New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-18
sLAvE-TRADE AND COOLIE LABOR.

London
The public aentiIent upon the subject Of Slavery
and the Slave Trade at last to have entered upon
its rational and may hope, its permanent state
hundred and fifty years ago, we were lighting Tor
the privilege of conveying negroes over sea. Having
obtained all we desired on that score, we then apa-
thecay pocketed the profits, and positively refused
TO think of how those profits were Obtained gener-
alton later and grew uncomfortable in our gains
and tingled and our conscience grew uneay
as he walls and groans Of the stiiled negroes came
home to with perpetual and importupae repetition
We were some years awakening, and Wilberforce ana
Clarkson, ard all the fellow-laborers of these men,
had much to do thoroughly to us out OF that nm
easy state Of somnolence. Bat at last we did awake
ard we awoke in a frenzy. The state Of this country
when the full guilt of Slavery came upon 1t was
nothing less than frenzy of remorse. Before ina,
passion everything went down. Many men ye'
living can remember when George Canning faieh 10
obtain as a concession the abolition OF the power 10
fog female slaves, and Young men can remember
when il was thought little less than basphemy 10
suggest that even black man might very reason
ably be expected to do some labor. Between
violently vibrated In the paroIysm Of the first
remorse the guilty Euglishmsn saw Slavery IN
everything black The phantom of that complain
ING negro was ever before him. and be would shut bis
ewes and scream il You did but talk to him OF negro
at work lie sacrificed everything to his sore CULVER
ing conscience. lie ever upon the watch 10 nhd
out something to sacrifice lie saciheed his great
West Indian interest not only reckiessiy, but WIN an
Ostentatious esgernesS. lie cdst Dis o"h tw.n'y "u
lions down to nd himself of the remaining OF
his crime 40 peniteDtly Judas offered the thirty
PIECES Of silver to the Jewish authorities lie poured
forth only his money and the money OF thore
over whom he held infuen'e but be ia'ished the NE
of bis own kh and kin to appease that accusing con-
science On the coast Of Africa, IN the perdious sun,
shine of the white mans grave ENID the beautiful
and deadly luxuriaDce Of tropical vegetation, he
placed his own countrymen TO pine and die that he
might comfort himself with the satisfaction that he bad
atoned for the great n lie had committed against the
black man For full generation there was nothing
he would not pay, and nothing he would not yicarous-
ly endure. -
Every great excitement has its recoil. The genera
ton of crime had been followed by the generation OF
remorse; the generation of remorse s followed by the
generation Of reflection We who now occupy the
earth are less affected by the crimes OF grandfhers or
the remorse Of our fathers. We begin 10 feel lees
alright at this specter Of the whiting negro. We
have purged Ourselves completely Of the guilt OF his
abduction and his other wrongs and we can feel our
selves entitled to look upon any other man who has
succeeded 10 the common obligation OF eating bread by
the sweat of his brow. The food tide, which had
flowed upward roaring and foaming like the - bore
Of some bell shaped firth, retained Its power OF flowing
after the great impulse had ceased but years ago there
were some who ventured to cay that, after all the
earth must be titled and that the great law Of Nature
which doomed man to labor must apply to the black
man az well as TO the white. Their voices, however,
lad little chance Of being heard for there was enough
of yehernence in old convictions 10 urge MS not
only 10 persuade but TO all the rest Of the world
70 feel felt and to be peIent as we were peal
tent. We lavished our money, We concentrated our
efortp we exerted oil our influence, we compromised
our political relations, we coerced the weak, and we
went TO the verge OF making upon tie strong, in
order to bring the Of the world TO Join with in
our crusade against the traffic In mankind. Neverwas
there In the history Of 80 magnificent and 30
dispterested enthusiasm. When the great book OF
history shal become so vast that faroh generations
sba be unable to seiIe any other than the aest events
Ia the great vista from which they emerge this work OF
England must stand ont and challenge admiration rs
something TO which the story Of past has no par
alle We English alone have been hearty In the cause
We have shamed some by our example, we have
bought others by srgesses, and We have deferred
others by our power; but OF all the peoples OF the
earth we alone have labored with gold and with arm,
for no other object than for that point OF conscience
which is TO us our idea'-to put down Slavery and
the slave-trade. Yet wo have not succeeded. While
we have been starving colonsts and suffering
our possessions TO return 10 jungle In very
fanacism, suspeeting that Slavery must Turk under
every contract for labor other countries have eluded
their engagements have openly resented our inter-
ference Portugal has required all our attention 10
keen her at all up to the mark Spain has impudently
repudated all her promises France has changed the
name but not tho substance; and America has con-
tinued the odious trtfc at sea under the prete1 OF
jealousy Of her national honor and has, TO her ME
fortune, nursed Slavery at home and acknowledged il
"a domestic institution After all our sacrifices and
all our efforts the most JEALOUS opponents Of Slavery
were fam 10 come down 10 the House OF Commons on
means Hitherto employed by this country for the sup
pres.ion Of the African slave-trade have failed 10
accomplish that object"
Now that we can calmly review all that has been
done, find that We have been led away by our gen
erous impulses and have wasted strength uselessy
Like the charge at Balnklaya, "Ce1 mdgntqhe,
n1ais &c NEST pas la gperre," 1t was wonderful but II
was altogether impractical Great a. we are, we ore
not powerful enough to coerce the world. STRONG as
we are we mu.t submit to the laws which universally
influence human conduct. After all our vain Efforts
we are reduced let to admit that we must be con-
tent to attract mankind by their neresi and not pre-
tend 10 govern them by lear. France chaps her hahu
upon her sword If presume To ask whether EDO las
slaves or free aborefs in the hold Of the Cbareset-
Georges Spain Aughs at us If we pretend TO prevent
Ler from importing many slaves as she may want IN
Cuba. America threatens war II we attempt 70 I'D.
ernie the live cargo Of vessel covered with The stars
and stripes We have discovered at last that CONNER
cal competition will do what fleets and armies arc
utterly incompetent to perform Not very long ago,
when we from time to time, urged the GLAZING OF our
West Indian colonies 10 some substituted free labor Tor
the .aye labor they had lost met by the In
dignaion of AntiSlsvery Societies Perhaps there
are some remnants Of that superstition, which Is
great religion degeneIated, wherein the same dogms
are still repeated; but on Tuesday night the modern
Anti Slavery men came down 10 ask the House OF
Commons TO believe that " the true remedy Ii to be
found not in countenancing immigration INTO countries
where Slavery exists but In augmentipg the working
population in countries IN which Slavery has been
abolishedp and "tbat the failure has mainly arisen
from our having endeayored almost exclusively TO
prevent the supply OF slaves, instead Of TO check
The demand , for them" At last we con-
descending to reason upon Slavery and the Slave
Trade US we upon other human affairs. AT last
we are coming down IRON our high notions Of destroy
inR ANYTHING We do not like by the sword and the
non-shot- although there some fanatics as The de-
bate showed who still lean upon these means-and
intent upon humbling ourselves TO the commonplace
notion that the best way Of destroying an Objectionable
sysem of labor is to undersel il. Africa pOpulous
il is is not 80 populous China is i 30 populous
IL oo,st 81 India Africa ueCeskitOus the peO