New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-26

The Jamaica Colonial Standard oil May 20 COZ
tons an advertisement for the sale at public auc-
ton of tie cargo Of "the schooner COrtes, nation
unknown, seized by H. N. S. Forward and con-
"demned in the Vice-Admiralty Court for having
"been eDgsged in the slave-trade" Among the
items are: 70 quarter-ca and 40 hOgsheads of
rum, hoeshead and quarter casks red wine, 10
barrels rice, 81 barrels bread, 80 iron buckets, 90
water casks, 1901 feet of lumber &c. The Stand
ard states that if ever there wore q SLAYER in the
world the Cortes was one. 1t adds that, 80 long
az the American Government, knowing a. 1t does
that nine ter tbs of the vessels employed in the
Cuban slave trade are American, and that the
American flag is freely used not emily on the coast
of Africa, but on the coast of Cuba, for the pur
pose of preventing slavers from being visited BY
British cruisers, neglects to provide an adequate
squadron OH the Cuban coast to protect its own
flag from desecrat;on or from being used to cover
traffic which is piracy by American law, 30 long
must Americans engaged in lawful commerce be
content wherever suspicion can reasonably attach,
to permit visitation, unscoOmpaned by unneees-
sary force, on the part of the cruisers Of ration
bound mutually by treaty with the United States
t0r the suppression OF tuo sInVo.tIouc.
Our Government is either for or against this
crime of crimes-ths arch. piracy. The running
up of an American flag can be effected by any
pirate, ard if the Government by flat avOwA or
Shiny wrisgliDg Of diplomatic phrase, calls 1t pro.
lection against the right Of visit, there is pre-
MUM put upon the slave-trade, and our efforts to
suppress it are simply lies. We may be pretty low
as nation, but there is depth which must be
precursor of dissolution, and we would fam be-
lieve that we have not yet arrived at that. Ger
tain it is that the profits on the slsve.trade are 80
enormous that those engaged in it can afford to pay
their way munifcently, and squirm around the law
in manner rot comprehensive to poverty. We
arc enabled to affirm that there is at this moment
in the State Department at Warrington, proof to
show that the capital Of three million dollars In
vested in the slave trade produces eighteen million
dollars Pre- fit O year-an investment valuable a.
most without precedent or parallel, and stimulating
avarice to frantic energy. That slavers are fitted
out hsbitualy at this port-that the Cortes was
known to be such before she sailed-are facts well
known. That the officers of the American ships
placed to seize slavers are, for the greater part,
heart and soul with the oppressof, is too deploraby
true. Coming chiefly from the Slave States-lord
of all they survey as they pace the deck-shey are
precisely the men not to sympathize with the philan
thropy of Anti-Slavery, and their naction is in &C
cordance with their theory regarding the sup.
preston Of the trade.
The time, indeed, appears to be approaching
when tho maintenance Of Slavery at all, and the
open trade in the slave with Africa direct, will be
considered inseparable. As Edmund Randolph
said that the domestic slave-trade in the United
States was more terrible than that with Africa, 80
appear many to think, and if We permit the one
we may as we'll permit the other. Morally speak
ing, they are on the same platform; economically,
there may be difference. II the slave-trsde with
Africa be legalzed, the issue will be disunion or
the ensavement of all the Northern States.
The course taken by the present Administra-
ton for or against the slsve-trade as involved in
the right Of search, will largely determine the fate
of this couItry Certainly the South could not
have two men more deeply involved in its interests
than the President, FIRST signer Of the Ostend
Manifesto for the seizure Of Cuba, and Mr. Dallas,
the Envoy to st. James,, who, in defining the
powers Of the Reform Constitution Convention of
Pennsylvania, said it was supreme-that it "could
"enact lava bloody a. those Of Draco, and restore
Slavery" That anything worthy Of humanity and
Of the age should come of such brace Of Pennsyl-
vsna politicians appears too much to expect.