fashionable
were SO ample and all powerful for their pro
tection, that according to Mr.. Yancey's ow1
statement only one hundred slaves have bec1
imported since it was declared piracy?
| MI. 4ancey may hare conscientious seru
pies in accepting the wager, but he canno
hesitate TO appreciate the Importance Of 5Td
teeting his reputation by the pronf Of far
SO incredible in itself
can readily understand the objection of til
DdHy Atacs to placc before their readers HI
fanceI's lime hours speech, as unrcporte
speeches give the speaker wide space to max
attentions to suit 1Ae present argument. H
says llc made but one speech on the african
slave trade-but did he not reproduce lis ia
Ho1ltc theory wien stumping Sccessia to fir
the Southern heart aud instruct the Souther
mind with The doctrine Of perjury, theft an,
treason? Did he ever omit advocating the re
| peal OF the federal law, when addressing th
slavc-cons 11ming audience?
Another quotation:
No Statc-no prominent man in'the South
wishes to revive the slave trade.'' Indeed
ferhaps no man is so bold as to advocate it Il
openly as Mr.. Yancey, but an extract from hi
masters speech may show what one promi
nel1t man at least thinks Of the institution.
:. While Mr. Ianccy says that free trade wa
the cause Of rebellion, Mr.. Stevens, V.P. c
+ the Southern Confederacy, says, in his famou
cornerstone speech, (A1arcl1, 1851, } "Africa,
slavery was the immediate cause Of tile lat
rupture and present revolution. The sion
(afrlcan slavery which was rejected by til
first builders, is become the first stone Of th
corner in our new edifce''
The last lines of Alr. Yanccy's letter contai1
liz I'1th Of lis creed-nobody must lnterfrr
-EnS- d-ciy1lizatlon-thc world must al
stand back. He must be Let alone-God q
man have 10 right to tread On secession soil
no freedom c. spccch-no freedom of press
no freedom Of ,houglt-nothing but hann
burn and destroy, The bowie knife, the re
volver, aud eternal slavery Of the white MAJ
as well as the black, and this is secession!
Yours truly, GEO. Flt>>sc1s Train.
D1ason and Sltdel1 at Southanspton.
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