The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-07

- uu5ortunats sentry sleeping h post He waschs
uhNst others resi- thai be may Afterwards whss The
say he certainty S..sS ~ScS suSDss S% % .ussi
aGAst sleep, which, where sleeping sentnes prevailed
would soon be death both % him and al his fellows
Now hb In The case OF that community aud unde
sireumsia analogous 70 martial law. that State
Virginia finds ITSELF A political offender In Europe me
perry Of a few A negro insurrecdon-a servle war Q
sacss-hreatens the whe population or ell age, SCI ans
ooIdioD with imminent destruction, and against sach
catastrophe the State laws Of Virginia seek 70 PROVIDE BY
yibg forms VI procedure In Furnishing thos
ssa mpung 70 excite It, Under these forms John Brow
Bates interfere prevent hts execution. Are 20,
that you inviting them 70 what they have nj
impo,pg them 70 commence civil war, to break uy
would resis,Y s a tslte'. EiH m
For, sir, though every man 10 Virginia had beer
ANXIOUS for John Brown death, N her laws only 81
lowed months imprison ment 10 visitation Of his oeuce
and that the federal government and the oths III a.
shree states had interfered 60 hang him. Virginia. the
oldest State in the Unon would risen so man. 10
his defence, under similar circumstances Rhode Is
knd The Smallest and Oregon the youngest Of the State
Of the uDon would have DONE resisting such ntrasiol
even by 10 the knife. $50 ,a M t0
The economical view Of emancipation in the Soashern
Hass IS one that you dsdain. Bat If yon will con-
tsder the magnitude Of the interest involved you must
acknowledge that 10 such sacrnce has ever been male
including even that unparnied exau which is nj once
she most glorious Incident the ha,Uy Of the British
people and the complete vindicaton Of the
pursued by our Southern population. %. 9 # ID
Twenty millions OF pounds sterling, one hundred mil
lions or dollars, five hundred millions OF francs,
voted by the people Of Great Britain 70 free the egr
n their colonies The result Of that experiment has
been that these colonies, source OF wealth. are
nov burlhen 70 her and that the heavily taxed British
operative curtaed in the necessaries Of HE pay
the interest OF that debt maintla the establishments
which alone prevent tho emancpated nego from relays
mig INTO savage life Jamaica, the most OF
these colonies does mot now produce more than . Der
Orfor apei.
patton, whilst its population Of tree negroes after twenty
years has declined
whilst the slave population OF the Uuted States bad
creased sixty per cent curing this twenty preceding
the landing ia island the first s,shs
carry heavy loads Of coal upon their heads by
their fathers husbands, sons or brothers, who
bask idly on the wharves, 70 coal the steamer,
the coored population whom you meet beg you for aims
YEA less coffee and sugar produced Of
ths sscree by slave abOr9 On the contrary statistics
show that Of these products slave
snd introduced Britain, much larger than be-
But SIR the emancipation Of the negroes 10 the United
Bates the principle Of compensation, would involve an
expenditure, not Of twenty but Of three four hundred
millions Of pounds sterling. The interest that
ne rates usual IN this country would equal the interest
on the whole national debt Of Great Britain But that Is
nos all Al least three out Of the four millions whicn
NE cOlored population e now computei must be sup.
ported This At the lowest estimate would 70 as
much more-a charge ii would be Impossible 70
psDsaon 70 his owner the freed negro hav ng neither
industry nor providence 70 make CROP must plum Ter,
~ ~. WI nna taa. nserest or
crop and Of northern trade TO South would be under
estimated at the enormous Of five hundred millions
= eens.s snnualy. suCn onAnens, impossiole lof
bear would fall the utterly ruined white Southern 20.
polss.on and on the impoverished North.
tu sncs Sc ~, h NV oess carea i1l .nsn sne
soI.y VI we isooreIs en1 otoIsuvee o. EUROPE, pc
s,uss .nus .nciI vWn suossSuco, iuin"I W Aurope
sC0o, .. ns coon Couon, sne oeespes s,tt
~ numsn CiotnnS, was e tne covering OF the needy,
nc tne SUBSTITUTE Ior more sod elegant or
Ssos, onCe sue Dnonym ia your country OF wnatover
Sr ~ 49, cc 1n NV you sssf Sonsi
pfoosoy regard Win pom apnorrence ana
eonsempr Ootson s me material OUT Of wnch mighty
eAole nas Deen graouaiy uut MOI
only VIM ane aesnles 81 'nls repuonc Dut OF sns upon
EN- mnons oeyono ~ 50 as "a apme " nave en-
proouce now caamies Soc ond only 70 the sudden ana
usser disappearance rom me world OF iron. The six
ooms, me me cotn iactoree tne poteeree the glass
WORKS. the manufacture OF hnens shawls lacee, and OF
nnumerabie articles OF use or luxury, might vanish IN
one night 70 suoslde forever snonss the lost arts With
Ss ns eo aIa ak %Oud
10 Great Britain alone the Southern States or this Union
export an Amount cotton exceeding the whole rental OF
~ coil OF the British the agricultural pro-
uce Of that soil Of higher value than the agricultural
produce Of the soil Of France II furnishes directly
dessrucon 81 The cotton crop OF the United States would
q the lowest computation drive into paupersu mi l.
Non and half Of individuals in the British islands, and
country and liz tins The cotton which these negroes
he Southern States produce clothes at least sixty millions
q The human race what is the thing, clothes par
BS. when these sacrifices had been or a. least such
u them Is 1t was within human power make, what ut
the coat Of this widespread ruin would be the benefit
ton Of the or jamaica negro ,ohabting The tro
pcs9 No: TO leave him on soil and in climate wnos-
winter frosts however light, perm, only perennial
crop and which 70 sustain human life require an
Of INDUSTRY and forethourt which uuhappy he is not
~ rnox