Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-10-07

tons Of adourning the debate, or of adjourning the
House, may continually be raised; and a measure
may be defeated BY the members leaving the House
and reducing the number present 10 below forty.
The eighteen motions required TO De agreed to upon
each bill, are as follows:
|. Motion for leave to bring in The bill.
?. That il may be read the first time
3. That it be read a second time, a day named.
4. That il be read a second time.
5. That il he committed on day named
.. That il be committed
z. That the Speaker leave the Chair.
Then, after having passed through committee:
3. That the report be read on day named.
9. That the report be received.
10. That the report be read.
H. That The amendments be read second time.
IL. That the House do with their committee in the
said amendments.
-. That the bill be engrossed.
IA. That it be read a third time n day named.
is. That it be now read a third time.
10. That the bill do pass.
II. That the following be the title Of the bill!
Is. That and do carry this bill to the Lords
do not know how far This practice is conforma-
BILE 10 yours, but il appears to me TO be capable of
great simplification and abridgment MIR. Curtis
is much praised by the English journals for the
fitness and persplculty of his answers, and the
Times speaks OF your parliamentary practice in
terms of great commentator.
Late debates in the House of Commons, as well
ject of slavery tend prove that the difficulty OF
legslatng upon that matter in England is almost as
great asst is with you. The committee had delegated
10 it the task Of reporting what were the best means
for the final extinction OF the slave trade but after
protrarted investigation, and after passing some
ten or eleven resolutions which tantamount to
declaration that the system hitherto pursued by
this country mad proved utterly inadequate to pro-
duce the desired effect, the members seem 10 have
taken fright al the novelty of their own views and
separated without reporting any opinion on the main
question. The problem whether il be possible for
the African negro and the man Of European race to
coexis in the society on footing of equality,
has reached stage in it, progress towards prac-
iical solution that forces the full amount OF its diff
cunes upon our convictions. We have no wish TO
call IN question the dicttnl that all the powers Of
the most civilized races MAY erist IN latent state
in the yet uncvilized Africans. We are as sincere
and anxious IN our desire that the negroes should
experience the treatment of felow-men, as the most
jealous member OF the Anti-slavery Society here
or the most rampant aboliionist with you. But
we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that, between
the civilized and the uncivZed man, there is gulf
which no tribe has been able to cross in less
than the lapse OF centuries. There is no record of
people civilized per sdltnl there il no record of
any considerable number of individuals Of an unc-
viized race raising themselves 10 an equality with
men of civilized races. And all experience shows
the difficulty and danger Of civilized communities
admitting large numbers OF any uncivilized race to
full participation in the rights Of citizenship.
In the British and French colonies alone can the
experimentbe said have been fully tried of plac-
ing highly civilized race and race comparatively
unclvzed upon footing Of perfect equality. In
The French colonies the result has been HAYTIES
republic, where whites, and even men Of mixed
blood, are all but prescribed, and where perpetual
anarchy prevails. The English experiment is too
recent to enable US to predicate its results with con-
hdence; but the diminution Of productive industry,
and the destruction Of capital dependant upon il,
would seem TO Indicate that the communities in
which IL has been instituted will have hard strug-
gle TO hold their places among civilized societies
One thing, however, is evident, and that is. tina,
st1Uery cannot be put end to so long the Stare
trade exists. Facts and figures, If they prove any
thing--we remember that GEORGE CANNING said
that " facts and figures were two things which he
specially dstrusied y yet if they are 10 be believed
upon any point, they may upon ths--that, al.
ter all the exertons made by Great Britain for near
ly half century. to suppress the slave trade, the
number OF slaves exported from.the coast OF Africa
IN 1913 falls short only very few hundreds of the
number exported in 1907! The slave trade of Bra
I'll alone in ls4s almost equals in magnitude the
slave trade OF the whole western world in 1907.
It's lamentabe fact that just SO fast and in the
exact proportion, in which the industry and wealth
OF Brazil have been developed, so have the demand
and the supply Of slave labor and the slave trade
been increased The extinction Of slavery is as far
from being accomplished as ever it has become
more concentrated larger portion Of the earth has
been freed from It's influences; but so far as re-
spects the number Of human beings who are ope-
rated upon by its existence and the amount of sor-
row, guilt and suffering which that existence causes
there has been little il any diminuton in either.
The extinction Of the slave trade, az an absolutely
necessary preliminary step to the extinction OF sa-
very, is problem yet 10 be solved and English le.
gislators appear 10 have abandoned the study Of il
in despair. Among the acts Of Parliament passed
during the last session two relative TO the slave
trade. In one the "repUbHc Of The Equator
agrees with Great Britain to abolish the traffic car.
ried on in negroes brought from Africa" BY the
other slavery is abolished by the Imaum Of Muscat
The bill for establishing diplomatic relations with
the Court Of Rome became operative on the 4lh
instant, when il received the Royal assent. The
principal enacments Of this bill are the establish
ment Of diplomatic relations with the "Souereign
of tie Roman States" The substitution in The
House Of Lords Of the words in italics for the orr
ginal words, which had reference TO an ecclesiasd
cal head, has an eye to probable changes in the