The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-09

"When cronies fall out truths come to light"
and this seems to be precisely what is occurring
among the negrophilists of the Old World and
their free negro proteges in Africa.
The revelations that have recently been made
in the House of Lords and by the French Minis
try for Foreign Affairs, which will be found in
another column, throw good deal Of light
upon the sham of the free niger and abolition
humbug. Mr.. Wherefore, now Bishop of Ok
ford has come out with strong pronunciamsiento
against the British coole slave trade, the re-
establishment of slavery by the Beers of British
Africa, and the free slave trade of the French
On the coast of Guinea, in which he has been
seconded by Lord Brougham and Earl Grey.
The clamor Of these respectable old fogies,
which sounds very much like their ancient war
cry when George the Third was king, has
brought forth q counterblast from Count Wa
lewski in the shape of an official note to Lord
Malmesbury, which must be sad dwelling Of
the truth to these old and self.blinded humani-
tarisne, and Go no small harm to the cause of
free piggerdom for all time to come.
The official testimony is, that our pet little
free Niger republic of Liberia the darling Of
one shade of the aboltionists In general, the
evidence that was to be of the capacity of the
free niger, the hope of Africa, has gone into
the slave trade, and sold its fellow niggers just
the same as if it was o colony of white men.
The President of that republic approved 30
highly of the French free slave plan, that he
bargained to get 81 ,565 as his share Of the pur-
chase money for 400 head Of free niggers, and
persuaded the French captain to carry out his
operations exclusively in the territories of the
Liberian republic. THIS is pretty good-dog
eat dog, or rather niger eat Niger 1t must
not be supposed, however, that this rate of
about four dollars a head is the Liberian Presi-
dents valuation Of a healthy, able-bodied mig
ger; it is only his price for permitting the
French slave trader to buy niggers "under the
superintendent Of the Liberian authorities"
We can fancy how like wet blanket this in
telligence of the free niger falling from grace
will come upon the ardent minds Of our en-
thusastic abelition;sts.
But the world is rapidly opening its eyes to
the fallacies of the humanitsrisns, and not even
the old champions of Exeter Hall can stop the
unwilling of truth. The bright dreams that were
entertained of the political millenium which
was TO come to the free niger through the
black empire Of Hayti, o. the mnlatto republic
ofLiberia, have been dissolved the economical
fallacies about free labor being cheaper and
more productive than slave labor have given
way before the intense laziness of the emanci-
psted black in all the West India islands and
Spanish America; the great social mistake that
vxls ia t. ia
reporderate, and prosper under a social equa-
lily with them, is demonstrated; and the popu-
lar error that the negro is only white man
with q black skin Is fast melting away. No
revival Of the Exeter Hall eloquence of the
olden time can save its fallacies and its fanati-
cism from destruction. Its theories have been
reduced to practice, and they have utterly
failed. No community of emancIpsted blacks
has preserved its industry, its mechanical skill.
lite knowledge Of the arts, or Its memory of the
teachings of Christianity. Everywhere in them
production has declined, handicraft has dsap-
pesred, science has waved, and the moral truths
have become sadly dsrkcned.
II Is this experience which has come over the
world, and taught men that the laborer cannot
be made better than the employer; II L. this
that has again created the traffic In
the brawny form Of the negro, the
1.-THE and graceful limbs of the Hindoo, and the
short, sturdy bodies Of the Chinese, for the pur
poee Of making their labor available for a term
Of years In the culture Of the tropical fields
This result Is the fruit of the conflict between
the necessities Of man and short sighted hu
manity, which, pervertiDg the true aim of its
mission, Is now In danger of loeing the little
good IL has done. Efforts that FIRST we're aimed
at the suppression Of the infamous African slave
trade, were afterwards directed toward the re-
volution Of the social organism Of q large and
important portion of the civilized world. The
moment that the humanitarians abandoned their
true mission they began TO produce evil, and
not good, and the natural reaction Is now
coming upon them.
We Americans, abused and belied as we are
in the Old World, have better comprehended
the true mission Of humanity. We stopped the
African slave trade before England or any
other Power did 20. We saw the injustice aud
the inhumanity Of conveying thousands of in
voluntary emigrsnts from one continent to an
other TO supply the demand which everywhere
exists for cheap labor. But there we stop
ped We saw the folly the complicated
injustice TO The white and black, the injury to
society and 10 religion that must result from
changing the social organism of community
Of dssonant races, and lowering the superior |
10 the level Of the inferior race. And now.
when every humanitarian is ackr owledging the |
superiority Of the American slave as an indus |
trial emigrant either to Liberia or Jamaica,
we ere no believers In the policy Of re estsb-
fishing the system Of conveying thousands of
the barbarous races across one or two oceans
whether II be the Hindoo slave trade to
Mauritius, the coo,ie slave trade 10 tbs West