The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

From the Paris Constitutional of Dec. %.
Napoleon's Defence Of the new Slave
Trade of France.
We stated in late article, in reply to the
London Times, that the decline of the Eng
lish colonies should not be attributed to ne
gro emancipation. and that the professional
aboltionists of England were alone guilty
of that decline brought about, as it was, by
their unjust and systematic hostility to the
planters. In order to restore free labor, in
jured by trial which was unsuccessful
and false in principle, the Times calls upon
US to renew the experiment on new plan.
We have always thought that complicated
plan was unnecessary-al that is required
is to give labor in the colonies the same free
dom and latitude secured to it in Europe
For instance, the planters have not been free
to procure laborers to continue and extend
the cultivation of the soil. This is one of
the principal errors the aboltionists have
committed. In Europe the supply of labor
-ers has always exceeded the demand. In
the colonies, on the contrary, the demand
has exceeded the supply. The population
is insufficient, and it never can be augment
ed by European emigration. In the trop-
les no European can venture to cultivate the
soil. To him it yields but deadly emana
tions, while its richest products prodigally
bestowed repay the African orAsiatic. The
white man may, without danger, carry his
capital and his industry to the colonies, but
his constitution is untitled to endure great
physical fatigue there.
The colonists could have procured labor
ers from Africa and Asia that could not be
surpassed if the abolitionists had consented;
but this they would not do. and, with their
usual mode of reasoning, claimed to act for
the interest of the slave, while refusing to
this reform the indispensable elements of
success. So effectually have they opposed
Indian and African emigration that in the
English West India Islands the cultivation
of the soil has been left to the caprice of
creole laborers, who, enjoying an undisturb-
ed monopoly, naturally abuse it by charging
high for little labor.
1t is the business of Great Britain to bring
these fanatical abolitionists to reason. But
the consequences of their false doctrines
have affected us. Our colonies have suffer-
ed from lack of hands as well as the Eng
lish colonies, and it cannot be any longer
endured. If our neighbors choose to sub
NIT to the consequences of their abolition
theories, the rest of the world is not obliged
to adopt them as its law of conduct. Their
code of philanthropy is not a law for US
Thus our government, having recognised
emigration as at once useful and moral, has
authorized traders to engage laborers in
Asia and Africa for the French colonies.
Up to the present time Asia has furnish
ed very small number of laborers. Will
the supply be more abundant in future?-
We know not. India is not French colony.
In that vast territory we possess only a
few establishments, of very limited extent.
Emigration has not been viewed without
jealousy by the glo-Indians. The intol-
erance of the abolitionists has been made
use of there to injure and retard our opera
tions AS for China, it is so distant that
we cannot look to it for emigrants; the ex-
pense would be too great. Besides, the
unsettled condition Of the Chinese empire is
an obstacle that must not be overlooked:
But Africa continues to be the source
whence the colonies first drew their labor
ing population. 1t Is convenient to our
American possessions. Its inhabitants are
gentle, robust, sociable, and inclined to ag-
ricultursl pursuits. Then, in addition to
this, they are oppressed and subject to the
horrors of perpetual anarchy in their own
country.
Are not these reasons sufficient to induce
US to look to Africa for laborers for our
colonies? And our planters, authorized by
a government careful of their interests,
have turned their attention to that quarter
African emigration has commenced; it is
pursued with energy. and we hope it vii
continue until our colonies revive.
But it is great scandal to the superanu-
ated society which was accustomed fol-
twenty-five years to behold the world bow
before its DEGREES in matters of philanthro-
py. What lay hands on Africa. the holy
ark which has been guarded with such an
extreme jealousy. and defended still more
by the prestige which it has acquired? Yet
the Times thinks the present opportunity
fortunate for seizing it again: and, thanks
to its proceedings. Parliament already re-
sounds with the declaration of grievances,
the most grievous of which is that they can
not have laborers from Africa except they
purchase them again. 1t is natural re-
suit of the social state of that country
Slavery is the general condition of Its work
ing population. As it is not among the