The New York herald., 1850-12-27
Our West India Correspondence.

FRENCH 81 MARTlN, NOV. %, lou.
Movements a~d Dengms of the Erglrh Aboli.
t,o~asts and Emgiish Government 7sras-- Caii-
fornia--C Cs6a--andG Guodaloxpe.
The abolition society of London, the parent
of the society of Les AIMS des noirs, of Paris,
and the Boston abolition society, professed,
in the commencement of its career, to have no
other object in view than to secure Legislative
prohibtisn of the slave trade. They dsclaimed all
intention of interfering with the institutions of sla
very in the plantations knowing the sad truth that
three fourths Of the negro in Africa were held
in naked and abject slavery by the other fourth;
ano, IN Iact they went so far as to declare, pub.
licly, that instead of blessing, emancipation would
be curse to the negroes. But although such was
their ostensible motive and open declaration as
pubhcibody, they had different views, and pursued
course OF action dametrically opposed to the inter-
est and safety Of their colonial brethren, exciting
their negroes to rebellion and bloodshed by the
most infammatory speeches and writings.
This society, purely philanthropic in its origin,
soon became powerful political party, through the
fanatica ranks OF which talented and desigane men
climbed into parliament and into power, and after
agitating the country for more than a quarter of
century, the government itself yielded TO its irresi.
nole influence, and despite the protest of some of
the most distinguished statesmen, with the Duke
OF Wellington at their head, sacrificed TO them her
splendid colonies, and joined the crusade against
negro slavery IN The new world with the unmis-
taxable intention Of breaking up the SURPRISING
prosperity of her great rival, the United States
lhis policy, having for its direct object the aboli-
ton OF domestic slavery in the South, and as a
natural consequence the death of the cotton pro-
ducuon, could not be carried out without expos.
ing British commerce and manufactures TO severe
shock, which she is skilfully seeking to avoid The
amount OF raw cotton imported into England, annu-
ally, from the United States, is 700 600 900 of
IN ma rial Gr sh.. fo.
and checks the outbreak OF communism, among
100000 Englishmen. Before, therefore, her ant-
American policy can be vigorously pressed against
the United Statcs, she must lind this 700 900 900
pounds of cotton somewhere, for the double pur.
pose OF employing her own operatives, and break
ing down the cotton markeI of the South, and
with it the institution OF domestic slavery and the
integrity of the Union. So far, she has failed to
draw this cotton from her East or West India pos
sessions, sr from her African and Australian colo.
nies, Notwithstanding he vast sums expended in
purchases and premiums, American planters and
American machinery, all employed and applied to
an extent, and at an expenditure commensurate
with The great abolition or antAmerican policy, Of
which they are part and parcel.
Texas, however, seemed TO furnish solution for
the difficulties growing out of her Anti.American
policy. Great Britain made every effort 10 secure
the control OF this hne country and her infant gov.
eminent. Her vast cotton regions would have furn-
lshed, TO great extent, the raw material for which
kngiard must be ever dependent on the U. States;
her geographical position would have offered field
for The opt ration of her abolitionsts, from which
Brush emlssaries would have poured their pesti-
ltntial doctrines into the heart Of the Southern
states, and shaken the Union TO its foundation.
There never was, since the declaration Of Ameri-
can Independence, moment OF such intense inter-
est TO the destinies OF America the apparent
political vecllaton Of Texas between the United
States and England. Never had these two great
naiiens so completely measured the strength OF
their respective statesmanship The Unted States
tIiumphed-the brave Texans joined their Ameri-
can brethren--ihe lone star assumed its natural
position In the American galaxy, and England was
sent packing with her abolition tracts and emssares
Nothing daunted by this diplomatic defeat. che
prosecuted her pelicy against the United States
through her emissaries, with indefi igable persc-
verdnce, and with such an entire confidence Of
success, that II IS grave question IN England In
and out Of Parliament, where she is to obtain a
sufficient supply of raw cotton, now that her policy
is about to extnguish slavery In the United States
and produce civil war between the Northern and
Southern sections OF the country, that would check
the United States in her brilliant Of power
and empire. Thus IL England again going over
her old cotton hunting grounds, with her arts and
sciences, and premiums, and planters, with an in
tensy OF purpose that portends destruction to her
rival, and again rs she doomed to disappointment,
and the contemplation of this singular fact that
100000 Of her population completely depend
enf, for their business and subsistence, TO those
very Southern States she would reduce 10 ashes
and deluge with blood, ith the help OF her aboli-
ton allies Of the North OF these latter, permit me
70 cay, that II is melancholy truth in the phYsi.
ology Of fanaticism, that its votares neither be
restrained by the obligations Of patriotism or the
recessiies OF national policy. This is a truth that
Mr.. Van Buren, the ambitious, has lately found
out, and, with his free coil and abolition party,
would consolidate aud centralise ageneral govern
ment Of delegated and limited powers, for the pur-
pose Of arriving at the presidential char. and treat
ing the sovereign and independent States Of the
Sonih as so many colonies, breaking up their do
nestle institutions and with them the constitution
ofthe United states, Notwithstanding what he swore
10 the late Mr. Forsyth, OF Georgia, ard many other
pure dt mocracy covering the length and breadth OF
the republic, ths, viii not allow this tickle sa,es-