New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-01

we However, and Dot from any dngasrty IN ne
v.xs 81 The Leading states Den but because elsvery
was oisIik.d and despsed, and believed 70 oe nes, s
eDd SoIe dshked more thaa me ptoPn ".
sinis be II ohsery ed In 1896 Washington wrote o. sr
John siDelsir TIA; the Anti Slavery hss OF fenneyNS
MA could lot be loI delay ed IN AAryan1 and gina
Tbrorsho, The Souts, &c rglA and Sonia Ss'Vun''
were be Only Stats which desired TO retsn oaa'e'!
and the readez Of Oluseds account OF the lstI need
not be reminded how very far from republican wee Ne
PM ciples sDd aspirations when II became az
ibe Union. II has, from hist time to TINS VIII 50
The rsmsIksble 'peciacIe OF ne perpetu oe n ; ~
tie South In con psrstive wealth, Populaon ana cl'u
izstiop while at the time the area Of avery "a
extending the Of i in're asing, and the ouoH
power Of the South becoming more sid more prePon-
d~a1t over that of The North. Hence lie dscon'eat
terce its threat 70 split the Union, hence lie policy OF
reopenipg tie African ave trade wale II aPpes's :"
have the suprt NE conr1l Of toe entire county,:
Virginia was sinkirg, and sinking through S.svery,
when WashiI gton az JeffefsOn believed that woud
prese1ily sboiak Slavery and gave permissve power
10 CONGRESS 70 stop the African slave trade after an M
terysl ending in 1903 Theydd not fo'e,ee tha' VIZ
enia TuiIe0 by slave labor, woul1 groF rcn oy save
breeding. The demand for cotton hTst rslsed the price
Of negroes and made the breeding Of that sort OF sock
profitable after the trade prohibited Since 70 81,
The rse in The vaoe Of labor caufed by the develop
mebt If the North Itself caused and sustained oy me
immigration Of free lsbor has perpetualy raised the
value Of labor in every form till the lave breeding
States have grown rich las the cotton growing states
say az the expense of agriculture and he planters Inc
cotton States cannot or do not choose 10 see any
other ressCn fJr n continuous decline ana lnereas
iue embarrassment than the high price Of slaves and
ibey pretend 10 believe that they could sustain ire po-
6tcs power Of the South by wealth equal 70 that OF the
Moth if ihey were ~ forsake the Virginia marset ana
Draw their slaves from Africa. One remarkable result
of this motto is that they now rival the AbOltiOniss IN
exposing the cruebes Of the Interstate slavetfade
ignoring on their side, the horrors OF the MD
DIE Iassge. Anohe! consequence IS that the
slave breeding States are already letting out some
OF the secrtts Ct the sgTi ulural States -hltn-
trio their friendly customers. Within month Cover
Wiso of Virginia has dsclosed 10 Northern ment1e
true ground Of apprehension in tho Slave STATES. IL
is uoi the Abolition lists it is not tae negroes it il the
mean whites" This Glaze is now very numerous
seven feLbs to three enths of ssveholders and IL Is
becoming desperate from The poverty and degradauoh
witch aff1io free labOrer In s'aveholdng country.
In Virginia they have influence which Is not per
mitied IN the active Slave Sates and the expectation
of Gov. Wise is that they will be able TO bring oIl
into the Virginia Legelature, protioltng the practice
of mechanic arts by negroes ID order to preserve one
class Of employ ment for poor whites. In opposition
TO THU the planters and the townsmen VINO
support them, are proposing 10 esta0lsh large man
ufsctorts by me ans OF African lAoorers and certain
anvertemsnis before show that save labor is
fer the making OF railroads with the ayowed OBJECT
of excluding free labor as too dear. We need not
d. ell On the faacy of any calculation which assumes
that free and slave labor are of equal qualty. The
Ioint e interest e. Us il that endesvor is mp1e TO
drive away free laborers one frontier while African
slaves 10 be imported over the Other. 10 tnls
everything il 10 give way. The outSpOken anucpa-
ton of the az rcultuIa Slave States IL that Pennsy
vsnis first and then all the other sssb ard State
will be carrying on hOurishiDg slsve trade within
ten years. that every mean white will by that
time have at lesst one slave OF bis own: ihat
the citizen of Massachusetts will staad at the foot
Of the Bunker Hill Monument 10 cal over the roll
of bis slaves: that European labuers VIII cease
TO seek their coast or will be turned back from IT.
and that republican government will have gwen place
10 amlli,ary rule which may still preserve tue ~ord
because urre nsy be no eIegn in me case, ou'
which will wholly exclude aborers from politlch e1
isience ard concentrate rights and privileges on the
CAPITALISTS h. Il aboreIs. The relation of this
state Of things 10 the foreign alliances of the American
people We have now room 10 exhibit. We may
Do it another time. Meanwhile, we have 70 assure
our readers that the propOunders of this retro
eressive policy are evidently in earnest We
need not add that they do not know the
Nortk-neitber its wealth, nor its Intellectual
resources nor it's insight, nor It's spirit. They
90 not know the North, if they conceive such
reversal Of it's policy to be possible. They do not I'M
derstsnd political economy, or they would not Imagine
that ee labor could be put down at their pleasure.
They 90 not know the world they wolld not fancy
H.. could make free with Africa 10 suit their mag
mary ccnven.I ce They do rot know the eOergy aud
,arrsify which belong 20 free labor in partnership with
catita or they could not reckon on engrOssIng the
co ton production Of the rid Still they may be,
AID they evidently are, in earnest and they are hu-
moied by al ',ast one European power. IL they are
ever 81 cure OF ailure in their scheme as whole II IL
ore which We are bound to understand it proceeds
and we shall therefore allow phase OF II I, pass I'm
noticed and Unprecedented.