New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-31
a soUVuRRr mANIFRsrO.

The speech Of Jefferson Davis to the Democracy
Of Mississippi, assembled 10 Convention at Jackson
which we prin, in to-d,y's TRIBUNE, is manifesto
Of more than Ordinary importance. Dir. Davis IL
Internationally the foremost man Of the South a.
the present day. In the Senate, his prominence
smong his slavebo'dng colleagues Is CONCEDED on
all hands. Every Northern Senator viii ADMIT thh
from tire Southern side Of that door, the most for
nidsbe adversary to meet in debate is the thin
pale polished. intellectusl.lookirg Nississpplan,
with fac unimpsssiontd demealor, tue haoltuai
court..y. ard the occasional uuinteutional AFRO
rsncs which rerea,s the keen consciousness oil
great and commanding power. 1t IS mistake 10
cobfcund hun with DISCLAIMERS like keltt, or win
s,,oar. conceited aglers like Brown, his sena-
torisl colleague from Mississippi or with mere
schemiDp politicians ike Green, Clingman, Slidel
aud Berismin. He belongs to Ligher grade oil
public men, Of whom, formerly, the Slaveholding
Democracy was prolific, but of whom, in Congress
at lea.t, himself AID Mr. Hunter of Virginia are
he OILY examples left. From the weight OF their
character in their own section the words Of such
mtn. ON subjects Of national interest are entitled
TO national confederation.
Mr.. Davis begins with a euloeiam upon the
Democr ATTIC party, which he styles " the party Of
stability and progress" to the prevalence oil
whose principles for fifty years he ascribes the
fme, the prosperity the growth and happiness OF
the country. Passing over this, which though
skillfully put, is Lot particularly novel, we cone 20
the equally stale assertion that the North is greatly
benefited by the Slavery of the South. "Doduct
"from their trade and manufactures all which Is
dependent upon the product oil slave l,bor' their
"prosperity would fade and poverty would
leone upon them as one who trayeieth.
Doubtle.s Mr.. Davis knows better than this.
His residence in New England last Summer must
haze taught hin the. TIE prosperity Of the North
is due 10 intelligence, industry, And energy, which
are oualitle Of Freedom. AID not Of Slavery. But
The cbaiGcte. Of ais Ignorant and prejudiced audi
euce MADE tie presentation OF such catering f,lla
cer. De A,Is, necessary. The truth lie, that all
that the trade AID manufactures OF the North draw
from the products of slave labor, is less than Is
drawn from any one Of a dozen OF her own crops
or her own staples; less than the hay crop the
potato CROP the fruit crop; less By far, than the
annual Weld Of the forests or the mines. There
are many branches of trade aud manufacture at
the North, the loss Of which would be more Sc
yerely felt than the entire cessation of intercourse
with the Slave States. Throughout this part
of bis speech Mr.. Davis argues as If the Free
St,tes were wholly commercial and manufacturing
communities, "who, for want of land and by rigor
"of climate find in the workshops their only in
"dustrial employment What preposterous nom
sense is this The agriculture of the North is far
in advance of that of the South, and feeds well
and clothes well seventeen millions of people, while
that Of the Slave States performs the same service
imperfectly for less than twelve millions.
TIE question of reopenins the slave-trade, Mr..
Davis deals with boldly aud frankly. He denies
the power of Congress to prohibit the African
slsyetrade AMI makes the admission, which may
be Of Importance in the not distant future, that
Congress has just as much right to regulate the
interstate slave trade as the foreign slaye-trade.
The law of 1S2O against the African traffic, he re-
CARDS as zone Of those departures which result
% from substituting temporary e1pediency for i'm
"mutsbe truth" Even considerations of public
safety or interest " could not justify the Govern
g ent in branding as Infamous the source from
:" which the chief part of our laboring population
ais derived. 1t is this feature of the law which
makes it ofienive to US, and stimulates Us to
strive for its repeal
Mr.. Davis, however, regards the repeal of the
laws against the slaye-trade as hopeless for the
present. Nor if they we're repealed, is he quite
sure that it would be good policy for Mississippi to
| .ra,1I ar re fba IIap vIa in
" tory: her rank among the States; her power to
maintain natural aid constitutions rights, de-
"pend upon her people-the Free intelli gent
a." high minded sons of tle governing race" Too
great an influx of negroes might be detrimental;
but this view, be significantly adds, Z" is not sup
"posed to be applicable to Texas, to New. Mexico,
or 10 any future acquisitions 10 be made south of
90 the Rio Grande-al of which countries can only
be developed BY slave labor in Of its forms"
From the consideration of the savetrsde, Mr..
Davis passes to that of Slavery. "The Judgments
of God are not az those of meo" he piOusly
ejacuatts. "When the Spaniards discovered this
. continent, ard reduced the sons of Siem TO
bondage, unsuited to that condition they pinned
and rapidly wasted away in unprodu. tive labor.
1.-THE good Bishop Las Casas, with philosophical
humsnity, inausurated the importation Of the
race Of Ham; they came to relieve from an un.
- natural state the dweers in tents. and to fulfill
" their own dsstiDy-that of being the servant of
" servanis"
profound theologiip is Mr. Davis. First, by
bold stroke in etbnology he solves the perpexiDg
problem Of the origin of the American Indian, BY
cs(jDg them the sons of Shem-l solution for
which W. mad acsrcnlr thnr.. l. TIA