New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-17
slavery-It. Progress. and Fatal Tendency.


taught even by an enemy" 1t is commendable,
perhaps to consider and weigh deeply the sdno-
ntions Of an hereditary friend. In such latter Po-
sition France stands 10 as and we have thought
to give her public voice upon the evils and sure ten
denotes Of Slavery at the present crisis would be
no impairment offering The extract we give from
the Revue des deux Monde" a Journal Of much
ability and authority furnishes with the reflect
ed opinion Of enlighted Europe upon the causes
and necessary consequence Of our present neisroos
War with Mexico.
Our objections 10 Slavery do not arise exclusive.
ly from consideration Of the injustice done the
slave by the gross violation Of bis natural rights
Mach az We reprobste the deprivation under which
he suffers snd ardently Is we wish his liberation,
we have more potent and general reasons for the
abolition Of this unnatural institution.
They who infict the injury are no less objects Of
commseration than those who suffer and the whole
body polite is enervated and tainted by this gan
creme Of its part The history Of the world teaches
a. In facts incapable Of perversion, that slavery
wherever it has existed has been the csnker OF EN-
pire, ever affecting the moral health Of the body
polite and precipitatng its dissolution.
The analogy between the character Of the ho-
man Republic and our own becomes more striking
each day Of our national existence wars Of con-
quest and colonization now as formerly them
we equally annex whole countries and extend
to the conquered population foil citizenship in ser
vile imitation Of Roman example. The analogy
may become still more complete, and more fatal
Tyranny ssys Micbelet the eloquent Historian
OF France, " The tyranny Of the princes and the
tyranny Of Tnagistrates-diferent in kind and far
more burdensome-was not the principal cause Of
the ruin Of the Roman Empire. The real evil
which undermined it proceeded neither from the
government nor the administration Had il been
simply Of an administrative nature, so many good
and great emperors would have found remedy for
IT, But a oas SOCIAL eUa and it's source was
not 10 be dried up by less than entire renovation
Of the social system. Slocery ras has erd The
other ills Of the empire-most Of them at least as
the alldeyouring taxation and constantly increas-
ing demands Of the military overnment-Wereo only
consequence a direct on indirect e6sct"
The Philosophy Of History is the most specious
empiricsm if such emphatic truths carry with
them no authority. Tire study Of the Past is use
less to the Future If such warning admonitions
pass UNDECIDED by.
The alarming encroachments made by the Slave
Power upon the Constitution and upon the rights
and dignity of the Free States since the adoption
of the slllamentable Missouri Compromise
must needs FIJI every watchful observer with fear.
ful apprehehsons The writer below has not ex.
sggersted the strides made by this banded interest
toward Political Supremacy, nor the dangers or dis
asters fsted to follow it's success.
There is bat one hope OF safety left to Freedom
united and UntiriHg opposition 10 acquisition Of
farfte territory, on The part Of Non. SlarehoidiHg
States for with territory will be extended the
slave.iDstitution by the superior intrigue or more
consolidated power Of the Slave States
We commend the article below 10 careful con.
sideraton. Its character and the source whence it
emsustes. ebtitle Il to such Wo have scarcely
seen in a foreign quarter more Just appreciation
Of our present national position
AT this moment the Anglo Saxon race produ.
ces in both hemispheres a most intense impression
upon the world of business and of politics Upou
our old Continent il lie England which by its mate.
rial condition IN the strirtest sense of the word
World. it is the Federstive Republics shootsixty
years since from the lons of Englsnd-which
seems on the eve Of changing',he balance of pow.
or in the world and no less to be approaching the
period when its Constitution and political forms
will undergo a transformation destined to be most
radical and complete
/" The spectacle that America of the North offers
US is nothing less than an entirely new continent
learning TO acknowledge its masters in the Anglo.
American Confederation, and the beautifully simple
Constitution OF 1859 receiving. after only semi.
centennial existence, blow under which il must
naturally succumb at some period not far remote
Mexico. at this hour may be consi cred as belong
ing to the United States. The Cabinet at Wash.
'ngton will probably have the good sense not to en-.
mex II entire at this moment 1t will only take the
portions of territory most convenient nowportions
however IS territorially vast, as France beyond
the Loire for instance but all the United States
leaves to Mexico however great il may be will be
nothing but hef dependent upon them which
they can absorb at leisure. When they acquire
California and Oregon. they will have need of a
Passsse TO the Is,hmus of Panama. and since they
are strong enough. of all passages they will choose
the most agreeable We therefore can look upon
the United States as being virtually at least Pho
prietors OF all North America to the Lake of Nicsr
aqua IN Central America, or even 20 the City OF
Panama |, Is the compelled consequence of their
present deeds The people ofthe West are in this
view the most intrepid logicians possible since
they march ahead, the rife IN one hand and the AK
OF the pioneer in the other. carrying before them.
from station 70 station, from valley to valley the
starry banner of the Union With the possession
OF North, they are sovereigns Of South, America
however great IN extent that may be The Anne
ncaSs OF the United States have a rage for con
aue'' BY means Of colonization, beyond all iusgi.
nation.
But with these conQuests what becomes of the
Constitution OF 1852 The first Magistrate. grave
and passiouless as the law itself whom the Jstysr.
sons, the Msdisons and the Hamil,ons imss;ned
upon the model OF their ilu.trioas Chief chsnssa
henceiorwar into eonqueror on horsebsek watch.
ing from his headquarters the vsnqushed populs
nons. This army. but little while since of only
six thousand men, for the defence OF the frontiers Of
. country ten times as large as France. II will be
necessary to increase TO one hundred thousand
There will be an enormous budget for the military
establishment Military habits " N take root among