The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-25

lands Of the South, indefeasble by fine and reco-
very We fear, if we draw the parallel any further
between socialism and slavery that Greeley VIII be
struck with the resemblance OF his beau dedf that
he win desert the Tribune, and try to become mas
ter Virginia farm. His paper is so furiously
edited that we should regret its loss, and he
might not find slavery so agreeable in practice as
beautiful in theory In such case he might become
an ugly customer and stir up insurrection.
We viii now sum up the evidence against Greeley
under the two counts in our indictment IN. Inc
first that he wishes to abridge-the second, that
he wishes to destroy the liberties OF the working
man at tile North.
Free competition we think we have shown, is the
very essence of liberty and he endeayors 70 remove '
free competition. This conduct would commit him
under either count. Again, he would establsh as.
ISOLATION of labor and of capital, protecuon and
support to all the members OF society and quail
fed community Of property. Now, these and the
absence of free competition, are the distinctive
features Of negro slavery at the South They never
have teen found in free society; and, therefore, we
adudge Greeley guilty of attempting to establish
slavery among the whites at the North, Just such as
now exists with the negroes at the South.
He need not apply for recommendation to mer-
cy. Never was society so fourishing and gener-
ally happy that in which he lives might be but
for such loose characters Greeley. The influential
position he himself has attained proves that ge-
Mus and energy are alone needed to win riches and
distinction of thousands around him-shows that
influence.
The free States of this Union are the asylum for
the poor and oppressed throughout the world, and
they are advancing more rapidly u population asea
Greeley has been guilty of libel on our institu.
tions, in procaiming their failure. He is guilty of
treason, in endeavoring to bring about social re.
vomton, more thorough, more allpervading,, and
more destructive of all existing interests aud in
stitutions, than ever Catalne dreamed of. Had
he lived in Europe, his plea for mercy might
have availed him. He could have appealed to
the fnmines and revolutions that have, in horrd
alienation devastated all Western free Chrome
for the last seventy years. He could have In
stanced the exemption of slayeholding Turkey and
Russia from those evils He could have cited
the authority Of every good, learned and wise man
in Western Europe, to prove that liberty, or free
competition, was the sole author of the starving
condition Of the working class. He might have
many, and alraost all the clergy of England, i'm
pressed with the necessity of the reorganization
Of society, had become socialists. He might
have pointed to the millions flying to America and
| Australia from free Western Europe, whilst the
slaves Of turkey and Russia remain contented
at home. He might have called attention to the
fact, that the homeless, houseless masses of free
Europe instead Of defending their country wei.
coined Bonaparte deliverer, whilst the serfs of
Russia, who had homes and houses to live in, and
masters TO protect them, drove ham, with patriotic
| ardor, from their land. He might have pointed to
Russia, now great, powerful, and improving, with
/ He would triumphantly have demonstrated the total
failure OF the experiment of free society in Europe.
But they have a crowded population, and lands
are scarce. Here lands are abundant and popula-
ton sparse Society is not yet in q state of senity
and decrepitude. 1t is advancing on the wheels Of
free competition with railroad speed. few middle
aged women and old and infrm men are crushed by
the wheels, but society suffers no loss. The general
prosperity is unexamped. 1t is true that the North
is full of men and women busiy employed In
trying to uproot and reconstruct society but
We attribute their conduct to imperfect mora
and intellectual education, and to wicked love
Of notoriety, rather than to any social evils thai
surround them. 1t would be the wise ant
prudent course to so frame society now, as t,
prevent the necessity Of securing slavery here
AFTER We believe that may be done. We scorn
fully repudiate the suggestion that it will ever b.
necessary to make slaves of white men in America
Greeley proposes measures that make slaves Of then
at once to anticipate the necessity Of making slave
of them hereafter.