The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-05

IHE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE AND IHE
SoUTH.-In another column we publish a
letter contradicting the statement publish
ed in the HERALD some time ago ON
the authority of NJ. Douglas, to the effect
that numerous cargoes Of African slaves
had beon landed on the coast of Florida, and
that he had himself seen the imported
"savages," and that the Southern planters were
indignant at these importations as depreciating
the value Of their property in domestic slaves
1t may be that there is good deal of exag
by Mr.. Douglas we have excellent authority
70 asserting 1t is possible that, on account
Of the general hostility of the South TO the slave
trade, that the coasts are too well watched to
permit very extensive traffic on the seab0ard
But il is net tho fault Of the black republicans
of the North, who fit out the slavers, that
greater numbers of the savages are not landed
in the South. That the principal slavers are
fitted out at New York and in the ports Of Mas
sachusetts our history of the traffic, published
in the HERALD within the last two months,
abundantly proves. This history has been
cannot be questioned. ssSo \
II any confirmation were wanting of the ex-
istence of an extensive slave trade carried on
by Northern ships and Northern capital, we
have it in the undisputed fact of the great num-
bers Of negroes which are landed in Cuba; so
that it makes no material difference where they
are landed--whether in Florida or in "the gem
ofthe Antilles" opposite that coast. The point
is that slavers are fitted out by black republic
cans on the Northern coast and sent to Africa
for cargoes Of native slaves, which are convey
ed to whatever point they can find good
market
And yet these black republican slave deal
ers, in whose confidence and secrets Thurlow
Weed proclaims himself to be, will be found
among the most rabid disclaimers against the
institution Of domestic slavery in the South.
They thus make the slave trade serve double
purpose-frst, to make money by it, and,
secondly, to make political capital by charging
the traffic upon others, as Cassidy g. Co.
charged the betrayal Of confidence in
the publication of Wises letter upon
others, and as Thurlow Weed, the organ
of the high tariff protection party, received five
thousand dollars to use his influence to procure
the passage of a bill in Congress for " free
WOOL" and as William Fl. Seward made vast
political capital as a champion of the tempe
rance movement for the prohibition of all in
toxicating drinks at the very time when he was
engagedin the liquor business in Auburn. Such
is the hypocrisy and moral rottenness which
characterizes the leaders of all our political
parties. But there is no phase Of it SO disgust
ing as black republican slavcdcalers running
down the peculiar institution Of the South 1t
can only be paralleled by Satan with his neck
in white choker rebuking sin.
THE MACHINE SHOPS OF New YoRK.-Among
those metropolitan features which distinguish
New York from the other cities of the Union.
are its vast manufactures of machinery, par
ticularly of that which is connected with the
steam engine in its various FORMS and marks
the progress of the age. Steam has revolution
jed the civilized world, and it is peculiarly
characteristic of The go-ahead people of the
United States, in which the mighty agent was
first successfully applied to navigation New
York, the centre Of American civilization.
which diffuses its light and power to the re-
hottest extremities Of the Union, manufactures
machinery for every State. In another column
we publish an article giving an account Of the
present operations Of those gigantic establish
ments- the machine shops which turn out every
description of boiler and engine which are made,
from those intended to move the largest float
ing fortress that walks the water as a thing of
life," to the curious little forest machines
manufactured for the Southern market ana de-
signed to fell and saw trees. Among the iron
wonders now being forged at the Novelty
Works are thirteen steam fire engines, one of
them for New Orleans and another for San
Francisco, costing $4,000 each.
Thus do the Empire City's sweltering, roar
ing furnaces glow with binding white, and the
faces of her grim smiths, "clad in leathern piano.
ply" fiery grow, as their sledges fall upon the
monster shaft or piston "quivering through its
fleece of flames" and the well-timed music of
their blows sounds sweeter than the steeple's
chime But not for the Empire City alone, nor
even for the United States, is this energy and
activity displayed; her hammers ring and her
craftsmen sweat for Cuba, for SPAIN for Rus
STA, for Turkey, and for half the world Yet
for this toll and skill and enterprise New York
has her reward, not only in the accumulation
Of vast wealth, but in the progress of the arts
and sciences, and in the rapid growth of her
population, unprecedented in the history Of
any city since the foundation of the world.
REoPENiNG OF THE SLAVE TRADE.-The result
Of the elections in the Southern States, partcu-
larly in Texas, proves that the reopcning of
the slave trade is regarded there, as well as at
the North, with disfavor. Philanthropy is ex-
ultant, and its disciples are making great hue