Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1859 — One Thousand African Negroes Wanted. [ARTICLE]

One Thousand African Negroes Wanted.

An advertisement appears in the News published at Enterprise, Miss., addressed to shipowners and master of our mercantile marine, offering S3OO each for 1,000 native Africans, between the ages of fourteen and twenty, sound and healthy, to be delivered within twelve months at some point between Pensacola, Fla., and Galveston, Texas. The advertisement is signed by eighteen responsible citizens, whose character is vouched lor by the editor of the News. The advertisers add, .after their signatures, the following note, which shows that their leading object is to make an issue againgt the law prohibiting the foreign slave trade: “We who have signed this advertisement, profess to be law-abiding citizens, but cannot respect any act purporting to be law’, which ! we believe to be unconstitutional; as such we esteem that which interdicts the slave trade, either domestic or foreign. They are regarded as merchandise and slaves here and in their native country to their brethren; the latter condition is forbidden by divine la.v, but the same law says to the Hebrew, you shall enslave the pHeathen around you, and they shall be-a perpetual inheritance for yotir children. We have never known native. Africans semi-civilized but by our plan of the American institution of domestic slavery. Wt.it •! that great mutual benefits have, at d are, flowing from the institution, and esteem it a duty to extend the privilege or b coining semi-civiiized to other of Africa’s degraded race, by mingling, at least, a like number with the four millions now among us, that reciprocal benefits may result.”— New Orleans pap rs. Five years ago this advertisement would have startled the whole Union more fearfully than an earthquake.' The loss of half our Navy in one fell storm would not have shocked us so much as this proclamation of piracy. But Democratic policy, yielding to every demand of slavery, and the swift servility of parties more eager to secure power than perpetual justice, have led on and on, till now such, an open proposal for a contract as abominable as a bargain to murder a thousand white men for the useof a medical college, is made, and will probably be accepted. It is the legitimate result of the policy which has prevailed for twenty years, of consulting the demands and interests of slavery at the expense of the North,.and at the sacrifice of justice everywhere. If that policj’ be not directly and distinctly rebuked, its full development will soon appear in as rapid a trade of slaves as was ever carried on by Liverpool “Christians” or Providence “Puritans.” Leaving slavery out of view in our political contests, if it were possible, would only allow such schemes to make their way in quiet. Those who advise such a course, \yhatever their motive, are advising the encouragement of the slave trade, and the increase of such advertisements as the above.

Q^yChancellor Bibb,-who recently died in Washington, at the advanced age of eightyfive, was an extraordinary man. H'e bore a wonderful likeness in person to Chief-Jus-tice Marshal, and was a man of 11 same class, and the same physical conformation. To the last, he wore long, black silk stockings, knee-buckles, white cravat, ruffles,and long queue. But what is still more remarkable, he never lost, bis passion for his violin, and would take it now and then in his study for amusement. His habits of life preselitcd a model of moderation.