The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-03

civilization with slave labor. He says:-'In one
and the same year, l6 0. English ships landed
the Puritans in New England aud the negro
slaves in Virginia-two seeds Of two systems
that were destined to find here growth and
strength unparalleled in history" Now, the
truth of history is, that at the time Of the
Declaration of Independence all New England,
including Massachusetts,, was slave, and one of
the grounds Of revolution alleged in that mani
festo was that the mother country excited in
surrection of the negroes, Is Puritan emissa-
ries from New England have lately done in the
South.
Massachusetts was the only State Of the
whole thirteen that was not slave State at
the time OF the Union. She never discovered
that slavery was sin till it had ceased to be
profitable in her cold barren climate, adapted
only to the white emigrant Of Europe. For years
afterwards her ships conveyed slaves from
Africa to Virginia and other Southern States.
And long before that she made slaves of the
Indians and sold them into captivity. All the
Northern States, like Massachusetts,, have found
out that white labor is more profitable, and the
Puritan. clergy have now discovered that
negro slavery is a sin. The Southern
States, ON the contrary, find negro slavery
profitable for their climate, and their
clergy pronounce it not only no sin, but be-
neAcent institution, sanctioned by the Bible
ITSELF
So far from negro slavery having any con-
nection with the colonization of Virginia, she
long protested against the importation Of ne
groes from Africa by British authority. 1t was
the discovery of the cotton gin by an ingenious
Yankee that rendered slavery profitable to the
South, and to the whole nation; and had the
Purtans inhabited the South, instead Of blealr'
from them against negro slavery. Even as it is
they grow rich from the manufacture of
cotton, and all of them wear the fabric which
comes from slave culture, while none are so
conscientious as to deny themselves the use of
sugar, or rice, or tobacco, the products Of the
same kind of labor.
Now the Puritans hold that the negroes
ought to be made free throughout the whole
land-which of course implies their equality
with the whites their right to amalgamate with
them, and their right to fill the public offices,
from that of President downwards. The re-
publicans hold that there ought to be only
| one kind of labor at the South and at the
North But the laws Of nature override their
| contracted views. Hitherto homogeneous ma
tons have been formed by race and climate,
| and their institutions have been regulated
thereby. The United States of America form
an exception to the rule, because their vast area
embraces two opposite climates-one cold,
suited only for white labor, and the other tro-
pical, suited only for negro labor. For the
first time in the history of the race it has thus
become happy contented, civilized and Chris
tanned. In the North the negro dies out
There is no antagonism, no irrepressible con-
fict, between the two systems of labor. Both
harmonic with nature, and both contribute to
the happiness Of their respective sections and
to the good of the whole. 1t is only by servi-
tude under Christian masters that the negro
has ever been rescued from barbarism, or can
be preserved from relapsing into it. 1t is
only by this system that he can be COM
PEELED to work in the South; and never
did any population become civilized but
by labor Hence the failure to civilize the
Indian, because he could not be subdued to
labor. 1t is only by servitude of the negro
that the two races can be kept distinct in one
community; otherwise we should soon witness
here that deterioration of men which has ruined
Mexico. Servitude is happiness to the negro;
liberty is a means of happiness to the Anglo
Saxon, and the present relative condition of
both races is the best security for the prosperity
and well being of the whole community. This
double system Of civilization in one country is
new governmental idea peculiar to the United
States of America. 1t has worked well, and
would have worked well forever II let alone.
Whether the condition of the North will be
improved by the change which now seems in
evitable, is problem which yet remains to be
solved.