New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-25

from the books Of English writers who seek to have
clesp cotton and cheap sugar. snd those ideas are
carried into practice BY the men Of Alabama aud MIS-
si.sippi who desire that cotton and sugar may be
dear; and who persist in carrying out the English
nolicv in face Of the fact that notwithstanding the
rres rcrease in the supply Of gold the prices of their
commodities tend steadily toward lower point. and
their own power tends steadily to decline. Ii was
aid of old that those whom the gods would destroy
..tbey first make mad and all history proves the
fart: but il would be difficult to find anywhere more
striking proof of its truth than is being furnished
by the slave States of this Union.
The south now desires Cuba. and ior the purpose OF
obtaining il will agree TO the people of the North
some eighty millions of dollars toward the hundred
millions required for it. purchase. suppose however
this object attained aud the island purchased, will
that increase the power of the South We douot It,
Thus far its real power has diminished as its ter
rory has increased and il has only been by means oil
purchasing ..northern men with southern principles
that il has maintained its position in the Union Its
real and enduring strength is far less now, as CON-
pared with the North than il was before Florida wss
boupb and greatly less than il before Texas was
dragged into the Union nd it will be still less
after Cuba shall have been purchased The reasonior
this is that thus far all its measures have tended to
Increase competition for the sale Of its products and
such is the tendency Of the present Cuban movement
With the annexation of that Island. the duty on
Sugar will cease and the sugar cultivation OF Louisiana
and Texas must pass away, the consequence OF which
must be steady tendency 10 increase the number OF
producers of cotton with decline IN the price OF tnat
staple We shall however, be told that the negroes
of Texss will be taken to Cubs to raise sugar Admit
that such be the case. will not the effect be to pro-
duce still more rapid decline in sugar and VIII not
this drive more people to the production OF cotton
Such must continually be the case. Ihe Only enec'
of the incorporation of Cube into the mon VIII be
to increase the competition for the sale OF southern
products and to diminish their prices.
1t il not however Cuba alone that is to be ncor'
porsted with the South Hayti is to be added with
Cuba and st. Domingo, says The ChdrseSto" Stand
ard eve could control the productions OF the tropics
and. with them the commerce OF the world and
"vih that. the power of the world. Well, suppose
Irayti added. and her land rendered more produc-
tive can such a measure have any other effect than
that Of increasing the competition for the sale oil south
ern products and diminishing their prices, aud the
power Of the men who have them to sell We think
not. We see everywhere that men who have to work
cheaply lose power and such appears to Us to be the
tendency of oil southern measures.
Ii is not, however, to Cuba and Hayti alone that
southern insanity now directs its attention. 1t would
have the lands of the Amazon rendered productive oil
all tie commodities that southern men have to SELL
with view probably OF reducing their prices with
the greatest possible rapidly. We quote again from
Tic StGndard:
Our true policy look Brazil as tn next great
oye power and the Government that is to direct or Ii
of fle
zun Instead OF courtng England We should look to Bra
I'll uld the Vest Indies Tn lime viii come when treaty
Of commerce and alliance with Brazil will give MS the con-
rol over the Gulf of Mexico and its border countries TO-
gche with tie ,ards and the consequence OF TINS VIII
abroad Thce great slave powers now hold more unde
voioped territory than any other two governments and
The! oush to guard ana strdSnen S snd cnncet Con-
siering vast and the mighty commerce that
about expand upon the bosom oi the two COUNTRIES
VIC together by treaty no' only pfescrre foac
PC .,ye,ial, but cen defy the power OF the world
To accomplish ell these objects, however, large sup
plies of l.borers required and that they may be
obtained the African slave trade is, according 10 The
Sfoadord to be opened up again to people the whole
"rcgon of the tropics Will this, however, enrich
I and strengthen the South We think not. With the
reopennc of the slave trade the price of negroes will
probably fall about threconrths, and if we take the
present average vass u men aud women old and young
sick and well, st but five hundred dollars, here will be
dimnutiOn of wealth to the extent of not less than
twelve hundred millions of dollars In such what
will become of the owners of the existing generation
of Slaves Must they not be ruined
This, however, is not ALL The more slaves the
cotton and sugar there will be- and the more of
these commodities for sale the larger will be the guam
tiy to be given for the quantity Of cloth. corn
lead or iron. Every planter knows that he profits by
short crops of cotton in India of sugar in Brazil
aud that he suffers when they have large crops and
yet these very men are laboring increase the
crops of Cuba Hayti and Brazil under the idea that
power goes with the surface owned and with the
quantity of commodities produced and not with the
quantity OF other commodities obtained in exchange
for them. more remarkable case Of insanity has
| never been furnished by the world.
We told, however, that the North is being
enriched by immigration, and that the condition of
the immigrant is improved and are asked-as the
eminent authority we have already cited tells US
Ii it be mercy to give the grain growing sections Of
Antrca 10 the poor ard hungry Europe, why open
up the tropics To the poor Acan The region j. as
emnenily suited 10 them tho other - the white
There - a. much philanthropy IN IN the other We
have been too long governed BY psa-singng school
masters from the North IL time 10 think for ourselves.
The folly commenced in Go, uniting with
Great Britain 70 declare slave importation piracy. Piracy
ions and j. We defined By those laws murder is
at common law. And for two nations attempt b make
thar piracy which Is no. aadCs tic law OF lalOns,
/ obsurdity.
That the North Is enriched BY immigration il most
tue. but such would no, be the esse if the North
were pertnaciously 10 insist thai every immigrant
should raise only wheat. corn. or tobacco The men