New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-10

he North Kisses the rod and subuiio N "ioueo " '
introduction OF slavery into Ksnsas srd NeorasAa
What next
The repeal Of the Missouri restriction % Slavery
not the top round of the sdder-not BY any means
That round climbed there Is another just sbove and
quite within reach and that IT, the repeal Of the pro
libition Of the African slavetrsde. This 10 topic
Of some interest We imagine. TO our slave-breedlns
friends of Virginia and therefore beg leave to re-
quest their particular attention 10 it. II under the
Constitution of the United States and the law OF nature
slaves are property entirely in all respects like
any other property that Territorial Government has
any right 70 prevent the immigrant owner from bring
ing them with him into any Territory of the United
States, any more than it has to prevent his bringing
lis cattle or tis feather beds-and this is the broad
ground on which the South places the repeating clause
of the Nebraska bil-wty is not the same reasoning
and the principle to be applied to the importation
of slaves from Africa What consequence whether
the slaveholder his way to Nebraska acquired his
human property in the slave markets Of Alexandria
Richmond or whether he bought them on the Guinea
coast Are they not equally his property, his sacred
property-too sacred for any legislation, national or
territorial to interfere with And what good reason
can be given we should like to know why the gro wing
West and South west should be robbed and plundered
for such monopoly can hardly be looked upon in any
other light, by being obliged to pay the Virginia slave
breeders at the rate of thousand dollars for or1i
nary working hand, when boys" equally good can be
imported from Guinea for less than hundred dollars
head and imported too not oaly at vast profit to the
northern shipowners and TO the southwestern planters,
but with the chance also Of vast benefit to their
LII taJ N 10 T,oi Ia Tar IF
The repeal Of the prohibition Of the African slave
trade would indeed find strong support of pecunary
interest and religious propsgandism at the North which
the opening Of Nebraska to the internal slave trade
entirely lacks. II would hold out brbe, an no small
too, to the vast and growing navigation interest
and to Of the rival religious sects at least at the
South And if Slavery is indeed blessing or not an
evil upon which ground alone its introduction into Ne
braska can be justified, why not import Slaves from
Guinea as well as sugar from Havana The most,
surely, that the Virgins slavebreeders could pretend
to demand would be q much Of protective duty az
their free trade principles would ALLOW them conscen
tiousy to accept Of
The African slave trade thus established and with il
coun,erbalsnce tte perpetual and growing increase
Of the free population by immigration from Europe the
way would be paved for another peace measure
The slaye States would undoubtedly revive their old
claim. that in the matter of representation slaves
should be counted equally with eemen nor of course,
after yielding up the two other compromises could tho
North be expected to make much of stand upon this
But gentlemen shareholders it is not best at this mo
ment to proceed any further with this dream Of domin-
ion for, suppose that the eggs upon which your old
hens in the Senate have been so sedulousy sitting,
should prove, after ALL cockatrces eggs and only be
hatched to sting their step mothers to death or suppose
that til North aroused at astand il begins to look
Ike it-should crush the whole brood with one ygor
GUS stsnp at the time giving to the silly Senate
rial mothers d ii kick which would send them iutter
ing and mpDg out of the Senate and out of political
life into that limbo of vanity, that paradise Of fools,
described by Milton the receptacle of those who, build
ing vain things their fond hopes Of glory or lasting
fame. find here