New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-02

We publish elsewhere letter from Charlsston,
S. c., to The N. Y. Herald in which the people Of
that region are represented as looking with eager
eyes upon the crew of negroes lately brought into
that port on board the brig Echo or Putnam BY
a United States vessel. Ac ,oriug to this writer,
the Csrolini,ns are e,ger, both from motives of
philanthropy and Of profit, to convert these negroes
into their own property, by what process We are
not Informed; indeed, we are given TO understand
that they will never allow them to be ib.ratsd BY
the Federal Government The Amistad folly is
Lot TO be repeated in the present case; South Caro-
ma will never allow il. The question Of reopen
ipg the slave trade is now to be tested with all the
chivalIy arrayed under Gen. Qlsttlebum or some
other equally redoubtable champion.
We confess to profound sympathy with the
planting States, SIS they called, upon the subject
OF tie slave trade. Admitting tnat Slavery is right
and wholesome in ITSELF beneficial alike to the
black and the white man, il if impossible to per-
ceiye the justice of limiting the number of our
slaves to the pIsstnt supply of black. iu the Slave
States aud their natural increase. If Qaashee is
elevated in the ,cae Of being by being subj 70
the ciyibzpg aud Outstanding influences whi;b
be experiences en- the plantation of Mr. Speaker
Orr, or Me-. Senator Hammond for instance, why
should tfose ptilsDttropc dsnitades be compelled
By law TO breed Qusshee for themselves in tleir
own houfetolds, or to import him from Virginia
al Maryland instead Of importing him from Africa
where HE original cordtion is much worse a1d the
advantage Of the chMge much the greater
And why should they be compelled to pay to Virginia
81 $50 for Quasbee Gov. Wise would even make
them pay $4,000, when they might get him
from Guinea for 800 or $780, or even less And
free trade being the true law of nature, why should
this system, not protection, but of absolute pro-
hibition, be kept up for the benefit of Virginia,
Mary land, and the other breeding Statesl We say
there is 10 Justice or propriety in this and we sym
ps,bze With our friends of Charleston and of
South Carolina accordingly Slavery and the
slsye.tlsde being right, aud free trade in general
the true principle, we agree with them that they
are suffering under oppression, whi,h they ought
rot TO submit to.
But while We thus sgree with them upon the
general principle, We cannot see how they can
conveniently ge. hold Of the negroes Of tue Put
nsm. With regard to them, Mr. Buchanan is un-
der obg.tiors which he canro o. safely disregard.
They must be sent TO Liberia or Sierra Leone, or
some other Africsn colony where they can prop
ell be set free; ard the officers AID crew of the
Putpsm nust .t,rd ther t1al for piracy according
70 the law. Ii lis hard case, no doubt; but
Charleston Jury viii have no great trouble 10 dis
posing of t. The great tbOg to be done is to get
the lsw changed, ard the prePOsterous distinction
abolished which makes the production aud sLe of
sla, e. in Virginia no. only an honorable, but most
profitable branch of commerce, in whi;a the first
families may engage without staining their ancient
sseutcteops, at the same tine that i. stsmaszes
the trade with Africa as pratical. II the one is
right, SO is tie other.