New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-26
Con,,,uea from tue Fifth Page.

Inv il out Of the gu -tiJn but mater Of fact the
American Government Is ss'tiag 20 work with Obvious
And ineligible sincerity of purpose TO -top the slave
trade and, the pfotractioD or e1tlnc'lon OF the
Slave.t,ade depends on the AmeIicao GpverpM'h ~
sadtr the crcun Stances Of the pre.en, time TIE iac'
n Of high importance, whatever emotions may VI o ay
BOT belong to il. We need scarcely rePezt that The
power resis with the Government at Washlngton,
bscsuse avOwed slavery exists Only N the Ln!Del
States and Cuba; and Cuba alone could no, Keep up
the trade. II Spain were called 70 account ana i1r
coasts watched by all the other parties !" the ueS'''
agantt the Slaye-usoe ..,,,I a
II is Of in portance no. only that II shond De uoue'
sAIod in his country that the American GOV,fnment
bs, Altered lie couree, in regard 10 lts dules on te
ccss. II Afca aud Of the Golf bat tha, the reaso15 OF
the cSange should be Appreciated WIN some otsuoc1-
ness NJ they must involve further changes OF gres'
;,,ee.t TO the countries Of Europe And sgsin, II u
necessary thst the allies Of the Washington Govern
neut should understand the facts OF the Gaze, because
The sspect OF affairs in America u very misle 4dng
At this moment there many people IN England soo
suppo.e the struggle against the slave trade ~ be less
bopefn than ever because there have recently been,
mol only demsnos from parties in several vi the uth'
erp States Of the Union for the reopenng OF me trsde
but suocessfa attempts N import naive Afrlchns-
courts and lures refusing 10 enforce the Avs sSan-J
the in porteTs. We ought 20 understand ~hus the CIR
enmstabces are which in the midst Of such state OF
affair. make the extirctDn Of the slave-trade more
hopeful than it when every American citizen pro-
feared 70 be proud Of the laws which pfoscnbea the
traffic before the laws Of any oher country did &c.
According TO the hishest American authorities, then,
the s this.
The slavehodipe in.eres, Of the United States has
been since the sboiion of the slave-trade IN ISU8
vnon1poly TO which the holders have chung with more
AID more energy their fortunes declued as Is the
way with mOnopOlsts generally. AS the value OF III
Iyoua negroes rose the owners supposed themselves
70 be growing richer except from sode unsecountabe
iofu. noes which somehow made them contlou.ly
poorer We oil know how II il their wont 10 revue the
hour.h Free States by wbOse capital alone the IN
dutIy and Of life are kept gong at al IN the slave
6ss.s During the half century oi monopoly 10 saVesl
the soil on which they worked has deterioraed the OG
estates which they lived have sunk INTO RUS; ana
(what is 10 present purpose the families OF tne
ci,jzens have large proportion declined III s'ai0n,
leaving only the small class of exs ing shareholders 10
constitute The srstocracy winch was formerly deter
mined by race The Shareholders constituted three
tepths Of the white population OF the Slave States, a.
the date Of the last census and they will next year be
fonpd 10 be still fewer The other sevenenths must
SCORER or later grow impatient under state oil enaTs
in which they fad themselves sunk from the position
held by their iahers pO0r despsed, and degra led ID
tn. level of the negroes by the necessity OF working
they would not Late years have been favofa-
hIe TO the ripening Of that impatence AFTER long
seres of awakening incidents two great shocks came
70 rouse them into what their arstocratic neghbos
call rebellion.
