The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-15

blsms OF the Day.
We publish in another colamn. from the Lou
don Times, a remarkable srticle on the NV plan
for meeting the European demand for cotton and
sugar by transporting large numbers Of negro
apprentices from Africa to the West ladies. We
repeat remarkable article, and ii is 30 for
many reasons. Besides being wanting in that
logical sequence that usually marks the articles
OF that journal, II contains tacit admission of
the foIbearance toward the institution Of invol-
untary servitude that is epringing up in the
European mind in contemplation of the results
that have attended it's partial sudden abolition;
and in assuming that the slave trade, and not the
institution of slavery ITSELF is the object of Eao-
pean attack, it completely ignores the true aud
only cause that maintains in the present day the
African slave trade.
We have said that it is illogical. Opeping
With a distinction between the African slave
trade and slavery itself-sgainst the latter Of
which il adds enough can certainly be said, but
with this at present we are not cOnceTned"-it
recognizes the good effect which slavery has
had upon the world in producing sugar, adults that
"it is allowed On all hands that when slaves were
well treated their condition was superior not only
to that of their countryme at home, but to that
OF many of the poorer classes in many parts Of
Europe" and then urges as ''the final argument
in favor of large African emigration, that "this
promises to be tie only effectual method of
sbolishing slavery" The admission of a new
feeling in Europe toward slavery is to be found
in its Moreover it is not for the interests Of
civilization that productive estates should go out
Of cultivation, or that an article Of almost first
necessity should fail in the European markets"
This is q weighing Of emancipation against the
cotton of our Southern States and the sugar Of
Cuba ia the balance of European civilization, and
emancipation is found wanting. 1t ignores the
true aud only cause that maintains the African
slave trade in the present day, in stating that
Spain twill not be at the pains OF executing its
engage ments against the will Of an important
colony" meaning Cuba.
In this the Times is radically wrong. 1t has
never been the will of that Important colony"
as expressed in the utterances of her leading
native statesmen, to continue the slave trade
with Africa. For many years they have contem-
plated with alarm the dangers that menaced
the social fabric there by the increasing numeri-
cal prepopderance of the African race; and m ore
than twenty years ago, when Cuba hoped for the
admission of her representatives which she sent
to the Spanish Cortes under the constitution Of
1888, pamphlet under the title Of "A Letter
from Patriot, or Clamor of the Cubans, address
ed to their representatives to the Cortes," and
which was universally approved in Cuba, contain
ed the following strong language:-"The slave
trade is one of the cardinal points on which it is
requisite that our representatives shall manifest
all their zeal and patriotism. Humanity, reli-
giOn the clamor of justice, faithful iulilmen.
of existing treaties with England, the interest of
Spain herself, her honor highly involved, and the
salvation Of the island rhos existence menaced ph
death, all loudly demand the immediate extinc-
ton of the contraband slave trade Neither
have the people of Cuba ever engaged 10 the AZ
rican slave trade. 1t has ever been carried on
there by Europeans and an occasional Brazilian.
II is the Europeans in Cuba, and not the Cubans,
who to-day send here to New York to purchase
vessels for that traffic. We know full well the
truth of what we say. And this trade is car
ried on to-day because il is the policy Of Spain
to incAase the disproportion between the
black and white races in Cuba as
measure of prevention against that co.
Longs following the example Of the other
Spanish American States in severing their con-
nection with the mother country. In this policy
Spain is to day supported by England aud
ttat 4.
laying the advance Of the American Union.
If 1t were only the stoppage of the slave
trade that was desired by the policy which has
ruled Europe so many years, that could be easily
attained. There would be no necessity of ap-
pealing to an African trade In free negroes to
put II down. The United States stopped II loug
since; Brazil has stopped IT, and Cuba, now the
only country whose government fosters II, would
stop it if she were free to rule her own destiny
independent of Spain. But England is in di-
| lemma Of another kind, as is plainly evident
| by the illogical reasoning OF the TINES. She il
beginning to awaken to a sense Of the dangers
to her material greatness that Turk in the theories
of Exeter Hall In the deficient supply Of
sugar caused by the desolaiion Of the fields Of
| Hayti and Jamaica she sees what evils might
have come to her had not this country witbstood
her clamor and her abuse ard refused 70 destroy
the social fabric in oDe.half Of the States Of
this Union. Amid the torrent Of her vllidea-
tion cotton was ard Is saved to US and to her.
But besides the stoppage of the slave trade.
there is another evil in this plau Of vast trans
narration of free negroes across the Atlantic.
The scheme is not one Of sudden growth. II is
now several years since it was first started,
though II has only lately taken root in the Cabi-
nets of Madrid Paris ard London. Pezuea FIRST
tried II as means for subjectipg Cuba 10 the
torrent of European thought and idea" in 1852
but the people Of Cuba resisted II so strenuouiy,
and invoked the aid of our flibusters 20 success