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from an insane attempt to accomplish au impossible.
ty. They sensible men.
COOLEY SLAVERY AND SLAVE TRADE.

ty. They are sensible men.
COOLEY SLAVERY AND SLAVE TRADE
When will practical men, reused to a sense of duty
take this mighty subject Of slavery or rather the do
mnion of capital over labor, out of the hands of big
OTIS. fanatics, and crazy optimists and perfeconiss
who in this and in all other of their teetotalisms ag-
gravate the ills which they attempt to cure Since
Joseph was sold by his brethren to shmae!itish ira
ders to the present day. slavery and the slave trade
have like the Mississippi poured along in undimin-
ished current and they will continue their course
hereafter with as little change Of direction diminu
tion of volume, as that mighty river. Each is the
work of nature, and it is easy to expe nature in
the one case as the other. But whilst nature
be expelled she can be corrected, aided, and deve
oped. Such is the province, and the limited prov
ince, Of law and government, and Of mans free
agency. The attempt to abolish the African Slave
Trade, has greatly aggravated its horrors, without
diminishing iia an,ount-and has now given rise to
the Cooley or apprentice systeu infinitely more cruel
in all its aspects than the African Slave Trade itself.
But the emancipation Of tho white villeius and serfs
Of Europe. in subiecting them to the dominion of
capital, instead of human masters hos produced
vastly more of human suffering than the African
trade and the Cooley trade combined. Yet Slavery
and the Slave trade loudly call for legal regulation.
Let practical make these regulations and arrest
the hands of the mschie, Gus madmen who are vanly
attempting, by their many ee.totaisns to make man
perfect whom God made imperfect.
These remarks have been called forth by the fol-
lowing articles which we find in late No. Of the
] Charleston Mercury:
THE SUPPLY OF LABOR.
The extract from letter of the Havana corrcspon.
dent of the New York Tribune, which we copy, con.
taus al ingenious scheme for supplying the decien
cy of labor in Cuba 1t will probably meet the ap.
proval of British ph!anhropiss, as it is elaborated
distinguished, in outside coluring from the Sluvc-tadc
What the object Of it is we all know: to supply Gu
ba with amount of labor, under the control of mas
ters, sufficient 10 meet the worlds demand for the
products.
This Coolie slavery, sanctioned by the British Gov
| ernment all over the world and carried ont BY Bri
tish merchants, is struggle of the practical sense
the age against the theories OF the pbilathropists
But it must still pay homage to the phautoms OF phi
losophic superstition, which have lung stood II
temples aud high places. The act mus, BIZ called by
different name, and in order ~ justify the changt
Of name there must be annexed conditions
that destroy all the kindly relations between the mes
ter and slave without diminishing the power of th'
former over the latter.
| But il Is worthy of observation, that while the ma
tions of Western Europe ringing with the noise
of Abolition, there is dominant idea of peoplinG al
their tropical possessions with torced lahor-that lie
slave labor without the name. France. IL is under
stood, is eparng to people Algeria with Coolies
Great Br tain has abOred for years to repair the ab
surdity OF her Emancipation Acts, by peopliEg colo
nies, both in the East and West Indies with mel
who could be compelled to work.
The experiment has not succeeded, as might b.
expected. If it had come into rivalry with othe
sham systems, involving all the hardships and con
ferring none of the benefits Of the true system o
slavery, il would have done very well. But it me
the products of legitimate slave labor and proved
miserable failure.
The problem Of the comparative profit of free ant
slave labor to be solved by general admission
The elements Of the superiority of slave labor, ART
three:
|. That the laws of the plantation preserve its peo
pe in great degree from those devourng vices tina
waste So large part of the profits Of free labor.
,. That there is combination Of fnrce, applicable
to every emergency, in q slave population, whcl
may save the whole products Of the year, when al
unconnected people of the same numbers, acting
without head, would fall into necessary confusion
and helplessness.
3. The relation between master and slave il con
nuous. Generally even in the outset, the abore
understands the business in which he is to be employ
cd. Children grow up in the experience OF 1t: i
becomes part Of the habt,-alnost OF the instinct
of the whole people, and the laborers OF p!anta
ton move through their easy tasks, like well'hnlsh
ed piece Of machinery.
under this relation between the master and slav'
adds greatly to the proftabeness of slave labor, by
dispensing with many of the precautions for the Sc
curIty of property, which must be taken where th
; rule is "every man for himself"
HAVANA, April 30, l856.-In my last | sent yor
the translation of the memorial which is to be for
warded to the Queens Government, asking for th'
admission of forty thousand African colonists
have just received another document, written by th
same gentlemen, which throws a great deal OF ligh
on this scheme. l will give your readers sllgh
sketch of the proposed "m0dRs oPer0ndt
l. The negroes not to be purchased OF the ne
gro kings, who too often make war on one anothc
for the sole purpose Of procuring captives fo
the whites.
.. The only money allowed will he SIN bounty
which the negro may leave to his abandoned family
and convince others that the enlisted friends is moi
forcibly carried off
8. As the Colonist will have no need of his wages
he may remit the same through the Colonization So
ciety to his family in Africa.
4. Says that, though this may not appear praetlca
be, yet it really since the intention Is to get the
negroes from the mora civilized towns and villages
and ten dollars will be very acceptable to their poor
friends at home.
). The contracts now given to the Coolies ara "a
serve as the basis for the African colunsis and
will be puuctually carried out.
g. The wages to be paid To the colonsts, which are
not to exceed four dollars half OF which is to be
paid to the Government rs fund for removing the
cooniss to other quarter Of the world US soon
as the term of apprenticeship expires.
10. Men are to be preferred to women, and IN all
cases where the latter are brought out only two dol
lars wages are allowed. The children born OF the
cooniss receive no wages until they tlgh.eeD ut
which time they will be allowed the same Us their
parents, provided they consent to antcr into al obi
gation for ten years. if not they are to be sent ont oil
the country.
I3 Ali The expenses Incurred in seeing to the faith
ful Observance of these articles by the agents OF the
Spanish Government, will be paid by the company
.