The Kansas struggle, in which they were sen, to
Near their nan a. the mt sry champions of the SOuth
to be food for powder in the stead of the slave
ovn.rs-disclosed to some Of them the virtues AMI
priv ges Of free labor and proved TO many more the
fact Of their degradation below the level oil ali
other white men in the Union. Ine other nci ent was
probably a consequence of that set of discoveries
De OF their class, Mr.. Helper, OF North Carohna,
isued his well known book, in which the wrongs OF
his class are exposed, and distinctly traced 10 r over
sbedovirp monopoly under which they live. Tbe ei-
forts on the one hand 10 suppress the book and It's
writer and on the other TO carry his staiements nto
every dwelling in the Union have been token to OBJ,
servers Of the Of both shareholders anu
sbotousts Of tte critical character of the WORK and
of the time 10 which II appeared AZ first 1t was sup
posed that the arpreheuded rebellion wOuli TAKE
place through the ballot boxes and probably VIII a,
whenh uudrcts thousands
zeps will vote who never voted before; but, me
another course has been adopted which more nearly
concerns u.s. and our payment tor the African service:
Hitherto, and especially since the entrance OF NJ NJ.
Reei. of Marsees into the slave.trade, behalf OF
The French colonies il has been constant complaint
On the African coast and amoog honest American c't-
xens that the American ships seemed TO hs sent 10
encourage rather than stop the traffic. ship drawing
20 nuch 10 be unable t. approach the shore,
accounted first station and then another 10 the ex
illusion Of the filter vessels of the British aud Portu-
su.se; aud wherever the great ship was the creeks
aud coves we're absolutely uDgoarded and the kldnap
ping Of natives in fact protected Inc newspapers
Of Eew.Yoib and Boston have long abounded IN vain
with complaints and exposures Oh lhls aou7e Vi ma
toba Igaeement.
with tuch circumstances the Washington Government
bas made q great siir about the ineiicency OF the
watch Ike pt by American vessels the coast OF Africa,
has eed the big ship and sent smaller and ordered
thai the whole existing force OF gunboats sha ne sent
twhle more are buildirg) to guard the shadows aud
Whence this chsngel Why, the poor whites of the
Slave States have learned, partly by accident and
partly by research, that they can Obtain labor more
chesny than tn. r arirtocratc neighbors had allowed
them to suppose. The monopoists OF negroes have
raised the value Of home bred slaves TO average OF
Al eco head. The savetrader can supply them at
1900 sill after ali losses gaining SJO 10y the bargain
fh,e discovery made the poor whites are nov
trying the use Of their political powers in getting the
IA ~ against the savetIade repealed. The slayehOid
ers dr, ad nothing much as the INVASION ot their
monopoly. Their capital exists in that form or no.
wbert their land is injured past retreya except by
free labor if their existing slaves sink TO onethrd of
their present vslue, with the certainty thst
Abe next generation Will be worth only half
that all will be over with the arstociacy OF
The South. Their frst object, therefore, is to
get the laws against the saverade enforced and, a.
amisery makes NJ acquainted wthstrange bedelows,
these Shareholders, who have put torth Their whole
force to extend the principles ana institutions oi
slavery over the entire Republic now ind Themselves
working with the Anti-SlaveTy party TO control Mr..
Buchanan policy during the remainder OF his term,
aud to secure the election Of successor who shall be
pledged in the frs; place to enforce the provisions of
fbe Constitution az apst the slavetrsde. We have
not space even II II needed, 10 show how this
great change must issue IN the extinction OF the inS
tut,on self Even if il 70 our present purpose
our readers could draw ha, set of differences for them
s<lyes-remembering that free labor Is actually exhibit
ing its own vautAes the spot, and that the from
tier Slave States hsve declared for junction with the
Free States, IN having TO choose between North aud
Soptb
What concerns us here is that the political section
.,f Southern society il uniting with toe North In de-
xnsnding that the elsve.trsoe shall be suppressed,
end that the order for sending out eflectual Instead of
cb.tructive vessels has been given accordingly. The
rp,st viglant Abotousts, who have learned by long
az ,eIience 70 distust all ofcis upon that OF
,sn ects admit the tscs Of the Iney tell US
aha: speaking Of the springs OF policy one thing aud
VpeSkng of the facts of policy Is another; and that
eiy Ia President is n