New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-12

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letier-a sword hung up in our armory anu wi
rusiing in it, scabbaId but Ia Brazil 1t ~ s%oiI
ready 10 fall, and, as We cannot help ihihkius
palnerston would be- the last man To rscouiihc"" u
10 throw il away when actually challenged to m %
test ,o W thin he would act wisely 10 get rld oi ~
II possible, in q OF mutual confidence feSPeo'
and repose. - ,.u,.
preventive policy abroad Is TOO ike an oos;fuG'
i've policy OF home. Statesmen who are always ehech
ing wi at they pleased to consider bad tend,hces
in their own people seldom DO any positive goou, anu
the best that can be said OF their administration ae!
ward that under them the nation stood SUI. II
a. least conceivable that might have taken suie
positive course the subject Of negro labor, whicn
without involving u with all the rest oil the "o'lI
might have been equally effecral in the end. AZ II
is We have most indu-tiiously ab-sined from some
simple, obvious and most allowable measures from a
kind Of pbianthroplc or political prudeIy, Jest
should seem 10 cOunienance the Slave lrade. W
have at last made the discovery that 1t Il mol oul!
quite possible TO introduce free Coolies into our plant
atiors but that the practice be carried on 10 any
possible extent and with equal benefit to the planters
and the Coolies themselves. Indeed, II i hard 10 say
which has the best Of the bargain, notwithstanding
multitude restrictions interfering alike with the prohs
Of both parties to the contract IIemans to be proved
and certainly il requires trial than has hitherto been
allowed whether the African cannot be introduced a.
freely as the Indian labOrer. No doubt It W0uld De
matter Of some difficulty, and would require specai
organization and police 10 for the negro his con-
t,gct rights especially that of passage back II ne
desired H. Bot, at ;he worst, the police Of few
islands and colony on The main land against the
planters Themselves woud not be 30 serious an aiiair
as the police Of the against ar the world and'
were the experiment To- succeed, Il might eXtin9ulsu
Slavery by the natural competition Of the free with the
slave African. The real reason why We do not AT
tempt 80 obvious an experiment IL, that We are en-
gagged in the attempt put down Slavery 10y stopping
the supply Of African blood TO the New World. AZ
present. however, that attempt has so remote ana
doubtful prospect OF success and is attended with 30
Il gxg m
honor that humanity itself does bot forbid Us to try all
other way Of coming 10 the same end.
From The London TIME, May3
In all the debates and tTeatises in all the active
measures and proceedings 10 which for the last MY
wears the Slave Trade has given rise, weak point
of poicy will be invariably discovered. Il Is negative
rather than positive in its character involving not so
much an error as a shortening, not So much ms
take as omission; and yer, for all this 1t Is little less
thbn fatal in its consequences Let the reaier con-
sder for the principal elements OF this great
question, which has led to many noble sacrifices
AID 80 many abortive struggles; TO so much benevo-
lerce and 10 so much misery; 10 so much charity ana
10 so much strife. The most prominent feature was,
Of couIse the actual traffic in human flesh. ON one
side of the Atlantic was n country swarning with
POPULATION which lis chiefs exported for use, and
Which after unutteTabe suffering, was landed on tie
other side to be worked up with less care thaa i De-
slowed upon brutcs. From the first capture OF the
slave in the African village TO the inal sale OF the
miserable creature in America, the whole commerce,
in every Of its incidents and ITS results, was 30
ighu that 10 language can Adequately uesciioe l,s
horrors To the abolition therefore, OF tins detetaOe
trade the efforts of European AbOlIlOnsts were I'M
mediately directed. Reciprocal treaties paved the
way for proceedings, Government enactments theh
coIcuned in denouncng the traffic, and finally, mca'
sures Of forcible repression were adopted To secure
compliance with the new law of Europe. BY consent
in The rst instance by in the last resort, but abb
sOlutey and effectualy in some way or other, the
Slave-irade was TO be put down. This Is the iirst
element in the case.
But TO what objects purposes had the traffic IN
slaves been drectedl After all, nefarlous and exec
cradle this traffic was, it was traffic still, aud
the supplies from Africa could only have been
based upon a regular demand. Slaves were only
shipped for sale because il was known they would be
purchased, and they were only purchased because
their labor could be turned TO account. On what,
then was this labor employed! On tropical agucu-
ture-on the production of sugar, rice, coffee, and
other articles C almost the first necessity 10 European
life Now be il observed that in this, the ultimate
foundation of the SlnyeIrade-the basis on which
the whole superstTucture Of denominations was raised
and supported-there nothing objectionable what
ever No exception could possibly be taken to The
cuy alton Of those fertile soils from which crops OF
such utility could be raised. The fruits Of the earth
ale for mans in region of the globe as Well as
another. There is criminality attending the con-
sumption Of coffee sugar, no cenSure attaching 10
husbardry in Jamaica or Brazil any more than IN
Norfolk or Pomerania. The object, therefore, OF the
e-TraGe-that is to say the tlage and improve
mert of the soii-was lawful enough: the crime was
confined to the means by which labOrers We're attained
and the conditions under which they were worked-ln
Other words, to the trade ITSELF From this point OF
view we observe the second element of the question,
viz: That the Slavc-Trade had maintained vast sys-
tenn of production against which, considered apart
from the agencies employed not word could DE sa1
Looking them at the a. involving on one side
an extensive and beneficial species of cultivation and
ON the other an atrocous traffic in human blood let US
ak what steps taken when We abolished the eV
10 provide fol the maintenance OF tile good. 10 this
r lao al NAn 4.
M this pont that our policy has failed. Admitting at
once that il was our bounden duty as Christian peo-
pie TO intercept by all the means IN our power that
dreadful current Of misery which ior SO many years
had been setting the Atlantic, II wouh surely
also have been wise to concert some effective meas
mes for supplying the sgIicutursts OF America with
other agencies in the place OF those when they ha1
lost. Neither they could desire unit lher a'o-
cations should cease altogether Their fault, or their
misfortune had been not that they were farmers but
that they famed by means of slaves IL coud nor be
expecttd either that Europeans woul1 dispense WITH
the importations they bad been IN the habit OF
e1ioyi,a. or that Americans would quietly see
their lands run to waste; and yet these were the
conditions which seemed 10 De assuming
Instead If facilitating the introduction OF some
substitute for the labor abstracted we regarded with
IN, utuu,t jealousy every effort directed 10 this end
and were So neousy apprt henslVe about tue cohthu
ance Of Slavery under any kind OF disguise that We
placed kind of prohibition upon any iaoof Whatever
That such state Of things was perfectly Incompatible
with trsuouilv content good faith IN the execu-
ton Of agre ements the smallest knowledge OF human
uoture slould have suiced Ia teach We had left
large ' cuss Of agpculiur.ts hitherto engaged in
nunerative production without the means Gy winch
such production could be carried on All ms while
we had no design prescribing the production Itself,
Int desired on the contrary that it should be stlu-
lated and improved as far as possible. We wanted
sugar coffee rice and other tropical exports H. con-
stanty Increasing quantities and what them were
planters TO DO Naturally, they struggled a. nara
they could against the IIterdlct "hl1h hau oeeh
Issued In the West Indies, being British terri
tories, they had chance, aud when few
schcues OF apprenticeship &C., had been tired and