The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-17

- TIC Lonuon ~ meS, winch fully accounts ZOE
the milk in that cocoanut.
The English journals Times especially
are never tired Of preaching to US, of telling Us
OF our faults and foibles, of patronizing us, OF
assuming airs OF superiority, of declaring that
the conductors OF the American press are
neither gentlemen nor scholars, and that the
British journalist alone understands the dig
nifty Of his profession. That this Ia all stuff and
nonsense the course of the Times and some
Of the other London journals with regard =
this tour Of the Prince fully proves. IA for
the leading journals Of New York they are
known by their fruits. The. system is not per-
fect-nothing human is entirely so-but it is a
infinitely better lie English plan as the
express railv II "a is to the slow coaches Of
half ~ ago.
Dun Green's Address 10 thc People OF tbs
South.
In another part of to-day's HERALD will be
found very interesting letter, addressed BY
Duff Green to the people of the South, on the
present crisis in the political affairs of the coun
try. Without committing ourselves to all his
conclusions, we may observe that Mr. Green's
address contains much valuable matter and is
we'll deserving of a careful perusal.
There ia one observation of his in which We
entirely concur, and that is that the South can
maintain her rights better in the Union THAI
| out OF it. But as to the policy recommended
| in the event Of Lincoln's election-which tho
| writer appears to assume as foregone conclu-
sion-the policy of the South conceding pro-
tective tariff to Pennsylvania and New Jersey
in order to gain the alliance of those two States,
and thus secure their own rights inviolate. We
think Mr.. Green overrates the effect of such Q
measure, and that it would not arrest the ''irre-
| pressible conflict" between free and slave Ia
Dor in those States or in any part Of the North.
Instead Of beneftting free labor it would
only benefit capital and give it larger profits At
| the expense Of the general community. The
rates of wages would not be increased, while
the very workmen themselves would have 70
pay an advanced price for the manufactured
| article
As to the ether measure which Mr.. Green ad-
vocates for the purpose of taking the wind out
Of the sails of the republican party, namely,
the pre- empion right to Pacific Railroad
Company Of twenty-five or thirty miles of the
public land on each side of the line, instead Of
making free grant and giving bonus besides
| of hundreds of millions of dollars to few re-
| publican leadere, as is proposed in their mea-
sure, we consider this a more statesmanlike
proposition, if guarded with stringent condi-
| tons; but how it If to break down the repub-
| lican party, if carried, we are wholly at loss
| to see. 1t cannot affect the slavery
| question one way or the other, and Ger
tainly cannot give any security to the South
against inroads upon its rights and institutions.
The only effect it could have, in a party point
Of view, would be to take away so much public
plumber out Of the hands Of the republicans;
but it would not settle the slavery issue, with
which II really has nothing to do. This great
question must be met and decided, not by side
winds but on the direct issue and on its own
merits, and il cannot be placed on better
basis than that on which Mr.. Green himself
puts it. at the end Of his letter, when he says
AS TO the institution of slavery, the march Of
science and the progress of events are rapidly
demonstrating that it Ia a necessity resulting
from the nature and condition of man and to
the whole people Of this country one of the
chief sources Of their welfare and prosperity
Mr.. Green shows that the origin Of the cru
SADIE against slavery Is to be traced, in
part. to the commercial necessities OF Eng
land, whose statesmen discovered. after
she became a great commercial and manu-
featuring nation, and emancipsted her West
India slaves, that she had ruined those
colonies, and that she could not compete in her
East Indian tropical products with the products
Of the slave labor OF the United States Hence
it was her policy to break down American
slavery, and John Quincy Adams who wanted
to be elected President by the Development Of
anti slavery States In our Western Territories.
embarked in conspiracy with British states
men to accomplish their purpose, and entered
upon an agitation which resulted in the Missouri
was TO produce a sectional Northern party
which would control the dcstinies OF the coun-
try, and Mr.. Green gives some personal revela-
aous touching its history, which are interesting
and apropos at the present time. 1t was not
from any conscientious scruples which the agi-
tstors Of that day entertained against
negro ssrvitude that they risked the dissolution
Of the Union; but they used the ignorant fana-
teal element for their purpose, rs British agi-
taiors have done. and IS American demagoguee
now do.
But now that England nnds the Institution Of
negro slavery to be stronger than II ever was
in the estimation Of all sound American states
men, and In the minds of the majority Of the
people, che falls back upon II herself first by
employing enslaved coolies in her colonial pos
sections and secondly by adopting newer
scheme Of using the slave labor Of Africa In
Africa to compete with African labor In the
ITnitaA gtaias Eranne IA meditafinR the same