The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-13
DisunIon In Vaxginia-P1an OF Military Pre-
parations Cor Secession and Civil War.

would be q violent dispersion of Congress, a la
Oliver Cromwell, and dissolution of the
Union, within three days. But, as in the case
of Miller's prophecy, the appointed three days
grace passed away, and there was no explosion.
We remember that in 1851, when South Caro-
lima was preparing to secede, on account of the
slavery adjustment Of 1850, that the prepara-
tons for war in that fiery little Commonwealth
were of the most threatening and alarming
character but we also remember that when
Virginia, and Georgia, and Mississippi and so
on, declined to come to the rescue, the warlike
encampmcnts in South Carolina were dispersed,
and that she settled down quietly into the SEN
sible resolution to wait little longer.
The article which we copy from the Rich
mond Enquirer this morning, proposes to revive
in Virginia " the bombs, guns, drums and bat
teries," the military drills, the encampments
and all
The PRIDE pomp and circumstance Of war,
which ragged through all the borders, and
even into the remotest swamps OF South
Carolina, in 1851. The contingency of civil
war to be prepared for is thus to be brought
about: A few years hence Kansas will apply
for admission into the Union as slave State
There will be q Northern majority in the popu-
lar branch of Congress that will reject her ap-
plication, on the ground that there shall be
mo more slave States" Upon this test, like
'stars shooting madly from their Spheres" the
Southern States are to secedc, and reorganze
in an Independent Southern confederacy. 1t
is expected that in this event, the North will
endeavor to bring back their refractory South
ern brethren into the Union at the point Of the
bayonet; and against contingency of that
kind Virginia, ont of the border slave States,
will be among the very first to be invaded by
Northern mercenaries. Hence the necessity
devolving upon the sold Dominion" of pre-
pairing for a revolt and against the invasion
by foreign enemy in the shape of belligerent
Pennsylvanians, New Workers. and Yankees.
All this chain of 'dread combustion and
chimeras Dire" hinges upon the Territory of
Kansas. The plan Of "squatter sovereignty
has been adopted for the settlement Of the
slavery question there, and free soil or slave
ry, as the people may decide, it has been de-
creed by act of Congress that the Territory,
when otherwise prepared, shall come into
the Union as sovereign State. Our Northern
anti-slavery agitators have sworn that, as q
slave State, neither Kansas nor any other Ter
ritory shall hereafter be admitted into the
Union; and now the proposition comes from
Virginia, and from the leading democratic or
gan in Virginia, that if Kansas is refused adj
mission upon her application as a Southern
State, the whole South shall be cut adrift, and
Kansas shall be taken into the Southern confe-
deracy, ''for better or for worse"
Seriously, these are startling suggestions, and
full Of matter for the grave attention Of the
Union men of all sections Of the country. It
is very evident, in any event, that we shall
have two sectional parties in the field for the
Presidency, upon this Kansas question:
Southern pro-slavery and Northern anti-sla-
very party and that the ultimatum of both
as already promulgated, is the same thing the
dissolution OF the Union. Between these two
extremes, however, third party is in the field,
and by the year 1885, when these extreme
Northern and Southern sectional parties shall
have taken their positions, we may expect q
practical American movement which will
Stfikc UctWccH tHcIl anu carry on Tue Victory
and the spoils, and in behalf Of the admission
of Kansas, with or without slavery as her
bona .fde people may determine.
There is no necessity for any fears Of imme
date danger 1t twill take two or three years
yet to give Kansas the population necessary
for State. In the interval the action of this
new Northern free soil Congress will do much
TO define the ultimate issue. Short Of the pro-
ceedings of this next session, however, it is idle
to conjecture the result We know enough
meantime, to declare that between Stewards
Northern, disunion, anti-slavery coalition, and
the Southern secession democracy, there is nei-
Their safety nor peace except in a conservative
third party, resting upon the merits of the Con-
stitution and the Union.
With these preliminary remarks we dismiss
for the present the Virginia military pro-
gramme by the Richmond Enquirer; and by way
of contrast, we give the reader, at the same
sitting, the views upon the same subject of the
New y ork Erening Post, a Northern administra-
ton democratic organ, with some provisos. If
after reading these two articles any body can
tell how the New York soft shells and the Vir-
GINA democracy are to be fused in 1856, let us
hear. When there is q call to arms there is no
time to be lost