New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-09

.;rc,s cf civilized industry. OF this negro i'o',
ssoro;colv predestned by Providence, after o0"''o'
Err ,bo csucasian races, to higher deVeioP'scn''
very large section is under the Hn'iouY 'a'.'"
and influence of the people OF the ""''ou ''"'''
Already az much Christians '' Jul ''''''' ''1'
after year they adopt more and more our IDEAS
-, h.hts, indeed they take into their VEINS
.er...n,,, increasing portion OF our Caucasian
- They have, in fact as body ceased to be
-. mat as our natve-born white population
80 oo.sed TO be Englishmen, 1rishmen or Ger
"a,U ,bey becoming black Americans just as We
have become white Americans.
Now il ia obvious that in this great body OF CIV
ilzed negroes, we have, Il we did but know now
10 use them and were willing to do so, a most pow
erhIl aud essential instrument toward extending
ourselves as it were-Our ideas our civilization our
commerce, industry and political institutions
through all the American tOrrid zone lhs'e'"'
however, Of making the most of this great iii''iu'
mentality toward bringing within our grasp '"''0
vast regions upon which we have hxed SUCH 0o'eV.
ors olsnces we act 10 work az it were to cut on
,ur own 6noers. scornfully denying to these peo-
nile oven those of them who are thrce'quar'ers vi
.,r oun blood. the capacity of being citizens OF
tbs limited States and proclaiming the resolution
-sucb is the doctrine preached by The So"th-to
check any further progress or elevation on lher
part. and to keep them forever mere helpless and
dependent slaves.
And what makes our policy in this matter the
more absurd and suicidal is, that Great Britain, of
whose designs upon the tropics The South evnces so
great Jealousy has adopted precisely the opposite
course. She too has, in her West India colonies
and elsewhere, considerable section of the negro
race under her immediate controls and, as if well
aware Of the great field which the uninhabited trop-
zeal regions present, and Of the impOssbillty of
occupying that field except through negro agency,
she has set herself zealOusy to work by llberatng
and educating the negroes, and by acknowledging
those under her Jurisdiction as British subjects,
with all the rights and privileges Of Engllshmen'
10 create for herself bOaysf black Englishmen,
who along with the education intelligence, skill,
seIf.esteem self-reliance, and English ideas gen.
orally Of their white feOw-subjects, Will possess
also the capacity of enduring tropical climates such
as does not belong to the races of the temperate
zones
As to the idea put forth by The South and Others
who advocate the same views of the cultivation OF
those tropical regions by slave labor that is out
of the question except, indeed by the revival and
perpetustion of the African slaye-trade, and on
much larger scale than ever before Withln the
tropics under forced labor for twelve hours or more
per day, not even the African can propagate his
race; nor has the black population of any tropical
slave colony ever been kept up except by constant
importations. For the purposes of slave-breeding,
thanks to the Winter and its period Of rest, Vir-
yina is much better suited than the tropics