New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-21

"ftudsl hiring systems CT Europe" or !so "cai-
"bibal slave system Of Africa" CT which our
American sy,tem 10 sst forth a. "modi6ei form
The exiting 4atSlsvery agitation is traced back
by the learned Committee 10 the Refornation-
on the whole, rather a respectable origln Ia.
Reformation, We are told, led to an " extended
range Of enquiry, which sOmetim's resulted IN
"ths widest sud most erroneous theors tse
practical result being, after few senerahoh'' 80
leave q portion of Europe "under burden oil
practical infidelity." Tho consequence
"was an epsemerL claim Of rights which
French philosophy, at later period so aptly iila'-
tlsted the right Of rebellion murder and anarchy,
the right of treason, or, in . pgle word, the 80
called rights Of nan"-the night to 90 every
thing but " obey the laws Of Gcd aud his country
Having it origin 10 this source, the Anti-Slasery
sentiment lad for whls ,uch potency as TO lsad
to the prohibition of Slavery in the North Western
States, its abolition in the Northern States, the
prohibition of the African Ssye.Trads, aad, finally,
the abolition Of Slavery in the British West Indies.
The ZANE notions even took root in the South, but
were arrested there by the successful culture Of
cotton and other produce, the Southern population
being fortunately I" more alive 10 tho msterisl in
% terest, Of the country than to the mare seat-
"ment Of universal equality and Fictitious TO-
"erty." This change Of feeling has been reen-
forced by the results Of emancipation in the Weit
Indies. The needless philanthropy Of the past age
has been checked. Emancipation in the South
"ern States s both legal aud moral inposs-
"A NJ ok,r NJ entfnp
"and other slave produce, constitute in them
"selyes a mortgage on the good faith Of man.
hind, and it is too late in the progress
"of events for tie voice Of Wi.berforcan phi.
"lsnthropy to be needed. The great want of the
"dsy is tropical produce, and this want is destined
to measure the decay Of negro humanity"
But how reconcile with this view the zsl e1-
hibited by Great Britain against Slavery "H"
as tie Committee alege, under the influence Of
morbid philanthropy she has brought ruin upon
" her West India islands, and has struck dam
aging blow al her own prosperity, why should she
seek 10 repeat similar experiments elsewhere sure
10 DO attended BY silslar results to herself The
answer given by the Committee is, that though
Great Britain would lose positively, and that TO
great extent, still she would gain relatively. BY
destroying the productiveness Of Brazil, Cuba, and
the Southern States, the relative productive ca
pacity of The British West Indies would be re-
stored to what it was before the abolition Of
Slavery. Failing to attain any actual advances
" from the dilemma into which she has fallen,
"her only alternative is to seek a comparative
"result. This can be accomplished only BY EN-.
barraasing, jeopardizDg and gripping those cOua-
"tries Of America, which, BY avoiding her OK.
"ample, have preserved he institution Of Slavery,
/" and thereby continued to supply commerce with
4" the products which civilization demands as the
" necessaries of life. One sure method of doing
+" this is TO keep up tho abolition agitation in the
saveholdiug countries, AID to suppress the slave
trade where il exists. This policy, which ahe
has industriousy and successfully pursued is not
"now, and never was any other than well Goa.
csived scheme Of elf.agsrapdizement '-thOugh
how Great Btan is to be aggrandized by thecurtail
ment Of commerce, and by the ruin of her best
customers 10 not quite 30 clear TO as it seems to
be 10 this Committee. Atall events it appears that
the cotton mortgage on the good fsith of mankind
is not quite so potent as the Committee had just
before represented it
In the case of the United States this British ag-
tation against Slavery has, according to this Com
mittee, still another object in view, namely, the
dissolution of the American Unou-a suggestion
which policy might have dictated to keep in the
back ground; in that operation, at least, che is
likely to End good many Southern sympathirsrs.
This charge is stated in the following impasaioned
terms Your Committee is warranted, from all
the indications of the day, in assuming that to
SOW further disssnsions between the Northern
/" and Southern sections Of the Union with the
L" hope Of dissOl7ing their compact under crcum-
stances calculated TO insure series Of civil and
servile WARS, is the diabo scheme upon which
British calculation has brought Northern hatred,
license and snatcism to unite and that it is this,
ard this alone which is now fermentns the evil
passions Of our people binding the vision Of our
4" statesmen, parslyzipg the efficacy Of our laws,
vitiatng the harmony of our States, invading the
Ectity of our churches, debasipg our litera-
tare, d;strsctins our foreign policy impairng the
int gritty of republican Institutions, disgracing
d" our legislation, and polutins the very altar OF
Justice" We DO not know what the particular
alusion il in this last clause probably not to the
Dred Scott decision.
Yet, if the statements Of the Committee are TO
be taken as true, one would suppose that they
would regard the dissolution Of the Union as In
tended by Providence quite as much as the exist
ence Of Slavery, whether the "cannibal syste n"
which prevails in Africa or that modified form"
Of itnow existing in America. 1.-The whole history
"of our Union displays the truth" so this Com