The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-09

land q not Itself ease for ntsrisrsnos, in order
ssssbIsh more enlightened, and indeed more rghte
that prevented such interference but rather the rus
thai power 30 corrupt and iojuriou. was not fated
That result has earlier than expected ans
now strange to say, We and ourselves without having
iss and injurious power questionable as WAS our late
quarrel with China friendship not less So But &
what reported be true and the called rebels are men
Of more enlightened politics and With even an inknr 81
revealed truth we certainly seem to be acting very
s@s Is that hsy ss. done *, Dsop
wished TO see these many up the old
The n ost probable explanation of the AFFAIR il that
each OF tho three commanders has nsrfered
the others from doing before him. and carrying OF
the French or the Americans might not be so liberal
We were in dividing with the whole world the
hsTs ss, the
another India Of their in the East since they were
deprived OF the h.s and they are not apt as We are
elso are ar more ready to than to open and It
Is rather suspicious circumstance that Just now whom
their very clever missionaries have given them
intelligence Of the nature and progress the rebellion
than our representatives and merchants ever likely
to do, they have in those waters the largest armament
| army, apparently intended for the chastisement Of
Japan and the opening Of Jeddo, should really have
balance Of Chinese parties aud to slip in At the right
moment and grasp the prize That such ideas NIGH pre-
likely eIough-nsy is conceivable that these projects
may have daxxed the eyes Of some statesmen At eithsr
Paris or Warrington st more likely is II that the
Pcion OF such designs have quickened the
OF our own naval fepresen ative For part how
ever we cannot much danger OF either France or
politics ultimately doing there what we have done in
1nds. The possession OF an India would bIeak up the
ssas,ai Union as surely and as immediately the
On the other hand France has proved aoundantly that
her genius is not adapted for foreign dominion She is
TOO Inperlous, too oscntatious too exactng too
bgotted to govern barbarans at the distance Of the
word-a process which, above all Others requires the
gentest possible touch the rsgns Of power Strange
to the genius Of reputed so rude and SO
blunt is the only that has the decacy the sublsty
ard the tact for this difficult achievement.
But what il to be the of this inteferencep The
three protecting not likely more than
far % sS tine bs
navigation nor ore three conederaes likely to agree
on mere aggressive plan of operations That Il all That
Will PROBABLY Ie DONE When, therefore this mysterious
rebel army which has slowly worked its way from the
south western prov.ces through the whole breadth OF
arrives ut last within sight Of the great mercantile
cities on the eastern coast 1t will be smpy compelled to
OF China it will find difficulty turning northWard in
the direction of Pekn and in doing s have the assis
lance o. various rivers and canals forming complete
Work OF throuRhou the whole empire At
tekn agsin may find itself confronted BY the Euro
pean allies but there is nothing to hinder it from mus
teng and holding the whole Of the open country and
drawing from its with even more license than
If IT had he responsibility of acknowledged empire
Here then, phase in the politics Of the E.st-a
vast and popuous empire the chief ports and cities Of
which under the protection of the allied aeets and
open country and great mass Of the people under the
csnnot last long for it would in fact be an attempt to
maintain the head separated from the members 1t must
De and concluded either by conquest Of the
Pretender-no easy aHair-or by ackaowle Lodging as we
have done in many other cases. rights Of conquest
and the liberty of nations to govern themselves and
choose their own rulers.
From the London Athenmum, May21l
since the accession of Gener PIERCE the Presidency
OF the United States there have rtnora constantly
ahoat in this country thai the expedition to Japa a.
cetd on its mission We refused to credit rumor the
truth OF which science would had such lust to
regret until some official statement should put beyond
oonpt ana we are low glad to that the reports
were unfounded, and that the expedition has been
sDsndo.ed On the contrary the lsest advices from
completion that squadron was announced to sail
on the LIST Of May.
The Engliah Press and Our EeA----
TFrom the London Globe, May eel
It is old observation that the weakest and worst
tempered member of family eften rules all the rest
dakness; hi, ears won't bear conversation, and thu
silence of the dead must be made round him. Thus 1t
often h ha pa Or to M sye
Very much in this Manner the American slave states,
the strength Of the Of their internal weakness
dcmineer all reemen who have the disgrace and
misfortune to have thing to do with them If they
kept their domestic Institution to themselves, they
thy they felt owned it for the it is others
might in it ancestral curse, and might confess
disentited 10 rail At them and bound to aid them in
taking gradual and prudent meansdor getting rid Of It.
But getting rid Of its ganful ogprosrum is the last
plates. There time when the older slave States
desired such riddapc, That time is past Slave labor
has indeed become proatess to them But sAve breed
ing has become profitable than Virginia, for
example, with less work for slaves to do breeds more
slaves than any other State in the Union Professor
Dsw, speaking OF the slave trade from Virginia, said:
Ii furnishes every nducement to the master to attend
10 his regroes to encourage breeding and the
atoef IN ba n
deed negro raising State for other States" The en-
eoursesmeht OF breeding according to the testimony Of
otherwise, is often afforded by the encouragement Of
what would be called "polygamy," if such . term (as
the .ouplns Of slaves. There are also administered
other episodca encouragement The nobest blood OF
The internal American slave trade at this day. is
morally shocking thing than either the internal or
external slave trade Of Africa 1t So because 1t is car
rd in the face Of q moral and civilized community,
and the families Of human beings aee-on any
Of fortune which may to their owners
occur to themto be sold in separate lots south yard to
the BODY consuming tolls of the field and swamp or to
soul pollu,ing eervitude to the lusts of the city
have in many cases been brought up, amongst civil
ised human beings as civilized human beings. The
the tnst ian % out ss 'as
human rights and feelings in the treatment Of slaves,
the dampng the sentence that must be passed on
the still substpg slave code which utterly ignores those
rights AID feelings II any would learn what the
system is don't let him read abotonst speeches or sta
decision Of the American good service has
been cone in This respect by the publication Of little
volume entitled THE American Slave Code in Theory and
Practice" &c, by American writer William Goode
But present subject Is not the internal character OF
the system, but its external consequence as NUISANCE
and danger to all free communities involved 10 transac
items with the parties implicated.
American popular feeling in those quarters where in
terest epsts for the domestic institution" takes
that subject in the usual democratical mauner-vz :
with vehement persuasion that the will Of the c'mmu
By interested in slavery must all points connected
with that give law to the rest Of the world
And 1t lie truly wonderful according to the observation
with which we commenced our articls-how easily such
law is acceptedsven by weakness the sheer strength
of that We call the passing Of the American
Fugitive Slave law surrender of moral strength to
weakpess No free State rightly jealous Of Its free
dom, could suffer such law TO be enforced on
dom by their example, and they suffer the slave
States TO propagate slavery by their man hunting
ipcprsons within their boundaries IL may be laid
down as axiom that the requisite for keep
Il ~ In