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


aud reject IL. In policy it il unwise, in prac-
tice it lie cruel and in result it must eventually
be disastrous to the communities that practice it
We do not believe that the negro will labor vo.
UNFAIRLY, nor do we hold that the Hindoo or
'he Chinese can, unaided, adv ance beyond their
present sparse ability to supply the world with
the staple products of their labor. But we be-
lieve that 1t is far wiser to permit every COM
munity TO work out the problem of its own 90.
ciai destiny. II civilization needs to
Increase the productive labor Of the Az
rican, or the Hindoo, or the coolie let
civilization 60 to Africa, and to India,
and to China, and carrying there its skill, its
science and its mechanical appliances; and,
under social organization adequate to the
capabilities of these dissimilar and unequal
races, guide their labor and stimulate their pro-
auction. But the tearing away of Thousands
from their native land and native sky, loved by
ali alike, whether it be under the pressure of
hunger or of power, the lure Of relief or Of
luxury, is an abuse and fraud. As for the
Exeter Hall theory of improving the social
organism Of countries equally civilized with
their own, and equally capable Of reasoning
upon the true relations of right and wrong, we
will simply commend to the attention of its ad-
vocates another Spanish proverb with which
we end. "The fool knows more about his own
house than the wise man about stranger'a"
The MORMON DELEGATES LATE MANIFEsro.-
The letter which we published few days since
from the Hon. John N. Bernhisel, the delegate
In Congress from the Territory Of Utah, was in
many respects curious document 1t set out
with the assumption that all the correspondents
who write for the HERALD and other newspapers
on Mormon affairs are scheming and specula.
ting Gentiles, who have personal interests to
subserve, and who desire to promote those in
terests through "the wicked enterprise denomi-
mated the Mormon war" Now, so far as our
correspondent is concerned and We presume the
he is entirely innocent of any such motive; has
no interest in any contract for corn, or mules,
or anything else; but is simply performing the
duty entrusted to him-that of keeping the
readers of the HERALD posted up in the affairs
transpiring in and en- route to, Salt Lake City.
Then he asks, why it is that "these cruel aud
mercenary persons" cast doubt on the sincerity
of the Mormons' desire for peaces-points to the
fact that the Mormons had entirely abandoned
their plans, sacrificed their preparations for de-
fence, and opened way for the troops whom
they might, if they chose, have annihilated and
intimates that the policy is to exasperate the
Mormons to such pitch as to make them turn
and defend themselves He speaks of the Nor
mon troops having been, owing to the peace as
surances from the President, called back from
their hostile march against the United States
troops and made to salute the Gag of the Union.
But still he complains that preparations
against them continue, or are not slackened.
In all this Mr.. Bernhisel seems to assume a
sort Of Independent nationality for the hetero-
geneous collection of men and women and
Saints in Utah, and to treat the march of the
troops there In the same light as military ex-
petition by one nation against another. Now,
this from a gentleman who has been allowed O
seat in the House of Representatives and the
emoluments attaching thereto during the very
time that the government was at war, as he
thinks, against the people whose delegate he
wa, is extremely cool and refreshing for the
weather. The troops have gone there not TO
subdue an enemy, but to enforce the laws Of the
country, and to compel the Saints to observe o
little decency in their conduct II the delegate
from Utah could have given the President as
surance at the opening Of Congress that the
people whom he represented would pay due
obedience to the laws, aud due respect to the
requirements Of dccency and civilization, be
might have saved the country the expense Of
the expedition, and his friends and Constituents
the dangers to which he says they are now ex-
posed. But not having done so, it is entirely
too late in the day for him to write such silly
letters to the newspapers, or to ask the public,
as some plckpockets and burglars do, to suspend
judgment. The Mormons ought TO have be
come a decent people without compulsion.
They must do 80 now In spite Of themselves, or
withdraw from under the jurisdiction of the
United States.
CENTRAL PARK.-The Mayor has done very
good thing, in spite Of the solicitations of Mr..
A. II Green, President, and Mr.. Alb. G. Gray.
Commissioner Of the Central Park, In refusing
to give his approval 10 the appropriation NJ