The New York herald., 1850-03-01

Another Letter from Patrick Henry.
wAsHINGroS, D. c.. Feb. 27, 1850.
The Crisis-The Castle Garden Union Meeting TAs
Effect Of Disunion on New Fork-Tne Conpromises-
What is TO be done'
DEAR sia-Thsre is Hrs burning In the hearts Of
members Of the present Congress- that fear, If not
settled will be only quenchsd In blood Never In
the Affairs Of this Union since 1t formed has dan
GER danger immediate been 90 imminent - now
The alarm IL spreading People ct distance have
heard the unusual noise that precedss the earthquake
They are alarmed Men Of business do not know what
to think or how to act. They must do something.
They feel that but they do not know what to do and
they rushing to this spot to for themselves the
extent of the danger and the peril which they fear
their business and their commercial prsspe
rity. Your own city, sir has sent large numbers Of
to this spot-a GLASS Of men, too, who rarely mix
meddlei with politics, and now visit Washington
for the FIRST time, probably in their lives. Our
Warrington hotels crowded with strangers who
coming to the capital to and talk with who
supposed to know the secret movements which
making among members Of either house They learn
nothing Why Because they only see the sur.
ace-they only the swell Of water which Is vsi
BILE rolls in upon tho land and breaks upon the
shore scattering the white foam into mists They
not see beneath the perilous undertow, thousand
imes more fearful and more fearful because 1t is
en and sweeps back to the deep with resistess force
and escape when once In its power. The
representatives. Of and section ITSELF Is htly imsged
by the rolling surf which sweeps In others to destruo
tion but breaks itself upon the shore ending in froth
and foam. The other IL aptly represented by the
dsrwatsr which breaks not but rolls back silently and
noiselessly to the depths from which 1t came The
North and the South united vast and deep the
The North Is . surface-the South Is the water
beneath 1t. Each flows In different direction But
will deal no longer in imagery, when have such
stern reality before find in the present aspect Of
the times The day Of separation and disunion Is not
Jar of
By your paper Of the 25th see that thousands Of
your great merchants to gather last evening at
Castle Gsrden-to do what They don't know them.
selves To pass few ridiculous resolutions In regard
to Clsys compromise What folly stupidity and non-
sense Is ell this 1t is downright madness. These
people stark staring mad Is Clay the wonderful
pansces that can cure all evils There is balm In
Gilead, and there is . physician there. But what's
the of physician If he does not know what Is the
disease Ct the patient what specimen of the balm Of
Glead to apply? Clay Ignorant of both He hes got
old and childish. Bat he remembers that he ad
niLitered nostrum and believes 1t saved the federal
Union. He believes he can do 1t sgstA and the same
compromise medicine will avail The dose that
The mpromise that cured . slight Inflammation In
regard to the tarn-one interest OF q section-cant
the general Inflammation and everish debility Of
the vital Interests Of millions In the section where
their honor thsir equality and their interest In the
Union touched With the death fangs of Northern
majority; and where the peace the prosperityay, the
very lives Of themselves of those
to be sacrificed to this vensm unless Is found
Cisys quack nostum Of compromiss cannot touch the
seat OF the present disease aAy dangerous
symptom Look TO other merchant princes Of
New York you would save the Union; for n that
perish, you perish teo. Southern agriculture has
nUrsed, fed and fsttened you and the commerce and
aures Of the North for sixty and odd years and
with the dissolution Of the Union passes from your
hands and your ports and your manufacturing towns
like the bssstss fabric of vision leaving nothing but
men Of the North Compromiss the hundreds Of thou
sands os square ne OF fertile land have robbed
their emigration Compromiss the tens Of millions ys
have drawn, By your unequal legislation, from the
Southern people and States unhoy tariff and by
appropristng the drawn from the south be
squandersd In the Northern sections enrchipg your
leeiops corrupt oce holders promise the hun
deds Of thousands OF dollars Of Southern property that
living plumber ye had in your midst! Compromise
the solemn violations OF the constitution Of the United
states that your your Judges and citizens
have been guilty Ct tnactpg and enforcing laws and
preventing the return Of the fugitive property TO his
master Is this ths beautiful compromise you
makes compromise that will reach back into the past,
and embrace all the wrongs which the Southern sec-
tion have received ct your hands since they
duced into the Union under the most solemn and
cred guarantee Of your ancestors that the rights the
inet uons and the property Of each Southern State
both in letter and spirit for si time to ccmsthsy
shoud be equals IN the Union which they were
persuaded to become part and portion No. No. No.
Your compromise, that you would csjole the South
into making, s submission-bsse, unmsnly, abject
submission -submission that would render the name
OF southerner bye word and reproash from end
Of the continent 20 the other the very blacklist
and moe abject field slave laborer that be found
In the sunny South who IL happy In his proporonate
share he has his home his comfort his family and all
his attachments intsrwoven In the plantation OF
which he Is part aye this coored brother OF North
ern fanatics, whom he has already learned to dstest,
would be shocked, and loathe to do his easy work
90 plantation whose head possessed such towards
heart ss 20 submit to be the degraded citizen Of
State, In Union where State citizen was degraded
from her equality and right aud he Of all voice in the
Union Compromise! What. do you offer TO give up
the name Of Wiinot proviso, provided the South
will agree to the substance Of IT. Beautiful,
generous verdant North Perish ell such CON-
promises The Southern States win accept no
such compromises. They not with the name Of
wilmot proviso. The Clay oompromise is equally
,itions that is objectionable They are q catch, .
trap gull humbue. There Il not . particle Of
justness In them. And the Southern section Of the
states have been deceived long and often that
Longer they win not be. rbey love the Union and
the memory OF that Union when they we're equals In
t. They sre 90 no longer. sectional majority vote
laws to suit themselves and whom IL h psipabie vo-
lation Of the constitution Possessing the govern
ment they vote such construction the instrument
. snits themselves The South longer interest
Voice there and the evil IL increasing every DAY The
Electoral College is controlled by Northern votes The
State of Delaware Northern State Sheis no longer
OF the south She IL State where African slavery is
the South; and even the North holds the Senate
Of the United States The North control the House OF
Representatives; they have large majority there.
south vhg democrat and fres soisr and abolitonist
RON the NORTH vote a. one man. to sustain that
ton They ever have, do can and will follow out the