The Portland daily press., 1862-12-23
New Publications.

hESILTS OF FEMANtlPAIlON. IN 1huSpS
tin Cochin. Translated by Mary l.. Booth.
Boston: Walker, Wise d. Co. IL no. pp xiv.
Alp. For sale in this city by III. Packard, 6l
Exchange stree.
NJ. Cochin, the well known Journalist, for
many years contributor TO the Journal des
Debats, and now editor-in-chief of La Cores
pondance the organ of the anti-Napoleonic
party in France, is about forty years of age
In the prime of life this man, whose leisure
secured by an ample fortune has always been
devoted to the solution of practical questions
in thoroughly practical ways, has written a
work, L Abolition de Escidrdge, which has
been stamped with the approval of the French
Academy, and has procured for its author an
order of knighthood from the Pope. In the
report, on which was based the decree of the
Academy conferring upon this work its first
prize, NJ. yillemaiu says, "The distinctive
feature, the eminent merit of the author is that
of uniting scientific precision with philanthro-
picardor." No other testimony TO NJ Cochin's
ability or accuracy need be adduced; it Is
proper however to add, that he has had access
to all the published and unpublished records
of every state in Europe, so iar- as these rec
ords bear on his subject; and better STILL that
he has known and associated familiarly with
men who have been conspicuous in the prog
ress of the great reform Of which he has be-
come the historian
Such is the work of which the first volume
containing the Results of Emancipation, is
ow presented TO American readers. The gift is
timely. Among all nations called Christian, on
f,t,..
United States, as NJ. Cochin is accustomed to
say with just discriminatory and Spain are
now slavcholding. In this country slavery has
become an outlaw, to suffer death if taken, and
If not taken to starve-at any rate to die ! That
is the doom, which no man nor ity can avert
Whether this Union, for which so many lives
have been cheerfuly offered, shall be restored
or pass away in shame and sorrow, whateverin
the future is uncertain, the doom of slavery is
fixed. There is the one fact of the years that
are coming, and it behooves us TO consider
well whatceonsequences flow from that fact,
what have been and therefore what will be the
results of emancipation.
This century has witnessed the gradual re-
stricton OF the range of this gigantic evil, till
at last it turns at bay on this continent. Let
us look at few eloquent figures. The slave
trade was abolished by England in 1907; by
the United States in 1905; by Denmark, Por-
tugal, and Chill, in 1911; by Sweden in 1913;
by Holland and France in 1915; and, last of
all, by Spain in 1922. Slavery itself was abol-
ished in the English colonies in 1884; by Swe-
den in 1876; by Denmark, Uruguay, Walla-
CHA, and Tunis, in lS47; by France in 1S4S;
by Portugal in 1856; by Russia in 1861; and
by Holland on the sth of last August. What
steady progress do we behold here-how silent
for the most part, but sure This is Gods
way, as He makes the corn grow while men
are sleeping. And the results? NJ. Cochin
deduces from the statistics which measure the
results of these successive acts of emancipa-
ton, by the severest methods of strict science,
this striking conclusion: slavery is not a
necessary evil; always censurable, it ends by
not being useful. God has established unison
between all things, and the science of political
economy holds the same language as morality"
For a second time Frenchman has written
a book which every thoughtful American will
desire to read. The interest in De Tocque-
vie's great work has been augmented by his
recent death, inviting attention TO his deeds
and words. But this book on the Abolition of
Slavery grapples with the mostterrible question
that will ever be put TO this generation
The Results of Emancipation come first. 1t
was necessary to know whittier we are NOV
ing; next let us see the Results of Slavery, in
Spain, in the United States, all the world over,
for this is the subject of NJ. Cochins second
volume.
The labor of translation Is creditably, though
not laultlessly done. Thus, 'the quality of
father" should be 'the relation; 'touching
and grandiose' are epithets which refuse to
coalesce Reclamation has rendered the
cause of the slave Jdstidious,' that is nice, is
meant to say disgusting; and enthused is not
English at all. But enough. We hope to see
the second volume translated by the same
hand, with little more careful revision per-
haps, and if it is printed and bound as elegant
ly as this, there will be nothing to desire in
those respects.
gB- Brig. Gen. John c. Caldwell Of the
United States Volunteers is reported wounded
In two places, but not seriously. He went out
In the present war as Colonel of the Ilth