Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1859 — Progress of the Slave Trade. [ARTICLE]

Progress of the Slave Trade.

.S' xty Cargoes of Lah<'ed Within Ten Years —Twelve Cargoes tn route for the United States. The letter ofa Ne.v York Corr.*? > indent, which we publish . to-day, k-n in connection with the recent S uthern fire-eating »pcechos of Alexander H. Stevens of Ga., and R. Barnwell Rhett, of South Carolina, Clearly establish a state of things in the Southern Democratic camp of the gloomiest possible description, in relation "to the re-union of the Democracy of the Ch tries- ; ton Convention. This he v Southern slave-; ry agiktiun has assumed a shape so formid-i able that the most logical prop iecy now would be the violent dissolution of the Charleston Convention. Wi h regard to the African slave tritn-', when "’v *r- told, even by .1 carc’uf correspondin', that since M -y, 1848, betwe: n six’ami -evetity cargoes of wild Africans ii >ve been introduced into our Southern tales, and that twelve different slave vessels, whose names are kn wn. are expect, d within a few weeks ai«.ng uir Southern seaboard, we may, at first blush, leel somewhat incredulous; but this incredibility will be much diminished when we consider the world-wide notorious fact that the yaclii Wanderer's Cargo of Africans (tour hundred more o’ less.) landed in. Geo gia, were all spirited aw y in the face of the public authorities, at <1 readily distributed in various directions, to different purchasers, from Georgia to Mississippi. In this fact alone the Southern popularity ol this tempting traffic is sufficiently proved for our present purpose, which is to show that between the Northern and the Southern Democracy there is at length a dividing chasm on his question of slavery which, from all the existing signs of the times, will defy all attempts to bring it over to Charleston. Mr- Jefferson Davis contemplates the introduction of a bill in the Senate for the repeal oi the laws of' ( oiigre.-s denouncing and . ffix tig the pains and penalties 01 pir cy upon this African trade. Why this bill for tn • re-openingloi thi perilous tr.ihc to th. fillest extent! 4t i- because Mr. Davis finds it impossible to resist the strong 8 >uthern undertone in its tavor. That preponderating class of Southern voters, the “poor whites,” or non-sluveholuers, have been impressed with the idea that the reviv .1 of this African tr.ide would .-oon make niggers so cheap hat every white nun who can raise a hundred, seventy-tive, or even fi ty dollars, will be übie to own his nigger. The mov< rnent also offers a margin to speculators which is positively irresistible; and as the politician is but a speculator in the sordid instincts o “the people,” who can comprehend that there are really the elements ot vitality atm mischiei in this business. The bill by Mr DavL will at once make a definite issue to Sou Jiern men. N irwoulu Mr. Davis, an active, sarewd and amoitious politician, adopt this initiative if he were not assured that it will be the winning sid< in his section. The bold and inflexible position of Governor Wise, in reter-*nce to Congressional legislation in behalf of slavery in the Territories, confirms this view of me subject. And ms late declaration, through the Riche ond Bnquirer, that unless t.ie Charleston Convention shall affirm his dov f ine as the party platform, “the conservative Democracy, not only of V irgini 1, but of the 8->uth, and oi the whole Uni 1), W ill te Us. to vote ior the nominee oi me t ■ n.entnm simpiy means tiiat i iegm.e o th Co i-i u tioll Is J-'e'lV loreciosed. Tin. b-U'lk.l. fire eatvio, -..-er tea ..ng- uw par'y 10 m nhnk oi d- at uction, were in Jd/O c-.n strained lor their general sutety to lull ba-k

upon Mr. Buchanan. But the loss of Kansas. the late Northern elections, the retirement of Mr. Bi chanan from the Presidential arena, the prevailing signs of aN rthern triumph in 1860, and other causes, have driven our Southern political spoilsmen to the desperate expedient of a Southern sectional party. Hence these new impracticable and impossible southern slavery abstractions; No Southern man can be foo' enough to suppose th .t the Northern majority in Congress can ever be persuaded to unlock the door to the niggers of Africa; but Southern politicians must play their music to suit s he popular ear of their section and thus their negro minstrelsy has at last brought th- in to this demoralizing chorus of "More Africans, more Africans.”