The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-28

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MORE OF THE FORBES CORRESPONDENCE
) AMERICAN POLITICS GENERALLY AND ARoI IrION
Ism PARTICULARLY, ETU.
Every day brings out now deyeopcmept in regard
10 tho great conspiracy which exploded premarely at
Hafpors ferry Nothing could better prove Old Browns
unness Tor the part be undertook to play than tho rcck
eSs manner IN which he compromised all his frieads by
preserving their correspondence Instead OF
He had carpet bag stuffed full Of letters from leading
men in tho North and West and addition 70 that his
house strcwn with documents Tho ncighbors wAe.
they beard Of the arpcr's Ferry explosion ransacksd
HE house and carried away much OF what may turn ont
to be most compromising matter. Tho Maryland vouuu
tcers got lot Of 1t and brought to Baltimore Dstrics
Attorney Ould appropriated 70 the tho general 70
vernment whatever into his hands, and Governor
Wise and the Commonweakh's Attorney seized upon what
| was efs. A &
And 20 only in instruments Mat we have been get
ting this conspiracy correspondence Tho batch that wo
published yesterday disclosing tho hast two years secret
history Of abolticnsm, makes the most important reve-
lAons, proving AZ dees, not only the extent OF the
conspiracy, but the guilty. oomp,ci,y In Of almost al
the Leading men OF the black republican party
! Another piece Of this correspoudeocs has now
turned up in The shape Of letter from Browns military
precepor Hugh Forbes, 10 the Secretary Of the British
| Anti Slavery Society. u is as foHows:--
RsPoRT TO THE BRH TIsH ArrrsLAvERy SOCIETY.
NEW YoRK, FAB. I, 1853
To A. cHAxERozvow Esq, Secretary OF the Aatisla-
very Society, No. n New Broad street, Isndon:--
Mr. DEAR SRI perceive from article NJ Of your So
cety that ysn regard slavery in the United States as au
economical and humanitarian question: and that you sup
pose that the slave owners their parsaas aud the ndI
erent can be reached through appeal their reason
Or 10 arouspg in them feelings of sympathy and charity
in linda
years ago the proper points here 10 hare
treated upon and they yet are in every part Of the world
except the United States Hence, may you co nprehend
why SO little has been accomplished here for the abo
tons have been expanding, and yet continue waste
their energies and resources, hammering those spots
where no impression can BIO made 1t is not surprising
that you in Europe should labor under this mistake but
| Il does astonish me that SO many Of tho sincere
| anti slavery men here should fall into the same
| error. Slavery in the United States is political
question. All other matters sink into insguidcance.
beside ii. may actually be termed the only permanent
question: since absorbs all others. Not merely does
regard America, but it affects the welbeing OF all
kind and If its partsans be not checked in their course
they will scatter desoaton blood over this continent
to acquire land Of which to make slave territory and will
plunge the world into TO sustain the piracal slave
| trade
[ u4~ FORBES PRO-SIAvRRy FACTION
After the triumph of the Revolution Of l7533 the pro-
slavery reaction temporarily humbled. 1t had not
1857 recovered sufficiently from the shock prevent
the passage of the modified Jefersonian ordinance re-
gardng the Territories neither couli it, when the United
saee constitution framed introduce into that nstru
the word slavery though the liberals not able
to prevent an indirect recognition OF its legality The
action nothing daunted by difficulties, toed earnestly
and by directing judicousy its Efforts gained strength
attcred the national vanity by tho acquisition OF
Southern States and Western territory; it threw the
/ slavery question into the political ARENA though pre-
enenty the enemy of the working man. it the
captivating name Of democratic and having augment
cd lis numbers BY thus attracting to selfhe poor whites
Of tho South and many Of those Of the North boldly
stopped tho work Of emancipation by States passed penal
laws prohibiting the instruction Of coored people,
the Fugitive Slave law, and SET at naught the Missouri
compromise. Since Kansas has been claimed for slavery,
observe how the tone Of the cmbodcned pro slavery pro-
paganda Of the South and that Of its Northern confede
rates changed Prior TO that audacious claim the press
and politicians of that party egned to depore the exist
ence OF slavery and TO its continuance "an
evil which had been entaled upon them which they did
not know how set rid off, Now that press and
those politicians, encouraged BY their clergy and
| elated by series Of successes, avow that they
| regard slavery blessing, and they seriously
| advocate tho reopening OF the slave trade. The
reenslaving Of free colored people may very likely fol
low and newspapers and orators the pro-
prety and advantage Of the States letting "a oonrac
tors Tor, in other words selling for term) the unem
poycd poor whites attic North The ''term would Of
course become perpetual. Such notion you may trent
as ridiculous. reply that every stop which the pro.
saveryites have taken pronounced to be ridiculous
and impossible till they had actually it. The Sci
Of Texas and tho introduction OF slavery therein was
laughed at, till the crime completed The Missouri
compromise regarded nviolabIe till was tram
pied under foot The idea that armed Mssourans could
dare to the frontier Of their State
sas, and hcro vote for its Inhabitants termed pre-
posterous, till the decd was perpetrated. The asser
ton that the central government OF the United Statea
could aid and abet the evil doors, could disrc
, gard popular rights, aud could lend its troops tc
protect tho suffers Of the ballot boxes, secuted
and those who strove to awaken the citizens
to the danger denounced nfamous' slanderers
till those outruges actually committed repeat Ia
that the fate of the slavery question is in the hands
Of corrupt place hunters eager do the bidding Of the
Southern party in the United staes which corresponds
to that known in Europe he reaction" Those demo
cratic pro slavery managers whether there be
be slave In Kansas, but they insist upon the legal
right to hold them there becausc by nancuvre they
keep the political organization Of the new State under the
influence Of their party and the two votes ia
uuned States Senate After this they viii set about get
ting by the admission Of slave States aided by
democratic Northwestern ones like California Minnesota
0regon &c, only nomnaly free soil, to be always
sure of the preponderance-each State large small
sending two MEMBERS and more, to the United States
Senate.
CHARACTER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE
II may be necessary to explain to you Europe that
| which ia but imperfecty understood here-vlz
that the United States Senate is practically the
ing branch Of this republic, and that the proslavery
politicians control the government by being masters the
Senate The President does, it is true, name his Cabinet
and he does fill up many vacant posts and likewise he
makes treaties with foreign Powers but the Senate
which raties rejects those appointments and those
treaties, is practically the Office distributing treaty
making power. The inquiries by that body respecting
each candidate for appointment notIs he good
czen2 Is he fit for the placer IL he honesS Is he
talented Is he likely TO do credit and good service to tho
country Has he done the nation any servce2 The
only consideration worth fahoming by the Senate s-
show is he on sayery2' You may by counting the six