New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-05


corded in some book that has not fallen under our
notice. asa eommunity-and it is as such that we
must regard her-England has never carried
civilization anywhere. Individuals from among
her people have fed from her shores and have
found in the wilderness that freedom which was
denied to them at home; but whenever they
have had to deal with the community from
which they had fled they have experienced
nothing but oppression. Freedom was with
difficulty maintained in these Western States,
while the Southern ones were filled with white
slaves as preparation for state of society in
which black ones should be required. North
and South, whenever they came into contact
with the community Of England, they found it
lsboripg to prevent domestic trade that foreign
trade might be built up-prohibiting all trade
with the world except that carried on through
British ships, British ports, British merchants
and British notwithstanding its own people to
eat out the substance of the poor provincials,
precisely as is now done in Australia, India and
other Colonies, and thus finally producing the
Revolution.
From that time to the present the community
having never yet stricken blow in behalf OF
freedom-never one tendiDgto the Advancement
of civilization. If we look to the Continent of
Europe we perceive that she made war upon
the people Of France because they were endea-
yorpp to s.ablish their rghts-because they had
abolished the feudal privileges of the nobles-be-
cause the clergy and nobility were made liable
to taxation-because trial by jury had been
estabished-because heavy taxes had been abol-
shetland because perfect freedom of religious
worship had been secured. Such were all the
causes of complaint against France on the day
Of the decla alton Of war in 1898. That war
lasted twenty-five years, and throughout the
whole course of it England was seen plumber
ing everybody on the ocean, while buying
slaves from all the sovereigns of Europe that
were willing to sell them-and then, as now,
making them food for powder. At its termina-
ton she was seen handing over the Republic of
Genoa to Sardinia, the Republic of Venice to
Austria, and making war upon the free people
of Norway TO coerce them into surrendering
themselves to Sweden as the price of blood due
to Bernadotte. What in all this was favorable
to freedom we confess ourselves unable to per-
ceive.
We are told however that she sympathized
with Hungary. AS community she did not.
Individuals did so undoubtedly and for so doing
they bad good reason as they were assured that if
Hungary could maintain her freedom, she would
establish Free trade, and that then England
could make n great deal of money out of her.
This argument addressed to the breeches pocket
proved irresistible, and hence it was that large
meetings were held, and attended BY the rery men
uho had most strongly urged upon the Government
the necessity for afording erery encouragement to
the sIare-rade by admitting the sugar Of Cuba and
Brazil to competition eih that from Jamaica and
Barbados. The community of England has no
sympathy with freedom anywhere. All it asks
is cheap labOr-that is, slave labor under what
ever name-to be employed in foreign countries
in growing cheap cotton and sugar, and at homo
in making cheap cloth. Labor is there regarded
the instrument provided for the use of the
trader, precisely as is the case in South Carolina;
AID therefore it is that there is so much SYM
patty between the cotton lords and Carolina.
at affords me pleasure" said Mr. McDuffie,
"tO hear of new factories in Manchester, but
"capnot without disgust hear of those of New
England"
Looking to India we see everywhere the de- 1
cline of freedom as a consequence Of English |
rule. Under the native princes, there existed |
an immense body of small landholders exercis-
ing to wonderful degree the power Of self
government, and carrying on a vast inland CON-
merce, but under English rule all these have dis
peared. The few there are steadily growing in
power, while the many are from day
to day more and more compelled to
sell themselves into Slavery in the Maui
ritius or in Guiana, that they may avoid the
famines with which the country is now so fire.
quently afflicted. Immense armies swallow up
the produce of labor to an extent unknown in
any other part of the world, and those armies
are always employed in extending the area of
freedom, after the fashion of Southern slave
drivers. The most frivolous pretense is always
found sufficient for interference, as was plain in
the war Of Scinde; in that with Burmah, based
upon claim for few hundred dollars, and
made the occasion of seizing upon extensive
territories and in that of Aflghanistan WHICH
ended in the well-merited destruction of large
portion Of the British forces, and the expulsion
of the rest. We are told that all this is done
to extend civilization, but when we come to
learn tie real facts We find that the civilization
Of the PuDjaub, always until now in the hands of
domestic rulers, is far higher than that of Ben
gal, where England has been uncontrolled mas
ter for q century.