The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-24

THE HopEs OF EXETER HALL--ITs ALLIANCE
WIN THE REPUBLICAN, PsRrY--We have been
for some time in possession of the fact that
Rev. Fred. Douglass, niger, and Rev. Dr.
Cheever, white man, of the Church Of the Puri-
tans in this city, but a nigger-worsbipper,
had been diligently engaged in England col
lecting money under the auspices of Exeter
Hall, as the sinews of war to carry on the
;rrcpressible conflict with slavery in the South
ern States The leaders of the republican
party endeavored to keep the matter profound
secret. but the ArItiSaue'y Standard let the
cat out of the bag, just as it blabbed about the
English subscriptions to aid in the red revoiu.
ton Of John Brown; and 30 we were made
aware of the movement.
But there is one secret which we did not know
before, and of which we are only now informed
by the organ of Exeter Hail. the London Ne,es,
and that IL. that in the event of the election of
Lincoln, it is understood by the British abolition
lists that the pretended right to search American
vessels, which has hitherto been resolutely de-
MED to Great Britain by all our statesmen even
to war-denied under every aspect by every
administration since the government was found
ed-will be conceded by the new republican
President, and thus the designs of England will
be accomplished, and our national flag made to
strike to the Union Jack. In the article we
published yesterday from the London Ne'os,
this prospect is distinctly held out and it is the
main ground on which money is collected in
England for the Presidential campaign here.
There is thus an alliance between Exeter Hall
and the republican party; and it is evident that
a foreign. Power, through the agency of its
press and supply of money, is attempt
ing to interfere in our elections, even to
the revolutionizing of the government, but
for the ostepsible purpose of abolishing the
servitude which prevails at the South, and
was sanctioned by ST. Paul eighteen CEN
turtles ago while brisk slave traffic Is being
carried on at this moment by the British, not
merely in negroes, but in white race of men,
who are subjected to unheard of tortures and
horrors, as recently confessed by Lord John
Russell in an official despatch-a traffic which
the British Minister proposes to regulate and
extend, seeing that the negroes captured in
slavers by British cruisers, and made slaves
under the euphonious name of apprenticeship,
are not sufficient to supply the demand of the
colonies for labor. While we pay smartly for
the return of captured slaves to their native
land the British know how to turn them to
better account.
The idea of British journalists lecturing this
country about that system of labor which one
portion of its climate as imperatively demands
as do the West Indies, which are returning to
slavery again under another designation, is ltl-
dicrous in the extreme, and shows that 10 what
ever John Bull may be wanting it is not in
plenty Of brass. American slaves are treated
hundredfold better in every respect than the
negroes under the British apprenticeship sys-
TEN. An American planter has compassion on
his bond servant for two reasons first, because
he was brought up with him from childhood
is well known to him, and is a civilized Chris
tian; and secondly, because II IL his interest to
treat him we'll, as his labor belongs 70 him for
life. But in the savage blacks and the pagan
coolies, who are apprenticed for five years, no
one has any interest. II is the OBJECT Of the
master to get all the labor he can out OF them
for bis money, though he should work them to
death: for when their term expires he can cast
them of and get new set of apprentices.
Should Lincoln be elected, ii is calculated that
the British cruisers, obtaining the right of
search, will have a glorious time in capturing
vessels under the American flag. and that. UNI
der the plea of stopping the slave trade. they
will completely crush out the legitimate Amer
lean trade on the coast of Africa