New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-15

Judgment that u IL not eIpeticn., a. thls time
rl1tber to discuss or sglt,te the question OF fh-
slavery Of the African rsce 10 rms country. aud
thin sgggests various other subjects Ulcah they
uculd desire 10 80. substitutes object. Of publ
attention. end the b4.i. Of political action BIT
Ia this resolution they add two ether-, By way Of
rider. In ubeh the Committee not otly trans Zresi
their own Injunction not TO discuss tue Sl,ve1
question. but actually str up OheT, to gJ and d.
likewise.
The, have found out q, last that the revival o.
Ia. African slave trade la. been brOached al the
South. ard is fact assuming prominent pace
among tie questions in relation 10 tue slavery Of
the African race ID this country Thl- question
ttey proceed expressly 70 except from the taboo
eriointd By their original resolutions The reason
which they give for doing 50 i ttie curious. Il
is not. they tell Us, sectional question. They do
not believe that there IS Oce state IA tbs UniOu
winch would approve Of such revival; they DO not
doubt that very large majority OF the s.iyeaoliing
State. themselves would, # called upon, be found
utt.ly sud ind quantity opposed to the repeal Of TIE
Law prohibiting the African sllve-irad-. Are W.
10 conclude from tn, tat the opposition Of the
Wig Committee to tue revival Of toe Afric,B
-iaye-irsde is graduated entirely by the state OF
Southern opinion Should 1t turn out, a. We be-
leye i. the cas-. that several Southern States are
alrescy converted to the project Of reylyng the
AtGcan slave trade; should the next Congress,
when it comes together snow respectable nj
noriiy, or perhaps majority of those States IN
favor a repealng the prObibitJry laws. would that
Stale Of tlifgs convert the revival Of the slave
trade into sectional qut stion which il would no
longer be laa iu to discuss T. this liberty OF dis.
cus-lon and remembrance to be- allowed ~ only So
long as it is entirely uDnece.sary-for what danger
j. there Of a revival Of the Afric,n slave-tride so
long a. large majority of the .l,'eboiding States
are opposed To t7-snd IS it to be prescribed as
sectional the moment the sld7e-trade-revyal project
La. gained 20 strong hold upon the Southern mind
as to present Itself positive and present
danger
Without, however pressing or Wing friends
too far on this point, being too nquistTe as to
tie future, let rather return tnen our sincere
thanks for the present liberty in which they indulge
Us of,xpressiIg openly, decidedly, and, II please
w. Iuu!AbdHh.' WI OIL pi"P'i "'t"'iV"'i ""' 'ff"
siton to and adherence Of the African sla'etrade.
For this liberty ought 20 be the more thinhiul,
since. bad tie Committee followed the advice OF
Mr.. Winthrop, they would have specially prohibited
all discussion of this subject at the North AS tending
to provoke the Southerners and to lead them to do
out of spite aud passion, what If left to themselves
they would have absained from.
But do not our Wig friends see that in thus
opening 10 discussion the question OF tue African
slase-trade they open, at the same tune, the whole
question Of Slavery That revival is urged on the
ground that Slavery j, good thug in ITSELF that
slave labor, in political, social and economical
point Of view is far 10 be preferred 10 free labor;
that il is philanthropical aud pious thing to
bring the Africans here aid make Christians of
them How il it possible to discuss satisfactorily
the question OF the African slsEetrade without re-
plying to these arguments Of its advocates