New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-29

While The repeal Of the Missouri PrOhi oition was
still under discussion, THE TRIBUNE suggested
hat If The North yielded that point, the next de-
msnd made upon il would be the re. opening of the
African Slave Trade. THIS suggestion was received
at the time With derisrn and cOntempt-a spe;i
men Of The TRIBUNE's extravaganza and aosur-
dity; and yet scarcely more than two years have
parsed when find this very demand for the re-
opening of the Save Trade not only brought for
ward and pertinac;Ously urged in leading So lhern
journals, but also made principal topic Of the
Message of the Governor Of South Carolina to the
Legislature of thai STATE. That fact itself is sgni-
fcant er Ougb but the ground upon which Governor
Adams advocates the revival of the Slave Trade is
even more significant still. The object which he
proposes TO himself and the South Carolina Legisla-
ture in that revival is, not merely the reduction of
the price Of labor, but The total expulsion thereby
from The Southern States Of tie class Of rhite faJOrers.
He1e is what Governor Adams says on that subject:
off we cannot supply the demand for slave labor,
then we must expect TO be supplied with species Of
labor We DO not wait and which IS, from the very na
ture Of things aLagonstlc TO orr mutations Il Is
much better hat drdys should be driven by slaves
that our factories should be worked by slayes-tlat
our hotels should be served by saves-,hat or loco
motives should be manned by slaves, than that we
should be exposed TO the introduction from any quar-
ter, of population alien to us by brth training and
educAtiC al which in the process Of time Ist lead
10 that conflict between capital and labor, which
'makes it 20 dIfficut to maintain free institutions in
oil wealthy ard highly civilized nations woers such
institutions as Ours do no, exist In all Slaveholdog
States true policy dictates that the superior should
diIec and the inferior perform ell mental service.
Conretion between the white and black man frr this
service may not disturb Northern sensibhy, but 1t
does not exact SUIT eur Latitude
This is distinct and plain enough. This jealousy
an hatred of laborng white men as the most dan
eerous enemies TO the institution Of Slavery, and the
resolution TO crush and keep them down, may be
traced through the whole course of slaTehodiDg
legislation Gov. Adams now proposes TO 90
little further and to drive them away; not, indeed,
by actual force, as has lately been attempted in the
case OF Kansas, but by starving them our Accord
ing to Gov. Adams, the 800 600 shareholders Of the
South are, under the peculiar and patriarchcal In
stitutiOn, the only white lien properly entitled to
live there. The business of white men is ~ direct,
not to perfOrm-except, indeed, woman Is to be
logged, an Irish waiter to be shot, or gutta-
percba cane broken by stealth over a Senator's
head. All laborng white men are no better than
'aliens" to the South and her peculiar institution;
and, being very dangerous to its perpetuaton, are
to be starved out and driven away by the reduction
in the price of labor consequent upon the intro
ducton of an unlimited supply OF slave labor from
Africa.
This. indeed is but the natural cOnsum nation OF
the policy which, in the course of the last twenty
wears. has obtained such absolute control 10 the
slayehCldiIg States, and by virture of which the
Shareholders are everything AID everybody else OF
no account. The pretended dread of slave insdr-
rectoDs to be stirred up at the South by Northern
Aboiiobisis and by the discussion of The Slavery
question is, and has been from the beginning, a
mere cover. 1t has not been the dread OF slave
instruction, thai has led to violations OF the mall
10 arbitrary and tyranncal laws, and to acts still
ore arbitrary and tyrannical wi.hou. any cover Of
law-hke the recent expulsion of Mr.. Strickland
from Mobile-directed against the circulation OF
books and newspapers, and even the confidential
expression of private opinion. What has led to all
these outrsges has beer, not the dread OF
negro Instructions, but an apprehension lest
the MISUNDERSTANDING population of the South
might, if the subject were freely discussed, come
peaIed to Henry and Jefferson; and might learn
TO have il, with Washington, among their first
.wisles to see some plan adopted by which Slavery
might be abolished BY law" Abolition by law,
not instruction, is the shadow dlmly seen IN the
distance, and distorted by guilty conscience into
horrible phantom that strikes terror and dismsy
to TIE hearts Of the shareholders. 1t was this
L tla.. a.,
sault of Bully Brooks on Mr. Sumner-:ha. led TO
the high. handed measure ofpreyentIg by force aud
violence the formation in so many Southern States
Of Fnmept Electoral ticket, and which now leads
Gov. Adams to propose by the revival OF the African
.laye trade, TO e2p,l from the South all white men
who are not also Shareholders.
The Carolina Times, in commenting upon and
approving the Governors proposal for the revival of
The slave trade, has, indeed, one apprehension 1t
ears that the Boston and NewioIk capitalists and
shipowneIs who have gisen such ardent support to
Buchanan would rush into The traffic With such
esgerness TO make money out of it as no: only to
run away with all the profits, but, by their reck-
Icspess, 'tO give some cause Tor The apprehension
=. Of cruelty" Cannot The Journal # Commerce
resssure It's Carolina co6perstor On that score
For cur pait-though our opinions are not likely TO
go for much in South Carolina-we have no doub:
hat, under the pious oversight OF IAe Journal
Il Commerce and TIE Commercial Advertiser, the
Te-egalized slave trade from this port, snalebed
iiom the hands Of miserable Spanish and Portuguese
!htelt pers and placed under the control of some
# cur eminent! p:ous and Democratic mercantile