The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-21

derstood that this sacrifice consists in yearly profit
upon the transaction Of five million sterling out of
the commerce Of sugar alone.
What, must we indeed acknowledge of the Eng
lsh character that it is incapable OF generosity
cept that which is founded upon mersenary profit !?
It must be confessed that the profit upon the slave
liberatng transaction, is very princely profit in
deed; a clear perpetual twenty-five per cent of re-
turn upon twenty million OF outlay.
How cunning, to persuade the world to give them
credit for generosity, when they were merely making
advance or twenty million sterling, In order to
gain q permanent return OF five million per annum-
and this upon one article alone-upon sugar only! Ii,
indeed wien the English liberated their sugar slaves,
they had forever after refused to buy slave sugar the
merit az their generosity would have been conspicu
GUS. But then this sort of generosity would not
quisite Of profit; still less did 1t erter their imagina
ton to perpetrate the egreg0us folly of generosity
which demands q sacrifce-a sacrifice to be effected
not by duty, as upon a mere foreign article which
would be an infracton Of the unexceptionh laws OF
free trade-but by the interdict OF utter exclusion
against felon produce-aganst the proceeds OF elo'
ny, of rapne, violence and villany.
What, sacrifice the national advantage OF buying
cheap slave sugar, merely for the sake OF virtue
of Justice and generosity? No. The great CONNER
posterous, and 80 opposed to profits. Nothing was
farther from Engand's intention than this fort was
precisely at the moment when she had liberated her
own sugar slaves that she determined upon supply
Nay this is not all. Not only does England supply
herself with the cheap sugar Of foreign slaves but
she compes the very slaves she liberated to continue
to sell to her their free labor sugar, at slave labor
prices. She perperates this gross injustice against
the very objects Of her pretended benevolence. She
said and still says, to her liberated slaves, yes we
hberate you but you must continue to sell to us the
produce of your labor at slave labor prices" She
ccmpels her own liberated slaves to bring their sugar
into the same market with slave sugar. and to sell it
to her at slave labor prices. What is it really true
that the British liberated slaves dealt with thus
British generosity! Faugh! Let US hear no more
fit.
Notwithstanding that the difference of the cost of
rroduction-the difference of the value Of free labor
sugar, compared with slave labor SUGARS confess
edly difference of five millions sterling annually,
upon only the British consumption OF the article
yet the tree laborer is told that he must sacrifice this
dference-must Compete with slave labor. The
most approved English statsticians and economists
have correctly estimated that the free sugar aborer
white or black by only doing twice as much work in
day the slave at the days wages Of the slave may
accomplish the problem OF the victorious competitor
of free labor with slave labor, SO as to permit the
purchase Of free labor sugar at slave labor prices
Free labor successfully compete with slave labor
by merely bringing down the remuneration OF free
labor to the level Of the cost of slave laborand this
easily results by mpartally enabling both to sell
their rival produce on equal terms in the same mar
ket.
Should any one object that the free laborer might
well be slave in such CASE the obvious reply is that
the free laborer enjoys the name OF liberty at least he
is British freeman with the liberty OF working at
slave labor wages, and Of selling his produce at
slave labor prices. Towards her liberated slaves
England has dealt and continues to deal, with all
sincerity BY word and deed she tells her liberated
slaves that they must work at slave labor rates, in
order to sell their produce at slave labor prices, in
competition with slave labor produce; that the re-
If no the 1nya1
with the cost Of production by slave labor.
Nay, but "lreedom for the slave" you cry; and
yet you covet the profits OF slavery. Freedom, as
long as i costs you nothing; as long as yoa are to
lose nothing by it; particularly if you can gain any
thing by it. Ho no you want slave sugar; but you
boast OF beratng slaves. our annual share in the
profits Of slavery upon the article OF sugar alone
leaves you consoling balance, even after you have
ron. You say to Brazil" Shocking thing, this
slavery ofyoursl Naughty people! Sign this treaty
for slave abolition, and well annually buy all your
cheap slave sugar at your slave labor prices" 10
her own conscience England says" OF course we
can't, conscientiousy refuse slave sugar (being
cheap without refusing all other slave produce /;
consequently the convenience OF using cheap slave
sugar may be conscientiously continued. Because
we cannot exclude slave cotton, therefore, we may
corscentiously continue to use slave sugar" Logi-
clan and moralst alike concur in The inference.
On the authority OF Porter, it is desirable to
abandon tile dillerentia sugar duty altogether" De-
desirable, and not imperative, in British estimation
To this are we fallen? A national interdct against
participation with foreign felons in the profits OF
their felony is desirable Indeed 1t is not impcra.
tive; oh, no, By the advancing intelligence and
honesty OF the pubic, the legislature may be induced
to initiate the prohibition OF ielon sugar what has
Britain to wait for more honesty before she becomes
willing enough TO do an act ofjustice!
We have abundant sugar cultivation Why have
we not equally as much cotton cultiyationl Let Us
hasten to bring under culture cotton grounds "a ex-
tensive as existing sugar lands that we may be
able to exclude slave cotton day easily we
are now able, if willing, to exclude slave sugar.
And if to succeed cotton needs protection, let be
be needed in future, the medium must be that Of a
direct gilt OF money in definite and visible FORM
never more that OF an insidious scheme, such as q
dubious and underhand ''daerential duty by which
the country pays III the dark, and does not know
what II pays.
Slavery Nobly has England wiped away from
herself, God be praised that foul stain; she now
only slaves to make sugar for her cheap having
to pay the lower slave labor prices for it.
We have no slaves God forbid We have lately re-
sumed merely the employing of slaves just to make
sugar Slavery Is unknown among us, God bs thanked
We merely give tie preference TO slaves to make for
to by the labor Of freemen What does it sigoiiy
though indulge in the little sin which have only
recently commenced Of deriving sugar from the labor
of foreign sayeswhen We have Dobly liberated our
slaves-apd heve generously paid the former pro-
pisors of that sort Of once legal prouety the equitable
compensation of half its worth. Nooy we example
TO the world md to postery to tread in footsteps
to the Yauklanoese TO follow Withdraw the African
squsd Why, it would be crime of bjackest dye
We viii continue it, and We will continue to bay slave
sugar cheap" Amen. G. b. FL.
Our Rio Jan.iro Correspondence.
U.S SHIP VANDALIA, RIO JANEIRo,
April 16 1858.
Passage of the u. s. ship Vandalia-A Jack Tar