The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-20

Louis Napoleon clearly perceives, and there
fore he is confident in his course. The Pope
cannot carry his point in endeavorins to force
Europe back, against the convictions Of the
world, nor will the d. nasties be very DESTROYS
Of provoking conflict with the spirit Of the
uge, in which the Napoleonic dynasty shall be
forced to resort to revolution for self preserva
ton.
FAILURE or THE AFRICAN COLONIZATION SOcr
EIY.-This old fogy affair held Its annual meet
ing OF Washington day or two ago, when it
appeared that the result Of the seciety's labors
for the last year was the collection of Si6i 900,
and the expenditure $4,000, and three hun
dred negro cmigrants sent to Africa. Can any
farce be moro ridiculous than keeping up such
a society as thiss Its object was to encourage
the emancipation of negroes, with view to
send them out to Africa to civilize the native
savages But if the Colonization Society cannot
furnish emigrants in greater numbers than three
hundred per annum, the civilizing element will
speedily be swallowed up in the barbarous,
and no effect whatever will be produced; and
as regards the operation of the society in d.
minishing the number of slaves In this country,
and thus gradually abolishing slavery, it is per-
fectly nugatory; Tor the annual increase Of ne
groes is so much greater that the emigration has
no perceptible effect on the number of slaves.
four thousand millions of dollars. What effect,
therefore, can the collection of an annual sum
of $4,000 have in meeting that tremendous
sum, even the interest of which, at seven per
cent, would amount to two hundred and eighty
millions Of dollars per annum! 1t is, there
fore, absurd to be wasting money on Coloni-
cation Society to send negroes to Africa, and it
is only another of many examples Of the mis-
taken philanthropy of the times.
The best thing the Colonization Society can
do with its funds is to send to Massachusetts,
all the free negroes who are willing to leave
the South The dislike Of the negro population
in the free States is Western idea, and does
not prevail down East. Mr.. Trumbull and
other republican members of Congress from
the West, and Governor Chase of Ohio,
believe that the negro is not equal to the
white man, and is incapable Of selfgovern
abolition of slavery in Congress and out of it,
are hostile to the immigration Of free negroes
among them. Now, in Massachusetts, they be-
lieve in the equality Of the niger with the
white man; and, in fact, large number prefer
the African race to the working class of the
whites. There is not half so much sympathy
for the poor white factory population as there
is for the negroes. The old Bay State is, there.
FORE the spot in which to COLOMBO the ne
groes. If they are sent to Canada, they
find not only an inhospitable climate, but
want of sympathy, and the utmost destitu-
ton and suffering prevail in the negro colonies
| in the British Provinces. In Massachusetts,,
which is q far better climate, they will be
taken care Of, and plenty Of sympathy will be
evoked from those who, according to the evil
dcnce Of Mfr. Army before the Committee of the
United States Senate, contributed so largely to
aid in their freedom.
According to the Courier and Enquirer in
pursuance of the recent law of Arkansas,
| expelling the free negroes or enslaving them,
| thousands are fleeing to the North, while
whole families, numbering many thousands,
cannot get away, and will be sold into per-
| petual slavery" Here, then, is fine field for
the philanthropists of the Colonization Society.
| They can have these negroes without money
and without price, and all they have to do is
tie telegraph We learned yesterday that the
law which passed the Legislature of Missouri
for expelling the free negroes was vetoed by
Governor Stewart; and if it should be passed
over his veto, there will be another field for
the Colonization Society. The negroes at their
service are as plenty as blackberries But If it
should SO happen that the Colonization Society
neglect their duty in that direction, or have
not funds to take away so many blacks, we
would suggest to the Missouri Legislature the
propriety of lacking apgovision to the bill to
pay their expenses to Massachusetts,. There is
no necessity for stealing slaves and sending
them by underground railroad to Canada,
when there are thousands upon thousands of
free negroes to be had who are in danger of
being ensIaved for want of funds and phi
lanthropy to take them to New England. And
if there were any dearth of miserable free
negroes at the South for the exercise of North
ern philanthropy, Church street, the Five
Points, and other classic localities Of this city,
would afford them abundant supply.
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE BOARD OF ALDER
MEN AND THE HERALD.-From the character of
the proceedings in the Boards Of Common
Council last night, we are afraid that the inves-
tigation into the character Of certain members
of these bodies will not be carried out as We
and the public would desire. The Board of
Councilmen hurriedly and Indignantly refused
to take joint action with the Aldermen on the
resolution calling for a committee Of inquiry
into the charges made by the HERALD; and it
was with some difficulty. and great deal of
vulgar abuse, that the Board Of Aldermen