The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-16

rkhts Of the free coored saaen OF Che New England
orr sorshp on their press now chn Gordon round the
court house in Boston; and now the murder on q
sstszen Of Massachusetts, on his own threshold 10
h printing press under the laws OF that hee otate
mey have borne Ddgntiss than we have space 70
IN so that they asking each other, even IN
eix wspapers, 'sWas not the government oi England
harm Z -, compared to the tyranneal government OF
savehodersf" And the time for throwlnSAN the
yoke evidently AZ hand viii probably be decided
hy the declaration Of against England the wash
hgion cabinet should perpeae .nas ac, nm, .neIe
compensate the North for their loss OF the freedom OF
me is clear enough to those who arc aware OF
remarkable fact, duly noted by those most nearly
concerned. There was in 1885 q great meeting in
ganeuil Hall in Boston (tbe ''Cradie of libcrty'),
called by "the property and standing of the city
10 ~, down the aboionists and their action OF the
long line Of reqnisonists that occasion, there
scarcely any who have since been bankrppts through
the very trade with the South which they pswned their
liberties to preserve. Twenty of experience
have shown them that their foreign commerce., and
that OF the free States Of the West worth
them than that of the South-mpoyersh by her
account and Impoverished they have good to
meath ia hot heavy tread Whatever trade there
may be with the West Indies Is worth much them
il would be- if owned by the SOUTH and they win
Re slow to risk sher other foreign trade by collision with
the great navsi poser Of the world.
Again they truly the act OF Union, framed by
teh fathers, they have shown only well by their
exaggerated and costly dread Of danger TO it during
twenty years Of political subserviency. They know
every man. woman and child in the States-tlat the
founders Of the republic exerted their utmost ingenuity
10 limit the Of slavery and that the republic would
have been founded ts builders bad hat
slavery could become naonaln its spread and influence.
Now that the free States find the vast northwest terri
tary thrown open to slavery by the repeal OF the Mis-
sOuri compromise that they the free settlers Of
Kansas who actually the majority of the population
there deprived of their political rights by sheer violence
and subjected 10 Territorial government which sets a
~ and order defiance they hardly likely to JON
the despoc which thus treats their rights ana ther
prospects, in against their best customers their
relatives by blood, their comrades I'm political privileges
and social views aud aspirations The alliance between
New and Old Eng and in crisis which tests the very
principles the life blood of koth must be stronger
than Tho Union which the Northern and the Southern
states are alike simultaneously threatening to dis
poye M.ssachuses will never aim stab at Europe to
make South Carolina Queen.
Again the men Of the North are gned for their
pruden.e. Whatever else may be said Of them, NOBODY
gnesong that quality Prudent they they know
well as We do that their fortunes in open war must de-
pend On the soundness of their They are not
and he, in this age of the world military
nation Brave they are; capable of endurance enthu-
sasr sedenia setsacritce every thing that con glo
ry good and render victorious but their origin
Their Institutions and their national temper raise them
that professional military training sd individual
military proficiency which alone render bad or
DOT btful successful They here MOI men, dssci-
fline, experience uhich enable aem b sueceed
dggrcSSire p0lfdre Europe The men OF the
North know this. And If hey know that fbuster
ing order Of warfare il the proposed and the one
which hey must assent to- If they assent at all, will
they help to make their great country the chet pirate
nations OF the earth This is the alternative. If there
who doubt the reply to Ibis mighty question, let
and permanently Represented by any number of unscru
pnous who climb into Office on the towering pas
SONS 81 the multitude There is vrtuous element in
An erican society, little heedei which may yet, we
hope preserve the soundness Of the whole. Dr. Chan
ming deferred for two years the annexation OF Texas
There very many good men in America who
hike Channing are silent in ordinary times, but
speak ana act in the great crises of the Republic
Every of these viii assuredly consider
Of aggressop--a with the Ebcrating powers
Of Europc-a with the free descendants Of
their furefathers crime which must not perpe-
trated il the penalty that their Plymouth
rocks crumbe into the sea- instead OF heir act OF
Union dissolving into the air phese fer Of be
uhh compel 10 agree 10Th American citisen Who
say that the proposal Of Nth England cod disso're
III Union The danger is that lawless aggre sion from
the South may compel to declare But in that
case still have confident hope that the prudent
and vrtuous secession Of the free States from all ques
tonable enterprise will peace between the ma
mons through ill provocation. We do not forget that
Everett from the North, and perhaps others have ia
vored the vicious cant about the manifest destiny Of
their country to possess other peoped territories but
We hope that there Northern men enough to save
the republic who something better than this to be
the 2 manifest destiny Of commonwealth lowered
with the highest hopes and best wishes Of the foremost
earth.