The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-22
Gen. Duff Green's Letter.


tens address to tie people OF the Sou hern
States has been published by Gen. Duyr
Gaxsx, In which he gives history of the
auti..lavery crusade, the origin Of which he
finds In the commercial necessities OF England
and the political necessities Of Northern men
alleges a conspiracy OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
with English statesmen maintains that the
South can better maintain it's rights in the
rufon than.out Of it; considers the ultimate
result not the Supreme Court, but q Conven-
ton of the states contends that Ii 10 the true
policy of the Southern States to concede pro-
teetiye duties to Pennsylvania and New Jer-
.ey in order to gain their alliance; considers
the two main p,anks in the Republican plat
form-land TO the landiess and a railroad to
the Paeifc--quotes WIN II. SKwARp's gigantic
scheme of public plumber, and shows now 10
defeat IL and overthrow the Republican party
and urges that slavery is a necessity OF CIVIL
cation. and a chief source of American pros
perity.
wh.tsver NAV be thought of the various
Measures of policy recommended by Gen.
o.v,x his letter will be read with attention
=, .ccount OF his venerable years and the
mart he has taken in the promotion and pro-
lection Of southern rights and interests. That
mar, Of 1t which gives history OF the anti
slavery crusade il highly instructive and In
,arss,lns. Gen. GREEN states that by an ar
,icle of the treaty OF U trecht, in l7ia, England
secured from Spain the means OF making large
protits by the slave trade, and in 1884 gave
Spain two millions of dollars, and established
$ feet ON the African coast TO abolish the slave
trade. This change Of policy Gen GREEN ex-
,Iatns nv the fact that in 1884, England had
become a man ufac turing as well as CONNER
cial people, and having the monopoly OF the
trade with the East Indies, she believed that
she could realize larger profits by introducing
her manufactur into India, In exchange for
tropical products, than she could by contnu-
ing the slave trade, aud saw that to enable her
to sell these products at profit, she must OBJ
,alu them n 4 less cost than they could be had
s,sswhers. and that a continuance of the Afri-
can slave trade would enable the Spanish
American colonies, Brazil and the United
States. to underseli her in the markets OF the
world ; and therefore she wished to abolish
African slavery, because it completes with the
labor of India.
In confirmation of these views, he quotes
from speeches made by Mr.. WiLBERFoRoE
and the Duke of Wellington. European ma
tions have few or no tropical colonies, had be-
come rival man ufacturers and ceased 10 con :
sumo British products. England saw mat II
she could exchange her manufactures Ior Inc
,ronical products Of India-all that the coun-
try whose wealth she had already appropri-
ated had 10 give in exchange-her European
rivals would purchase those prooucts, ana
Tins csotribu te TO her commercial prosperity
The discriminating duties gave the west In
dia planters a monopoly Of the supply OF the
home market. There Were only 100000 whites
and e01oCO blacks in the West Indies, whilst
there were hundreds of millions OF people in
India and China, and hence the emancipation
of the West India slaves, the repeal of the
discriminating duties, the opening OF me
East India mar kets to British enterprise, and
the war upon slavery and the slave trade, her
real motives being masked under the preten-
sion of religion and morality. Gen. GREEN
adds. however, that the explorations CT mod
ern travellers have shown that Central Africa
instead of being desert waste, as formerly
sunnosed is an extensive and we'll watered
region. cultivated by many millions of slaves,
and that slavery in Africa holds out such re-
wards TO commercial enterprise that England
and France will become competitors for its
trade. and will both avail themselves OF the
slave system. as il exists there, to increase the
products of African labor, TO be received in
exchange for their surplus Manufactures
Hence he predicts a corresponding change OF
English and Fren eh public sentiment In re-
gard to the institution Of African slavery,
their morals upon that subject being uni
formly in accordance with their interests