The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-24


would increase the revenues Of the department.
DIsUNioE-THE WAR CLARION SOUNDED
AGAIN IN South CAROILNA.--A correspondent
of the Charleston Mercury, in discussing the
dangers to be apprehended by the South from
our present abolition agitation, says in regard
to the Northern anti-slavery fusionists, that
They count upon weaknes Men of the SOUTH
do you acknowledge yourselves weak Are you igno-
rant Of what contutes military strength to fear the
North2 Are you aware that money and men are the
upon natural product Of your soil annually reproduced
and necessary to the whole world and upon which much
Of tho prosperity Of your worst enemies 10 basedf That
to protect this you have million at least Of warlike
men, trained from infancy TO the use OF the horse and
familiar with the most powerful ever In
vented by mama belt Of scky country, which in
yader the must occupy before he could strike at
your vitas and in which armies would PERISH like the
host Of Sennacher before the destroying angel Of the
miasmaY and sysY Of railroads, which will enable the
hordes Of the mountains to sweep down upon the plains
of the sea, Of the Mississippi and Of the Ohio with
cavalry whose neck is indeed clothed with thunder and
''the glory Of whose nostrils is terrble?"
Let our Northern dsunionists see from this
that they of South Carolina are still ahead;
and if they are not satisfied with the foregoing
military information, let them read what fol-
lows, and look well to the end before they
begin their philanthropic work Of coercion in
behalf Of the slaves of the South Read:--
Have you little military skin to overlook the fact
that the sturdy sons Of Northern Virginia already hold
the coast counties Of Virginia and North Carolina, by
their railroads and the Chesapeake, in these days Of
steam, flank an army advancing from the East on Pitts
burg2 That Mssouis rifles and hunting knives have al
ready turned the hostile wing resting the Mississippi
sipp Texas Louisiana and Ark snsas can throw their
armies by railroad and river, full upon the ccntre2
When the God OF battles gave you your mission and the
tuaa darDx IN
ton and cultivation, the same wisdom that made him
slave and doomed HIM to remain such by intellectually
uniting him for state incompatible with his design,
be gave you geographical position which, in strata
getic point of view, makes you uncomfortable you had
assault from itY Will you abandon it, and by divi
ons among yourselves iorego the advantages 1t oilers
you, when FROM II your standing side by side in firm and
dgnided array, say to the rising Storm Peace, be
still ~
The meaning of this is, that the writer
wants purely sectional party organized in
the South, in opposition to Stewards sectional
disunion movement in the North; and our mill.
tary Carolinian, in expectation of secession
disunion and war as the inevitable result of
this organization of parties, has mapped out
the whole programme of the clash of arms be-
tween the two sections Some of our readers
may smile at the gravity with which this
Southern warrior unto1ds his plan Of opera
tions; but when intelligent men, however in
veterate their sectional views and fears may
be upon the slavery question, deliberately sit
down and upon this issue of slavery plan the
order Of battle for continental civil war,
surely there is matter in it for the serious re-
Fiction of every lover of the Union and the
constitution, North and South And such are
tbe peace and harmony secured to us by our
Pierce administration. All other issues have
become secondary to the great ultimatum Of
the ultra agitators, North and South, Of dis
union and civil war. Is it not time for the
scnsihle masses Of the nannle to be moving?