Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-05

If her calculations. She has failed in all her OBJ
jects. The labor of her negroes has proved fal
less productive without affording the consolation
of having improved their condition.
Her tropical products have fallen off to vas
amount. So disastrous has been the re
suit, that her fixed capital vested in tropical pos
passions, estimated at the value of nearly FIVE hun
dred millions of dollars, is said to stand on the
brink Of ruin. But this is not the worst. Will,
this costly scheme has had such ruinous efforts
the tropical productions of Great Britain, it ha,
given powerful stimulus, followed by cor
responding increase products, to those countre;
which have had the good sense to shun her exam
| pie There has been vested, it is estimated by
them in the production of tropical products, since
1908, in fixed capital, nearly $4,000 600 wholly
dependent slave labor. In the same period
the value of their products has been estimated t.
to have risen from about $40 1000 900 ann ualy, tC
nearly $500 100000; while the whole of the ixet
capital of Great Britain, vested in cultvatng rop
ical products both in the East and West Indies, il
estimated at only about SS30,000,000 and the val
ne of the products annually at about $4,000 coo
TO present a still more striking view Of the three
articles of tropical products (sugar, coffee, anC
cotton. the British possessions, including the Wes
and East Indies, and Mduritius, produced in lS4E
of sugar, only 3,903,77l pounds, while Cuba, Bra
zil, and the United States, including other coun
tries having tropical possessions, produced 9000
UOO pounds; Of coffee, the British possessions pro
duced only n ,593 OO3, while Cuba and Brazil pro
duced G0l 800 l2j hounds; and Of cotton the Brit
ish possessions, including ipments to China, only
l5' ,4I3,446 POUNDS while the United States alone
produced I9O,379,215 prOunds. This is
seen and felt by British statesmen, and has opened
their eyes to the errors which they have committed
The question now with them is How shall it be
connteracted? In order TO rerain her
superiority, she not only seeks to revive and in.
crease her own capacity to produce tropical pro-
duetions, but to diminish and destroy the capacity
huv gn far ctri,, Na1 hon
sequence Of her error. Her main reli-
ance is to cripple destroy the productions of her
successful rivals There is but one way by which
it can be done, and that is abolish African slavery
throughout this continent; and that she openly
avows to be the constant object of her policy and
exertions. 1t matters not how, or from what mo-
tive, itmay be done; whether it may be by diplo-
macy, influence, or force; by secret or open means;
end whether the motive be humane or selfish
Without regard to manner, means, or motive, the
thing itself, should it be accomplished, would put
down all rivalry, and give her tie nndispute1 SUI
Preurucy i'll supplying her own wants, and those G.
the rest of the world. 4 4 The end (of
abolishing Slavery in Cuba, Brazil, and the Uni
ted Statesl would be, that the superiority in cul-
uVatlng the great tropical staples would be trans
serred from them to the British tropical posses
sons.
They are of vast extent, and those beyond the
Oape OF 5000 Hope possessed of an unlimited
competition of slave labor which keeps the prices
of the great tropical staples so low as to prevent
their cultivation with profit in the possessions of
Great Britain, by what she is pleased to call free
labor"
Mr.. Calhoun may err in supposing that England
regrets the abolition of slavery in her West Indian
Colonies. lie may err in imputng her desire to see
Slavery abolished elsewhere, wholly to motives of
policy, unmixed with motives Of humanity But
ha oil nf f,,+
that England does wish to see Slavery abolished
everywhere, or of the importance of its universal
abolition to the prosperity Of interests with which
her industrial prosperity is conspcuously identified
AT all events, and beyond all peradyenturc, wheth-
er from philanthrOphy, or seitishness, or mixture
of both Great Britain, the first maritime Power in
the world, and having island possessions IN threat
ening propiniquity to the Southern States is deci
siyely committed and by enduring motives, to the
Ant-Savery cause. The gentlemen Of the slave
States understand it well, and for years they have
sounded an alarm, neither affected nor groundess.
that England wishes to "Aiiicantze' Cuba, and
surround the South with "a Gordon Of free negro
communities.' 1t was to defeat this scheme, that,
under Col Folks Administration, they offered one
hundred millions Of dollars for the purchase Of
Cuba, and more recently instigaed conferences at
Ostend, at which the same purchase was attempted
at much higher price. We Will consider by aud
by, in the progress of this discussion, whose mon
princely and uncaculating munificence. For the
present refer to it only proof of the intensity
of slaveholdinG apprehensions, and of the magni-
tude of the dangers which threaten slavery. The
most formidable Power on the Globe, with every
inviting opportunity of position, is the known,
avowed and sworn enemy of the institution with
which every Southern interest is indissolubly
bound up, and is so also from motives and cOnsid
erations which make its hostility fixed, unappeasa-
BILE, and eternal
All the orators and all the writers of the South
adopt the views of Mr.. Calhoun IN reference to
English policy. To quote them all, is equally
and unnecessary and only refer
now to n speech delivered in Congress, April 90,
1856, by Gen. Quitman, representative Of Mis-
sissippi and the owner of three hundred slaves,
as the latest and most elaborate expression of
these views. After remarking generally upon "Me
peculiar condition Of many netgh6O1ing States and
Colonies. and the influence whtch their condition
must exercise upon our oon presently" Gen. Quit
man proceeds to partcularze (lst) Mexico, which
he saws, "can be Sared only by the ddrdncing food
of o,n enteprsing citizens" (2d) Central America,
where he says that at present, EurOpean tRtrtgues
check our ertensiom," but where he hopes much
from 'that patriotic band Which has lately trdnS-
planted the principles Of Democracy from the United
States 10 Nicaraquan Sol;" (3d) Cuba; and (4th)
San Domingo, which '-strange and 9''otealue pow-
er," he says, "under lchose stupid S'cdy that .tdH
island holding, loM her commod,ous ports, The same
relation to lie Caribbean Sea that CHba holds to tie
Guf Of Merico. is tast rciapSing into bdrbarism is
sustained 6y mighty European influences IN its at
tenpts 10 eIterm mate the small tohie Dominican
Republic which still retains a portion Of the is
land"
Completing his survey, Gen. Quiman signif-
canty declares
Gall the rest of insular America is European or
African. Standing here among the statesmen OF
America, | point to the surrounding scene. Be-
boiI it as it is and then look forward few years,
and contemplate what it will be. What reflections
does it not present. A world-sartling drama is to
be enacted; and are we, the guardians of our coun
try's veal, to have no part IN tne performances @
ness. and TIE SAFETY, even, of our beloved
land, are deeply concernod?'
"hsular America" That has a strange and
unfamiliar sound. 1t has nothing in common with
the history and ideas Of this people. 1t was Con
tnental America which resisted George Ill. 1t
A. al IN