The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-17

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bearing On the Puritan conscience. When it
was proposed to abolish the slave trade from
the year 1900, Edmund Randolph and Mr.. Ma
olson, of Virginia, advocated the proposition.
| What States voted against it, and in favor OF
extending the time to 1903. New Hampshire,
Massachusetts. Connecticut, Maryland. North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia Those
States which voted for the abolition in 1900
were New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Virginia. Had the Now England States
voted with them, the measure would have
| been carried.
| As long US the importation of slaves from
Africa was legal, who thriyed most by the traf-
| fog The Purtans, as a few figures will show
From tho year 1904 to 1903 there were 39,O75
slaves imported into Charleston, S. G.. or
these only 3,543 were imported by Southern
men, while the rest, including s,238 imported
| by citizens of Rhode Island, were brought to
market by Northern merchants, British and
| French; and OF more than two hundred con-
signees, only thirteen were natives of Charles
ion.
Scarcely had one decade elapsed after the
time fixed i'll the constitution for the expiration
Of the slave trade, when tie Puritans, who mo-
nopolizcd that trade, commenced an agitation
against domestic slavery, their great leader and
champion being John Quincy Adams Of Massa
chusetts. The Charleston conspiracy to muir
der all the white inhabitants, and the North
ampton instruction OF Nat Turner are beth
distinctly traced to Northern incendiarism.
With the Charleston plot the name of Rufus
King, United States Senator from New York,
and the Seward Of that day, is as much mixed
l-up as are some Of the antisavery leaders Of the
present time with the insurrectionary plans OF
John Brown. Both then and now the British
anti-slayery party operated with the dis
unionists here; not that the majority cared
about slavery, bat that they thought The agits-
ton would be an entering wedge to split the
Union aud restore to England her commercial
supremacy, and give TO popular government
heavy blow and sore encouragement Her
statesmen merely used the fanatical element for
| national purposes. TO this end was directed all
| the zeal Of Buxton and Clarkson, and WILDER
force and Brougham, and hence The remark
Of Sir Robert Peel, that 'twcnty mil,
lions of pounds Zone hundred mil
lions of dollars) paid for the abolition
of slavery in the West Indies was the best
Investment ever made for the overthrow Of
American institutions" This is the real secret
of the mission Of George Thompson as an in
cendary among us, the proceedings Of Exeter
Hall and Stafford House, and the money sub.
scribed in England for revoiutionizing our gov
eminent From The wealth OF the British aris-
tocracy came a large portion Of the five millions
Of dollars with which the Emigrant Aid Society
of Massachusetts carried on the war in .'bleed-
ing Kansas" From England John Brown was
supplied with :" the sinews of war for the in.
vasion OF Virginia; and there is no doubt that
The election of Lincoln was largely aided from
The same source.
Int il is worthy Of attention that while mil
lions Of dollars have been spent on propagand-
ism in various forms, including Sharpc's rif1es,
in litigation TO resist the constitution in stealing
negroes and sending them TO Canada by under
ground railroads." till the fugitives amount to
forty thousand, no proposition has ever been
made by the abolitionsts to pay the price Of the
emancipation OF the slaves TO their owners, a.
..
While Southern Shareholders denounced "a the
most atrocious monsters of iniquity have ex-
pended one hundred and fifty millions in emsnci-
patton. the abolitonists and humanitarians have
contributed nothing. Wholesale robbery Of the
masters Is the sole proposition Of these phi
lanthropists, whether they belong TO the
Puritan school, the womens' rights sect, the
graa he inf aIa
OF he Tom Paine crew, cursing the Bible
and The constitution in the same breath
Dishonesty is characteristic Of the whole anti
slavery movemcnt to the present hour. While
the agitators including the clergy. denouncc
the Southern institution rs the mother Of abomi-
nations. they have never ceased to encourage
il by the consumption of its products. 1t is
notorious 100. that the rump OF The late wing
party which combined with the abolition elc.
ment j, moi really anti slavery, but has merely
employed the sentiment to reach the spoils al
Office from which il had been 20 long excluded.
Just as IL tried lis hand on the Maine Liquor
law, while the temperance orators were known
to be partners in rum establishments and to in
dnlgc freely in The use of spiriiuous drinks.
All other issues. a United States bank. a high
protective tariff, and internal Improvements by
the general government, had been tried and
resulted in failure. The SLAYER, question was
adroitly seized at last. and. br an accidental
| concurrence Of events. was rendered trium-
| plant. Iiut their victory Is the ruin ot the
! republican party as the sequel ni'l show
| Mr.. LINCOLN on TIRE Tariff QtEsTtoN.-lhe
| President elect, among the iron fou1drics Of
| Pittsburg, felt himself constrained to branch