New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-21

tured. There is no pert of the world In which the
relations Of employer and employed have been
made the subject Of such minute legislation as in
the British West Indies, and in no part OF the
world is the oborer better projected in HI rights
whether BY law, or from the desire to secure and
retsin bis services. On ali plantations on which
ipdeniured Jaborers are employed, they must be
furnished with houses in addition to their wsges,
and The owner is required to keep up plantation
hospital, at his own expense, and under the super
vision of government officers, in ahicb, when SICK
the indentured laboTers are entitled to gfatutous
treatment. There are, no doubt, serious
Elections, in addition to the heavy cost,
to sending back the liberated slaves
TO Africa. The demand for labor, and the number
OF persons able to pay wages, in the colony OF Ii
IBERIA are limited The British Government would,
10 doubt, be ready to- make an arrangement for
transferring to her West India Colonies all the
captured Africans who may fall into our hands, aud
the Inhabitants out of desire to increase the num-
Der Of their laborers, would even be ready to pay
all the expenses of the transfer Under this sys-
tem the liberated Africans would be secure of being
locked after till they had acquired the rudiments
of yilizaton, and would be certain of wages sufh
Gent to maintain them, to say nothing of the
chance they would enjoy in common with the body
of the aborers, of accommodating property and
rising TO degree of social consideration.
l., however, Southern Senators are satisfied
that Great Britain Uinks at the slave-trade, and
wishes It's continuance, as a means OF supplying
her own colonies with labor, nominaLy free, but
really serye, there is very easy way OF counter.
working her in that matter. The slave-trade, at
plcsent, is almost exclusively our trade, carried
on in vessels fitted out in our ports chiefly here in
New-York, and conducted under our flag. 1t is,
therefore in our power; and not only that, its
suppression is business which devolvesspecialy on
US. 1t is quite absurd to complain of Great Britain
for net preventing the embarkation of slaves in
American ships. She has no right to do that An
American vessel, now almost alone employed
in this business may take in a slave cargo under
the very nose of a British cruiser, and all she can
do is to hunt up some American ship of war, which
alone has any authority to interfere SO in the case
of the landing of slaves on the coast of Cuba. No
Britiih cruiser has any right to seize an American
vessel SO employed. Surely the Senate cannot have
forgotten the complaints made by Nr. Cass on this
score and the consequent withdrawal of the British
cruisers from the coasts of Cuba
As the trade stands at present, Great Britain l.
wholly unab 10 bring it to close She has put
stop to it TN the part of British vessels Under
treat es with Span, Portugal, and other States,
rLe has compelled ships of those nations to give it
up. We have always steadily refused to c"ncede
any mutual right of search, and with ships bearing
our flag she has no right to Interfere We have
Insisted upon our own exclusive right to enforce
our ownlaas. Let us do so. Let usprOvide naval
force Of the description needed on the coast oi
africa. Let us exercise due supervision over the
bttrg out and clearance of vessels de tined for the
African trade, aud Great Britain would have no
fmiber opportunity of supplying her colonies with
The labor of captured Africans.