New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-20
THE BRITISH AND SLAVERY.

There is no impression more general IN this country
and none can be false than that which represents
the British AnstOcTaey ntently specially hostile to
American Slavery and actively abOring for its over
throw when in fact there is no other portion OF the
British people except possibly the felOn caste which
has evinced so little sympathy with Emancipation and
aptipatLy to Bondage the Arstocracy. There are,
of course phanthropic and enlightened individuals
among the ArsOcracy who deplore the existence OF
Slavery and would gladly hasten its overthrow bat
these are marked exceptions to the general compa-
cency wherewith al Fictitious and arbitrary inequal-
ties of condition among people yoeiierous ior De
mocracy are regarded by hereditary non-produeers
willie the extensive products OF other mems
labor Even the horrible African Saye-Irade Hour
shed for years under the protection and support OF the
House Of Lords the Bench of Bishops heartily cooper
atng with the majority. The few titled Personages
whom we occasionally hear from as contemners OF
slavery are exceptions TO the general attitude OF their
class or order the great majority silently regard the
scandal Of American Democracy with snug eompla-
cency The long struggle for the oHtlawry OF the Slave
Trade and for West Inds Emancipation was made not
by Lords or Bishops class bat mainly by Dissent
ers Quakers and MethOdsts IN the outset then by art
sans tradesmen and the literary class the lame grad
uay spreading until all the moral and intelligent were
reached and affected by il until the Anti>ayery sen
tmont became so hearty and overwhelming that the
Government gave way it, is usual in countries pos
.essipp very considerable share OF liberty. The Ar
stocracv so far as il Yielded TO the current at all did
40 ONLY because their only choice lay between floating
with the current or being swept down By II.
TODAY the ease is barely altered. British interest
in slavery has been extingushed thus leaving British
injury from the competition Of Slave Labor TO be more
severely felt True a. il is general proposition that
intelligent Free Labor is cheaper than any other II IS
also plain that in Young society. virgin soil GER
tan rude bulky Agricultural staples can be produced
st less cost By Slave Labor than any otber-n other
words is cheaper to rob the abOrer than 10 Pay him
That This il .hortsghted and allaeiOus eheapness we
cannot doubt . il is undeniable that tun Of sugar
can be made for less cash BY planter who pays bis held
hands with the whip than By thOse whopay them in mon-
az And 90 Great Britain having abolished slayery in her
own West Indies sees with jealous eyes their Sugar
growing gradually transferred TO their spanish slave
s,e.linS peishbors Hence British sntsgOnism % the
mnudeu, and peri ious slsveTrsde Of Cuba IN which
the ntilanthropc rs probably subordinate TO the mer
csutle impulse but this new pha5e Of the question
dee. LOT affect and should not obscure the truth thai
Great Britains Abolition of the Save Trade End Yves
India Emancipation were not prompted by selfnterest
but were acts OF selfsacrfee rarely equaled in huma
annals and were not prompted b. the governing class
but were forced upon that class by pressure from be
meath TOO intense and too formidable to be safely r
sisted
But we had prrpOsed TO speak more directly 9th
recent Address Q! British Democrats to the America