The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-20

u me cnhe d States, in the production OF Gotten,
lopaeoo rice and naval stores. She has about
-o'o' 100 aboring for her in Brazil, 100000 in
0a' "a, besides large numbers OF coolies and cap
dred Africans in her West India Islands. And no
less Ian $50 900 900 ryotts and Coolies or Asiatic
slaves, laborng for her in the tropical regions of
her East India Possessions.
The annual exports to her East India Posses
sions amount to $40 900 900, and her annual i'm
ports from thence to $50 900 900. The progress of
the United States from the same general basis has
also reached an annual average export of about
1925 900 ,0o0-more than half and near twothirds
of which are the products of African labor;
while her annual imports average about
$3l2, 600, 900. Abolish African labor in the
tropics, and what would be the consequences, not
alone TO the whites of England and America, but
of the civilized world2
The praises of Arkwright and Of Whitney have
been often told in prose and poetry; but what
would have been the use of the spinning jenny
and of the cotton gin without African tropical la
Dor, in the production Of cotton in regions where
white labor perishes?
FREE AND AFRICAN SLAVE LABOR RRcrPRocALLy
BENEFICIAL, AND NOT ASrAGONIsTIC.
In the Northwestern States Of America
Where does it gnd its most constant and reliable
market Answer: In its direct trade with the
South and in supplying the New England and
Eastern manufacturing districts. Where do these
manufacturing communities depend for the best
market for their goods! AT the South. Then
the free laborers of the Northwest de-
pend upon the African labor OF the South,
employed in a climate where they themselves
cannot work, for their best means Of support.
Again: where do the shoe and boot manufacturers,
the steam engine builders, the producers Of cotton
gins sugar mills, poughs, horses, pork and steam
boats amounting TO millions annually-lving in
the free towns West and in the free cities OF the East
as they are vauntingly caed-depend for their best
market! On the African labor of the South. Yet
all the white laborers engaged in these pursuits are
told that the slavery Of the South is their worst ene
my, and that they must unite to put down it and the
South together. The fanatics talk Of freedom just
as though there existed a single white man in the
United States who does not enjoy as much liberty
to-day as existed in America when General Wash
ington was first naugurated President Of the United
States, on the steps of the old City Hall in New
York. Such an insane cry only means abolitionism,
which, if carried out, is to involve whites and
blacks in one general ruin.
AMcAN SERVICES, OR SLAVERY, AS PRO eERrY UNDER
THE CONSTITUTION.
But, says one, the constitution does not recog-
Mise African services, or slavery property. How
do you make that out
AT the time the constitution Of the United States
was signed, in l1s1, there were Al 900 African
slaves held in the present free States Of the North
The State Of New York held 81 900, Rhode Island,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, &C., also
held large numbers Of slaves. Suppose a clause
had been proposed to be embraced in the constitu.
ton during its formation declaring that slaves
from that moment ceased to be property, do you,
can any one, suppose that New York-holding pro-
perry in q 900 slayes-or that Rhode Island or
other Northern States, would have signed it!
Not "a bit' d il. How impudent and unjust
therefore, for those States who sold out their
negroes 10 the South now TO come forward
and tell the Southern people that there Is no
property in African services or labor, or In
slaves, under the constitution. This, too, in the
face Of the fact that the government has uniformly
paid for slaves killed in Indian wars and has also
compelled the English TO pay for slaves carried of
during the late war, wrecked on English islands
and retained there by violence, when route from
one American port 10 another.
kkW ENGLAND ON SLAVERY AND TIN SLAVE TRA
POSITION OF MAssAcHusErTs THEN ANp NOW.
The movements of the New England States in re.
gard 70 slavery have been Of most extraordinary
character. During the debates in The Convention
on the formation Of the constitution Virginia, with
a majority Of the Southern States, proposed a
clause in favor OF terminating the slave trade in
the year $500. This was opposed by a majority of
the New England States-including Massachusetts,
and Rhode Island-who had a large number
Of vessels engaged in the slave trade,
or in transporting slaves from Africa
to the Southern States and did not wish their trade
TO be interrupted. Hence these States proposed
TO extend the period to 1920. This the Southern
States opposed. Finally, the period Of lsos was
offered as a compromise, and we find that Massa-
chusetts and other New England States, who could
have terminated the African slave trade in 1900,
actually voted to extend 1t eight years beyond tina,
period, during which the trade was never more
actively prosecuted. Massachusetts, became res
ponsible for the Africans introduced in the South
within those eight years. In that time 600 were
introduced into South Carolina. Does Massachusetts,
when supporting the doctrines Of abolitionism,
repent Of having been party to the introduction of
those 10000 Africans, Or does she propose
10 purchase their liberation, and send them
back TO Africa! Not at all. We find that within
a recent period she sends one OF her lawyers to
South Carolina TO resist the legality Of its mu-
nicpal laws regarding the imprisonment Of
nee negroes, made necessary for the protection Of
its citizens. What did South Carolina do Ac-
knowledge the right Of Massachusetts to interfere
in her local legslations No; not at all. The agent
Of that State was surrmarily elected from South
Carolina. What followed Did Massachusetts, at
tempt coercion! No. sic had no constitutional
right 20 do so. II s now claimed that the free
States collectively, Massachuset,s included have
right TO do what the latter had no power or legal
right TO do individual lly.
Again, we find Senator Ct Massachusetts, who
grossly p,aliCns and yillifes q state into whose