The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-05-11

Robert Peel says is true-thst slave labor rs cheaper
than free labor, and that long as Brazil oua'es
sugar with slave labor, Brazil will command inc
markets Of the continent Of Europe Brazilian sugar
. now brought to England in bond, and exported 10
the Continent for sale. II Brazil sbolisbes slavery,
then Great Britain import sugar from the last
Indies the produce of India, cheaper than 1t can be
h,ouvbt from Brazil The effect therefore OF abol'
;sbiog slavery in Brazil would be to lose the markets
thew now have, instead of getting the market Of
Great Britain. England may well repeal her dis
eliminating duty il, by abolishing slavery, Brazil
were TO increase the cost of production much that
India sugar could be sold cheaper than Brazilian
sugar And knowing this, Brazil will not abolish
slavery and Sir Robert Peel having failed in Brazil
would have been compelled to repeal the discrmina-
lin, duty on sugar. had 1t not been for the argu-
usnt furnished by the declaration Of J. q, Adams
through Lewis Tappsn.
The repeal Of the discriminating duty on sugar would
be death blow to the monopolist interest in Eng
land 1t would compel Sir Robert Peel to abandon
the corn laws or TO renquish the Government The
pretence for continuing it was that its continuance
would enable the Government to abolish slavery in
Brazil by treaty, admitting Brazil sugar into Eng
land That treaty having failed the apology for the
continuance Of the duty fails with it, and with the
repeal of the duty slave grown sugar, would have
been the repeal Of the duty American corn but at
that moment came the declaration of J. G. Adams,
through Lewis Tappan, that the annexation Of
Texas was to be leading topic during the present
session of Congress- and that he would oppose 1t
with all the vgor and talent that God has given him,
with the declaration that it the duty Of Great
Britain, as Christian nation, to tell the Texans that
slavery must be abolished that il shall not be planted
there after the efforts and sacrifices that have been
made to abolish it all over the world Coupled with
the assurance that if slavery is abolished in Texas
it must speedily fall throughout America" and that
"when falls in America it will expire throughout
Chrstendom."
Do you not perceive an intimate relation between
these facts between Mr.. Adams verbal despatch,
the proceedings in the Worlds Convention, and
Lord Aberdeen's letter. Do you not that this
is a in which the free trade party in Eng
land are the American side, and the abolitionsts
John Q. Adams, and Col. Benton all on the British
sde' Do you not that the question involves the
interests and property of the South, the prosperity
the navigating aud manufacturing interests of the
North, and the repeal of the English corn laws
which will open the British markets to the asricul
tural products Of the Great Vest
What will be the language Of Sir Robert Pee
when he reads the dispatches Of Col Benton for
wardcd to him through the Globe, Will he not now
urge that if England will continue to pay the tax
sugar, he will be enabled to abolish SLAYER in Texas
and that then the abolition of slavery in America
Cuba and Brazil must follow Will lie not rely on
the new demonstration of Col Benton as full con
frmation Of the truth of what Mr.. Adams has
told him through Lewis Tappani And VIII he
endeavor to arrest the progress Of free trade
in England by urging that when slavery is
abolished in the United States then they greatly
increase their trade with India and China, because
then, having control over the markets of India,
they monopolize the supply Of sugar and cotton
And will you, by your vote against the treaty, become
aparty with John Quincy Adams, Thomas Hart Ben
ton and he Abotionists, to arrest the progress of
free trade in England, BY encouraging England to
pcrsevere in her Effort to abolish slavery in Texas,
when you know that the purpose of that effort is to
substitute the products of India for those Of Ameri-
ca Is II possible that any considerations connected
with the elections, with party induce you so
far TO forge, what due TO your character, to
overlook the consequences which must follow its re-
lection
But, says MIR. Benton, Great Britain denies that
she intends to interfere tmpropriyp' will here
after show how ii is that she has in,erfered and how
il is that she now nterferes and how she proposes
TO Interfere and If there be tythe Of that spirit
which animated our forefathers, remaining in their
degenerate Of the presen, day, il will excite
feeling OF Indignation which will tolerate no public
who takes the side Of England in this vital con-
test
Yours, truly,
DIFF GREEN