New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-01

cal regions of America forti6es the presuuptoa,
drawn frem the e feet Of climate upon character
that those regions will not soon be cultivated 20
the roiat OF maximum production, or even profit
able production ir & commercial sense by yolun-
tsry labor. The labors of msn arise from his ne
cessitier. OF sbey sre stimulated BY impulses OF
crpidiiy or ambition, that hitherto have failed 70
msniiest themselves as general motives, except i,
countries outside the tropics. All Tishin those
regions. whether they be natives or in migrants
are buried 10 general lassitude, excavation a1f
.loth. The Spanish, the French, ard the
English rsces, in the islands Of the West ln-
des. and in the countries bordering on the
caribbean Sc. and the Gulf Of Mexico, demon
strate that they have force and energy enough
left TO compel the labor. Of subjected race, for
their benefit, bHt 70 more. They are willing to
make Others work for them, bat they have no
where stosn sDy great disposi.iOa TO work for
thtmselyea. No fOurishing colonies Of free Ia
bortrs have sDyxhere grown up within The
tropics on this ccnErent. Yet the tide Of
emigration has been setting Westward from
Europe for the Sc two hubdced years, and la.sedy
10 more profuse stream thsn the world ever
b.fore witnessed. But the fcod Is still toward
the temperate zone; and as 20 such colonies
hsye grown up hitherto in the tropics, we may
fsfely conclude ihst none will hsreafser-as any
rate while the systtm OF African Slavery remains
powerful in America. With three millions OF
slsves in Brazil on the south, AID three millions
more in the United States on the north, the little
neck Of lsnd ID ing between ard connecting these
two great fruciifJIDg hsunts Of the Institution
will cot be worked to any extert ny free White
men. II net 10 the nature o. things thai ware
men will swe.er under equatorial heats to per-
form work which blacks can be compelled to per-
form foT the IN.
All our expeditions therefore, hesdi7g south
ward, to subdue, to purchase, or by whstever
M sns, to reduce TO Noftbero sway the territories
Of Central America, or the islands Of the Carib-
bean Sea, 40 With the purpose of working them
by slave lsbor. The pr jectors Of these schemes
ave all stimulated BY cupidity, or By desire for
political 20 i'icD. They want TO make money cut
Of them, or they want to uss them 80 falcrum to
raise ttem,elves to place Snd power. The. can
90 neither by attempting colonization with free
labor. Emigration will not f'low their led aud
if II did II would soon fl. into that state Of list
less excavation common TO the residents OF top
icsl ard equ storiHl countries Thus, as sspecula-
ton, or az economic enterprise, the scheme would
speedily fall through, and lsckipg this basis of
msteIial prosperity, Its political character would
never rise 10 level which woud eniitle it to the
confederation of being erected into State Of our
U1ob.
We do not mean 20 BE- understood as say lag That
the tropical resioIs OF this Continent can never
rice to political importance urder system oil free
labor. No. at all; but only ihat they Will not
While the system of Slavery is upheld on the
rorth and south By two such populous and pow
eliul States az Brazil aud the United States; and
p bile. toe, immense tracts of country lie waists
y thin our presen. limits, under far more tempt
ing cline. Yet the time may come hereafter when
the swelling tide Of our own population viii dow
ovsr upon every unoccupied acre of American do
MAN. But this lea spectacle for future generations,
aud lot for us. Now, in our day, the idea of 'et-
Ting any portion OF Central America By our pso
pie, except rs slave colony, is an absurdity on
g face; end those who are aiming at such settle
I0ents, whether they be within the limits Of gov
ernments where Slavery is excluded or lot go
With the purpose of founding slave colonies
and nothiog else. Thus, ali such expeditions of
II. cessi.y involve the extension OF Slavery to
every spot wbithet they are successfully conduct.
ed. Our opposition to than is not opposition
10 the spread of American civilization and i'm
the cause of which we would By every
honorable means subserve. 1t is simply iuhexi-
bic hostility to the further spread of Slavery on
mi. continent