The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-12

How TO MANUFACTURE PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST
NEBRAsKA.-The abolitionists, after their at
tempt to manufacture the one hundred feet Pc
tition of three thousand residents of Brooklyn
by stopping passengers at the Brooklyn ferries,
both men and boys, to sign o remonstrance
against the Nebraska bill before Congress, have
taken steps to manufacture another for the
ladies Of Brooklyn, by inducing the teachers OF
emale seminaries to prevail on the children en-
trusted to their care to sign petition to Con-
gress against the bill.
Here are teachers entrusted with the moral
instruction of the young consistently teach
ing them deception! Do they really in
tend to palm off the signatures of chill
dren of ten and twelve years Of age as those Of
the ladies of Brooklyn? Those entrusted with
the education Of the young should be possessed
Of sufficient moral courage to resist the fear of
losing the favor of their abolition patrons.
How much more in unison with their duties
and feelings would it be for them to say to
their pupils, this is an incendiary proceeding
to destroy the harmony of our happy country.
In the formation of the union of these States, in
1889, the various and conflicting interests of
our extended country were satisfactorily ar
ranged by o happy compromise powers
were delegated to Congress, oil others were
reserved to the States. Slavery was recognized
as property Congress never had any power
granted to interfere with that subject; each
State was to regulate its own affairs. If South
Carolina was DESTROYS to become free State
she could do so and if a majority in Vermont
decided to become slave State she could
readily be SO. The territory of the United
States was property in common until it be-
came one of the sovereign States. A citizen of
free State has perfect right to settle there,
with all his property; and of course the citizen
of o slave State has the same equal right to re-
move thither with all his property. In the
formation of said territory into State ma
jority Of its citizens must decide whether slave
be profitable it will be admitted. If, as in the
State Of New York, it becomes Improbable, it
will be abolished. But how was this abolition
brought forwardf The cultivation of the farms
in the North did not require constant labor, as
at the South. For months together, after SOW
ng the grain, the laborcr would not earn his
bread the owners of slaves in New York then
determined to sell them off to the Southern
States. After in this manner greatly reducing
their numbers they then-about forty years
ago-passed a law declaring all free born after
a fixed day arriving at acertain age. Why not
extend the same law to all outlying sister
Statesf When slavery is Improbable it is
aiu IN hn hn1 cho ri Sc H.
suppose that by extending the area of slave
territory slavery itself can be Increased Where
importation of slaves is forbidden by law, and
punished as piracy, it cannot increase the birth
of slaves If territory suitable for slave labor
could be procured South the extending the area
slaves, and the quantity of slave labor would be
diminished by emigration from many States.
The vacuum thus created in labor must be sup
piled by free laborers, thus increasing the free
labor vote in the State; and in course of time,
the ajorty amending the constitution of the
State, will abolish slavery in prospective. Such
is the only mode Of abolishing slavery South
Make free labor cheaper than slave labor and
the question is settled.
The whole movement is European. It's in
struments IN this country are ignorant of whose
tools they are. They are worked up in their
fanatical course by the aristocracy Of Eng
land, who arc satisfied that there is no other
way to destroy power whose existence is IN
consistent with their own safety
Abraham VOORHEES, formerly citizen of New Jersey
committed suicide at Euclid Ohio on the ID INST, py