Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1859 — How to Stop the Slave Trade. [ARTICLE]

How to Stop the Slave Trade.

The St. Louis Democrat, in an editorial on the Southern Commercial Convention in i favor of the African Slave Trade, points out j the only way in which this nefarious-and inj human traffic, which has been re-opened under our present Democratic Administration can be “fleet!ly arrested. To elect another Democratic President is to give the same toleration it now enjoys: “We can discover no safe or immediate remedy for these, and the other outrageous schemes which Southern fanatics are hatch- | tups hut the triumph of the Republican parjty in 1860. Few navigators would be bold enough to charter their vessels for the coast !of Congo when they knew that the. United : States Navy was lying in wait for them, and I that Not them and not Southern juries would jb° the tribunal before which they would have to '■stand. What, but the -relaxation of Federal authority, whether through imbecility or connivance. permits tde repetition and extension ol ty*. accursed traffic, which our laws brand as piracy? The efforts of an etimest and vigo'-ms hx. votive would put a stop to it by a single violati n. 1 his seems t-i have been t?ie opinion of the Southern Convention also, for they resolved on preventing the inaugeration of a Republican President or dissolving the Union! Tile thr.-n l , it is true, is better calculated to provoke lough ter than to excite apl prehension. They did not well in proclaimI :ng such a challenge, for, as sure as the sun ■ shines, the event wlil come to pass, on which ’ their pledge is contingent. Aye, a Republican President will be elected, and, althowh the Gulf States are now reeking with treason throughout all their borders, it will be seen whether till the forms of the ('.institution tire to be overthrown by the traitors. I’hey did not well to make such a pledge, for, by doing .so, they have sealed themselves braggarts .-ind demagogues as well as t aitors.”