The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-13

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Eastern Virginia. YET, ths very region b the seat
Of large proportion OF the military strength Of the
State. containing Il does majority OF the white
population. 1t T. a. II we had citadel filed with
nication from one to the other The Covington and
Ohio road pierces through the heart OF this region
and win, when finished, pour its military strength
either upon the seaboard BY the way Of staunton
| way OF Staunton and Harper's Ferry.
IL obvious, then. at glance. that the most i'm.
portant military road in the State IL the Covington
and Ohio road for II not only deyclopes the strength
connects us with Kentucky So long, therefore. "a
this road Is unfinished. the night Of the State
may be regarded as paralysed. II would 30 entirely
ueless 70 raise an army on the banks o. sne Mana ma
defenceless sea-board, for the campaign would be
decided before II could extricate itself from the
mountain ranges east OF that river The completion
Of the Coyington and Ohio road. and the filling up
the gaps between Staunton and Harpers Ferry.
seem indispensably necessary to place the military
defences Of the State on respectable footing. The
Lynchburg and Charlottesville road Is also important
as facilitating the connection Of the northern from
tier with the southwest
We call upon the Legislature to consider these
matters, and to give us military. force and the
means Of using it. Let it be done calmly, and with
out threat or menace Avoid every measure cacu-
lated to wound our friends but omit nothing neces-
sary for our own defence.
Practical measures. and not abstract resolutions,
are what the people wish and expect. No exception
can be taken TO the measures we have indicated for
they are strictly constitutional and emincnty pro-
per. Garry them out, and We shall be ready for
whatever fate has in store for us.
DEMOCRATIC FREE SOIL VIEW or THE
SUBJECT.
THE SOUTH CRYING WOLF AGAIN.
From the New York Eyening Post of August Ill
Whenever our saveholding neighbors have been
doing or meditating ything particularly outrageous
towards the North, they are sure to accompany it
it with howl about disunion and the impossibility
of living longer under the same national roof with
people who treat them 20 unfairly. When they were
trying to get the free territory Of California and
New Mexico converted into slave State, our read
ers will rcmem6er what an ado was made about the
wrongs of the South and that separation dshonor
were inevitable.
When they got the fugitive slave law, which con-
verted every orthern man and woman into slave
hunters, one would have supposed by the clamor of
its friends that the Union could not endure another
hour without the special interposition of Divine
Providence. Recently greater outrage upon the
contemplated before in the violent introduction
of slavery into Kansas. To reconcile the people
who have been wronged, to this ruianly proceeding,
it has been necessary to resort to the old tune; the
dangers of the Union.
This music is now heard simultaneously in all
parts of the Union, as in 1850. Yesterday We pub
lshed letter from Senator Benjamin, Of Louisiana,
bly, endure beyond the political life Of tile next Con-
gress. To-day we quote from the Richmond Enqui-
long article apparently extracted from the first
message Of the Governor elect the probable cand
date Of the disunionists for the presidency at the
next election, in which told that the refusal
to admit Kansas into the Union slave State must
rnake Mason aud Dixons line the boundaries of
foreign States and in view of that result asking the
Legislature 10 take steps Immediately TO have the
STATE put into condition OF military defence.
The writer says there are two hundred thousand
fighting men in Virginia, and that one.tenth, or
twenty thousand ought at once to be drafted into the
militia and carefully drilled by the graduates at the
military school. With an army thus disciplined and
trained the writer thinks but one thing more would
be requisite TO render the Old Dominion impregnable
to the assaults OF frees0ilers. She must have rail-
roads to move her troops with hence tine necessity
for Immediately completing the Petersburg and Nor
folk, and Richmond and York river, the Covinyton
apd Ohio, and the Lynchburg and Charlottesville
railroads.
This is very absurd and childish twaddle and yet
il il with just such twaddle that Southern journals
and Southern conventions, and Southern politicians
will TEEN until the Kansas question Is finally dis
posed Of Such twaddle has sufiiced to frghten the
commercial and manufacturing interests Of the
Northern States before now and - expected that
ii will serve the same turn again. Richmond and
New Orleans have already given the cue through or
gans Of opposite political parties, and we may ex
peet to hear Of nothing hut the hopeless prospects
of the Union until the South has realized or aban-
dened all il l,ores to accomplish in Kansas.
We have suspicion that the Northern people
have heard this wolf cry OF dissolution too Of
ten and that since the emgrans have got possession
Of Castle Garden. it will be difficult 10 rally enough
Union savers in the free States to pay the wages of
the drummers. At all events shall wait till those
railroads are completed, and We have some such sub
stantia evidence that our Southern Deghbors are In
earnest. IT, by the clamOr Of dsunion, the Virgin
ans coud lie persuadnd to complete the roads
deemed essential to her military defence, by
the writer in the Enquirer. without coming to
Wall street for the money to do Il with,
r. L. A.tr a. t0sw to tl..
cry ourselves, for those improvements would
he of infinite service TO Virginia, while the disunion
bughear, We suspect, il past doing much harm.
Meantime We respectfully commend to the nledita-
ton Of Southern statesmen, and especially 10 the
writers for the Enquirer. the contents Of q paper
from the pen OF Mr.. Benton, which we publish in
another part Of this sheet They will there find food
for doubt whether the discomfort Of the South
with the existing confederacy, is consequence of
in any way connected with the institution OF sla-
very.
Mr.. Benton thinks not He thinks, and we agree
with him, that il results from disregard by the
federal government Of those doctrines az strict CON
stinction which indispensable Ia fair and equi-
table distribution of political rights and privileges
between the States, aud 10 the encoura cement given
Ia all kinds ot special and protective legislation
which has Injured especially 10 the benefit Of the
northern scaports.
Mr.. Benton Nigh, have illustrated il,i- view bv a
reference 10 the Rratuitics paid by the federal go-
vcrnmenf to mail steamboat monop0lies, equal
aoIe in amour. o all the other postal service Of the
United States, and nearly equal IN all enjoyed by a
single northern seaport. The theory that The North
and the South have any incompatible Interests in
relation 10 slavery j. OF quite modern origin. and
Of the mort unfortunate dclnsons that the
South indulge in Demsgogur bcgat it,
\ and demagogues encourage IL for the very purpo-c
81 shutting the cNcS 81 Southern people while pick
ing their pochos. Mr.. Collins, the President of The
Y Castle Garden Union Safety Committee, reserves
4 $500 900 from the general government - bonus
the Liverpool line Of steamers, o which be Is the
! agent The principal pecnnay reliance oi what
/ Of tins State. George law, - also The grantee u
! something Ike half million Of doar. annually Tor
line Of steamers which he assisted 80 establish he
! tween New York and California. II Is -ach men
and such interests these that have given 20 every
\ slavery Issue 81 late YEAR sneh mgusirous snd IN.
natural proportions at the south for in that way
have these gigantic johhcrs and contractors discov
cred that they could best succeed ia dividing the
two great parties at the North. and thereby
sneees of balance OF power in Congrcss and through