New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-18


II we add together the quantities thus obtained shall
obtain toerlble approximation 70 the number OF slaves
imported into the territory constituting the Union as
Pricr to 7l4 sSSSo m T. 100 5000
1851 to l7eo Goo import subsequent 70 l'o 70 oOa
We obtain a. the total number
The rvmber now in the Union exceeds 100000 and
even if we estimate the import as high as 100000 we then
have more than ten for one whereas in the British Islands
find not more than two 10 i've ana perhaps even
not more than three Hsd the slaves OF the latter
been rs well led clothed lodged and otherwise cared for
rs were those OF these Provinces and States hs plumbers
would have reached seventeen twenty millions. I'd
the blacks among the people Of these States the
same treatment did their fellows Of tb Islands we
should have among as less than one hundred and hy
The prices paid by the British Government averaged
925 per head Had the number in the Colonies been
allowed TO increase as they increased here It would
have required, at that price, the enormous sum
JUO,VUOiUVV
Had the number in this country been reduced
by the came process there pTaoticeo emanci
nation could now be carried out at a cost OF
less than. 44OOOOOO
To emancipate them now, paying for them at
the rata would require nearly 100 900 600
or almost five hundred millions of dollars. The
course however that has increased their numbers, has
largely increased their value TO the themselves
Men when well fed we'll clothed well lodged, and other
wise well cared for always increase rapidly IN numbers,
and in such labor always increases rapidly value
and it is that the average pnce OF the negro slave OF
this country is probably four greater than that which
the planters Of the West Indies were compelled to receive
Such being the case it would follow that to pay for their
full value would probably require four hundred millions of
mounds sterling or nearly two thousand millions Of dollars
Ii will be that the course OF things 10 the two
countries has been entirely different In the Islands the
Slave Trade had been cherished source OF profit Here
had been made the subject of repeated protests the
part of several of the POvr and had been by all but
two prohibited at the earliest moment at which they pos
sesed the power so do In the Islands held to be
cheaper buy slaves than TO raise them and the sexes
were out Of all proportion to each ether Here impora
ton was small and almost the whole increase large as it
has been has resulted from the excess OF births over deaths
In the lsar d the slave was generally barbarian speak
ing an unknown tongue and working with men like him
self in gangs with scarcely chance for Improvement.
Here be generally being born on the SOIL speaking
The language with his owner and often working in the
FIELD with him, with many advantages for the development
of his faculties In the Islands the land owners chung 10
Slavery the sheet anchor OF their hopes Here on the
contrary Slavery had gradually been abolished in all the
States forth Of Mason and Dixons line and Delawa
Mary land Virginia and Kentucky all at the date Of
emancipation ia the Islands preparing for the early adop
ton of measures locking its entire abolition In the
IAr DIS the connection with Africa had been cherished
obtaining cheap labor TO be obtained by omenng
dscord SmeDg the natives Here, on the contrary had
oeinsted grand scheme for carrying civilization into the
heart Africa by Of the gradual transportation Of
some Of the already civilized blacks In the Islands il has
been deemed desirable TO carry out the European policy
opreventing the Africans from arriving at perfection
In the art Of preparing their cotton sugar indigo other
articles from fear ofntefering with established branches
Of commerce elsewhere,
Th,re however difficulties in the waythat seem 10 be
the British colonies consequences Of the fact that
their numbers had not been permitted 10 increase The
difficulty OF purchasing them here great bee su'e OF their
having besn well fed, well clothed and otherwise well
provided for and having therefore increased rapidly
IT. nevertheless be shown that by abandoning the
system under which the negro has steadily Increased
in numbers and advanced towards civilization and adopt
ing that Of nation under whose rule there has been
steady decSe Of numbers, and bat little any, tendency
toward civilization, shall benefit the will become
our duty 10 make the effort however great may be the
cost With view TO ascertain how FAR duty may be
garded calling upon Us now TO follow ~ The footsteps Of
that nation is proposed examine into the working Of
the set by which the whole negro population Of the British
colonies almost at oace and without preparation.
invested with the right 10 determine for whom they would
work and what would be their vsges-er were in other
words, declared 20 be nee.
We offer remark or two upon this chapter. Here
everything looked toward the gradual and gentle Civ.
IiEation and Emancipation Of the Negro throughout
the world" If such be the fact IL has escaped our
observation and We shall rece what we deem he true
state Of the case The Quakers of New-Jersey and
Pennsylvania easily in accordance With their mild phi.
lOsophy discovered nearly ce0tury ago that Slavery
was wrong, aud in their way they set about pro-
mulcng the truth. The seriously minded Of the last
century we're readily convinced OF it, and the States
down TO Delaware. abolishedit South of that seln-
terest prevailed and it not abolished The
for continuing itmght not have preysedf whitneys
cottougia had not been discovered and the annexation
Of Louisiana had not made Slavery profitable Nate
ria interests shaped the paradOxcs Of McDshe and
Calhoun: masssal interests annexed Texas and there
neycr has beea any extended superior moral cOnsidera
ton for the Slave beycnd the fact that 1t profit
able 70 Keep him in bondage. From this, Of course,
veexcept the Qsakers who eould not reconcile their
oa resistance creed. their refusal to take part il
war with the war on the human species in the shape Of
/ Slavery Again, the tact assumed Of the
negro being well fed, vel clothed. and otherwise vel
provided for That the Negro has hsd 81 animal ex
istenee in this country equivalent TO the eart-horse
perhaps, but indefinitely inferior to the racehOrse,
which is waited upon BY several black bpeds deemed
Of less ysus, we may perhaps, acknowledge; but that
be has been wen fed wen clothed and otherwise vel
provided not acknowledge His feeding been
upon the cheapest products his clothing Of the
est description his dwelling has been cabin. 1t is
true his numbers have ncreasedor certain reasons.
The crops chiefly produced in this country are different
from those in the West Indies. Tobacco and cotton
can be cultivated without destruction Of e but sugar
cannot Now il il can be shown that the cultivation Of
sugar in this country is attended with dm;nuton Of