The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-19

Ia to be hoped that the America abohtonists WIN
continue their labors, because they So .spiay gon,
Grating the1 right spirit In readiness fo> o ~on
emancipation, and eevatng the mind ano - ~.
OF the colored race, and preserving the plante.
the pers OF negro insurrecton and a seryile var
IL Is great and glorious fact and evidently prep
that abolitionsm has for above twenty years pro.
zee ed DOM master and slave, by standing between
the sloth OF the one and the despair Of the other
compelling better treatment of the negro the one
hand, by fixing the attention of the world on his
case and securing the whites from insurrectionsry
slaughte the other, by aording q refuge for the
hopes of the slave. The leader Of the aboIitionsts
is the Moses Of the b9ndmen and to him thew en-
trust their cause that for above twenty years the
instructions which were before numerous. have
suddenly and entirely ceased Since the first abolition
journal appeared there has not been single rising
of slaves in the United States. All this is good and
promising, and it appears as If the fulfment Of the
promise were TO happen by the formation OF rail-
ways in India, and the extension OF cotton growing
there.
Meantime, it appears that the Americans are pre-
pc ring in another way for that catastrophe. They
ale obtaining new markets for their manufactured
cotton against the time when they will sell less Of tho
raw material to US. While we have been asleep on
the Indus, thinking that there is plenty Of time
for everything in this world, the Americans have
been noiselessly marching by, just little to the
westward, to penetrate Central ASIA and perhaps
meet Russia and China at market in the midst Of the
continent, while we are standing with folded arms,
admirng prospects in the plains and table lands
OF Hlndostan; Already Is Persia consulting Kanda-
their goods into the heart Of the country: and already
are the "domestics," woven by the neat and intell
gent Lowell girls, who build churches and lyceums,
and get philosophers and scholars to lecture to them
already are those stout Lowell fabrics becoming
familiar articles of wear and barter to the mountain
tribes of Asia, who have wool where with to pay.
And the Americans will take anything else, when
miIation of the spirit Of American commerce in its
adventurous aspect. To watch it is to witness some
II the finest romance OF our time. No idea can be
ional way Of setting to work. II was an American
who first thought Of carrying ice to India Instead
of going out in ballast, as was often done then, with
dollars to buy some oriental cargo to exchange from
place to place, coming home with something very
rich indeed he took out cargo of ice from familiar
Massachusetts pond. A fourth Of the cargo melted
while the people In Calcutta were learning what it
meant, and the rest sold TOR SIX cents the pound.
ont; scarcely any ice had time to melt; and
the price was nearly doubled; since which
time 1t has been good speculation to send
ce $4,000 miles, and thrust saltpetre out Of tho
market It was an American who first saw the
beauty of Manila hemp, though it was not unknown
to US. He carried home q few bales, and In ten
years the importation rose to 10000 bales. The
Americans were excellent terms with the Chinese,
long before we could make ything of them. In
Saem-well named the city OF peace from its civiliz
ing commerce-the highest order Of mercantile spirit
IOunQ-8 spirit winch REMINDS CraVeuer Oh Olu
Venice and the Hsnse towns The particular Dig
nifty coveted at Salem is membership In its museum
and to be member, it is requisite to have doubled
both Capes, and to have brought something remar-
kable from far lands There a young man's educa-
ton finishes with his being sent, not on his travels,
but his voyage; and father, uuce, or friend makes
him supercergo OF good freight, and sends him
to China, Borneo, or Madagascar. Heaceforth, it
will probably be to Japan. or to shake hands with
the Chinese in the plains of rhi3et with European
travellerssat Timbuctoo-f0r the New England mer
chants are penetrating to the very heart of Africa,
to handle the cotton and sell their goods. 1t is an
every day matter Tor Salem merchant to tell his
wife that they may as well 90 round the world, as
he has ship ready; and then the older children
ale sent to school, and the infants and their parents
sail away traficking from land to land, in another
hemisphere and returning with little fortune,
burnt faces and q batch OF curiOsties for the
museum. We hail such doings in any nation
whatever, and in the American case this is evidently
their true field OF conquest. II we would only emu
late them far suits our different circumstances
making railways in India and raising cotton there,
and wherever in our doninions it will grow-there
would soon eas we may talk OF incidents in national
life being soon) be end of charge and ,rimina-
ton, and offence and subtlety about CubAs and
"Unce Toms Cabins;" aud fishery aid boundary
uestiOns would be found easy OF settlement between
he two most commercial nations upon earth. Rail-
Dads and ships, exploration, manufactures, and
commerce. are all hostile to slavery; and slavery Is
the only cause of hostility between America and any
other part OF the world. Our duty is clear-tO de.
velOpe our Indian resources rapidly and without
stint, thus promoting and ensuring at once human
berty and the amity of nations.