New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-01
SLAVERY A. AFBECTED BY WAR.

An adverse OrrespoBdent asks place for =
YER long argument in opposition TO the view
So iorcibly put by Prof Lieber Of the utter
subordination Of the alleged rights Of the slave
holder u the rights vi UaI. ia vthef words,
Prof j. holds that a commander IN & hostile
country knows but two classes-iriends and
euefurs--and that ho cannot and should not
know any friendly person as the slave OF an
enemy. We cannot make room for all his
cuse. but will endeayor TO state fairly lie pur-
port.
la our Last War with Great Britain, many
slaves were enticed from our seaboard BY
British cruisers, carried OH 10 the West
Indies, and never returned. We say enticed
because proclama,ions and orders were issued
encouraging them to forsake their mpster. and
achieve their liberty b. getting on board a
British vessel; which thousands--douotless
wlngly-did. At the close of the war, the
mutual restitution Of prisoners being agreed
on. our Government demanded return of
these slaves, which was not accorded. We
then demanded pay for them, which the British
refused. Finally, the sa'cholJing United
States aud slaycholding Great Britain (for
her West Indies were then as Thoroughly
slayeholding as South Cnroina) agreed 70
arbitrats the matter before the Emperor OF
Russia, then the most extensive stakeholder
and at the head OF the most extensively slave
holding empire on earth. IL fell TO the
lot OF John Quincy Adam,, as Premier N u
shareholders Administration, TO make the
argument for our claim and he did il, as he
did every thIng-ably, learne0ly eShaus.iDgy.
The fact that Great Britain herseli legalized
upheld and profi.cd by Slavery, gave him al
immense advantage. OF course, the decision
was in our favor; aud now our correspondent
would have our Government and lie bound TO
n perpetual Difference to Mr.. Adamss logic
We respectfully decline. The times have
changed, and the doctrines then maintained
Of necessity, b. Mr.. Adams, are ont of date.
Mr.. John C. Calhoun, who filed Mr. Adams's
identical position nearly thirty years later,
sent an official dispatch to the Hon. VIM. Il.
King, our then Minister TO France, insisting
that we must annex Texas in order to prevent
the Abolition of Slavery therein through the
influence of Great Britain. We admit this to
Dc an authentic official American State Paper:
we deny that the doctrine it embodies is either
American or human.
hessrs. Buchanan, j. Y. Mason, and Soule,
our ambassadors TO the Courts Of London,
Paris, and Madrid, respectively, held, at a
still later day, meeting at Ostend, whence
they issued that famous circular to their fell
Iow.di plomstt, insisting that the United States
would seize Cuba whenever, in our opinion, it
sloud become necessary TO do so in order to
prevent the Abolition OF Slavery therein.
Chrstendom stood aghast at this piratica
usclaration, which was as suicidal as 1t was
shameless. We admit the fact OF its issue and
the Official emincnce of the signers; We deny
taat the doctrine it embodies is truly Amerl-
can, or that our Government is bound by il
to anything but repentance.
We insist, then, that Prof. Leibers doctrine