The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-29

Emancipation Convention.
"Tbe Learned Blacksmith" and some other
benevolent individuals, (who believe that slavery
is " sin against God, )" but who are not prepared
for the revolutionary mode of abolition peculiar
to the Lloyd Garrison faction,) have hit upon
notable plan Of emancipation to wit-the pur-
chase by the federal government of all the slaves
Of the South, and their immediate enrolment
among that most unfortunate of all classes or
castes of our population the free colered
Americans"
"The Learned Blacksmith and bis learned CO.
laborers, in pursuance of this grand idea have
been holding for some days past, at Cleveland,
Ohio, a National Emancipation Convention
the net results OF which thus far we have spread
before our readers. Reduced to a nut she'll.
their philaHthropic plan Of mercy to the slave
and justice to his Southern master compre-
hends the appropriation of the proceeds Of the
public lands and the annual surplusage
in the federal treasury from the customs, for the
purchase OF as many slaves annually as these
revenues will buy to the end OF the ultimate abo.
lition of the institution of slavery in the South
through this soothing system Of buying and
emancpating,
Now, to such men as the Learned Blacksmith
and those doctors of theology whose lives have
been devoted to the study of the dead languages
this visionary project of blended justice aud
mercy may appear SIS the grandest and most for
tunate discovery of the age. But to any man Of
common sense and common observation upon the
subject, this scheme Of federal emancipation can
only be classed among such modern discoveries
as woman's riehts free love, spiritual manifesto
tions, and the Fourierite theory for making labor
attractive" When brought 10 the crucible of a
practical test, we have seen that woman s rights,
as demauded by Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth.
and company, are as absurd the right of the hen
to play the part Of the rooster; that spiritual
manifestations are but the Independent devices Of
dirty charlatans for obtaining money upon false
preiences; that the divine harmonies of free love
are the denominations OF the Five Points; aud
that the Fouiierite system Of making labo: at.
tIactive' is but miserable admixture of free
love, free laziness, free rags and destilu,ion-
We apprehend that this slavery emancipation
scheme under consideration is not whit less
absurd and impractcable than the most visionary
Of these aforesaid impostures Letus see. There
are now In the Southern States upwards of s.
100000 slaves; and at the present high prices
paid for niggers, from Richmond to New Orleans
they are probably in value equal To the stupen-
dous aggregate Of ;'ro thousand millions Of dolars
Now, allowing the liberal margin of a treasury
surplus from the public lands and the customs
Of twenty millions per annum aainlerrupt-
edly for hundred years TO come, it will
require, cash down, exactly those one hundred
years to accomplish the work Of buying up the
slaves Of the South. But when we come to en-
brace in the estimate the natural increase Of the
slave population, and the chances within the next
bundled years of foreign war or two, the
cost of which may require all the means Of
the treasury for ten, twenty, or fifty years to
hquidate, the ultimate consurnmstion of the work
Of abolishing slavery by buying it up, is blended
and lost in our calculations Of the millennium.
The doctors Of divinity and the professors OF
philanthropy therefore, In convention at Clevc-
land, under the auspices OF The Learned Black.
smith have simply been playing 'econd fiddle
70 learned simpleton We ned supposed that
Henry Clay's iavo.ite theory for tie gradual abo-
liiion OF slavery in tho South, aud the reeenera-
tion Of tie whole eyndlent Of Mr.ca, 10
wit--the LihCrial colonization ssheme-Uas
about as ncsr the topmost mark Of
philanthropic emancipation as anything
could possibly be. But this Cleveland
council Of learned thinkers on Political economy
has such an oyeIAowipg fuad Of biothcrly love
for Tie slaves Of thc South that for the sake Of
securing their por.onal libcTty it would exaaus.
ibc Treasury, though cur Southern States may
thus b. reduced, ~ purchased emancipation 70
the Tretched condition OF the British West India
Elands-induatiy. moials, whites. niggers aud all.
No. This notable scheme of the learned a5o.
Ibon quacSs at Cleveland for negro emsncipa.
tiou is bat another element introduced among the
niger aei'atious OF tn Dag. L.5crian COLOMBIA.
ton is good thing in its practical reeuts Tor the
colored race, as far as il gees; but We have seen
enough, zen ia this experiment. 70 discover taat
without fresh recruits to Liberia from the United
States, that free oolore5 republic within
a generation o. two would relapse
INTO African balbarism. From the ''me
Of the Pbaraohs 20 the time Of Fausin Sou.
louque and the King Of Dshcmey, we find that
the condition Of the black race is under the re.
stIain.s Of bondage or the excesses OF savage life
We find that the slaves Of our Southern States in
social, moral and intellectual elevation. are as
far above any other branch Of the African race
since the days Of Noah. as are the field hands on
the Savannah river above the wild tribes of the
Niger.
In a word, all the philanthropic schemes Of our
Northern reforrners for the abolition, suppression
or Limitation Of the institution Of Southern
slavery are only fraught with mischicf and folly.
The metes and bounds Of Southern slavery can
only be regulated by the fundamental laws Of
race, climate, trade, productions, and the pres
cure Of an Irresistible emigration And while
the hot sun ard steaming malaria of the South