The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-28
slavery and AbOlitiOnism.

In treating of the abolition OF slavery IN the
United States, We have invariably condemned
the reckless fanatlclsm and relentless persecu-
ton which have characterised the abolition school
IN the North and East, especially IN Massachusetts.
These pseudo neutrality-suspicious. always, in our
opinion, and we believe also In that of a majority
of the sensible and thinking people of the whole
country, been actuated by motives widely different
from those they profess and that they merely
agltated the question for private and selfish pur
poses, some for notoriety, which they appear TO
covet without regard TO whether 1t is enviable or
not, some for hopes Of personal advancement, and
others to CRAFTY political ambition indulge pri-
vate piques. We have also maintained that phi;
lanthTory was out Of the question in the abolition
slavery In New York, New Jersey, and other
States where il formerly existed that It turned on
The consideration of dollars and cents, profit and
loss and we still confidently believe that il slave
abor was profitable, in any or either OF the states
we have named, that II would be IN existence at
this day. But II was found that the climate and
soil OF these regions were not favorable Tor slave
labor, and hence II was abolished, that free white
labor could and did successfully compete with il in
the development of our agricultural resources and
the Northern people made virtue of necessity by
abolishing it.
II Is hardly necessary to say that the rights which
are guaranteed by the constitution TO each and all
of the States composing our national family, should
he scrupulously regarde and maintained 10 the very
letter. Any enc who breaches contrary doc
trne, no matter what may be his pretended mo-
lives, is afactionisi, disorganser, and commits
breach of moral faith. The States IN which slavery
exist have exclusive control over this, well as
other fbpIr State N
terests. If 1t should seem fit to them to abolish
the institution within their precincts, they have a
perfect right to do So and an equal right to CONT
nue. 1t. If by the competition produced IN manual
labor between the white slaves that are emgrating
10 this country so extensively, and scattering them
selves over every part of our country, South aswell
as North, and that of the colored slaves of the
south, agriculture can be carried on more econo-l
mlcay by the former than by the latter slavery will
# itself die out and become extinct. AS we have
SAID before, IT Is new question OF dollars and
cents, the same winch instigated Its abolition IN
our Northern States, and the same which would
animate the violent denouncers of the institution
IN the North, were they owners of slave property
at the present day.
We have always thought that the shareholders
of the South have attached too much Importance IN
the rawlings of the abolitionists in the North Nv
irettng and Tuning at their discourses and har-
rangucs, they have given them much more impor-
lance than they deserve, and certainly much more
than is awarded to them in the North. They hold
their conventions every year IN New York, bu, II
is with the greatest difficulty, and moi without
sorting 10 Fnesst 10 procure an audience, that they
can succeed m gathering together nm asscmblage
sufficiently large to justify them in commencing
or carrying ON their proceedings Flaming hand
bills, free breakfasts, extraordinarily precocious
colored musicians, fugitive slaves and many other
things, rcsored 10 Tor the purposes and yet the
mvIngs OF these fanatics, which only excite rd-
cUIe and contempt here, where they aye uttered.
IRE rs,ey commented upon in the Southern
sisics,; and made the theme Of dissertations.
arguments and discourses, and through which is
dIsccrnlble spirit almost as ilibersl and as ultra
as tha,~hi they complain about. THIS Is all
nossense. Let the Northern lanai. ~ pass Tor
what they are worth, which is nothing. and let
The South understand inc mistake that they have
eommaed in identifying the whole North vita
these fanatics, who arc condemned &C much here