New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-21

In his speech in the House of Representatives. the
other day, Mr.. Blair, We suspect hit upon the true
method, after all, of Amercanizing Central Ameri-
ca and the adjacent tropical regions. AS to the
fillibuster scheme, that is an old idea which has
been tried already and according to the fllibusters
themselves, has totally failed. The Spanish cou.
querors, after having been in possession of the
country for three hundred years and more have, IS
the fiIhbusters ssy-and in fact they make this al
legged state of facts the very justification of their
own operations-not only failed to civlize the coun
TN, but have themselves, by intermixture with the
inferior races and the deteriOratng effect of the eli
mate, so far run out that nothing more can be ex-
pected from them. And why should we expect
any other result from new fllibustering conquest
by white adventures from the United States The
climate of Central America will agree no better with
the North American than it did with the Spanish
constitution. In fact to confess the truth, that
class of the Southern whites from whom the fill
busters draw most Of their recruits is good deal
depenerated already Doubtless the Central Ameri-
can climate would speedily finish them.
The co,ored men Of the United States, through
the medium of whom, and in the way, not of hos
tile invasion, but of peaceful settlement Mr.. Blair
proposes TO Americanise Central America, have
constitutions suited to the climate, under the in
auence of which they might be expected rather to
improve than to degenerate. During their resi-
denee among 10 they have become imbued with
American ideas. In fact according to the Southern
view of the relations between the white and black
races, they can only be regarded as providentia
pupils in the school of American civilization. Nor
can il be deried that they have prOfted largely by
the privileges Of instruction which they have en-
joyed Indeed the great difficulty is that they
have learned rather too ast-toO fast, at least, to
suit the views of their Southern guardians and
schoolmasiers. The great American idea of pollti'
cal equality has already become familiar TO them.
They have got the American notion into their
heads-at least a good many of them have
that it is unjust aud intolerabe that men should
labor. not for themselves, but for the ben.
eft tf some idle lOOker-OD, who not only
puts the proceeds into his own pocket, but drives
them up to labor with the lash. Az pupils they are
becoming rather refractory. They are beginning
to give evidence that in the knowledge of the great
mystery of human rights and the doctrines of DOM
ocratic equality, they are fast getting on par
with their teachers What better can We do with
these froward and uneasy pupils of ours, who
evidently are fast outgrowing that soose OF our
superiority which has hitherto kept them under,
than TO send off the most enterprising and unquet
Of them to preach and practice democratic equality
in Central America, and to give to the INDECENT
inhabitants of those regions an example OF Amerl-
can industry and thrift Some papers which we
published in The TRIBUNE not long since on
the present condition of the refugee siayes IN
Canada would 60 far 10 Justify pretty high
expectations of colony TO be formed in the more
favorable climate Of Central America on Mr..
Blar's plan. Nor would the benefits OF this scheme
be limited TO Central America alone. Not only
would American civilization and democratic lnstl-
tutions and ideas be thus transferred to those re-
pions. but We at the same time might get rid OF
population for the full health and development VI
which the climate of the greater part of the United
States is too cold and with whom We do not ANAL
pamste kindly, thereby making room for the rap
idly.increasing white population OF the United
States and Europe. Who can doubt the vast beae-
fit il would be to Mary land, Virginia Kentucky and
Missouri-not to look al present any further
South-if all their colored population were trans
ferred to Central America, and their places sup
piled, and much more than supplied, as they soon
would be. BY free white laborers! We trust some
better fate awaits these States than TO be turned
into mere breeders of slaves to be sold to the cot
ton grower. Twenty-Five or six years ago the plan
proposed BY Mr.. Blair, or something much Like it,
was very zeaousy urged by The Richmond En-.
quirer Perhaps the editors of that influential print
will hunt I'D their old files, and come to Mr. Bairs