The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-10

actual duty of 500 PAS $50 paid on the consumption
of colonial sugar; or in other words, the people oil
Great Britain and Ireland were compelled to pay
tax of S47,034,7l5 on colonial sugar, S24,7os,3oo
of which went as bounty TO colonial propretors.
And yet we are told by the London Times that The
inevitable consequence of the abolition act is the
ruin of the planter who is compelled 10 incur u
clear loss of threefourths of the sum expended In
the cultivation of his estate.
Ii NAV be well to examine this fact. Mr.. Hume,
speaking of this tax and this state of things says
.eThs is tax on the nation but is not received by the
planters The lazy get the whole beneht the mo
nopoy in augmented wages "A negro much ~ sre
hours three English peasants can do IN three days q sleen
hours! To pRErENp rHEs, soLIcruDE TIE NEGROES,
DOWNRIGHT HuMBuG."
The tax on sugar is paid by the consumer; II is a
tax British labor for the benefit OF the lazy ne,
gro, when negro earns much, III one day OF
seven hours labor, as three English peasants can
earn in three days of sixteen hours! Who can be-
eve that philanthropy for the black race can induce
British statesmen recommend the British people
to submit, to such system of taxation as this Is
the condition of the laboring classes in England
such to justify such tax as measure OF phian
thropy to the blacks' Sir Robert Peel tells us in
the debate on the income tax that the whole rental
of Great Britain is but S62 900 900 sterling; and yet
the poor rates and county charges are set down in
the official returns at &c 900 sterling; or, in
other words, the compensation to labor is so much
below the point of subsistence that the British gov
eminent is compelled to give back in the shape of
charity one-tenth part of the whole income from the
landed property Of the kingdom! And, yet this
same pauper labor is compelled TO pay its proper
ton Of tax Of S24 $685. act of dsinterested
benevolence to the lazy negroes of the West lndies
Mr. Hume may well say that to 'pretend solicitude
for the negroes" justification for such tax,
"Is DOWNRIGHT BUMBUG." In connection with
these facts call the attention of your readers to the
declaration made in Lord Aberdeen's despatch TO
Mr. Pakenham, dated December 26, l843, copy
of which was communicated to our government. He
said
and the whole world that Great Britain desires and is
constantly exeng herself procure the general abolition
ofslavery throughout the whole world. With
regard to Texas that wish to slavery abo
ognon Of that country by the Mexican should
be accompanied by engagement the part Of Texas to
abolish slavery"
None can now be at loss for the motive which
prompts England to exert her energies to abolish
slavery; but those only who have examined her
measures as whole, who understand the questions
which agtate her own internal policy, and the in
terests which are appealed to, and which are to be
concated by those efforts appreciate the bear
ing of the question of annexation connected with
the relations between this country and England nor
can they rightly estimate the moral treason perpe.
trated by those who have arrayed themselves on the
side of England in the discussions of it. will leave
the traitors no apology for their treason. will
show that the questions of Texas and of Oregon
and the question; that to defeat annexation
necessarily leads to war with England, and thai
the annexation Of Texas is indispensable to the
peaceable occupation of Oregon.