The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-14
NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST H. 1859

on the Wise Donnelly letter, pro and con. The
E'qdrer's article embraces some very interest
ing political "reminiscences; and the Brigadier
General Bowman's commentary is of the most
approved broad-brim and long-faced pattern.
Perhaps within day or two we shall vary the
treatment of the case with another roasting Of
the Chevalier Cassidy.
The Labor Movement I'm the Worid-A Word
to Exeter Hall and the Yankee Methodist
Preachers.
The whole civilized world Ia agitated with the
labor question. In the South the reopeaipg Of
the slave trade is prominent subject of discus
sion. The British colonies are more with the
coolie question. The French West Indies are
demanding thousands Of free negro emigrants
from Africa Cuba is pushing both the coolie
and the slave trade with remarkable activity, and
fitting out slavers for China and Africa In half
the ports between Philadelphia and Passama-
quoddy.
This activity on the part Of the great marts Of
agricultural industry has stirred up the humani-
tarians, and is urging them to attempt reopening
of the discussion of their experience condemned
theories. Lord Brougham heads big committee
to wait upon the Duke of Newcastle and pro-
test against giving any coolies to Demerara
and Jamaica. George Thompson trots out
an African youth at Exeter Hall to show
up the French trade in free negroes. A great
meeting was held recently at London Tavern
on the subject of Hindoo, Chinese and
African emigration. Two hundred and thirty
eight Wesleyan ministers in the Northern States
have addressed an appeal to their British "be-
loved brethren in Christ" declaring that they
have thousands of shareholders yet in the church
trustees, stewards, leaders and local preachers;
and even travelling preachers have become slave
holders IN several instances and are such still
with but little disapprobation as general thing
on the part Of the conferences to which they be
long" The burthen of these clamors is the same
everywhere. The world demands more cotton,
sugar ard coffee of the planters; the planters in.
sist that they cannot produce a greater supply
without more labor; and the Exeter Hall philo-
sophers cry out that in procuring labor from the
countries in question the great moral rights of
man are violated.
There is deep seated cause for this great
movement, which neither planters nor humanita-
rians can oppose or remove. The great produc-
ton of gold in California has disturbed, and ia
still disturbing, the value of labor in its various
marts. In the thickly. populated regions of Eu-
rope it has improved the condition of the
laborer, has stopped emigration in part, and
by giving him a full belly has set his
brain to work and made of him a revolu.
ZIONIST at heart. In the Southern States
and Cuba it has doubled the value of the slave
In the French and British colonies, by increasing
the value of their productions, it has caused the
absence Of available labor to be severely felt.
The densely crowded labor marts of Asia and
Africa have not yet experienced the impulse that
gold has given to the civilized world, through it's
quicker channels of communication, and thus the
balance of the value of labor between the enIight
ened and the semi barbarous and barbarous
countries is destroyed. The movement that now
agitates the world is that Of the value of labor
seeking its level. Crowds of negroes Hindoos
and Chinese are Fastening on board of swift ships
from their homes where they can earn only the
pittance of three cents day, to the labor-thirst-
ing nelOs OF CalUOrnla, AUSTRALIA, Cu0a, Ueme-
rara, Martinique and the Southern States of our
Union, where they can earn twenty fifty and
even hundred times their home wages
Moralists and doctrinarians may argue on the
tyranny Of masters and the sufferings of slaves;
but the din Of the looms of Manchester
and the cries of the whole world for more
cotton and sugar, drown their clamor, and
stop the ears of both employer and hungry
laborer to their voices. Their labor is In vain
1t is directed against torrent that pervades the
whole world, and which has yet but just begun
its course. Cotton has clothed men better, and
thus improved their health. Sugar has revolu.
tonized the medicine and the food Of man. aud
increased their enjoyment and comfort Gold
continues to pour into the lap of industry, and
to increase its profits and its wants. These are
causes which will endure and increase in power
for generations to come. We therefore advise
the philosophers of Exeter Hall, and the two
hundred and thirtyeig Yankee Methodist
preachers, to turn their attention to something
more practical than their present attempt to
prevent the value of labor from seeking its
natural level.