New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-15

C.I.r.l covarcmept ia "at war with the iunos
" mental policy Of the South, may be true 'n'osa
ths South certainly did not think so fy years sgo,
~ :, uouH not have been done. But We hold that II
there is AMI thing in the Constitution tnA' Is con'N
tut;ous IA point a. to which We are often incnhe0
10 Doubt it 10 the explicit power gwen congress
N sholi,h the African slsve-trade after 1905 But
m the other ba,d, We are ready to admit tna'' a.
there was 20 Injunction on Congress to DO this tnihs
and as it had not done it. the slave trade "ou'a NC
s,;l sconstitution traffic 80 Congress may rePea'
those prohibitory laws. and rehaoiuA se 'ne
trade on the footing on which 1t stood In 400
if Mr.. Ysncey and his party can prevail on ms
iority to do il. But, in the second place no
ssti,6ed that the agitation Of this question i' oene
seisl II has developed, not created, much un-
soundness "in our midst on the SUBJECT Oh
Slavery. and 90 warned the people OF those who
are radically upsouHd touchingit Indeed the asr
tation Of the Slavery question, generally, even oy
the UNIV Iliug BALKANS Of the Abolt'' On school Of
prophets. hath been turned from cursios into
blessing. For it led Mr.. Calhoun to rsbuke the
heresy which had spread over the South, spring'ng
from stbe wild and reckless radicsGsm OF the ke4
Republican French School, that Slavery was
" morally wropg," ard to establish the true faisn
that it is both morally and politically night ana
be holds that the General Government should be
permited to interfere with the slavetrade only for
it's protection.
He then addresses Prof De Bow as the President
Of the African Labor. Supply Association, to knew
the beings end and aim Of that body, and also
whether, in case the prohibtory laws cannot be re-
pealed, or declared unconstitutional the Associs-
ton desians encouraging the slave-trade with Afri.
ca Cuba. and Brazil in violation of those laws.
This latter soft impeachment the Professor Of
course denies There 10 nothing in bis anteceden!s,
or those Of his coaJutors that could warrant the in
ference that they have any design Of viostng, in
any event or under any circumstances 10 the let-
ter or the spirit, the Constitution and Laws Of the
:. country" OF course not. Nobody ever has any
ids. Of the kind. He then proceeds to show the
necessity of an increased supply Of labor at the
South and South west and the hopelessness OF obtain
ing it from Europe All the encouragement that has
been given in that direction has resulted in build
ing UP "the colossal power OF ether sections.
Indeed, as be italcises, it is clear THAT IS not
" Euyovtan labor ,chieh zee rant" and that if de-
sirable it is entirely beyond our reach Though
reluctant to correct politicoecononical authority
like Mr.. De Bow, we must parenthesize that if
tbo.e States had only abolished Slavery they would
have had just as much as they wanted oft Europe
being out of the question: he proceeds to say that
the South pds itself attracted back IL the father
"laId of its present labor system, which has been
"prolfic Of 40 many benefits to us, and, in return
Through it's offshoots has shared the benefits of
that civilization and Christianzation it has pro-
"moted.' He thinks it an open question whether
the commerce, industry, wealth and progress OF
the world do not owe as much to Africa as to Eu'
rope; and then he bursts forth into this appeal to
general humanity From the teeming millions,
"ths BARBARIAN hosts crushsd, oPProssad, be-
"nghted, Of that fatherland, can not few more
subjects be spared to civilization ?" To be sure,
Why mott But howl
This il is the object of the Association to teach,
by the promotion of the Free Discussion of the
subject; by the colison of mind with mind in town,
county, and State meetings; by collecting and
disse minating facts, and the use Of the ms
chinery usual to =" those leagues and associations
(Which, in Europe and America, under the ban
q ner Of Corn-Laws, Free Trade'--and, We will be
bold to add, of Anti Slavery" have never been
" thought inconsistent with good citizenship" In
laying down tie topics to be considered by his
Association, Dir. De Bow, with excellent logic,
suggests among them the difference in principle
between the transfer Of negro from one section Of
the United States TO another, without consulting him,
and from Cuba, the Brazils, or the Guinea Coast,
being right, proper, and justifable, where it now
exists at the South, the act of bringing it there
was immoral rreligious, and inexpedient, and will
be 90 again, if renewed The whole letter is
disbolically ingenious in the wsy in which it
argues for the Iee,tablshment of this OK.
ploded abomipston, with al the air Of
the most impartial wisdom and csndor. As We
have said, Mr. De Bow dsdains any intention of
doing anything in violation of the laws; yet it il
hard to see how be proposes to advance the objects
Of bis Association practically without t. He thinks
it not improbable, though it may almost verge
upon that point" to procure repeal Of the ma
tioDal laws sgsnst the slave trade, but be thinks it
not impossible should the South unite, and be
argues the question to the pockets of all classes Of
shareholders. But We apprehend that he will End
tie Virginia patriarehs slow to believe that
scheme can be copgenis to their distractions which
promises, " its fayorers generally do, though not
Mr.. De Bow, to reduce the price Of negroes to the
IT. L..
in the last Of his letters, unquestonably expresses