The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-05

lions who seek homes in the Western world
This is no visionary paper picture. Judging
from the progress we have made in this
century, with all the disadvantages under
which we labored, the children OF many now
living may see all this and moro accomplished
In this important work the South, II they
will forget the past and smother their preju-
dices, can play conspicuous and honorable
part and reap the golden fruits. They are now
impoverished, crushed and Respondent, with
oct capital TO develop their mineral and agri-
cultural resources. Let them gracefully accept
the terms offered them by Congress, welcome
Northern capitalists and laborers among tnem'
convince capitalists that they have forever
abandoned the heresies OF secession anu that
the investment will be safe, and from the ashtS
Of their desolated homes will spring into life
cotton factories and machine shops innumer-
able. The producer of the raw material will
no longer be robbed by shipping it to Massa-
chusetts to be manufactured and returned to
him at cost Of nfty per cent above what it
could be manufactured for in his own parish.
At present it Is the Eastern manufacturer who
reaps the harvest at the expense Of the pro-
ducer. By encouraging the investment Of
capital in the South they would turn the tables
upon Massachusetts,; attract to the South the
laboring masses, who give impulse to trade;
the coal and gold mines that remain unworked
would give up their hidden treasures; the value
Of real estate would be doubled; the banks Of
the Tennessee, Mississippi, Congaree, Wateree,
Catawba, Cape Fear and James would become
dotted with small manufacturing towns, while
those streams would swarm with the merchant
marine of the South. In less than one hundred
years the South would be richer than New Eng
land, and Charleston, Richmond, New Orleans,
Mobile and Savannah stepping upon the heels of
New York Let the South ponder upon these
suggestions They have two alternatives-re-
main in antagonism to Congress and the great
united party of the North that stands behind
it, and see your property confscated and your
homes deserted, or gracefully submit to the
march Of ideas, secure your old places in the
Union and rebuild your ruined fortunes You
have the ball at your feet. viii you raise it :
The Herald Special Cable News frsn Brazil
Tho Abolition Of Slavery.
A special ca BILE despatch to the HERALD from
Rio Janeiro, by way Of London, published
to-day, brings US the important and interesting
int diligence that slavery has been abolished in
the empire Of Brazil BY an imperial decree Of
Dom Pedro IL The decree provides that all
children born within the limits of the empire
after the 9th day Of April last shall be abso-
lutely free, by birth, and that in period of
twenty years thereafter slavery and involuntary
servitude shall forever cease. Dom Pedro has
always evinced sympathy for free labor.
and has given It practical application in two
instances-once in regulating by his imperial
authority the working hours of slaves, and
again by prohibiting the importation Of
slaves into Brazil The overthrow Of slavery
in the United States through the Southern
rebellion has, by it, moral influence, no
doubt, contributed to this last and grandest
act of the Emperor; but it has probably been
precipitatsd by another result Of our war. A
large number of our unreconstructable South
erners have recently left the States for Brazil
with the remnants Of their worldly possessions,
intending to settle in that slavery blessed en-
pire. Dom Pedro, who is shrewd politician,
has properly appreciated the character Of the
restless chivairy of the South, and has forescen
that they may in time give him as much trouble
as they gave the government of the United
States, and probably be the instruments of dis
turbing the friendly relations between Brazil
and our republic. He has therefore headed
them off by this decree Of emancipation, and
given them polite hint that they must seek
permanent resting place for their divine insti-
tuition elsewhere than within the limits of his
empire.