New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-18

their nscks as well as their capital for the chance
Of cent per cent The slave trade may long
lipper On, and so occasionally highway robbery
may be committed but the glorious days both OF
highway robbers and Of slavetraders have departed
and the African flave-trade can no longer be looked
to a. an economical means of developing tropical
resources. As to conquest, the fate of the poor
soldiers of Walkers army of occupation, as stated
by our correspondent, may suffice to show how lit
tie temptation there is to-day to join
in such undertakings. The Spaniards only
made their conquests available by sharing
out among the conquerers, not merely the lands,
but the inhabitants also. Without the inhabitants
TO cultivate them the lands would have been worth
less. Even with the inhabitants they were of very
little value. 1t was the store Of gold gradually
collected by the natives through many ages, and
all seized by the invaders, that gave the first eclat
TO the coDquests Of Mexico and Peru; and but
for the subsequent discovery OF silver mines, and
tie constant influx thither of a stream Of emigra-
ton from SPAIN the white men woal1 before now
have been traceable in those countries only by
slight tinge of European ntermixture exhibited by
some of the inhabitants.
1t is impossible for tie fllibusters of the present
day to reensct the Spanish drama. Instead Of
having accumulated treasures Of gold or of any
thing else, the tropical countries of America not.
witbstanding the large revenues Of a few lucky
oyrers Of mines, are among the poorest in the
world, and as 10 en- imitation OF the Spanish repdr.
tnientos by distributing among the cOnquerrs the
land with the cultiyatOrs attached-in the pres
ent age Of the world, and with the increased in
telligence and capacity of defending themselves,
possessed by the native Inhabitants, among whom
there is now a large intermixture Of European
blood-that is no longer practicable.
The most probable means whereby the intel
gence and energy oftle North, or some small por-
ton of it, may be gradually transferred into trop
cal veins, seems to be by the increasing resort
thither Of traders, mechanics and other sdventu
rers from the United States and Europe, who By
ntermarr,ilg with the natives and settling in the
country, might graduamy introduce some of our
ideas and habit-, and might set an example of
productive energy which the natives might gradu-
ally begin to initiate, doing in fact for those Spanish
American countries what continuous stream Of
Northern emigrsnts does for our Slave States. The
poverty of all those countries is BY no mea
so much owing to tie alleged incidence
of the natives, os to the want of opportunity to
labor productivity. Offer them the stimulus even
of very moderate daily stipend, which they are
sure to get and even the natives Of the tropics
not unwilling to work. 1t is by means Of this
Alternative medicine, operating imperceptibly but
and not by such violent purgatives and
emetics as fllibusterng expeditions, that we are
to look for an Improvement in the social condition
of the tropical countries, which, livery gradual,
especially at its commencement, may prove, for
that very reason, all the permanent and sure.