The Portland daily press., 1863-04-13
New Publications.

The RESULTS OF SLAVERY. By Augustin Co
chin, Ex-Maire and Municipal Councillor Of
Paris. Translated by Mary L. Booth. Boston:
Walker, Wise 4 Co. limo. PIP. Alb. For
sale in this city by II. Packard.
Miss Booth, who has already translated the
works of the Protestant Count de Gasparin on
America, has now given us in English the second
part of the Catholic NJ. Cochin's great work en-
titled L'-aboiition de rEsclarage. Neither
Catholic nor Protestant finds in the religion Of
Christ any warrant for the crime of slavehold-
ing. Morally or politically the institution Of
slavery rs crime or bluuder. 1.-The history
''of all slaveholding peoples" says NJ. Cochin,
sis always fatally the same; in fact, moral and
material wretchedness; in law, arbitrariness;
Sin result, routine or decay-the same causes,
"the same effects, the same conduct, we may add,
1.-THE same arguments" This is the deliberate
conclusion of man, who has not spared the most
minute and wearisome researches, conducted
too, be il said, under circumstances peculiarly
favorable, to possess himself of all knowledge be-
longing to his theme. He joins to reformer's
warmth q statistician's cool precision. He has
found slavery everywhere the same. everywhere
noxious. That is the plain result of careful in
vestigations-a scientific truth. He also abhors
the sin of slavery. And the book, which con-
veys these conclusions was honored last July
with the first prize of the French Academy.
The results Of slavery are of less immediate
interest to us here, than the results Of cmancipa-
ton. The former we know by long and disas-
trous experience, which is succinctly narrated
in the first Book Of this volume, more than one
third Of the whole. Americans may judge Of
a. s--s-.--.- ~~--.~s, ~
Of this difficult part of his labors The second,
third, fourth and fifth Books trace the results of
slavery in the Spanish colonies. in Portugal, in
Brazil, and in the colonies of Holland The
sixth treats of the slave trade, and the seventh
of the relations of Christianity and slavery. An
appendix contains various historical documents
of Importance to the general subject.
NJ Cochn's views of the American secession
are expressed, in part. in the extracts printed on
our first page this morning. The translator has
added to the Book on the United States, compile
ted in the summer Of 1861, an article from NJ.
Cochin's pen, originally published in the Jour-
nal des Debats, August Q, 1862, soon after the
reception of the bad news from Mcclellan army
before Richmond. Still later, she gives in her
preface an extract from private letter, written
by NJ. Cochin last February, in which occurs the
following noteworthy passage: Several Of our
departments are suffering greatly. II the man.
"ufacturers were assembled, and the question
"were put to them, DO you wish that slavery
"should be perpetuated and you should have
"cottonr the greater part, l fear, would an
"swer, Give us cotton!' On the contrary, IL
"the operatives were assembled and asked, DO
"you wish that slavery should endure and you
''should have breadi' / believe that all would
''answer, Free the slaves!' II is the same in
England" We can never lose faith in the JUS
tice of our cause, while such men as Mill in Eng
land aud Cochin in France appear as its defend
ers, and the operatives in both countries suffer
in silence for liberty's sake.