New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-10


condition of the South, have long iorseen that
sooner or later struggle must take place there
not so much between the whites snd the bscks a.
between the great mass of poor whites, whose only
means of rising in the world, their labor, is made
d.graceul by the existence of Slavery, and the few
rich shareholders enabled to live in idleness and
luxury by means Of that institution. There is in
fact strong resemblance in several essential points
whatever differences there may be in other respects
between the position and relations of the'save-
holders and the nom shareholders of our Southern
States and that of the mobiles Of ancient Rome and
the great body of the simple citzens-a relation OF
antagonistic interests which, in the Roman history
led first to the agitations of the Gracch, after
ward to the terrible seventh cOnsulship of Marius,
then to the frightful dictatorship of Syn and finally
to the overthrow of the Roman Republic and the
imperial despotism Of the Caesars.
| The natural and inevitable hostility in our South.
ern States between the rich and luxurious few aud
the depressed and impoverished many-a depres-
sion and impovershment growing out OF the very
existence of Slavery-has lately taken on new
and curious development, which may lead speedily
to very marked and serious results We allude to
the growing agitation in the Southern States for
the revival of the African slave.trsde-an agita-
ton based by ts advocates specially on the benefits
to be derived therefrOm to the poor whites IN the
! facility which it will afford them for rising
| 10 the rank of Shareholders. John Mitchell,
take not, the shareholders will find that
they have caught Tartar, appears to devote his
Southern Citizen mainly to this line of agitation.
He still remains so far true to his original princ-
pies "a to adhere to the interest of the masses as
against the few. Mitchell plants himself on what
| he calls the honest human-fesh platform" that
is TO say on the platform Of the revival of the Afr
can slaye-trade, expressly on the ground that the
revival of this trade will reduce the price of mig
gers in our Southern States from 81 0O0 shout the
present average, to 800 or less; thus. as it is
alleged, enabling every poor white man who now
drags out miserable, poverty stricken existence
barely keeping body and soul together, to put his
hands in his pockets and strut about, nabob and
stakeholder Delusve, absurd and ridiculous as
this view of the case isior how are these poverty
stricken individuals to raise the first hundred dol
lars lit is view exceedingly well calculated to
excite the maginstons and kndle up the hopes Of
the non slayeholders; in fact, We have known emf
nent New-York merchants and capitalists to be i'm.
posed upon BY economical fsllacies not whit less
transparent. Supported BY this numerous class,
who, whenever they shall be reused up TO take
the reins into their own hands, have the constitu-
tionsl power to control the political condition Of
the South and to elect all the Southern members
| of Congress, this scheme for the equalization Of
property by the revival of the African save-trade
seems to be making, at the South, decided and
rspid progress. Mr.. JohnJ. McRae, elected to Con.
cress as the successor OF Gen. Quitman, has been
and il an advocate of this scheme; and although
there are msny Know-Nothmgs in his District,
ubile he is a decided Democrat many of these
Know Nothings voted for him-so John Mitchell
,,ys-iu the delicious anticipation OF nsser' to %