The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-04

After having taken all the arms they could ind they
left by the gate of Barcelona and went towards 'y
Moline de Rey." IL was said they were going to Join
other bands at villnranca 1t is said that the insur
gents now number 40C0 men, amongst whom are some
persons of distinction In Catalonia agitation and dis
content increase vsibly. The facility which with the
Montemonists make their marches levy ontrbutions
and lay new imposts ON blood and money, contrasts
sngulary with the indifference of government and its
agents
MADRID BoLsA, August 10 Three per cents, 192S
paper five per cents, ii, paper coupons cash pas
sievs, a, paper Bank OF San Ferdinand not quoted
bat the discount Of Its notes was from 81 to per
cents, 10?G, cash; passiyes 1916, cash.
The Revolutions Among the Ncgroes-The
Present English View of Slavery, &c
From the ondon News Aug n
we seem to be approaching crisis In the fate
OF the dusky natives of Africa. The news of the
negro nsurrection at ST. Croix, and of the decision
OF the committee OF the American Senate, relative
to The admission OF slavery into the late Mexican
territories Incorporated into the United States has
been received With few days of the breaking
down OF Mr.. Hutt's committee To the commit
tee OF the British House OF Commons was dele
gated the task of reporting what are the best
for the final extinction of the slave trade after
protracted Investigations. and after passing some
ten or eleven resolutions which are tantamount to
a declaration that the system hitherto pursued by
this country to that end is utterly inadequate to
produce the desired effect, the members took fright
at the novelty OF their own views, and separated
without reporting any opinion on the main ques-
ton. The committee of the American Senate was
appointed TO report bill tor the government of the
new y-acqulred territories, which should decide
whether slavery was or was not to be one of their
domestic institutions" The bill reported by the
committee simply declares that the interim 60
vernments of these territories shall be forbidden
10 egislate on that delicate subject. British and
American Legislators shrink with equal timidity
from action with reference to the extinction of ne
gro slavery and the negro slave trade; and in the
meantime the negro slaves In st. CrOIx set before
the eyes of their race example of emancipation
accelerated by means which promise to give the
world Danish Haiti in addition to the French
one 1t already enjoys.
African negro and the man of European race to
co-exist in the same society, on footing OF
equality, has reached stage IN It's progress to-
wards practical solution, that forces the full
amount OF Its difficulty upon our convictions. We
have no wish to call In question the dictum that
all the powers of the most cvllsed races may
exist IN latent state In the yet unciyilised Afri
cans. We are as earnest and anxious In de-
sire, that the Africans should experience the
ment OF fellow as the most jealous member
OF the Anti Slavery Society. But we cannot shut
eyes to the fact, that between the clvllised and
unclvilised man, there yawns gulf which no
tribe or race has been able to cross, in less than
the lapse OF centuries, and we might add without
having the breed so crossed by lntermiXture, with
wholly partially clvilsed races, to render the
legitimate descent of the cvllIsed from the uncivl-
Used mCe somewhat equlyocal. There Is no re-
cord of people clvilised per sattum there is no
record OF any considerable number ot individuals,
tire equality with men of civsed races And all
experience shows the difficulty and danger of civil
Used communities admitting large numbers OF any
unclvilised race to full participation IN the rights
OF citizenship Savages-uncvlsed men-are
beings with the inieects OF children and the pas
sions and ply steal powers of grown men. They
are incapable OF the motives which habltually
tuate men Of clvllised races. They require other
restraints they can scarcely be trusted with the
same immunltles.
In the British and French colonies alone, can
the experiment be said TO have been fairly tried
of placing a highly cIvlllsed race, and race COM
paratively unclviIised, upon a footing of perfect
equality In the french colonies the result has
been Haitian republic, where whites, and even
men of mixed blood, are all but prescribed and
where perpetual anarchy prevails. The English
experiment is too recent to enable us TO predicate
its results with confidence; but the dlmnution
OF productive industry, and the destruction Of ca
pital attendant upon 1t, would seem to md cate
that the communities IN which 1t has been lnsti-
tuted, will have hard struggle to maintain their
place among civIlised societies.
The full difficulty of the experiment must be
frankly admitted, for only thus have we any chance
of means being discovered and adopted adequate
to carry 1t out TO n successful termination. And
UPON the practical demonstration OF the possibility
of the less cvsed negro rae, and the more CT
vised European race, living together in the same
society. on terms OF perfect equality, depends the
possibility of finally extingulshng the nefarlous
and lnhuman slave trade. The leaders OF the
ant-slavers long ago recognised the great truth
the negro slave trade be suppressed The evil
dence given before Mr.. Hult's committee amply
corroborates this opinion After all the exertions
made by Great Britain, tor nearly half a century,
to suppress the slave trade, the number ot slaves
exported from the coast of Africa in 1913, falls
short only by few hundreds of the number ex
ported in 1907. The slave trade has been put an
end to throughout the domlnions OF Great Britain,
France, the United States, of every power almo't
save Spain and Brazil. But wherever Its suppress
has been effected, we find, either that slavery
had previously ceased to exist, that the country
in which 1t continued TO exist is dependent upon
one where II has ceased, or united under com,
mon government with States equally powerful
where il has ceased. In Brazil thIsis not the case;
and, in despite OF all our efforts, diplomatic and
warlike, slavery and The slave traee nave gtoWn
in BAIL, in exact proportion TO the growth OF lts
industry and wealth, till the slave trade OF Brazil
alone almost equals in magnitude IN l84S the slave
trade of the whole western world In 1907
The abolition of negro slavery-the vislng OF
some arrangement by which the less civilised races
who alone seem competent to labor in tropical
cmes, can be ensured the rights of free men with
out endaDgerlpg the clvllisation OF the community
is necessary not only as prerequisite tor the
abolition of the slave trade but guarantee tor
the morality and permanent prosperity OF the COM
munties in which these inferior races exist. The
tendency OF all slavery Is to degrade the master as
much almost as the slave. Slavery as 1t exists IN
those communities of European origin where ne
groes alone are slaves Is aggravated torn OF sid-
very. Domestic slavery as 1t existed among an,
cient nations, and still exists In Turkey, was ana
is mtigated by domestic ties. But negro slavery
in Brazil, and wherever the masters have 9eenEufo-
pean, engrafts all the worst characteristics OF sa-
very upon factory system, more regardless OF its
drudges than ever the worst enemies Q, me wosst
ps rts OF our system dreamed OF IN this
country Wherever it is combined with unlimited
importation OF slaves from Africa, It's natural and ne
TENDENCY to such catastrophe as has been
witpessedir Haiti and seems about to be acted over
sgain in ST Croix Brazil may reae In the fate Of
these two colonies its own future fate II IT persc-