Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-18
The Slave Trade, Coolies, etc.

The high price Of sugar,-the poverty-stricken
condition Of Jamaica, and other British colonies
the dim prospects Of the future as 70 labor in the
Tropics. &C., has been leading,-it would SEEM
The London Times into some rather extraordinary
remarks upon the Slave and Coole Trade, and the
Treaty with BraZil, Great Britain hss, to suppress
the Slave Trade,-in consequence of which. she
passed the act of 1854 enabling her cruisers to stop
and search Brazilian vessels off the Brazil coast
These remarks, which we call extraordinary in a
British press, are TO be found elsewhere;-and ex-
traorduary, we have called them, because they in
dictate change Of policy upon the part Of lead
ing organ of the British public and disposition
to take the back track upon the Slave Trade, and
to encourage the CoOlie Trade.
Our readers may not remember that in order to
compel Brazil to break up the Slave Trade, ac.
cordng to her treaty with Great Biitsin.-the
British Parliament, in 1915, gave British cruisers
the power, of the Brazil coast, aud 10 Brazil
waters, to over haul and search vessels under the
Brazilian flag, suspected of conveying slaves
The act was so offensive 10 Brazil that the Brazil
government refused to enter into o treaty with
Great Britain upon any subject, till that act was
repealed. The act never has bean repealed, but
whenever Brazil has in good faith, as now, broke
up the foreign slave trade, the act has not been
enforced and is not now in force. Nevertheless,
there is no treaty between Brazil and England
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in order to tempt Brazil into treaty. His reason
ing was, that the Slave Trade is over in Brazil
there is now no need of the act OF l645 and that
its existence aleDates Brazil from England, and
only makes closer its commercial relations with
the United States. Lord Palmerston thought il
would be dangerous to repeal the act, and Mr.
ROebuck got but IL votes for bis motion. Never
tbeess, the Times reasons that Mr.. Roebuck rep
resents the general feeling of England.
What most strikes upon reading these ar
ticles in the Times, is the quasi confession Of the
British organ, that the British West India Abo
tion policy has been failure and that, as in the
tropics, only under forced labor tropical prpduc-
tons can be raised, new system of African labor
must be projected, the Coolie trade must be in.
vigorated or started airesh. The S1tbterf dnedn
logic OF the articles, to speak, is 10 favor of the
restoration OF forced labor from Africa or Asia,
where labor is abundant, to make up for the abo-
ntiOn OF slavery in the British and French islands,
and the abolition OF the slave trade 10 Brazil
FORCED, We say, for the system Of dpDrenticing g-
norant and stupid Africans, or the scarcely less
ignorant Coolies OF Asia is but slavery temporary
slavery though 1t may be, 10 another form, and
under another name.
The contrast which almost contiguous States,
such as Jamaica and Hayti (free) presents on one
side, and Cuba and Louisiana (slave) on the other
with the now enormous price of sugar, the high
price OF cotton IA necessary now OF British e1is-
tence) and the high plice OF labor in the tropics
in consequence Of the difficulty OF getting lahorers,
are all evidently stirring up new and fresh foun-
tain Of thought in the British mind.--N y Err
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