New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-01

mere was none " tns country thsy woIld cpPess ~
nv friends Il Il remarkable fact that the Ameicsr
colonies resisted long and steadily the importation Of
these Africans. In every instance their opposition was
overcome By the influence authority Of tho British
forced aeon m he people s sssp:: Ssr viii.
No community was willing 10 accept this great bess-
ing the last century. knay pc confidently asereds
no con munity can now be found who, e. an ongin!
proposition, prepared 10 commit their industrial add
economical relations into the hands OF Afncans The
ackDow LEGGED nierorty of the negro in the absence
OF all other consider ATOMS would be sufficient guaranty
ansss .ns su's,dsl ssps BE-; there IL s4s as, S
RIDING ourselves Of Ksfer Il has been allowed 70 take
root. Men will dseus with some freedom and impair
TALLY almost any original policy TO which their minds
are ALREADY The victims Of an eror which has been
fixed upon them by the folly or misfortune Of theis
ctstors they may incline 10 MAKE yrtQs Vi necessity.
They may not only approve, bat may sing The yases
Of that very error Rass sion ana Rssae IKE 49, .as
reach. You know that no country n 50 destitute Of
worth 90 wanting In the comforts Of e, but That s
people conceive for II an attachment 'A 20
"sachs the patriots boast whsreer we roam,
His FIRST best country ever is at home"
So too with the institutions and things TO which We
have been ascustomed we incee tow ard them simply
because We have had them. The mind yisIdsin habits
with reluctance and we sustain them even while We
doubt.
Fellow-citizens when remember how generally
and how deeply averse African Slavery the coionss
were-how they struggled and fought against it-how
with upEted bands thsy TPored the AZ, hn ase 81
member how in the language Of Mr.. Jeferson, these
sovereigDs prostiinted their negative by suppressng
every legislative attempt to prohibit or RESTRAIN the
"execrables commerce.; when eau al ms 70 nind,
claiming that Free society lie failure and Slavery
bic sspg tested by experience, cannot keep cut Of
my mind the little story which Esop has told u.s. q TIE
in trap, and came very near losing his life bus eY-
Gated himself with the loss only OF his tail He was
good deal mortified" and fully sensible tina, some
Ting had TO be done to sustain his position before ne
community. He made bold push, therefore, 70 re-
deem himself turned Democratic orator. mounted the
stump harangued his feow-citizens with bodnees and
volubilty, proclaimed far and wide that trap was
divine institution, infested on his peculiar sevadagee
now above other men, discoursed generally on The
blessings of having tail, and of the constitutional
right Of all foxes TO have their tails cut off,
There is one thing connected with this view Of the
with peculiar power IL IL this that the presence Of
African Slavery among should be deemed q bless
ing, and the African save-rade itself shoald &c con-
sidered an evil. The African savetrade, nnder our
statutes is horrible crime is Chased with piracy ana
murder, and punished with DEATH The civilized ma
tons have banded together TO make common cause and
sweep it from the earth. Now, this African Save
trade which such abominable crime, the source
and cause of Slavery in all the countries where 1t ex-
lists, and ia the polluted fountain ont OF which has
sprung our bic ssed institution. In this instance then
evil produces coed But the existence Of slave-hod.
ing communities, which open market Tor slaves ana
pay for and encourage the prosecution Of the trade Is
the cause of the African slavetEade. You must know
if there were no slave holding communities-no places
where Africans could be bought or sold after they
were brought from Africa in slsve-shipe. there
would he no sayetraie II is the existence Of com.
munites that hold slaves and protect and defend the
Institution which supports and fosters and keeps alive
the slave trade. Here you see that good produces
l. ~. HkAl
sa u SGw b ask Ss
mend itself to your judgment even though il had not
been written by the finger Of God: mf
T5a. every tree is known sy It's own trai For Of sSrn'
rpt tree bring forth good fruit"
ing then the African slave trade cannot be An ey.
And if the African slave trade be good institution,
then should be to ~n wide open and tins great Snd
good fundamentally turned to the best account Per-
bars Great Britain might be induced by our Democratic
TO substitute slaves IN place Of her nge-
Nous busbandmen and operatives; maybe the French
nation would be intelligent enough TO NIL al Their DE-
partments with negroes The Germans and Saxone are
supposed to be toerably asute in finding out their in
terest and would seize at upon such sohd advan-
tsges. Would it not be well to dispense pretty muc1
with white men except 30 far as they might pc Iouna
essential 10 slavery owners OF race more iortunae
and more blessed than their ownl
No man can deny that the teachings Of the Demo-
Gratis on the negro question lead this way. Those who
raise Ideas NOT
press them on to their natural results.
The propagaDdism of the Democracy has already be-
gun to develop itself in two Of its horrid featureshe
revival of the African slave trade to our own shores,
and that other not less iniquitous and praca move
ment on our own SOIL and wislin the slayeholdng
States, the sale into slavery, without crime on their
part of our free negro population Governor Stew
art vetoed the free negro bill, and honor him FOR III
party doctrines. He denied the goodness Of the iuti
tuition. II slavery be an evil then the veto was right;
If it is blessing then the veto wrong, and there
was no occasion for the Governors quotation from
Burns:
"Mans inhumsniy to man '
Makes countless thousands mourn"
Felow.citzcDs, political economists tell as, and they
tell us truly that the grandeur of a State depends in
great degree upon the number of It's inhabitantA A
few never constitute powerful or even re-
spectacle State-numbers are requisite. For Il by
numbers that you multiply the virtue, intelligence, aud
value of individuals All this implies that these num-
bers must not be paupers-must not be invalds7mIa
not be slaves For how was any State ever made
more confident in the management Of ts domestic az
fareor how could any State ever strike terror into
the hearts Of lite foes because large portion Of s peo
pie were slaves Slavery is Of those blessings Of
which it is not well to enjoy too much. Nations with
hostile and powerful neghbors have often realized this
truth No enemy is dull as not TO understand this
During our Revolutionary war, DR.. Samuel JOHNSON,
The British essayist, wroe pamphlet suggesting an
IN famous scheme for the destruction Of the Virginia
patriots. He advised Lord Dunmore to the slaves
and turn them against their masters. There was
period of the when the Southern States were not
by this class of their population. II s in
lime of war when the nation strains her strength
when her salvation depends upon the sodiers she
ally TO her standard, upon their number, upon their
ievotiOnthat this part of the subject is best UNDER
TODD. Then the question is fcarfnly asked, What
constitutes the State r. snd then the answer s gwen
n the noble lines of Sir William Jones: f4I.t
Mot high reied batteu ent nor lshored nlcnnd,
Thick wall, NOTED gate
Not cities vast, with spires and tunets crowned,
But me high minded
Who know theh rights. and knowing. dare mai ntain
Free men-thsse constitute the Safe"