The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-05

IL can he stopped.
The concurrence of the arrival at London Of
DR.. Livingston, the Central African explorer
and Of Governor Adams message to the South
Carolina Legislature, recommending re opening
OF the African slave-trade, has stirred up that
particular specimen of the British lion kept at
Exeter Hall, and he is having quite lively time
OF it Just now. His continuous roar is delighting
all the old women and little children that frequent
that delectaole locality, and has somewhat ex-
cited the tanner specimen specially kept by the
London 7imes. The latter, however, "roars you as
gently as any sucking dove" nothing being more
remote from its intention than threat. All this
talk, however, about the renewal of the slave
trade, s claptrap to catch gulls with. Nothing
is more improbable or farther from the Thoughts
Of nine tenths of the people Of the South and all
of those in the North of this country, than the
revival of the African slave-tr trade. On the con-
trary, every right thinking man wishes to see,
not only that trade stopped, but also the inhuman
traffic in coolies and Chinese which are now
brought from the East, and the proposed trade in
African apprentices to the Spanish colonies.
There is one feasible, practical and sensible
way to exiinguish the slave trade, and but one.
Every nation has stopped it but Spain, aud she
continues it in violation of her treaty with
England, because it is chief part Of her gov
erDment and social policy in Cuba, where she
wishes to increase the numerical preponlerance
Of the black race, in order to prevent Nfe Gu
bans from following the example of all the other
Spanish American colonies, in throwing of the
yoke Of the mother country. The long sanding
threat that Cuba shall be ever Spanish or else
African, is held to be the strongest cheek upon
the revolutionary tendencies Of the Cu,ons. She
therefore continues the slave trade and the
British government, Notwithstanding seeming
opposition consents to it as a measse o, policy,
because it fears that free Cuba would seek aud
obtain admission to the American Union.
Let the British government abHf,n its false
pretence of wish to stop the spanish slave
trade policy in Cuba, and show good faith
and earnest desire in the mstter, by as
senting to the installation free gov
erDment there or its immeGa " transfer to
the United States. In Q; sher case the
slave trade would cease at once. The native
Cubans are strongly opposed to it, and the
federal government would see that its laws and
the wishes Of the people were carried out In
opposing this method of settling the question,
England is not only protecting a Power that
Scr forty years has continuously broken faith
with her, but is in reality injuring her own true
interests
The present maintenance of the feet on the
coast of Africa is costing England three and
half millions of dollars yearly, and many valu-
able lives-all sacrificed uselessly. The trade is
not stopped OF diminished In any great measure
The bringing Of Cuba into the American Union
would result also to the advantage of England
in augmenting the market there for her maurfac-
tures. In every way that the question can be
looked at such a step would rebound 10 her
advantage. Let our London contemporaries
abandon all this theorizing about the stoppage
OF the slave trade, and come to the point al
once by advocating the only practical plan for
lis suppression. As long as Cuba remains under |
power Of Spain, so long will the slave trade
continue there.