The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-13
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and falsehoods concerning the "inhuman afro
cities of the living Moloch Of slavery" The
combustibles are thus bein gathered through
ont the North for the kildling of such fire in
1855 as will burn on till il shall have burnt
out and calcined the last vestiges Of the ''pecu-
liar institution" Of the South. The consumma-
ton involves the destruction of the Union and
all the horrors of anarchy, and war OF Sec
tons, and factions, and races; but what care
our negro-loving philanthropists of the North,
so that their end is attained, and the full
measure of their intense malice, envy and ba-
tired, against the Southern STAKEHOLDER is filed.
What if the whole black population of the
South is destroyed by fire and sword, 80 that
the STAKEHOLDER is despoiled and reduced from
affiuence to restitution. WHAT is the Union to
the abolitionist what are anarchy and the
horrors Of San Domingo, in comparison with
the grand object Of despoiling the Southern
STAKEHOLDER, and Of reducing him to the level of
his servants!
Such is the programme Of W. II. Seward and
his partisans, as foreshadowed by his leading or
gans-such the startling and seditious pro-
gramme looming up at length distinctly
into view. 1t contemplates great Northern
party upon sectional platform, the alena-
ton and secession of the South, the esta-
blishment of an overshadowing North
ern confederacy, absorbing all the adjoining
British provinces, or the ''crushing out" OF
Southern slavery by the strong hand of power
This revolutionary programme is but the full
development of the anti-slavery principles pro-
mulgated by the last convention Of the expiring
remnants of the old federal party at Hartford,
in 1914. 1t involves simply the abolition Of
slavery or the dissolution Of the Union. The
agitation is upon us-the programme will be
followed up, and in due time, perhaps before we
are well prepared for it, the people of the
North will be required to meet the naked
question of Union or disunion.
Upon this ultimate issue we see that the Sew
ard journals are breaking ground. They have
commenced the work deliberately of preparing
the Northern mind for Southern boundary to
us which shall be marked by Mason j. Dixon's
line and the Ohio river. The Southern States
are to be q foreign confederacy, and as such
they may save their peculiar institution if they
can. We she'll be exempt from all constitu-
tional obligations to sustain it. We shall have
washed our hands of Southern slavery for once
and forever. But in looking to this contingen-
cy there are some drawbacks of practical
shape-the unanswerable arguments Of dollars
and cents-which, as a practical business peo-
pie, we of the North cannot very well afford to
set aside.
The division Of the Union into two indie
pendent confederacies would instantly work out
a mighty revolution in our depots and currents
of trade. The South would establish system
of tariffs and exchanges which would secure
them direct trade with Europe. Their i'm
ports and exports would be carried in their own
ships. Manufactures would follow in the
track of commerce. New York would rapidly
sink into seaport of secondary Importance.
Boston and other New England ports would
dwindle away into mere provincial towns.
Lowell, and Lawrence, and Manchester, and
other cotton and woollen manufacturing cities
and towns of New England and the North
would be diminished to comparatively deserted
villages, for, under q Southern confederacy,
Southern consumption would be supplied by
Southern factories. The shippers, shipbuilders,
the merchants, the manufacturers, the mechan-
les Of the North, would be drawn to the South
for tariff upon Northern ships and Northern
fabrics would leave to large proportion of
these interests no other alternative than a re-
moval to the South. Such would inevitably
he the material results of the division of this
Union into two confederacies. 1t would enrich
the South and impoversh the North-it would
in time advance Baltimore, Norfolk and
Charleston, to the present proportions of Phila-
delphia, New York, and Boston, and reduce
these great cities of the North to the present
secondary Importance Of Charleston. Savannah
and Mobile
In this matter-of-fact view Of the future pro-
gramme of Seward and his partisans there is,
then much substantial matter for our serious
consideration. The success of Stewards
policy would doubtless be victory to Lloyd
Garrison. Theodore Parker, Henry Ward
Beecher, and the Anglo-American abolition Goa
lition of Stafford House; but as the death-knell
of the Union would be followed by the destruc-
ton of the present overwhelming prosperity OF
the North in all our numerous industrial pur-
suits, we have interests stronger than negro
philanthropy involved in the Union, and which
bind us to maintain it against all agitators and
traitors who would compass its overthrow.
Let the honest Union men Of the North
awake. The free soil coalition of the admin
istration has given new impetus to w. II.
Seward tho onti.cloyary fauaf;ce opd 4bo;r co
ditious designs. Has our free soil Cabinet ut
terly paralyzed the Union sentiment of the
North? Is W. Ii. Seward to be our lord para
mount in 1856? Before the expiration of
another year we shall be called upon for action.
Treason is at work, and there is danger in it,
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