The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-16
70 20. elsewhere but the consumer mus, buy them or

90 without
annihilsted and at a when machinery was .oot
n give it vast extension What wui oecome OF me
thousands OF families depend for existence this
inaustryf Our hosiery, which employs 30
many hands, will with difficulty struggle against hnglsn
The mar u,acturers of St Qquentn say
the great branches OF national Industry are agi
ta,ed by sau presentments and lively apprehensions
trouble millions Of workmen and of -hose activity
Intelligence and capital insure the existence OF TINS IN
the echo reach Mai sty,
The manufactures az Bernay affirm that
An inquiry wouls have proved VIZ are convinced, that
the prohbtve system the only eficacions pre-
vent England In crises, from nundating us
with manufactured aiuces which she must then dispose
Of al very low price
Aud again
hnh part of the English cotton fabrics oqualng the
total products OF the kind II Il happened u
divert them to markets. would suffice for the con.
sumption OF AL France The result would DO the Closing
Of our Establishments, ruin for and misery for
Il is the same throughout Scarcity and high prices
form the beau soeal OF the prohbiionists.
States-EnS lands Trade In Free Cotton.
From the LONDON News (sb0.iao. oYganl Feb
There will soon be little room for the ordinary com
plant from America that their affairs excite
among their kindred In Europe The political crlsis the
United States has occasoned more emark in pfnt, aud
occupied In the alton Of the day than
has perhaps, been known before within the expe
rienoe Of this generation
The business OF the slave States Ia conduct
ed through the Northern merchants Al present every
pereon from the North regarded and treated abb
Monst, and commercial agents are no exception
when they ave vel, known tho road. No. only
pedlers oil shipped of from the ports and
goverDetsea on their way 70 schools where they escn
ARRESTED and warned To 60 home, aud brcklayers
stone mAsonG dismissed by night from New Orleans
prisoned and their property they sell
ellie Of Christ" published in New En- gland but the
partners ann agents CT commercial houses are turned
back without order with threats, Of their
appearing again beyond the frontier They describe
perfect stasnson OF business and they soc no cad to
More significant than the Simultaneous action Of
several States about the free That action s
fecy absurd but IL not the less cruel to the men,
the less fatal the industry OF the South. As the pre-
of free blacks must always render black slavery
dangerous and difficult iranric efforts made get
rid Of free blacks who refuse absent themselves In
Mary land some foolish have actually proposed as
havs SEEM to make slaves OF 80 900 free negroes
though Mary and has for many years been uu!ortu
with It's negroes beng unable TO keep them,
the one band, and to make any profit, the other,
OF those who remained. In order to obtain some
sanction of such proposal the projectors give charac
Of free negroes which certainly commonly
and which, true In Mary land condemns of
cety there The adjoining State, Pennsylvania though
pattern OF brothey love, rebuke Mary lands report
of negro ideness sbitlessDess and dsrepute In Pha
depba there blocks Of houses and groups Of Shipping
belonging to negroes which show that they much like
other In a state OF freedom Ia Missouri the Legs
lature has decreed the expulsion of all negroes under
nay Of their being sold into slavery In Mississippi the
process has been gone through; but the judges
here and there have demonstrated tine out
rageous character OF the act, and have shown tbat
If such provisions could be executed, the mme.
daie consequence would be instruction every
estate where free negro was deposited slave As
for leaving the respective States these
made, the blacks do il AT the moment; sve
families OF respectable white have left their
homae iu Kentucky by command of their peigh bors
simply because they of Northern birth derivation
but the blacks body refuse to leave the country
They meet IN conventions to confirm their claim
zeushp; they provide means of education ana general
elevation for their class and they emph itcaly esps
ciay refuse to 90 TO Africa ehie negro siIs is LETT
This resolution largely Affects the prospects Of
African cotton No one perhaps doubts OF the possibility
and the benefit OF obtaining almost any quantity OF cot
ton from Africa but II must not be expected from the
African Civilization Society the American Colonization
Society, far their action depends the migration
Of the free negroes Of the United States They mil not
e7niorate prolo crtton, and they dNoGed b groo
coton home Our plans nslst DC formed ,r.taa regard
tothem
Meantime the slaves were escaping 70 Canada at
tho Of 1000 year before the agitation.
Those soho behind krSp ,cu uha the agaSion
dbc1a If the Sth could p9sfJty form Ir0te
federation for hour, there cnsild be sSecaol dion
of the slaves aho poud edpein .fold numbers # indeed
the protection Of the North Apparently, the only chaucs
for Southern production and Southern security and
power to compel ihe south 10 keep quie and mind IT,
bus,aess In THAT lcass, time might be gained for
aboahing slavery in an an orderly aud safe way Tn Ter
any other supponton there seems no hope If disanon
il TIRE Of the Shareholders, Ia perious
for them to UTTER they wholly the of those
Who would then be their antagonists ''It IL
should take place politician who under the
Of events the spot 'for all that see, the
white ant black races in the South would 30 down in ruin
together"
only necessary in order to estimate the probab
ties of American cotton look nj the Of labor the
cotton States Free labor well wherever tried
and If the were freed 10 on orderly way the pro
ducuon Of cation might greatly Increase But II NOT
slaves about coo 00o AM the slaveholding
whiee who bound hand and foot by presence OF
slavery but daily growing more restless, are 6oooooo
Is time getting cott7 o ON ohr places; ami by
Gis tine rez may De torderng that dti nat do
IL bere the great American crisis occurred There has
been clear warning Of it for above quarter OF q
century.