New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-05
Ne@pprk Daily Gribn,rs
THE SLAVERY QUESTION.

the abolition of Slavery in the British West India
Islands:
Mn. PRESIDENT: suppose the day dictates the sub
jec The great interest Of this day is as the annyer
sary of British Emancipation. That was the greatest
blessing the highest privilege, history shows us was
ever given to pcoplethe power TO emancipate peace
fully, nearly million Of chattel slaves. by moral
agitation rs the result merely Of thought and purpose
Ike an ordinary change of law great people swept
ont Of existence Infamous institution, rooted in old
habit immense wealth, great social power AS far az
know, it is the only instance in history, ancient or
modern. Slavery has been everywhere; has been
abolished in various ways but the English people may
boast, as Thoughtful Christian community, that they
have set in history example Of the power Of simple
n,incinle 10 change morentous social Institutions.
am not about to examine whether it was unalloyed
di,interested religious principle whether there
mingled with it the selfinterest of the commercial
g. ,sses aud the dread Of future trouble In national
aIaira. only know that peacefully, ~ an edct, not
BY cannon by an act Of Parliament, IS the ordinary
lave are changed the whole social condition of the
West India Islands was remodeed. What has been
the result? There has never been an hour Of war IN
tlose islands. There has not been one instance OF
resistance to civil process. The forms OF law are
but by bayonet5 in the hands of emancpated slaves
lArplause The only compliant is, that the negro
will not work for the white mani he finds better en-
rloy.aent at home The only complaint ia, that The
former slave population is 50 shrewd, 20 thlity WIN
20 mach fore'hought, that, as IN our western oVes'
Iowa and Wisconsin, you cannot mud men 70 me-;
Men have the brains to work for Themselves; ahd
tho Fnph PLANTER cries out 10 the Government, az the
farmcra OF tic Western States cry oct to the civilized
world We have wealth., acres but our neighP?!fs
are 50 orc-hauccd and INDEPENDENT we cayHo' mllc
ANYBODY 10 work our lard Give ur laborors! Ihat
fact Which proves The advancing essential prosperity
OF the Western States, proves IN the same way the
weglouuded prosperity OF The uborng classes OF we
NcH Indies The real complaint never has been t0at
The bnck man would not work, The cOmpHnt mas
leen A" lie eau work for hmself to 20 much better adj
vantage that We cannot gel anybody to work at "a
shilling day.
Agaiu: England exports to these Islands, ! may
saey say dOuble-rerhsTs might cay, Tour ufi,es-
the amount of maui featured articles thai she dld IN
the DAYS Of Slavery. England never cells without
getting her paw for it, No man can pay without
work and if thoee emandPated slaves buy two or
four dollars worth now where they bought one be-
fore either they had laid up immense capital during
tue slave time else they have worked vel lor IL
ripce. Applause.
such IL the Lesson Of today. What are the great
clemtus Of national property They age, ray con
tcn.cdy obcytd, hands ineiigonty, successfully H.
dusiois. No British miuistry has ever for twenty
old year! looked into the face OF rebellion III the
| BrilI-h Wee, Indies There has been no time when
/ there was not greater demand Tor lapoIetr than
l th,ro was supply. There has been TO moment Wncn
TWO looms in England were not kept active TO supply
,he demands Of tho Wet ludies for one before And
II 10 that you add the moral element 81 tue question:
marriage education, religious Institutions have heen
ouadrpll,d, at the expense aud by the care Of the
| former shves.
! That's The picture which has been held up to OH
country for TWENTY-FIVE years. What 10 the use OF 10
curing 70 III II i no longer within our reach; We
f.s a L. tfVff 1T
! yeaIs AGO. IN Englatd, whom Lord BrougLam was adj
| voatng the emancipation of The slaves, rememooE
he need with great elect the tilc cmscH story OF me
syli wi came 10 The Roman hing with nine books Tor
ale represented iudif lcnable 20 The safety OF Rome
Size named her pd,e;-the proud king waved aside.
yhe yb left burned three of the books ana returned,
/ Offering Fix az the siIuc cot. The conildent hing
/ waved her u second time aside She Went hnd re,
turuod anin win three, sl for the same pilce Ana
then Rome bought tie sactd pledge OF her alty Oh
miuisLcd 70 one third, ~ The saclihce. l"euiy
years ago Col set the example Of leteeii, mo"l
emancipation by ordinary fore oil law. We dashed u
Hsdr lie o-FS now, % tho same c0st enancli Il
/ lion at tho mouth OF the cann0n-no.ning che.
Ine Lesson vi to-day is not for usi We must seek u
further. Far of, beyond those Islands, rests the
Green If the Anille-. 81. Domingo. Her eiuancpa'
tIou WAS different. The races had rushed 10 arms.
Blood bowed ia torrents. England was about to Ia
wade the Island. Government pushed 10 tIe extremity,
q, midnight the sovereignty OF the realm slipping rom
it, grasp ia dsspar, "a means OF keeping hold oil Us
[ Territory,
blood aud ere Hall tho .ities were baruedi almost
every valley hoated with blood; the slave wrote the
guaranty OF his emancipation IN the blood OF seventy
thoussnd krsncbmen, 10 subdue hlu. This Is the
Only Lesson Lett for tO-day-ih-: how Tar short OF
S. DOMINGO can the Government stopI What Il the
policy that may cave from that list extremity OF
! bloody emancipaiionl The British model is gone.
The only question for as IL, now lar short can We stop
OF 1t. Douiugol
There are tgo or three methods before us. The first
is-and this most men htter themselTesto be posi-
hle-We can conquer the SJuthi We can keep the
Union n. IL was. / deem that dream. lAppiause.l
hold it Just this side Of lunacy-noihing more. Tie
old Unionu 81 IL gone beyond recovery. lCheers'
No million ~ men in arms can bring y back again
do not know that was ever found depre' ating The
courage OF the South have held that, IN the nine
teant century the aye OF MONEY, Il would be lnpos-
eble for Southern empire from political and economl
cal reasons, 10 suryye-thoy would he starved out
hold that opinion stll But believe never nave
doubted the personal courage ana intense eaineshess
of the Southern States. stand to-day exactly where
4 have stood. | know nothing of the future but by
the past Poland trodden under the heel Of sn en-
pire whOse resources boundless, Is il Poland, In
arms Hungary, crushed by the weight OF hall Eu-
Tope Oh her head Is still Huogary, determined to be
free And Italy, with Fix centuries OF decentralization
has sill stran lied the purpose Of tbs French Emperor
with one hand and Austria and Ru-va with tie other
and il Italy united and free. Loud choers.l
believe that the five or six millions oil Engshmen
RESTING south Of Mason and DXons line have hearts
ar bold and willis ~ determined IA Italy, hungary or
Poland; and this n6tion III mere hghL OF Whlto men
and white men, will write her history u copy Of the
Russian history as TO Poland the Austrian history rs
to Hungary, and the Italian history, if she goes ON TO
fight as she does to-day. The pact proves NJ and 1t
seems TO me that every thoughtful man must sec IT,
A. pny rate such will be the picture OF the next ten
years um we'll aware that the South has not yet
dared 10 meet the North fce TO face in open field and
fr fight or at least whenever she has done 30, she
has been beaten Witness Kansas and Western Nr-
GINA But for all this, hold the South deeply in
earnest, and able in open fight or by guerilla TO drag
on the war many years.
But tina, is not the only question. Foreign countries