New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-25

We gave an account few days since Of an elab-
crate report by Committee Of The South Carolina
Legislature in favor Of the revival of the African
slave trade. The same subject is also before the
Legislature of Texas, having been brought up by
Joint resolution introduced int the House Of Rep
representatives, and referred to the Committee on
Slaves and Slavery. Mr.. John Henry Brown, the
author of this resolution, seems fully impressed
with the dogma maintained by some ultra Aboli-
tonists of the North, that the Church s the corner
stone Of American Slavery. Not content, like
Briaham YouSg and the Mormons, to rest upon the
exsmple of tho patriarchs and the Old Testament,
Mr.. Brown presses the New Testament and the
Apostle Paul also into the service.
Thus African Slavery is justified not merely on
the alleged ground that "from the earliest dawn Of
"social organization" down to the present time,
"the black man or negro has shown himself to be
90 distinctivey inferior intellectual being, incspa-
"ble of selfeIevstion or moral Improvement" but
more particularly on the ground of that famous text,
"Cursed be Canaan Canaan being set down by
Mr.. Brown a. "the negro" The text also in Le-
viticus about making bondsmen OF the heather
round about, which heather Mr.. Brown seems to
take It for granted were negroes, il also cited to
justify the African slave.trads. "In addition TO
many other and abundant commands both in the
"Od Testament and the New, instituting, ordsln-
{" ing or regulating the ensavement Of this inferior
"or negro race Of men," tho e1hortation Of St
Paul contained in the First Epistle to Timothy is
cikd at length, though for our part we do not
recolIect any intmatiOn that the slaves thus ad-
dressed by ST. Paul were negroes, or that the e1'
bortation in question would not equally apply to
Mr.. Brown himself, should he happen to be- ship
wrecked On the COAT of Africa and be made slave
Of by the wandering Arabs.
Having thus grounded themselves on the Bible,
these resolutions ne1t proceed to set out the reno
val of the negroes "from . state of degradation,
",larery and barbarian wretchedness in their M
"tiye African wilds, to the condition Of suojuga-
ton 10 the white race on this continent "as their
/" greatest Known good Is . people," aud also .
great good to all the rest Of the world; al attempts
hitherto made at their emanci patton or elevation
a. total failures; and the existing institution Of
Slavery in this country - the great corner Stone
of republicsnism, standing Sin bold autagouism
"arle to arstocrscy and asrariauism, to despotism
"snd anarchy, to tyranny and faction" sustaining
"ju,t laws good government the stability OF re
L" publican institutions, and the rights Of man to
self government, - proclaimed BY our forefathen
"of 1916"
Copsideripr ali these facts, and the check given
to the development of the Southern states, and 10
the ,meIioratiou of the condition Of the unhappy
Africans, by the act Of 1908, prohibiting the slave
trade, ard especially the need that Texas, with
her vast unsettled territory, haa Of additional labor
-" being capable Of receiving. sustaining and con
troEpg . large number of these hapless beirs',
with advantage to them, b, herself, and to sverJ
body, especially the lsborng classes Of the North
esa states AID Europe on these rOuads Il 10 pro