The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-22


portation OF these immense supplies, their trans
formation 10y manufacturing processes, and
their redistribution, in changed iorus, give en-
ploynent to millions oil tons OF shipping aud
afford support to millions upon millions of free
white lsborers all over the civilized world
By the Increase aud expansion OF commerce
civilization has been spread to the remotest
corners OF the globe, white. steamships have
been multiplied, railroads extended, and com
mupicstion Of all kinds increased 70 az exteut
they would not have reached In century With
out the deveiopement OF the agricultural re
sources of the tropics in the West by A6Rcan
labor.
And yet we find the monstrOus doctrine
taught that African labor is inimical 10 the free
labor Of the North.
The growers of grain, on which cattle and
bcgs are fatsened for Southern consumption;
the ship canlker and joiner Of Maine; the grass
grover and hay Gutter Of New Eaglaa whose
remuneration is derived from Suathern ,uar-
kct; The boot aud shoe makers of Lyna and
Natick; the draymen and other laborers of
abors n an enemy to their work. Heace we
iud that though the South takes from three
quarters 10 four -ffths of all the boot. and shoes
made at the North, and which suslains an i'm
meDse hide and leather trade in New York, the
workmen of Lynn and Natick, Massachusetts.
after working all day in making brogaa shoes
for the negroes OF the South 20 at night tn
abolition prayer meetings To join in sapplica
tious TO the Most High that lie would interfere
to deprive them aud their families of employ
ment aud OF bread. by destroying African labor
aud the Union together.
Ii African labor is an evil the North aud the
civilized world have extracted an i'm me.se and
incaculabe good out of it, Thi, may be said
not only Of The whites, but Of the blacks also
The cotton bales of the United States have kept
England and America at peace for forty years,
and prevented the whites from mutual saugh
ter. Emancipation is not oniy the destruction
of African labor, but the extermioatioa of tue
negroes themselves. All those Intercepted
communities of the New World IN which emaa
cipatien has been enforced have goue to the
dogs. while the blacks among them are gradu-
ally dying out; those, on the Contrary, which
have preserved African labor Continue to be
prosperous powerful and progressive. Thus the
island of Cuba, though oppressed by an effete
monarchy, is worth more to its government
aud to the world at largo than all the other
West India islands put together.
Among all the South American States Brazil
is the only one which has maintained a stable
and prosperous government, aud she is the only
Que which has preserved African labor. In the
Spanish South American States. though sadly
misgoverncd, African labor vas preserved
while under the rule of Spain, and it gave sta
bil'ty aud prosperity to their provincial rule,
objectionable though it was in other respects.
When the provinces threw off the Spanish yoke,
their people were seized with the fanaticism of
the age, and destroyed African labor, which
drove out Spanish capital, and left the people
prey to anarchy and revolution. Venezuela
abolished by emancipation African labor. No.
| body afterwards wanted TO work, but all
wantel to rule-blacks whites, and half
breeds; hence her history Ii written in civil
wars and bloodshcd. Peru followed Ter exam
pie, and revolution after revolution has been
the result; and had it not been for the discovery
VI bird manure on the Chinchas. wurr. Emma.
men have to be employed to load ships, she
would, ere this, have sunk iuto hopeless bank
ruptcy and ruin. Chile, on account of her
valuable copper mines, attracted foreign
capitalists, whose influence has helped to
impart somc degree of stability to her
government. But she, too, experiences fair
share Of revolutions In the other States revo.
buttons are the rule and peace the exception.
We also behold the richest country in the New
World comprised in the five Central American
States, nearly stripped of population, its fruit
full soil uncultvated, its mines unworked, and
its petty governments without strength, stability
or responsibility. There nobody cares to labor
| and all, black and white, struggle by cunning
deceit or force to govern their fellows. Turn
| ing to Mexico, we behold country whose
wealth in soil and minerals is fabulous, dcvas-
tated by the brigandism of civil war-a coun.
try where life and property have ceased to find
protection, while anarchy and bloodshed arrest
| all human progress
What influence is mainly chargeable with
having inflicted such irreparablc injury upon
the New World by the destruction of African
labor? That of great Britain. Like the axe in
the hands of the reckless woodman, she has
contributed to destroy what centuries of labor
cannot restore; and if one half of this Union,
and that by all odds the most conservative
portion, hes not been overthrown and desc
lated by civil war; worse than that which
destroyed the West India Islands and involved
half the American continent in bloodshed and
anarchy, it has not been her fault, nor the fault
of her incendiary agents-the abolitionists of
the free States of the North. With all her cru
sades against African labor in the New World.
she knows of late whom to trust in South
America. Not long since she made heavy
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