The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-26

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| Seward and his New Schemes ipatXon,
| Amalgamation and Decay.
| Renewed efforts to create the anti-slavery
| agitation in the North are apparent on many
sides and several petitions after the old style,
have already been presented to Congress by
| Seward, who is one of the chief leaders in the
movement for white and black determination.
The object of these agtators is nothing more
than political advancement, they being just as
ready to take up or abandon teetotalism,
spiritualism, or any other mania, as they are
abolitionism; but they carry good many we'll
| intentiOned though short sighted people in
their train, who believe that in striving for the
abolition of negro slavery they are doing
humanity service and laboring for great
| national good. In order to blind their ad-
| herents to the true results that would attend
| their schemes, should they be successful, they
| talk now of grand emigration that is to take
| place to some tropical negro paradise long
| way of, where distance lends enchantment to
! the view" There the negro is suddenly to fall
| in love with labor, imbibe new capabilities and
l luVuc, oiAu oSAlSNC tuluBS.
| Yet Seward and his clique know full well
| that the emigration of the four millions of
negroes now in our Southern States is an i'm
| possible and unattainable thing; and that
| amalgamation of the two races would be the in
evitable result of the abolition of negro domes-
! tic servitude. When the social superiority
| that now preserves the white race from inter-
min liuo with thu hIanE lie 1aafrovad fha
| results must follow here that have followed the
same cause in all Spanish-America. Dema-
gogues like Seward obtain full sway over the
minds of the ignorant and unrehecting negro;
the rule of intelligence is superseded by that of
| british sensuality; the sources of industry are
dried up; property and life become insecure
hybrid race, with all the sensuality Of the negro
and the vices of the white, springs up, and
brings with it political instability, the decay of
society, and continued revolutions to obtain
| power. These are the accomplishments of the
abolition Of negro slavery, and of the domestic
service of the Indian races in Spanish America,
under the system Of peonage
| Two Independent countries in America and
one colonial system alone have held to the
steady march of progress which the rest of
the world is making, and these are the
| United States, Brazil, and Cuba and Porto
| Rico. Everywhere else we find the results of
abolitiOnism so faithfully portrayed by the Rev.
DR.. King. who went from Scotland to visit ia
| maica few years since, in an address deliver
ed in Kingston where the truths he uttered
came home to every mans knowledge. "You
have peace, fertility and health said he; " all
the usual guarantees Of national we'll being
and yet your leading families are disappearing;
| your stately mansions are falling into decay;
your lovely estates are thrown up; mems hearts
are everywhere failing them fer fear, as if war.
| or famine, or pestilence desolated your bor-
ders But il is too certain that the
| highest Of all interests are suffering;
that ministers are returning home schoolmas-
tiers are returning home and the places of
| those competent and devoted benefactors are
left vacant, or filed by others less qualified to
succeed them and ignorance. irreli-
| gion, superstition intoxication, proaigacy, are
| lowering like birds Of prey over your schools
and chapels, threatening them with destruc-
ton"
These are strong words, but the experiments
| of English. French and Spanish-American phi
lanthropists have proved their truth to re-
luctant world. Europe has tired Of the huma-
| nitarian negro Utopia, and Is already consent
ing to the establishment of q system of domes-
tic servitude for the inferior races wher-
ever the white and black must live together
in society, there must be social
bar that shall prevent amalgamation
and decay. Yet would these fanatical aboli-
tionists still pursue the path that Europe Is so
DESTROYS Of abandoning, and install not only the
abolition of negro slavery, but its concommi-
tant amalgamation Of races from Maryland to
the Rio Grande. Should their policy be adopt
ed by this country, death blow would be
struck at Anglo-Saxon progress in America.
We should be filed with intestine disorder and
misrule throughout the South, and repeat, per-
haps on q more bloody scale, the civil wars
that distract the hybrid populations beyond our
southern border. New Orleans Charleston and
Nashville would become the scenes of similar
revolutions to those that are now enacted in
Mexico, Vera Cruz, and San Luis Potos till
perhaps some new Faustin the First would re-
establish order by reducing all to barbarous
despotism.
II may be said that the Anglo-Saxon race
would never submit to this Very we'll take
the other horn Of the dilemma, the only other
possible result. The whites would not submit
TO IL they would band together and reduce the
free negro to submission or drive him out.
Drive him out they might, as he has been driven
out of many Of the free States already
but who or what would replace him be-
fore the entire fabric and organization of
Southern society should be destroyed
He could not be replaced. and the peaceful
amalgamation Of races would then be preached
as readily by Seward and the aboltionists as
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