The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-22

lueH ioiCes are htteIcu AWAY. fernaps tney
are awaiting the results Of the Virginia election
| Very well. Before the end Of the week we shall
| have them. and then let us have, one way or
| another, some definite movement of the conserya-
tive opposition elements Of the whole country.
| THE WAR AND THE BRITISH PEACE So
CHTY.-What has become of the British
Peace Society, and all its great guns, of
which we have heard so much for many
years? In time of profound tranquility it
agitated furiously for peace, and journal in
this city, which endorses every ism and political
sect as it turns up, published numerous editorials
backing its efforts to bring about millennium of
universal peace in the world, when the lion and
the lamb should lie down together, and caunons
should be turned into ploughs and bayonets into
resping hooks, and war and all its weapons and
| diabolical arts should be forgotten from pole to
| pole But now, when terrible war, which has
been long threatened, has at last commenced,
we do not hear word against it from the Peace
Society or its organs. When the Crimean con-
fict began, deputation Of the Society went to
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia to demonstrate
with him against the iniquities and horrors of
war. He told them he did not want war; he
only desired to act the part of the good Sa-
marian, and take care of the ''sick man"
in Turkey; and that they had better
use their influence nearer home. Every
body laughed at the ludicrous position Of the
Peace Society delegates from England dissuading
the Russian Emperor from war, while he was at
tackled by England herself, in alliance with the
other greatest Power of Europe. During all the
notes Of preparation for the Italian campaign
the agitators of the Peace Society appear to
have been as dumb dogs which could not bark"
sentinels who were unfaithful at their posts
while the enemy was making his approach. Even
now, when hostilities have actually commenced,
they give no sign of lfe-there are no indigna-
ton meetings, no emphatic protest on behalf of
humanity in the face of war that is likely to
extend all over Europe. What, we again ask,
has become of the Peace Society?
Even the popular sensation preachers who
denounce pugiism, theatres, lager bier saloons,
Sunday recreations and slavery, as "the sum of
all viilany," and who descant by the hour en- the
crimes of the heather, appear not TO have word
to say on the subject of the great fight in Italy,
which is to deluge its plains with human blood,
and spread, perhaps all over the continent of
Europe, and in the end to Great Britain herself
the imperial and royal brusers being not only
Christians, but each invoking the God of Christ
ians and of battles as to the justice Of his cause
and looking to Heaven for blessing on his
arms. The elder Napoleon was not so hypo-
critical, for he said Providence was always on
the side of the heaviest artillery. Cannot Chez
yer and Beecher, and all the rest, rise to "the
| height Of this great argument" and denounce
| royal Christian sinners of enormous magnitude,
| or do they waste all their ammunition On pagan
darkness and the sins of the Sunday newsboys?
The CoLoRED POPULATION COMING OUT
STRoNG.-Within the past few days we have
been honored with the visits of three bright In
telligent handsome, likely and clever gentlemen
Of color, who are about going into the Liberian
trade on their own account. One has been a
Cabinet Minister and member of the Liberian
Congress- who lately arrived here in his own
ship, under the flag Of Liberia. The others have
been distinguished BARRIERS in this city-cutting,
curling and shaving with care, and to bald heads
| Gas the distich hath it restoring the hair
Now they have left shaving altogether, and
have gone into the shipping and commission
business. They intend to have house here
| and another at Monrovia, with regular line of
packets-at least four-piying between the two
| points Their pioneer ship is the bark Mendi.
| They will have small steamer to run along the
| coast from Cape Palmas to Monrovia touching
at intermediate points to collect freight and pas
| sengers for the American packet AS the British
| steamers do not now touch at Monrovia, this
steamer will likewise be useful in carrying the
mail. The business, both on shore and ship
board, will be transacted entirely by colored men.
| We wish our colored friends all good fortune
in their new undertaking. If they shall succeed
| in opening direct trade between this metropolis
! and Liberia, and carry it on in spirited way,
so as to stir up the old fosies Of the Colonization
Society, who have been satisfied with sending
one or two ships to Monrovia every year, it may
do all hands great deal Of good. Colored men
! are generally good sailors, more peaceable, do
| Gle and humane than the white slaves of the
forecaste, and it is no mere than fair that they
should have an opportunity to rise to command
a crew of their peers, provided they are compe-
tent to do So Again, the African trade in su-
gar, camwood, coffee, palm oil, ivory, gold dust,
&C., may be made much more profitable and ex.
tensive than it now is. If the new hands will
| persevere, there can be but little doubt that
they will have good freights and full passenger
| lists.
| The BAPTIST ANNIvERsARrEs.-W to-day
close our reports of the May anniversaries with
a record of the doings of the Baptist denomina-
ton, whose annual gatherings during the past
week have brought up the rear of the religious