The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-10


,rue wings lose one election by acting As the
hunkers did the last tune, when they cast Vai
Buren, and the free sellers overheard, they would
preserye in some sense The integrity OF their party,
and thus keen the South on their side Their only
salvation. however, is to take this course, what
ever may be the result.
But suppose that unon of all the sbolitons.s in !
the State-whie, democrats and niggers-should
give Seward triumph. Other States at the North
would follow the example, and the democrats
would not lose the chance of final and complete
victory. They would, in spite of every th,ng be-
come the national party. The whols South would
go with them, to man oil issues of tariff, bank.
sut-treasury, Nc, would he forgotten entirely and
the great ques,on-slavery-wo absorb all other
considerations.
The next great point would be the doings of the
Congress of Dece mber, 1852. That Congress will
be elected, part this fall part next spring, and the
rest year hence. That Congress will find, whea it
assemblies, new state Of things. The slavery
question will be the paramount question till it is
permanently settled. Everything will have togive
way TO it. The two parties will then be the Union,
or col stitutiona, party, and the abolition party.
The whole South will 90 with the former. II may
devolve on that Congress TO elect President, aud
the hope lie that the constitutional party will be
strong enough 10 put in who will carry out
the will Of the people, aud abide by the compro-
misses and guarantees of 1850. This is what the
South ark for, and il is what they will have, or
they will be forced TO leave the Union. To this
point things seems now to be tending. Congress
has passed the Fugitive Slave bill Ii was The only
thing the South gained in the compromise; and
/ this was no real gain. IL only secured TO them
what the constitution of 1888 had pledged-the re-
! storaiion Of " fugtves held 10 labor" The con.
| stuton had already bound the free States to de-
| liver up every fugitive slave; and had that compact
teen truly and honorably carried out, the new bill
would have been unnecessary But the South felt
insecure and she waited Interpretation of the old
contract by living men-the men whose fathers had
bound them. The North gave il; and now, when
the South asks to have this fresh guarantee carried
OFT, the whole Of the abolition party rises mass
and say it shall not be done.
| Here is the issue, clear daylight How will
| it be decided Here is the end Either the pre-
sent Congress, at the next session, will abolish
this law, or confirm it. In the former case, the
South will be compelled to secede from The Union.
| She is driven into corner where there is no
! escape. She knows it-she feels it-she declares
il, and she will do it-she has no other
Men Of the North, will you sustain the course of
! yeur repre- sentatves in the last ession of Con
gress lyon will, the Union is safe; if not, is
gone; and, be it remembered, now the issue is
with you, and on your heads will fall the coase-
| quences.
And when the final question is decided, and the
| Union is broken up, what will be the upshot of it
on on, your families, your interests Stop long
enough to ask yourse Ives this question. The South
will net war upon you-she will leave you And
where are your markets, your man ufactures, your
commerce, your agriculture, your rents, your in
vesiments, your domestic relations Have you
measured the extent Of the evil TO yourselves and
your children Above all, have you calculated
the consequences TO mankind of the final failure Of
the only successful attempt ever made earth to
establish on permanent basis the fair fabric of re-
publican institutions Why did you send up your
lamentations over the fall Of Hungaiian,f free .om,
or the destruction Of the republic OF Rome, AID
yet, what was all this compared with the final ex-
tinction Of The republic of Washington Look at
the portrois of your ancestors, aud answer the
question.
And at last, when the American republic is dead
and laid in the grave of the Father of his Country
when the rum is all wrought-what will have been
the cause Of ii.all What will you have gained,
| even for the negro, and on whose heads will
he excavations of the oppressed and forlorn
| Of all nations falll The Union will be broken
up, because you violated the terms Of the original
compact, and drove the South into secession--you
were led blindoldo the preparation Of the damna-
bic work. And will you have achieved the eman-
cipson Of the slaves, or bettered his condtioni BY
10 means Your three millions Of Africans are
there still; and but cross that line to free them, and
the trst man Of you will be shot. You have rem
dered emancipation impossible, or you have raised
a war Of races which will sweep every African on
this continent to his grave. You will have drench-
ed the free States with blood, too. And yet, under
God hlmighy's clear heavens, this 10Th day OF &C.
tober, $780, all this is done in the name Of humani-
~ and religion Have you ever asked yourselves II
you are not attempting to make war on Provi-
deneel Can you not read it, designs of mercy TO
the African race, IN bringing them from their hi
thero unmitigated barbarism, and gradually fitting
them for freedom, and at last TO be the instru-
menis by which the civilization Of the glo- Saxon
race would finally be introduced among two hua
drtd millions Of savsgesl Can you not allow Pro-
violence to perfect its own plan Of gradual emanci-
patton in the Southern States, as IL has been
achieved at the Northl Does history or human
experience chow that anaticism has ever vet
worked out any good to the human race 7
But II you will follow your demagogue lead.
ers, and hurl this Union to ruin, let Ne ask, what
will become Of them when the ruin is wrought 7
There is but one answer TO this question. If
Seward, and Greeley, and Weed, and Benton, and
Van Buren, s,ill persist in urging msdly on the mass
Of the Northern people to the destruction Of the
Union, when their dupes awake from the dclusion
they will drag their seducers and betrayers through
the streets No mob lie so infatuated az honest
bet betrayed men, whose fortunes and families
have been ruined by demagogue leaders. Even
Rohesrierre himself was put TO death by his own
followers There is nothing that can atone for
such oalami,ies but the blood Of their authors.
To this state Of things events are now pressing
us on Whetberwe shall be hurled into the chlsm,
Will h,rcrh enfirelr nnnn the actinn Of thn Nnr,h