The Portland daily press., 1863-02-20
New Publications.

RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION. By Augustin Co
chin, Ex-Maire and Municipal Councillor Of
Paris. Translated by Mary L. Booth, limo,
PIP, Ali, Boston Walker, Wise, & Company
For sale in this city by Bailey & Noyes.
This is a very remarkable book. No work OF
enthusiast or sentimentalist, but of publicist,
statesman, economist. and political philosopher
What discourse! what detail! what generaliza-
ton and conclusion. No man who really desires
intelligence on this subject. about which there
has been SO much confusion, misunderstanding
and contradiction, can afford to let NJ. Cochin's
book go unread. Indeed we think it may be
fairly said that no mans views concerning
French and English emancipation, are worthy OF
attention. who has not studied this work. And
we can hardly conceive of an opinion or pref
udice on whatever side of this question enter
tanned, that would not be modified, by the open
air and wide prospect Of this writer's intelli-
gence.
land, to the publishers, furnishes fine resume
of the work, and shows its practical bearings.
As we noticed the book at length when it first
appeared, we cannot do better now than give
the note Of Mr.. Davis We intend to enrich the
columns ofthe Press with liberal quotations from
this valuable and timely work, at our earliest
convenience.
MEssRs. WALKER, WISE & Co.:
GentlemeR,-Plesse accept my thanks for Co.
chins very valuable work on the Results of
Emancipation, which your enterprise has op-
portunely spread before the American people.
II is the first icork which, by confronting the
partial statements from which contradictory con-
illusions have been extorted by adverse partizans,
has given new proof that emancipation is no
exception to the principle that freedom is the
best foundation for industry and order
ITS most remarkable part is the ascripton of
Emancipation to Christianity, in an era when its
power is supposed TO be on the wane and inter-
est the universal master.
Its most interesting part is its Judgment by
events Of the prophecies of ideness. vagrancy
and social anarchy with which the slaveholdipp
interest has silenced the voice of reason and re.
ligion.
The most Instructive part to u.s. at this time
is the striking demonstration of the necessity of
indemnity, in the general interest of industry,
to enable the owners of land to pay wages to the
freed negro-not to compensate the owner for
the loss of property, but to relieve the society
from the entire prostration Of agriculture.
This places indemnify on its true ground of
industrial necessity, and gives its true measure
The negro must either work or beg,-The mas
ter must have wages to pay, or leave his land a
wilderness. Ii the master can pay wages he has
as much labor as before, and the freed negro
the means of gaining livelihood in freedom.
The conditions of the Emancipation of about
as many slaves those in the loyal States dis
cussed by COCHIN, vary materially from those
which similar experiment is about to be
attempted here. But the principles applied TO
the criticism of the facts are universally applca-
BILE; and the law Of indemn nifty has been, for the
first time, stated as to entitle it to universal
acceptance.
Respectfully your obedient servant,
(Signed.l II. WINTER DAVIS.
Baltimore, Jan. 4, 1868.
Messrs Walker, Wise 6 Co. are the publish
ere of " The Rejected Stone, or Instruction rs.
Resurrection in America, "a book of which we
have heard, but which we have not seen.
They have in press IN. Cochin on the United
States; or the results of Slavery" volume de-
signed TO match the Results of Emancipation.
and Of which it will be the complement.
BARRISGroS. A Novel, By Charles Lever
New York: Harper & Brothers. svo. DID. I6l.
For sale in this city by A. Robinson and H L.
Davis.
1t has been observed that the heroes of Bull
wer's novels. have grown in years with the au-
thor. There is a reason for it doubtless; and by
the same token Peter harrington is oppressed
with weight of years. such as Charles O'Mal-