The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-04

disruption Of the Union, the institutions Of the
become despotism In the garb of republic. But to
avid disruption under such circumstances impos
anmates the fbusters," cannot fall sooner or later
to bring them into hostile collision with powerful
State. Victorious or defeated the expenses OF the
the American citizens and the Northern and North
western States will feel that this pressure Il imposed
them. The discomfort thus created will compel them
to withdraw from Union 10 which their real interests
viii American patriots look back after SUCH
ton to the gl0ries of their infant repubcl With VIVA
dependency win the friends OF liberty all the world
regard such termination of the great American expert
mens OF self government As sincere friends and wall
wshers Of the United States feel 1t duty to invite
the attention of their citizens to these At
the present crisis. 1t appears not I'm robable
from the tone both of the public journals In Ameeic.
ana OF our private not few Who
ters are more than half inclined to promote them At
the risk OF bootless and discredtable war; ia order to
ton and sympathy of the whole people external
conaist. The adoption Of such short sigh ed policy
the citizens If not to the psrmAnence of the Union It
would be to commit the same bunder that was commt.
the e Of by
paed France in the of the first French Revolution
From the London rimss, Jan. III
view Of othsr nsonss ronha
at every point Of the compass from the social faults aud
internal disorders Of other States serdom fanacis
of public opinion, degrading vices and long list Of
tonal pecuarite contributed the origa Of the war;
ured out Like water Who say but what ths little
cloud" which late minister in Oregon may show it.
self day In the domestic institution" OF American
slavery The days may come when ndeosive aud
temporzng knot of Br tsh statesmen may drift into
benaK Of 6 Uncle Tom" and his cabin and his
very judicous friends ending most in
the determination of the race and the slaughter Of an
equal number of white citizens and subjects Nobody
nov remembers that the present war of priu.ple,
n not nnHh taaa than rnfIin
lives, began in squabbls about the keys Of SEINE
holy places. So far from civilization diminishing
into human nature. We have both more to quarrel
about and also better preparations for the parpose so
American controversy The lava Is stu hot under No
and will bear heavy tread But with this eeliog
our side testified by years Of silence the point
cannot conceal surprise at finding the ole coutro
very raked mp in the Presidents message With par
tisanshp strangely at variance with notions of royal
importantly, the Prescent reviews the history of the
domestic institution" from the days Of the conseaton
through the successive He expresses him
self freely and with mighty little heed Of hostile preju
dces to the successive acts of Congress for the oera
ton or re friction of slavery. He boldly puts it
quarrel between the North and the South and shows
with all the zeal Of protecionist recounting the bur-
dens on land, or OF liberal enlaging the privileges
OF the arisocracy that the supposed concessions to the
have tended equally to the aggrandzsmen of the North
almost every paragraph of this discussion the burning
brancs Of controversy are hurled about as should
scarcely expect even to find them in the ervd pages of
abolition aboiIon journal. At all evsnts it
the who speaks-not the abstraction that fits be-
hind the generaities Of address from the throne
Imagine Queen Victoria accusing whole portions of her
realm Scotland, for example, Of unconstitutional
duct impairment interference, spurious humanity, du
picity and the ike
But, apart from the warm language Of the President
seriously regret that he has evidently lost sight
Ear important question than the existing rights of
the slave States and the conduct Of parties Admit every
word and more than every word that be says. Admit
tempting to erescbs domestic laws for ths nsrv an
nexed states. Admit that the efforts Of the abolioniss
inasmuch as in the case Of independent nations they
would certainly bring on foreign wars So IN the case Of
federal States they tend t, civil war; Admit the
rious aosurdiy in the Northern States utterly willing
and unable they to raise the colored
vate the misery of their neighbours Admit 1t ALL there
remains the further question: the only practical onehow
is slavery to be Fept within bounds brought to quiet
old age and iecenty inferred hundred years
At that distance Of ime american tatcians tell the
population of the States will he at leasta hundred millions
half of them either Europeans the mediate descend
ants Of Europeans At that date what will the domestic
proportionate bulk and it dimnishes must
the wealth. the influence Aud the territory OF the slave
States. On the other hand, there can bs little doubt
that the zeal and the fanatcism OF the a0ohonsts will
not absted fed it will be by the perpetua intro
ducon OF European elements. Turn eyes from the
past Mr. President as we poor Engh are forced to
bur ed questlons forget the anyry onslaught,
the insolent demeauor the tceacherous wss and the
atrocous hypocrisy OF party Let bygones he bygones
Be deaf to the storm raging about your head LOOK
forward to the day cool booded historian OF
your Union will be considering how far Pres'dent ferce
could forecast futury, or whether ne was simply man
Of his day Can anybody really imagine that slavery w
then De four1shng institution, standing It's ground
a;ust some seventy eguty millions OF opponent,!
nope .ns sog
t a su ION is one thing, ultimate extinction ano-
Their. While The battle RACES upon me former .. these
points nobody seems .ne r~bbe. the latter tSe duty
the former Is the topic OF !.
We, in the Old World, mako bur little way in the cure
of our own social evils, it would become us to pre-
Nr al man nf
model for any State least of all for that had its
slavery in its own BOSOM Yet may venture to no.
slavery in the message before We doubt much
whether the next eighty years Of Its history witt be like
the last There Is important novelty Of nature to
affect It, and that is the immense infusion of the d.
pressed classes of Europe into the working population
America. The social difficulties of the Union have al
ready more European character than q few years ago
In questions of education, religion aud crime may
every day comparisons between Manchester and New
York; and an English phanthropist would find himself
of things must spread and ii is dihcut to conceive
aave population in London in Lancashire any othsr
slavery win be moral impossibty In the United States
But this be only probable common sense suggests that
the policy Of the States, and Of the Union also, as
for the gradual and peaceful exit Of slavery On this side
the Atlantic would be presumptuous t. frame the pro-
ton IN just quietly asking American statesmen 70 con-
slider whether slavery is likely to exist and So to Whist
sstsnt and IN what form Ia the Union in the year
hundred million cizensY The smallest misgving as to
the probable state OF things ct that date should enter
into the present calculations Of anybody pretending to
be q statesman. Slavery, In our humble opinions will
then either have ceased to exist exist intoers
bic evil and the very baue Of American politics. There
IT, too another contingency in vew more ia mar per-
hsps to European than to American minds and that s
the gradual melting of the States into closer unity
Either peace war, either mutual orbearancc angry
controversy will tend to Il entire OF SOM
munites similar and closely united But every step
towards that amalgamaton must tell against the cont
ma n States
and abhorred In the rest.
Affairs In Russia.
CHRISTMAS FRrEs--rHE SAXON AND AUSTRIAN PEACE
Observation-Disclosures WAR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
HEssELRoDE's FEELTNG--0FFfCIAL CHANGES AND
PROMOTIONS.
berlin {Jan. 14) Correspondence Of London Timesl
II IA probably owing to the intervention OF the Christ
holidays in st. Petersburg that have resent
dates than the 9th inst at which the thoughts OF most
persons seemed to be turning away from politics and
towards the festivities OF that evening Chratmas 0yel