The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-01

Eklpls. We speak merely az tie dissrsnss 70 d
mankind between Western American settle
eiusitsly ~ white freemen, and the SANG rseio
ven up either wholly or In part 10 slave population
Throughout the Eastern and Northern States fire.
labor has scattered broadcast the seeds of kuowlse
IN sss sSsT Of hsss
dant and usefui harvests As p~m'grations from
nasar. Increase and enlarssd-regions Of the West
the free laborsr bag toll the wilderness has been
activity and seissa rose, and to smile in the light
made TO hs<ation.
trr DUTY OF THE FREE STATES
IL is not to be disguised that with many Of our
southern brethren the sentiment is quite common,
That the people Of the free States anxious
enjoy ths honors and emoluments of Office than to
maintain with dignity and spirit, their equal rights
The South having enjoyed, almost exclusively, the
control Of the federal from the date Of its
existence, IL has been for the most part, the excu
mve dispenser OF those honors and emouments; and
ths aou otless has greatly contributed to this scnt
ment IL, from these, any other causes the people
OF the free States have suffered the estimation of the
they owe 1t to themselves, and to the nation to
deem their character from this reproach Both the
are eelIsS sh, sne 70 90 and
effort without any abandonment of their distinctive
principles The old issues, which for the last twenty
years have divided them. settled set aside
n new issue has been presented In which all minor
diferencesand in which differences that uuder other
circumstances would be important-are merged and
1t is Important too, that this effort should now be
made, and that if possible it should be made to sue
ceed Resist the beginning, Is the maxim of political
not less than of m raj science This is the first time
since the formation of the government that the slave
poser while retaining its distinct political associa
tons with the two great national parties has been
able TO seize and to the of each IL the
people OF the free States and perform their
duty, such an exhibition will never again be wit
messed.
DUTY NEW YORK.
Another question Involved in this issue as
to the democracy of New York though personal to
them is scarcely less important No one who is cow
ardiy time serving or tmid, be respected by his
In finn fsc o.. L.. ,,.I.x t,~l.
pendence, will he be visited with universal disestee
and contempt Whist is true of individuals of
the masses. The community which has not spirit
enough to maintain its rights of opinion of utter
ance and Of action-which ca give up at the dcta-
can now be coaxed or driven into the aba ndon-
ment of principle which sacrifice to a present ex-
pedency the interests Of the future and sell birth
right Tor mess OF pottage-such a community may
indeed prosper for in the pursuits of traffic or
the scramble for patro but its iu6delity to the
cause Of truth and the sentiment of honor will soon
be followed by just and terrible retribution When
II wins Tor itself the of people without
Pec how can it command the respect of other States
VI what vrlue is national wealth without national
nor! or what avail to Egypt the fertility of its
SOIL or the magnifcence of its monuments when once
by It's eemnacy and its vices, it had prepared itself
for the fearful doom by which it had been written
down rs :" the basest of the kingdoms? 20
,or sd.y o. New nork In the present crisis is there
terest common to them with others the democracy of
our State are summoned, by special motives take
the lead in determ ned and compromising hostility
the demands and the measures of the slave power 1t
has insolently sported with rights traduced our
fame and woun ded our honor This of ITSELF would
be sufficient for resistance for in the language
less just than beautiful in its application to the public
honor, Of the greatest of poets
Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument
But greatly to find quarrel in q straw
When honors at the stake"
II in this temper that the sages and ratriots of
ounrys heroic age periled life and all ifes bles
the taxes imposed by body in which they were not
represe nted. against which they rebelled To the in
jury inflicted by British laws, there added the in
suting prete incorporated in them that the par
lament had the right to bind the colonies in all cases
whatsoever. So long this averment continued in
the record. modification repeal of the obnoxious
taxes could satisfy the spirit of our ancestors We
should be unworthy Of such lineage--we should be
unfit to dwell within State distinguished above
others by its early nd constant adhesion the prn
cples OF democratic liberty; State which furnis
in the of Leiser and Melbourne the first mar
which boasts among its of its Clntous its Jaw its
it's Tompkins-a State which contains the
toe grave Of Lawrencea State which, for their whole
active lives, was the abode of Alexander Hamilton
and Of Silas Wrghtwe should dishonor its soil and
bring reproach upon its name, were lost to vir
Tue and to manly thought tamely to receive from
he hands of nsuters the yoke they had prepared
'or ourselves and our posterity.
In the throes and spssms with which the slave power
abors to perpetuate its ascendancy nothing is
than the threat to dissolve depart from the
'uch threats will produce effect the democracy
f New York. Not that we do not love the Union
We prize 1t as above all price We have
attempted will not be provoked to calculate
npatriotic task. No arithmetic, known to us, is
uate to reckon up the WORTH Of even thousandth
art of the golden chain which binds together in per-
etual bonds the States of this coufederacy.
But when listen TO the vapglorious boastings, the
plenetic ebultions of the hot headed and
eaders, who to speak for the entire South in
hey assume to dictate to the North; sometimes
compelled toask ourselves, what would be the North
hat ctullv ho fhaf and
madness of the Southern slave power should really
this ancient and long cherished union of the
States?
New York, with a territory possessing boundess ad-
vantages for foreign and internal trade with tenn
Of fertile soils with abundant supplies of salt and iron
and peculiar facilities Of every kind of manufacturing
industry with population greater now than that Of
England at the Of American colonization, and
which may well be increased XitAia her borders to
four times It's present number; with several
internal trade, numbering respectively from twenty
to fifty thousand inhabitants; and, towering above
them all. in queeniy pride. the commercial metropolis
of this hemisphere; with foreign commerce that
brings to the federal government than one-third
of its revenues by imposts with these resources in
possession and in prospect. what shall hinder her. IL
the nullfers IF the constitution and the abotionsts
of freedom-the bi nd leaders of the blind-shal by
accident design drive their followers to the sin
aud folly Of secession from being and remaining the
chief Of the republics into which the American
States will then be parcelled out?
But New York has such false ambition. She will
never !. shoot madly from the spheren in which faith
and duty bind her. She is content to move In the
orbit they have marked She pauses not to enquire
whether she receives much she bestows still less
to ask whether she might shine more brightly in
pathway Of her In love and loyalty to the MON
she finds her purest joy-a joy which she would not
exchange for the gratihcaton Of selfish aggrandise
ment, the spcs Of victory poorly purchased with
the sacrifice of principle However adverse may be the
signs however unpropitious the omens she will cling
forever to the Union will she abandon the hope
that will long resume her sway and justice
assert her power in the minds of her sisters Of the
South When this contamination, so devoutly to be
wished for shall have Southern brethren we
are sure will again delight to tread with US the path OF
civic duty and of honorable fame In the interval be
long or be short the people of New York will quit
themeelyes like men for in doing they will not
onv hest preserve their and their honor, bat
best secure the respect OF their adversaes They will
act worthy Of those who fell under the eye Of Wash
inrton ON the heights Of Long Island-of those who
conquered with Gates and Schuyler, on the plains of
Saratoga