The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-05-01

able one for the South by hsrosm and courage, has
70 use the argon brought into fashion by France covered
only the other day that the xomiseur attempted
70 make political capital out Of Mr. Cobdens death by
stating that he oyed Francen II was meant to be in
simulated tsat he admired the policy Of the empire and
free institutions and their liberties do not suppose the
Ao"sssSr VIII quote the letter to Mr.. Bach
THs POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL REACTION.
lfar1s (Apr1l ~ Correspondence Of the London Post
As far as can learn there is little further intelligence
IN fafs beyond what the public telegraph conveys con-
looked forward to with coincidence as sure to
occur within few weeks southern gentlemen of late
had begun 70 take gloomy view OF the future and II
inwar4y they felt that the system Of exhaustion prac-
tsed ~ the North was telling fearfully the South.
Thcre - some who were for empowering Lee To treat
for peea, believe that such policy was contem-
r., TO- put. put IN PraSts BY Je Davis and his
10 and most think that il would have been better
Leo had retreated without fighting supposing he could
have dohe So The evacuation of Richmond, am told,
had long since been decided upon The Steele Opinion
NatsoaGe Debats and other papers, comment on the
fall Of Richmond and declare that the Of liberty
has triumphed, and that slavery is abolished in the
United States forever It is expected that commercial
interests will be affected considerably in England where
it is declared that failures will take place 10 consider
able extent connected with the cotton trade. The
cautious and less wsauhy merchants Of Hape haze been
Preparing for cheaper cotton for a long time past.
An Irish View of RECOMMENDATION.
SLAVERY AT THE SOUTH TO GIVE PLACE TO THE
LABOR OF FREE EMIGRANTs.
From the Northern (Belfast) Whig April 1871
The public writer's and speakers who during the last
three years and half have occupied themselves in
demonstrating that the North could conquer the
South are now bused with very different and not alto
gether consistent problem They establish to their
own momenary sat sfacon, that the South, Of whose
doubt never be held and administered part of
free republic II will be, they urge, the Poland or Hun
gary-on the continent they unknd to say the
irciand-of America If the authors of these doeful
prcages had ever been right in any single point arising
out Of the rebellionif they had not bundered from
first to last upon the military problem-we should enter
tain greater confidence than Is possible now TO
feel in their political vaccinations On every element of
the great theme they have gone wildly aslray. They
understood neither tie moterai strength the mural
cha dcter Of the " rtern and Sou hern popudtions
other by Mason and Dixons line This ignorance
including total indifference to the facts of American
hstory and bographyvitiates their political prognosti-
cations as completely as has reversed their military
Their fundamental error lies in supposing that the
federal government viii have Y deal y peace mainly II
combating In war. This is not the case. Even v We
look solely to the present population Of the South we
must distinguish between the armies Of the confederacy
and the bulk OF its inhabitants The great slaveowners
of the Southhe len uetUe MOuand tor DsoSe
teest and at rhose mitigation The bgdm-,cilb be i'm
poveisd and dc,edttd Their ascendancy will be for
ever overthrown. The class OF poor whites by whose
doce suirages, aided by the threeffths vote, they
the war; and those of them whom disease and the sword
have spared have been taught something the guild
which they so blindy followed The elements OF
dsaection have been TO very great degree burned
by the The class which remains morally stronger
than ever was before and proportonay far more nu
merous- never had any quarrl with the free States,
and IS not now, so far as can be Judged llaccted TO
the.unon
But even if the entire population Of the South were
animated by the btterest hostility to their Northern
fellow citizens and TO the federal government and trans
mted this feeling to the next generation the difficulties
conjured up in the way Of peaceful reunion, on the
basis Of equal rights and free institutions would be by
no means insupcrabe. II has often been shown that
the direct descendants of the Americans Of the revou
tionay period orm exceedingly small element in the
present population Of the United States That consists
chiefly OF emgrants and the descendants OF cigrants
from Europe whose has been directed exclusively
to the states Of the North and Northwest. The
a. s sg ss '%sy ars ta ssi s s r@ naag Ts
Land once cultivated Is now waste and deserted
Land which elsewhere would have been reclaimed gene
faons ago Is still virgin forest In Virginia. the free
population numbers only fifteen persons TO the square
mile In the adjoining free States Of the Atlantic
in'themselves far loss inviting settlers the popula
tion, over an equal area Is eighty two persons 10 the
difference 1t has dciraudcd merely the negro OF his
btbrght but the superabundant populations of Europe
OF land OF unequaed promise. The wrong done by IL
niccd on the bondsmen OF the New. When il is
removed and peacs s restored, Meye trit be rush n
enaig ant frm Europe and The Mykern Sas The SOhti
ne~ pepuiot n ,oa arise, which not only will have no
quarrel with the North and Union, Ju c evrgtting
9 nem and which, together with its descendants will
In the course OF generation form the great bulk OF the
population OF the south In this human dcluge, the
relics Of the older society will be submerged and lost
Homestead act for the South would bring 10 Virginia the
prosperity of New York and enable Florida and Alabama
TO count wealth and men with Ohio and Illinois To
effect this end there will be no need of conscaon In
the unreclamed or abandoned soil of the slave States
there are arms FOR millions of frcemcn BY small grants
OF land to the landlcss whites, who are wcre the
strength OF the rebellion and the hope Of those who
on future dsanection and troubles they may probably
be converted nto peaceful and industrious citzei thus
helping to confirm the order the basis Of the old
one In the overthrow of which they have been blind in
str mcntS
The bugbcar of tropica cl needs not weigh much
with us IN thus forecastng the future No part Of the
United States Is within the tropics; and Texas the State
which most nearly approaches hcm Is the seat of Ger
man settlers, employed in that form OF indusrythe
cultivation OF cotton--in which asked to believe
that no European engage and live In this instance,
and in almost every other the facts which alleged To
diprovc the possibility of the Of tba uni
on the basis OF homogeneous society North and South,
have no existence out Of the ima OF those whose
wishes shape their thoughts.