The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-10-22

and Ignorant will not be treated iustly-that
the knowing, the shrewd, officehoIders, men in
authority, if guilty, will be let IF too easily.
This should be guarded against. Barbarity
and murder at sea should be punished, as it is
on shore, and sea.captains will fear the Law.
COLLAPSE OF ABoLITIoNIsTs.-Aboliti
credit seems to be on the wane Harper g.
Brothers, who were the orginators and are re-
puted owners in part Of the NetU York Times.
have gone by the board They claim TO have
surplus of million of assets over liabilities
but the fact remains to be verified.
VI. T. Jewett Co, of Boston, who got their
first life by publishing Aunt Harriefs Uncle
1O"a,' and gave out that they had made an i'm
mense fortune from It's sale have failed for a
large amount OF money, and with vehement
protestatlons that they, too, have o princely
surplus.
" The old business proprietor of the Tribune,
McElrath, of the old firm of Greetey & McEl-
rath, has broken all to pieces, and his interest
in the Tribune has to be sold in liquidation.
This is an out-and-out failure, and there is no
mention of the usual surplus
Bowen McNamee, of New York, the
great dry goods jobbers, apd dealers in aboli-
ton politics as a business, the proprietors of
men who sold their goods to Free State mer.
chants only, and disdained to make accounts
with Slave State merchants-these men have
Jailed for large amount, from inability to
make Northern and Western collections. The
surplus boosted in this instance, of assets over
liabilities, is a million and quarter.
Verify do electioneering for Fremont,
shrieking for Kansas, purchasing Sharpes ri
fes, and aiding Kansas emigration, seem to be
breaking business. But the end is not YETI
Richmond Examiner
The above is fair specimen of q set Of arti-
cles or paragraphs which have appeared of
late in the Southern journals, and in such Pro
Slavery journals North as the Day Book and
the Nea0 York Herald. The Herald devoted
whole column to the failure of three Anti
Slavery houses, and concluded that Anti.Sla-
very don't pay in this country, because j. P.
Jewett d Co. have suspended We wonder
ifthese journals hope to impose such stuff upon
the people of this country for sense. When
hundreds and thousands suspend, what stupid
lty to select one, two, or halfa dozen firms from
the thousand, and draw the inference that
Anti,Slavery don't pay" because the firms in
question held Anti Slavery opinions We ven
ture to affirm that, out of every ten suspended
houses in New York, eight are Pro.Slavery in
their opinions
| If the failure of J. P. Jewett & Co. proves
that Anti Slavery book publishing is not profit
able, the failure of Harper & Brothers proves
that neutrality on the Slavery question does not
pay. The idea is a preposterons one, and
probably not one of the journals which has
circulated it, believed it for moment 1t az
forded an opportunity for a silly outcry against
al Anti Slavery firm.
1t is enough to sicken an honest man with
political warfare, to read class of political
journals. If vagrant is convicted Of stealing
shoes from a bridesmaids counter, the politics
of the culprit are sure to be published. If the
scamp was ever heard to express an opinion
against involuntary seryitude," the violent
Administration prints are out in large capitals
with the details of the BLACK Republican
theft!"
The moment that news came of the defalca-
ton in TIE Ohio Treasury, even such Journals
as the Union characterized it as Back Re.
publican defalcation !" when the truth was, and
it cannot be denied among intelligent men of
all parties, that a Democratic (socalled)
Treasurer was guilty Of the embezzement and
a Republican Treasurer afterwards endeavored
to screen the guilty party. The use Of such
weapons should disgrace any press, any party
and in better state of civilization, it will.
There is peculiar meauness at this time in
o. oil I'D, C,,l,
differences therefrom. The panic, the intense
distress which is everywhere prevalent among
business men, is jeered at BY those wtO employ
such language. The New York Herald singles
out these firms, and chuckles over their down
fall. Why2 Because they were Anti-Slavery
in their opinions. If the Republican journals
of New York were base enough, they might
retaiate by laughing over the ruin of Pro.Sla-
very houses. They are not, aud we humbly
hope never will be, sunk 50 low as to be capa-
bic of such an act. Any English journal
which were guilty of such conduct would lose
caste at once, and we may be very sure that no
journal here which has any reputation to lose
will be guilty Of it.
Comparisons are odious." They are so at
this time, when made between different sections
of the country. A few weeks ago, when New
York was in q state of incipent panic, daily
journal of this city saw fit to compare the bust.
ness condition of Southern cities, and Wash.
ington especially, with that of New York.
What was the result? Washington banks sus.
pended weeks before those of New York
AT this time certain Pro,Savery journals
are busy in comparing the condition Of the
South and the North, and call attention to the
contrast between the two sections. They for.
get two exceedingly important facts. First.
that the panic has not reached the South; sec.
ond, that Slavery does not develop all kinds cf
business, as Freedom does; hence, there are
ten business men in the North to FIVE in the
South-ten manufacturers in the North to one
in the Southland of course there is a very
much larger class of men who can be affected
by panic North than South.
There are no failures that we hear of amid
the Rocky Mountains. There are none
among the wandering Indian tribes! Who,
therefore, will be silly enough to prefer the
Rocky Mountains for home, or the social
condition of the Indans2
We should have paid no attention TO this
subject, had we not peen article upon article
like the one above quoted in our Pro-Slavery
exchanges. We believe that it is high time for
honorable men of all parties to unite in con-
domination of such a shameful prostitution Of
the press for sectional purposes. Excuses NAV
be found for Southern journal. INT none fo