The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-27

Improvement" called the Battery enlarge
ment, which has almost destroyed the channel,
and which we denounced at the time 1t was
started predicting the very result to our har-
Dor which has since been verified. The vaga-
bonds round the City Hall deceived the public
in that transaction, and we warned them of II.
II would be well for those who take an interest
in preserving the franchises of the city, and
applying the proceeds of them to relieving the
city treasury, not to allow them to be bartered
away by the Legislature for the benefit of q
few scheming politicians. There are now In
train some twelve to twenty jobs In prepare
ton for next session, and we intend to expose
the whole Of them and all the parties con-
cerned in them before long.
The Abolition Invasion OF Harper's
Ferry-A Lesson from tho Slaves.
Many Of the country journals, either from
want of wit or want Of honesty, insist upon
calling the invasion Of Harper's Ferry by
score Of black and white abolitionists from the
North slave instruction.
If there is any one point In the late proceed
ings Of Ossawatomie Brown, Of Kansas noto-
riety, that is more prominent than any other,
it is the singular fact that none of the Southern
slaves were mixed up In the affair, nor did
single one of them voluntarily come forward to
accept the great advantages which Brown and
his fellow fanatics in the North held out to
them Within circuit of few hours ride
Of Harper's Ferry fully Ave thousand slaves re-
side; but not sign of disturbance or discomfort
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months round there, his means of communica-
ton were established, the underground rail-
road has its stations all along to the Canada
| frontier, and J. r. G. was willing contri
butor from Ashtabula, Gerrit Smith applauded
| the "Kansas work" from Peterboro, F. B. s.
| sympathsed in Concord, and many a scattering
abolitionist all through the Northern States no
doubt, wrestled in prayer that the slave might
| be freed from his bonds.
| But the department of the slaves has shown
that they possess very corrcc appreciation
| of the misnamed advantages of Northern free
dom. They know very well that all this mock
| philanthropy exerts itself merely to run them
| off from their comfortable Southern homes to
leave them to starve in the cold and inhospi-
| table wilderness Of Canada When we COM
| pare the condition Of the free negro at the
| North with that of the slave at the South, we
cannot be surprised that Cuffy should prefer
to remain in slavery. In the North, everywhere,
the negro ceases to awaken the least sympathy
for his sufierincs in the hearts IF tn" :.
lists; they cease to care in any way for his ne
cessities, they refuse to admit him to their
houses or churches they will not sit by his side
in the cars or at table, they reject him as
mechanic, servant, or laborer, and perse-
cute him with neglect till he sinks to the very
dregs Of society, and dies in misery.
In the South his condition is widely different.
It is true he is held in slavery, but negro sla-
very is condition of patriarchal servitude.
From birth the negro is in close andintimate con-
tact with the white man. His childhood is cared
for, his youth is instructed in some useful labor,
and all through the maturity and decline of
manhood, his master and himself work for the
same family interest until, in his old age he is
family pensioner secure from want In this
lifelong intercourse between the white and
the black, between the master and the slave,
the inferior has the benefit Of the control and
guidance Of the superior intellect Through
this Stimulus and this example his morals are
improved, his industry is increased, and in
every way he is better member Of society
than tie vicious free negro of the North or the
liberated barbarian of the tropics. Eloquent
proof of this fact Is found in the advice of one
Of the Presidents of Liberia to the Colonization
Society:-"Send us slaves from the South, ibe-
rated after they have attained to manhood, for
they make better citizens and more industrious
people than the negroes from the North"
The close intercourse between the two races
thai exists under the patriarchal institutions of
the South can never be obtained under any
other system Of society. Nowhere else will the
white lend his efforts to teach the black, no
where else will the black unite his physical
labor with the intellectual effort of the
white for their common benefit, no
where else will the superior admit
the inferior race to the advantage of
close family contact, as nurses, housekeepers,
handmaidens, and not seldom as foster
brothers. Nowhere else will the white labor
side by side with the negro in the open field,
guiding his ignorance, bearing with his inca
pacity, and rectifying his errors or neglect It
would be well for the fanatics who wish to
dissolve this great social tie in Southern So
ciety, through the shedding of blood or the
cheat of Northern freedom for the negro, to
learn lesson from the refusal of the slaves in
and around Harper's Ferry to accept the boon
held out to them through the abolition invasion
80 al 06v oe
Our DEMOCRATIC VIGnANr ASSOCIATION IN
THE FELD.-The Independent league of wealthy
and influential democrats Of this city, Of the
style and title of the Democratic vigilant Asso-