The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-13
The Yankees the Greatest Of all Kidnappers

The Yankees the Greatest Of all Kidnappers.
lis wei, known 70 all who are conyegsant with
the subject. that when the colony OF Virginia pro-
tested against the introduction OF any more slaves
sron Afea, she was thwastod by the Brstish Lesis-
lsiarc aud Compelled TO continue the trade. The
English people hatesi slavery very much: but the
trade was profitable and they never thought then,
nor have they thought since, of weighing profit
against humanity. "lst Glasgow flourish" is the
motto upon the town arms Of that respectable eity
And Glasgow did flourish II honriSled upon the
heoi and tears Of some scores Of thousands of AT
rieans torn annually from their homes by Glasgow
traders. and sold into slavery IN the West iidies
and upon the Continent. OF course, now that the
trade is no longer profitable, Glasgow sees the eof
NIFTY of the sin clearly Liverpool, or any other
community, which once found its profit IN eheoar-
aging it, Glasgow and Liverrool-and all TIE mari
time cities Of Gncat Britain According 10 their own
showing were great sinners at that day; but their
sins were in enornity, white is to crimson, when
compared with the crimes of the Yankees. They
were the great H,an-stealsrs of the earth-"the
flons Of the human race''--as otonneli once chose
L. call the slave States OF this confedeiacy. The
Easiish and scotch traders had some bowels OF
compassion; bat the Yankees had none. Ihey
were "a destitute of such appchdagcs as steam
engine or spinning jenny, and they regarded the
poor negro pretty much in the same light in which
they regarded these implemcntsof labor. That they
an engaged at this moment in the same trade of
kidnapping their people are beginning TO con-
fess AZ late meeting Of the Board OF Supervisors
of the City Of New York, when a circular from the
Provost Marshal General, recommending recruiting
in the rebel States read Supervisor Purdy said
she hoped The city Of New never engage in
the business Of enlisting negroes He characterized
a as t'agickiag ia human flesh. We are able to
perform the duty of maintaining the Union aifhout
roilowias the example Of Massachusetts ia kidRdp-
Ping poor negroes 10 hare them Sianghteted!"
Notwithstanding these smiabie Supervisors passed
n resolution appointing agents to recruit for the
county of New York in the rebel States, Supervisor
Little IA genuine Ysnkee) having smoothed the
matter over by explaining that the ehect merely
to recruit the army and fill the county QUOTA with
out being obliged TO resort to ga draft of own
citizens" and suggesting that there white men
in the rebel States we'll as black the rea! object
presume, being too hUmiliating to admit Of can
did acknowledgment. All this sounds well for the
Confedelscy. 1t is admission that the Yankees
depend upon the negro, and upon the negro alone,
for in the attemp:to subjugato the Southern
States; and We have already seen what they are
capable Of doing.
We would specially call attention. however, to the
remarks Of Supervisor Purly. The men who, Of all
other upon earth have raised the loudes clamor
about traiiieking in humansiesh are the Purtans of
New England. And what are 'the solid of
Boston, doing at this moment 'Trahicking i'll
ra.h IN RI and with it,
known to any other people or any other era. The
Guinea trade, by which many of their forefathers
accumulated gigantic fortunes with all the horrors
of the middle Passage" were mercy and compass
sion compared to the present traffic The negro
imported from Guinea was expected, TO be sure to
work. But he was not treated cruelty. His food
ample, his clothing sufficient, his lodging better
than that Of any peasaIitly in the world, and his
labor comparatively light In return for his
vices a laborer he civilized, and became, from
unreclalned savage, a social and comparatively
enlightened human being. He left Africa be-
nighted heather, his intellect cloudei, ard his soul
snslaved BY the foul and dark superstition in
which that wletched land has been involved
from the earliest traces of recorded time
lie became converted mana Chrstian-and
transmitted his new faith, with all its glorious
hopes and glowing associations, to his children and
his childrens children, the tenth generation
DIR. Johnson, one of the most humane men that
existed, and, as far as his humble means went
of the most actively benevolent, expressed his
regret at the attempts made in his day to suppress
the African slave trade because nc regarded it u.s.
under Providence, the most powerful of all agents
for the Christianization OF Africa That it WIS so,
We are enabled to see from the four millions of Afli-
cans upon this continent, not OF whom believes
III the superstition vi the country from which his
origin Is derived, and ece'y of whom has been,
more or less, Instructed i'll the religion of Jesus
Christ. We are not writing defence of the African
slave trade. We merely present the extenuating
circumstances, and call attention TO the fact that it
was not an u'inind evil. Far from it. Millions of
human beings have been benefited by it,
Contrast it with the present traffic in human
flesh, driven by the Yankees. In the former case
the slave was bought from chief who held him
captive, and was prepared to sacrifice him to his
gods if he could not get his price for HIM His con-
dition miserable that of IA human being
could be, and his purchase and transfer to "A new
country a relief. In the latter case he is Sc
dueed or torn from home in which he was happy,
and where everything is happy around HMM
which he had fears for the future and no care for
the day that was passing which he at liberty
to worship God in the manner best suited to his ca
pacity, and to employ the time not occupied i'll the
labors of the farm in any way he might think pro-
per. In the former he was transferred to a |
country in which he could be civilized and taught the
Christian religion. All that was wanted of him was
the service Of laborer, which neither onerous
nor accompanied with danger. In the latter case he
is kidnapped to he forced into the ranks-lo be put
upon foriorn hopestO be driven at the point Of the
bayonet, into such slaushter-pens that at Peters
burg, Of that at Fort PIlow-to stand between his
and harIn-to be used as rampant to
protect them from Confederate bullets to he kicked
to be cuhed, to be shot like dog-to be buried in
dutch, and to be used afterwards by the kidnappers
as seapeguat 10 carry off their own offences of
eo3aidice and il-dscipline. We leave it to any
dlsintefested man to say whether the traffic in hui
man hesh, against which Claikson wrote and VIII
beriorce harangued-the Guinea trade we mean
was comparable in enormity to that now praeticed
by the Yankees! As for the slave trade within the
veral States the slave trade they do
not bear mentioning the same day
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