New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-06
wENEXT ACT IN THE DRAMA
RvopENING THE SLAVE TRADE.
rTs SOCIAL, MORAL AND POLITI'
CAL ADVANTAGES.
A SERIES OF LEADING ARTICLES
y,em IA. Charleston Standard, Buchanan paper
TIE SLAVE TRADE NECESSARY TO SOUTH
ERN SOCIETY.

A the slave trade aud this had q. least the rner OF
being position, it msy be interesting ana insruc.
We perhaps, TO look upon the changes; any ~
Southern opinion, that have since occurred IL - IT,
ses much TO cay that the position was an 81
Men were generally dsnclfned 10 make su.Iuau %
slavery We had slaves and az against al oulerS, VIC
had a right TO hold them; bat there was me heLns
that in some sense, they were piuHoer " h 20
enough TO get out Of the way with. Anu ,o"n, ~
sustain ourselves within the existing SOFA and
n world we unwilling TO revot asah, ~ u, on
10 veye rather inclined 70 brave the wof'o VI voc
tiee Of an acknowledged wrong than Jc,aS
SOCIAL principle upon which our ac'I yer hj;eed i not
,;ott Tbi we thought unwise we oeiieNe9 nut
enlv possible but necessary, 70 erect stahuafe Va %
Svn Though Slavery was possessed OF every eenlen'
necessary TO living social system, we ~. no;0
could be defended upon pree1htnlg PInc pr 81 oPl.
sns INIT that 10 is vfndica,ien and establishment,
Shnre was the necessity OF dstlnci oganHa'on anu IN
tsIisence; that instead Of flank, we must present
90 ;n.te.d of fear we must have bope-lnstesd OF
s.dnr.nce sctioD-and, 10 the end OF changing our
attitude in the contest and Of planting our standard
ht in the very faces OF adversares we propose,
a. leading prlocipe OF ooutheih pohcE l" ie"Pen
fbsre were few, at first to come to This position The
Southern journals generally silent, and all those
which spoke except The Charlotte" Nereury and ne
Richmond Examiner, deprecated lts tenerlty. We
failed have the proposition placed before the South
exn Commercial Convention; VIC found an indsposi-
ton in the public mind to be disturbed upon disagree
able subject and indebted 10 journals at the
North for the opportunity Of more full discussion OF
The subject.
Since that time however there have been many cir
ssmstances to effect opinion at the South. The senti-
sne1 of opposition 10 institutions has led to further
sets of Political aggression The entertainment OF our
position has been impedment u legislative and ter
yiforia circumspection. Yielding ground before our
adversaries we have come, at last TO points beyond
which we yield further and the alternatives OF
Eurrsnder reaction have been forced upon u.s. 10
reaction, therefore, we have been impeleo; put "
every step we have been met by difficulties, which
seemed only 10 be Obvsted by the measure epopose
One necessary step was TO preoccupy the territory TO
equality In the Federal branch Of the National Legisla
tnre; but there were met by an inst fic.ency Of
peyratC men from ,uner.buDaaoce were crowded out
from the North and were directed by emigration aid
societies upon Kansas, We had not enough for the
binary offices Of labor and it required force to send
them out. Even then there was the further difficulty
III we TO tend lab0rDg whites there was the 8p-
prebension that they themselves would acquire an in.
1erest in the Territory in opposition 10 the institution Of
domestic Slavery, and thus might fail to secure the
State. five were to send slaves, lose their con-
Serv alive Office in the social economy at home.
So many whites have come in since slaves have been
restricted that this class of population il greatly in
s1cess. Many have taken to the walks OF manual Ia
kor They struggle for subsistence in competition with
the slave and already in this State where there
u still excess of slaves, the proposition has been
made and pressed to relieve the whites from the sever
ities of such contest To ortify the frontier there
Sore there the danger of violating the integrity of
slave society in the center of our sOundest State. The
political power TO be gained on the one hand was not
compensation for the moral strength to be lost on the
ether
One effort might be successful, but others must
cur perpetually, and constrained to elect between
power In Congress or power IN the States between So
Cia strength or political extension, tpeculations
turned abroad, and the minds of men we;e forced to
ybJate between the alternatives Of "crcumscripion
"a the slave trade"
Another not less necessary step TO increase the
general population of the South, and preserve an APP
Proclamation to equality in the popular branch of the
serve footing in the Senate by territorial extension it
coon appeared that the House would take the control
q Government That body had elected an Abolition
Speaker and its constituents propose to elect Presi
dent. Without Delegation from the South approach
ing In strength the Delegation from the North there
was hope Of participation in the Government. The
necessity for greater population became apparent
We could expect great increase Of foreign labor in
eompetton with our slaves; but should increase Oc-
sur it would tend still more TO change the nature Of our
society. The white element would only the more surely
elaim the cid of legislation to exclude the slave and
herc reasonable hope, therefore, of being able
30 supply wants with the pauper population OF Eu
rope. To submit to the government of an irresponsi
HE majority in Congress not to be thought Of and
The minds ofmen forced again to vibrae between
The alternative Of dissolution or the slave trade.
There was another important step to be taken. A
contrast had been drawn between the North and South
IN respect of their improvementsthe deficiencies Of
the South had been established and the act was
charged 70 the instisution Of domestic Slavery We
knew that this was evidence Of ineffciency-we
knew that while labor had been cut off from the South
4 had continued TO pour in upon the North; that IN
consequence Of this, they have twice as much labor
and hess land and natural and necessary there
1ore, that their relative improvements should be
Ereater ,...
The South the products are greater than among any
ether people in the world and 20 us there nothing
n ths contrast to dissatisfaction; but the fact
by al the world taken as conclusive proof of in
efficiency. We knew that equality could ultimately
be restored by equality of labor but the fact that
interests are already established at the Norh, gives
them present advantage in the race. If soicitous
Sor free white labor, 1t would naturally hesitate TO
come in competition with slaves, but II would the
hess incline to come that there were no enterprises IN
existence attract it. These at the North, and
% the North drawn still other labor TO their fur
hher progress.
To stem the current Of opinion, therefore as well a.
% turn the tide Of Improvement and give 10 ourselves
Che comforts Of progress and the confidence Of the
worlds there the necessity for labor, and this
labor could never come from Europe, were turned
Again TO Africa and the minds of men were further
forced to vibrate between the alternatives Of perpetual
dependence or the slave trade.
And there was suH another step. Men have been
forced TO realize that whites and slaves have been
brought together here in unequal and atura pro-
portions A slave society properly constituted, will
have neither in excess and If left free 10 form,
there is but little doubt but that the would come
together in natural proportions There would be slaves
enough for labor and whites enough for direction and
the case would be exceptional in which the white
would labor in compett with the slave or the slave
direct except in subsrdnaton TO the white man. But,
o. already maintain cd they have not been free 10 form.
While slaves from abroad have been kept out whites
from abroad have been forced in. and filing the rounds
OF employment open nom the humblest labor % We
highest Offices Of direction, they have been in the way
a pushing Slavery out. That slaves, II free 10 come
you'd nave been competent 10 every emergency OF n
Dor, there can be little doubt; but, DOT beng free 10
cone, they have been - much extended they have
left nterstices into which Free Labor BY the necessi
ties Of the caee has been forced and The institution
has lost much of its integrity
While the SOUTH becomes Aanal 49, O.,