New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-21

in the month of the manufacturing interest care
nGst be t.ken not &, gat Il with cotton.
One Of the arguments of the report was IN"
was neces 70 enlarge TIE basi. OF SlaSery-to
reduce the price Of slaves in order TO give chance
TO peor white f,X. TO become interested in it. Mr.
Pryor net this suggestion with an e1Plosoa %
patriotic indignation. This argument seemed 70
assume that there s at the South class OF citizens
not interested in Slavery and hostile to it. IL WAS
foul libel on the citizens Of the South thus 70 H.
dorse what Greeley and Seward have been asserting
for 20 mtpy wears. He scorned the idea that
man must he pecuniarily interested IN ssaVery ID
order to be loyal TO It; and he pointed, by way OF
refutatiop, to the presence amorg them OF al lrl'n
exile-Mitche We takait-whom the mere wl'h
for plantation had converted into an ardent de-
fender Of the system of Slavery. He contender
that the South was united peoP'e-e1,ept' per-
haps, few Yankee immgrMts-God grant that
this question might not divide them.
As to the proposed employment Of negroes alter
the number should be increased by the revival OF
the Slave Trade in manufactures and the mechanic
arts, Mr. Pryor had several objections to that.
These arts were repugnant to the habits and nature
Of the negro. Such en- ployment would imply GER
tain degree Of accomplishment and instruction, and
would give the negro an opportunity for brooding,
ard meditation, AID the fermentation OF discomfort
Besides it would bring the negro into direct conflict
with the interests Of the non.slayeholdlus white
mechanics. Why the interests of the non-slaye-
holding white mechanics de,er7e any more consld-
Grafton than the interests Of the Notwithstanding
white farmers, Mr. Pryor forgot to exp,in.
lie could not agree that the diffusion of Slavery
would streI gthen it. Diffusion was not strength;
on tie &C nrary concentration was streng.h-rather
contradiction, i. would seem, of Mr. Pryors
IDEAS about spaIseness Of population. Jefferson
advocated the admission Of Slavery into Missouri,
because by diffusing TIE institution OF Slavery you
weaken it; and, while be admired the genius and
patriotism of Jefiersor he must with shame and
humiliation confess that he was the most lntelll-
gent and efficient adversary sS Slavery which the
world had ever produced. This sympathy for poor
white men. this project Of reducing the price Of
slaves TO give poor Wbi'e men chance to buy them
hsd en- sgrarisn ard abolition flavor. II you can,
III der any plea Of public good reduce the price OF
s|ayes ope.ihiId or one half, why not, under the
same plea, abolish Slavery altogether!
But the gra,d argument of Mr. Pryor was, the
cruel operation Of this Few claim upon " our
frisrds" and the National Democratic party OF the
North. 1t ives impossible for any Northern man,
however faithful to the interests of the South to
advocate the revival of the Slave-Trade. He could
not bear the idea Of absolutely breaking the backs
Of the sffectonste, faithful creatures. Besides,
after that was done, whom would the South have to
carry its plumber, and to do its dirty work gene
rally Beside Tightening the Northern Dough
faces end making them no longer avail.be,
this project, if Endorsed, would shock the moral
senfe of Christendom. The Convention might
not care for that, but Mr. Pryor, for his
part. was not willing to set the Christian
word at defiance. As the people Of the
South protested to be Christians, they must
show come little consideration for the feelings Of
the Christian world In this, he was very much
governed by considerations of policy. The Chris
tian world was coming round. Look at England
with her coolies, ard France with her African ap-
prentices Let things 60 on smoothly; do not
give too violent shock to prejudices, and the
Christian world will come gradually round in favor
of Slavery.
Mr.. Pryor said nothing about the effect of the
measure proposed upon the peculiar industry of
Virginia, except indeed We ought to construe in
that sense some indignant flourishes with which he
wound up about kidnapping 'cannibas on the
coast of Congo, and contendDg with tie King Of
Dahomev in tbe msrts of wild Africa for the pur-
chase of slaves there.