New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-08
a reopenirg Of tho African Slave Trade, and pro
ceeds to give it this twist:


man can deduOe them iot himself fortress imp esn,bie
except single point al thst Ia needed 10 keep the enemy out
to hcep sufficient force at that exposed point But that
Of such that foe c.nnot carry It without oorssn sen
destrucirn the fortress IL really In DANGER and sn io
safety IL idle and unDanly fear III slavery can se' 10
extension except by the rsopening OF the Aan saveade
and IL the South the Moth alike opposed TO lie revival
10 what pur pose IL 1t THAI the country kept In poaoea
tson prevent the extension Of Slayey Gao any h7P
Bcsn can sty Uemoora-for Republicans aud Democrats are
sla for this upfrutena agtson-show that Mr
Seward l. wong IN these remarkable poton7 IL not we
believe they cannot why will the South longer persist
otto efforts to make States OF Territories which they nave
DO negroes TO peopiei Why VIII the NORM Poi'n' Ia " ~
10 ward of a chimereal danger"
To which thus answers THE TRIBUNE:
/. If the Slavery Extensiooists are to prevail IN
the struggle now going forward, they must do 80
under cover of DIR. Douglass dodge OF "Po 'ular
" Sovereignty or Non. Intervention" which Is
.Iso the watcbword Of the Bell Eyeretts in The
Free States "The great principle Of Non-l lter.
Z" yenton-of letting each community or State 90
"ss it sees fit with regard to Slavery who does
not zee that this principle inevitably involves and
affiyms the right Of every State to import Its ne
proes from Africa or wherever 1t eau obtain them
on the most advantageous termsY II the prin npie
triumphs, how are you to resist this application OF
il? Bear in init how, in 1885, the Northern
peace lovers who supported the Conn romise meas.
ures understood that they covered only
the Territories just acquired from Mex
leo; but when thOse measures had been
empbsticalIy ratified 10 the Presidential Elec'
ton of 1852, those peace-lOvers we're rather star
tied, soon after by Mr.. Douglass assurance that
the principle thus sanctioned covered the older Ter
rtories as well and cesstated the abrogatiOn of
the Missouri Restriction. IfMr. Douglass "great
principle" of Non Intervention sh.ll now be rati-
fed, and Texas or Mississippi shall thereupon in
sist on her patara right to draw the labor adapted
TO her condition ard her wants from the cheapest
rather thsn the dearer market, how 10 her demand
to be logically ressted' And if it cannot be logi-
cally how can it practically? How long can
those who have triunphed on broad general prin-
ciple resist demand which every one must feel to
be logical deduction therefrom7
III. The Slave-Trade is reopened. More than
Fifty vessels have been fitted out to prosecute 1t
from this port alone since "the great principle
triumphed in Mr.. Buchanso's g ectiOn-most if
not all of them sith the purchased cOnnivance OF
certain Of his subordnates 10 Office, who are per
fectly well known, yet are rot removed, and do
not fear to be- Several cargoes of African slaves
are known to have been safely landed on our Gulf
coast, and many more have doubtless been put
ashore slyly. Mr.. Gaulden "a Douglssite) openly
boosted in the late Democratic National Conven
ton that be had native African slaves on his
plantation, and proclaimed himself an advocate of
the legal reOpening Of the Slaye-Trade, and was
applauded therefor. OF those who have been en-
gagged in this traffic during the last four years, who
have fitted out vessels therefor in our ports, sailed
them therefrom, OF been captured BY our National
vessels while engaged in slave-tradiog, not one in
q hundred has been arrested, and not even one has
been tried and convicted of the capital crime.
Thus the Slave-T Trade is reopened 10 fact, and
(unle.s impeded by Republican triumph) must
soon be in law.
Ill. 1t by no means follows that, because
Slavery, as an economic arrangement, q mode OF
employing and directog Labor, cannot be Prac-
ticsy, vitaly extended without an increase in the
n, mber of Slaves, therefore the diffusion and
strepg thenipg of Slavery is an impOssbty There
than if Texas bad never been wreSted from Mexico,
subjugated to Slavery, aud then annexed to our
Union; but who doubts that Slavery gained thereby
additional power in our Union and prospect of
greater longevity There would be just as many
slaves 10 the country if they were all removed
from Delaware, Mary land, aud Missouri, and those
States made Free; but who does not know that
every earnest Anti Slavery man uld be rejOced,
every Pro-Slavery heart saddened, by such con.
summation? Were all our present slaves con-
fined to the Cotton States, and the residue
made Free, Slavery would not oullast the
next generation: as it is, the number of
American slaves, though undoubtedly formula
bic, is but one element Of ProSlavery strength:
the fact that Slavery occupies and rules half
the area of the United States is another quite
as formidable. Delaware, with but handful Of
slaves, is as loyal and seryiceabe to the Slave
Power as Florida, ard will be til politically revo-
lutionized; and New-Me1co, with less than a
hundred slaves, is being trained up into a slave
holding and slsve-breedipg State. Our Revolu-
tiOnary Fathers deemed the Introduction of the
African Slave Trade and the prohibition Of Slavery
IN the Territories both requisite, not rival means
Of attain log the same end, but halves of the same
unit, integral parts Of system of National policy
destined in time to fee us gradually, quietly, ef-
fectually, of the curse and shame of Human Bond
age. We are neither wiser nor more far-sighted
in this respect than they were.
Nv. Slavery is nov seeking expansion by means
uherpof The UorId takes No account All tbe
Democratic Platforms call eagerly for the acquisi
ton Of Cuba, which would add aslf Million to
the number Of our Slaves and immensely to the