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

submission could not be looked far. There
would be divided North against q united
South, and Nr. Hichmsns eighteen miiious
would turr out e he no more sabA,ani.l than
Jack Faatal's nine men in buctlrSm and six in
Lincoln green. The merchants and manufac.
turers of the North would never SEE the COME
deracy destroyed without determined aud bit
Ter opposition 10 the party which preoipitated
such crisis on the country, and they would
hold Seward and the endorsers Of the Helper
book responsible for il.
AHaiss I'm Europs-a Specis OF War on the
HorizOn.
The latest news from Europe by the
Circassian contains two or three very signa
cant points, which to the mind indicate that.
unless the obstacles which stand ia the wav of
The proposed Congress- be speedily removed,
affairs Oh that Continent are drifting war.wise.
The Napo!eonic plan of d!sposing Of the Papal
difficulty, AS expressed in the pasnphiet is
inaniiestiy acceptable u the great body,0r iu-
'elIiRent lay Catholics as we'll as to a the
Protestant nations Of Europe, while. At the
same time ii receives determined orps,silion
from the majority Of the Catholic hi6Eschy
and clergy-a fact which must % cxrectcd as
the ecciesiastics Of the Church every - Re are
instructed and governed by the h0m<govern-
ment at Rome. just as ministers plsaipotee.
tiary, charges des atfaires and cons,lS of all
other nations are instructed and governed BY
the governments from which they are accredit-
ed. Unless the vexed questions concerning
Italian affairs and the nature Of the Pope's
temporal sovereignty can be amicably settled
by general Congress, We confess that we see
no alternative bat another war, combjAed very
probably with an exciting coatest between the
Catholic CLERGY and the enlightened portion of
the laity OF The Church.
1t will be remembered that Count Walewski
declared that the programme of the Lacquer.
ronierre pamphlet should form no part Of the
policy of the French government while be was
at the bead Of foreign affairs; aud following
bard upon that declaration we hear Of the dis.
missal or Withdrawal Of Waewski from that posi-.
ton. This is the first significant pointin the late
news. and looks as if the Emperor wa resolved
that the programme of the pamphlet should be
the imperial policy. Again: Marshal Valiant.
who assumed command in Italy during the
war, not because he was a promineu& Sighting
man, but that his wisdom and experid bee might
be at band to assist Napoleon, has been re-
called to France, and thorough Ggl Ting man.
Mcmahon, the hero OF Magenta, has sbeen sent
to Italy in his place. And again: Sardinia de-
clarcs that unless the Pope abandon$ the rails
ing of volunteers in Germany, she win march a
body of Sardinian troops into the eeitious.
These three circumstances, il must be adj
mitted, are open to anything but Il paci6catory
Interpretation. The peaceful tenor of the Em-
peror's remarks to the diplomatic corps on
New Years day, it is true, has served tempo
rarily to allay somewhat the fears OF Europe;
but the ambiguous declarations Of Napoleon
are not very reliable particularly when VIC re-
member that preceding the late Nsaisr war his
words were oil OF peace, until the very eve Of
the day when the first divisions OF the French
army were ordered to cross the Alps and con-
front the eagles Of Austria upon the plains Of
Lombardy. Upon the whole, then, the condi-
ton of Europe seems perlous at the present
moment; and predicating upon the failure of
the Congress of Paris to settle the Italian ques-
ton, we harry ,ve the mode Of escape FRA.
. IN O
terrible strussH tween the combined Powers
offrnnce, Eps land, Prussia, and possibly Russia,
backed up by the public opinion of all the
Protestant peoples and the intelligent Catholic
laity, on the one side, and the Catholic Powers
on the other-a conflict, the results whereof
are fearful to contemplate. In the end the
Pope will be compelled to accept the position
which Napoleon so wisely and judiciously pro-
poses for him; but in the meantime all Europe
will be convulsed and tide Of blood will bear
Italy to the contamination of her dcstinies.
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The Results OF AZ, lean Labor in the New
World.
When Columbus discovered the New World.
the fact became disclosed that there existed a
vast intertrOpicslr region. extending from twenty
to thirty degrees on each side OF the equator,
which contained the richest and most prolific
soil to be found on the face of the globe, bu +
the immense resources Of which, without tho
employment of African labor, could not he de
vcloped. Africa was populous, teeming with mil
lions Of the darkest skinned and widest tribes
whose prisoners captured in war were continual
ly destroyed. When a field was opened in
the hot lati.udes of America-the only climate
suitable for their employment their captises
instead of being killed, were purchased and
sent hiiher, where their services have been at
tended with the most important results.
The negro races Of Africa are estimated at
about 30,000,000 Since the commencement Of
the slave trade only about five millions have
been imported into the New World, which
amounts to buta small per ccntage of the num-
bcrs slain in their savage warfare. And the
expectation Of the five millions was, to great
extent, a mere question Of death or deportation.
OF the whole number OF Africans introduced
into the New World, 100000 were landed in