The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-08


On another page we publish number Of
Interesting letters from one Of our Special
Reporters at the Son,b, bearing on the IRE
pressible conflict with slave labor which was
announced by VIM. II. Seward in his Rochester
manifesto, and inangurated in blood by John
Brown at Harper's Ferry. From thase reports
it will be seen that in retaliation and defence.
policy of non-intercourse with the North has
been extensively adopted by the South; that
whereas formerly the people were for the
Union, and only few fce-eatng politicians
we're in favor Of secession, now the mass of the
ahead of the disaniou politicians either in or
out Of Congress In Tennessee and Kentucky
the spirit OF dislcyalty to the Union il not 30
strong, and the people are not so anxious
70 precipitate revolution, eimply because
they are border States, and in case
Of . dissolution and civil war
they would have TO bear the brunt of the con-
Hict. But the Carclinas, Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi Florida, Arkansas and
Texas nre ready at any moment to cut the last
ligament which holds them to the Union, and
they are arming for the struggle which is
threatened by Northern abolition in the event
OF secession.
In anticipation Of the Acknowledgement of the
Union, as we'll as in retaliation upon New Eng
land for its sggressionsu pom Southern labor, tie
South has commenced to manufacture extern
sively for itself, and it will be seen by one of
our Special Reporters letters from Alabama,
that Ut Huntsville there is q cotton factory ia
which all the operatives are negroes. Samples
of the goods, which obtained the medal at tbres
State fairs, now lie before us, and we have no
hesitation In pronouncing them excellent
Hitherto it was more profitable for the
South to keep the negroes employed IL
the culture Of cotton, and buy the man.
ufactured article at the North; but now,
when the Southern institution is menaeed
with destruction, instead of purchasing
from New England, the South is determined to
be independent Of Northern commerce, and to
manufacture its own cotton. The negroes,
under the instruction and direction of white
men, make very good mechanics, aud their
labor can be applied to variety of articles.
which will deprive the North of a market for
its manufactures, and precipitate to crisis the
war which has commenced between labor and
capital in the New England STATES. In recent
years manufactures have been making rapid
progress in the South, and the city Of Louis
vile. described by our reporter, is a remarka-
BILE example. But the present anti slavery cru.
SADIE has given them an impetus which will
cause greater progress in one year than here
tofore in ten, and place them in such q position
as to seriously damage the manufacturing inte-
rests Of the North. They have the raw material
on the spot, they have abundant labor which
can coon be trained, and which will never
strike they have plenty of capital, and they
have vaat water power, sufficient to move the
machinery of The world. What is to prevent
them monopolising the whole market Of the
South?
1t is plain, therefore, that the anti-slavery
agitation will not ipjure the South, but the
North. And what is its ostensible object? To
attempt the impracticable-to give freedom to
happy negroes who do not desire it, but who
spurn and loath their would-be benefactors.
the effect Of whose visionary black philanthro-
Ply would be to drag down its objects to the
level of poverty, vice and crime in which the
free negro population Of the North are STEPPED.
Better fed, better clothed, better housed and
better protected than any laboring popula-
ton in the world, they would be sorry to
change their enviable condition for the
precarious subsistence and misery of even
the white labor of New England much
less the deplorable position of the CO.
lored race at the North, Knocked with the
name of freedom. 1t appears that On one OF
the estates visited by our special reporter the
negroes can save, after every want is supplied.
from $25 to $500 in the year, and one of them
realized $500 last year. What poor man at the
North can do that? Mention is made of another
whose savings had accumulated to 81, 900.
But it has been said that families are separat
ed. That is a case of very rare occurrence.
and is the exception to the general rule. Our
reporter attended slave sale at Montgomery.
and ia no instance were the families separated.
but invariably sold together. 1t will be seen
that 80 satisfied are the negro population that
tue auVdu'age VI Tue SlaVS lubutuLtOn Is all
on their side, that two free negroes applied
to the Legislature of Alabama to make them
slaves, and it is stated that over dozen recent.
~ returned to slavery in that State. 1t is only
few days ago we read q statement in the Gin
cinnai Commercial that the steamboat Tecum-
sch took down the river family Of six negroes
on their way to Helena, Arkansas, to enter
again the service of their old master, after
partaling of I" the sweets of liberty" for six
years in New York.
Now, all these ACTS show that there never
was such piece of criminal folly and infatua-
ton as the attempt Of Northerners to revolu-
tionize the slave labor of the South. If they
have any genuine charity, let them begin at
home, and expend it on the white slavesat