The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-20

W xOkA dEh AID, WEI
cratic lion and his Know Nothing iacksl. stands
Fremont, for the Unic a, the Consultation, the
rights of the South, tt e rights Of the States but
opposed to that bran ii Of the democratic niger
movement watch ontenplates making slave
State of Kansas e. Air and just though it may BEL
and opposed to tn at other branch, which proposes
right or wrong, to "wrest the island of Cuba
from aFain, if we possess the power,a for the
purpose of get ting more niggecs-
Thus it apr ears that our psor old fogies who
shrink in ala rm from Fremont because he is sup
porsed by a sectional party, are either playing
the hypocrte or the ignorsmus for their view
Of the subject rs exceedingly stupid. If there be
bat one sectional party before the country it is
Che Buchanan niger party, and not the Fremont
white mans party. But admitting that both are
sectional parties where is the danger? Have we
not shown that such parties have existed from the
time of Washington, and that, excepting lucd
interval, revolution here and there, the South
ern sectional party has had the lions share of the
spoils? And in the teeth Of secessonists, dis
unonisis, Southern fire eaters, border rufans and
Northern abolitienists, has not the country pros
pered, and does not the Union survive? The
| truth is, we think it just as well, North and
South, that the thin disguises Of nationality which
have heretofore been used as the cloak of sec
tionalism, should be thrown away and that the
contestants should stand as they do stand, no.
nestly and openly before the world, as the North
contending against the South for the supremacy
in the government and the spoils
There is no danger. Niggers or no niggers,
the Union is safe enough. When the fight is at
its maximum, the peacemakers as usual, will
step in, and there will be compromise. While
the interests of the North and the safety of the
South are locked up in the Union, there can be
no disunion; and the cry of secession raised by
Buchanan and Fillmore, in the event of Fremont's
election, is nothing but the mean and contempti-
bic trick of frightened and shameless politicians
"A sectional partyw "Washington's Farewell
Address!' Will these old fogy wings, Know No
things and democrats never understand the rudi-
ments of American politics? We can't forever
be teaching them the alphabet.
The Negroes and Negro Character-Aboli-
tionism-Thc South.
Just back of the Slave Coast in Africa is a
rich and fertile country called Dahomey, which
until recently was but little known to Europeans
Its government is pure despotism, and admins
tered with unparalleled ferocity. Here, in one Of
its freest forms, the negro race exists, perfectly
removed from all the influences of white men,
under no vassalage but what they have created |
for themselves and with natural bravery that |
never permits them to shun any danger. Here, |
if Nature, that goddess worshipped by abolition
lists, Fourierites and in6dels, had any inherent |
grace, we might have hoped to see its Wanted |
results in the greatest good Of the greatest mum
her, in the love which the generous heart INDUCES
towards kindred hearts, in the kindness Of in |
dwelling charity, in the voices of the mirthful |
and happy, and in the peace and tranquility of !
unsophisticated life. Here il anywhere, the long
sought Utopia might have been discovered.
But what do we find, A demon despotism,
which ornaments Its temples and palaces with !
skulls, constructs its pavements Of human |
bones, and feeds its pools with human blood |
Our readers were doubtless struck with the i
testimony of worthy Wesleyan missionary,
recently published in the HERALD--that of /
Mr.. Beachman, who has just returned from
o mission to the slave and gold coasts. Not one
Of the early or barbarous customs Of these horri-
bic negro races, as he informs u.s. have been aban-
doned. Incessant massacres are taking place, in
their wars, and at their feasts and funerals When
n husband dies, his wives are buried alive with
him; when chief or monarch, his wives not only
are doomed to the same fate, but they are sacri-
feed by hundreds, and as they move In procession
to the pits where they are TO be butchered, be-
daub themselves gorily with paint and mud to
give O grotesque horror to the scene. They |
march along over headless trunks, over rivulets
of blood and alphabetically submit to the saving
of their hands and their legs, and TO be pounded
to death in the reeking pits in which they are
tumbled At the death Of the late King Of Daho-
meys brother, four thousand victims suffered In |
this dreadful manner AT some OF their festivals |
every noble slaughters slave at the gate Of the
enclosure where the usual ceremonies take place.
The kings executioners rush through the streets.
killing every person they meet and the very trees
groan under the weight OF the skulls suspended
upon their branches Every word Of this Is con-
drmed in recent work by an American naval
officer, who has seen service in one Of our armed
vessels on the coast Of Africa There is but one
other race in the world at the present day which |
bears any resemblance to these savage negroes
and that Is the Dayaks, also q colored race, in |
the East Indies, described by Madame PfHer
1t may be said that these cruel propensities are
exceptions to the general tendencies Of the race.
and that II Is to counteract these abolitionism is
honestly at work But we saw that In Hayt !
after long years Of the civilized and benevolent
sway Of the French, the natural ferocity Of the
blacks was in nothing changed. The atrocities
practsed by them on the whites filed the Christian
world with horror, and escape from the bondage
of mild servitude has been succeeded by a
miserable and more degraded submission to a |
monkey desnnt q thnusand times rnnrn t--ranri i