The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-17

falling them. Again, the signif -, s,,,'a;ons -
violence in the Enquirer t. % appeals for the sup
preston Of liberty VI Mought and speech and
action--which by TIE way may be read as
commentary Or scholiast on Preston Brooks let
ter, declining to go 70 Niagara-show that the
alarm is no superficial or evanescent feeling The
South are afraid !; not afraid Of the North, but
OF themselyes--of the $4,000 non-slaveholdng
voters, for whom Fremont would be the best
possible President, and who in case of need could
very quicaly elect him, in spite of the landed
aris1ocr8cy.
Bur still more important view 10 take Of these
articles is their gearing On the attitude Of South
err Shareholders. We published the other day a
series Of articles from South Carolina papers, show
ing that in that State the largest shareholders had
always been the strongest Union men, and that
the cry Of disunion had invariably come from
the non-slaveholding portion of the community.
We have now q paper of the standing ef the
Richmond EIamasr which assures us that in the
event of the election of an aOolition President
the Shareholders would be found craven advo-
cateso expoiients, compromises and Submission.
journal s'ares il. So far from talking of dis
union, tire large Shareholders of Virginia, Ike
those Of South Carolina, would be the very first
to prea d submission to authority, and would en-
force legality 10 the Government with all the
energy shat sense of their essonsibilities and
their ssske IN the pntlc welfare would iMpre
Nor cyald Il zoe otherwise. Ofsall kinds g. pro
per te theirs is the Kind that is most likely 90 be
af ss'tcd by political disturbance; serious rio.
is;rt take away h.lf their n come and 'eny APP
reach tocivil war would be certain to refider the
uay subsistence of the weai.hiest Of them an un-
sas;led problem. To suppose that they who live
lie the hittlest of houses are going to set the ex-
4 SuIple Of conclusions and stone thrs wing is q
i politeway of az cusing them Of general insanity
4 VIE, then, is going to fulfil the prediction of
i The late Mr. Fillmore ard Mr.. Buchanan about
the revolt ana secession Of the South, in the event
! of'Colonel 5FSemonts election? Oar Southern
| contemporaries are prompt to rcvay The non
slaveholdng whites.
Bat what have they to quarTes about? The
most violent partisans Of abolition seek no inter
tereEcewita them On the contrary, the whole
efforts ofthe anti-slavery party tend 10 raise and
| improve and benefit them-to asee them from
| the competition of slave labor--to place them
j in society where labor shall be honored, not
! despised--to set them a perfect footing OF
| equality'with their neighbors Surely it cannot
t,e gravcly pretended that they are going to
| take up arms to resist these bocns Whatever
might be the consequences of abolition upon the
| Shareholder, ii certainly could not hurt the man
| who owns no slaves and whose only connection
| or contact with the system Of slavery is being
undereold by slave labor, and. 'outvoted by the
owners Of slave properly. Bg. the Southern
editors too sensible to believe anything of the
| kind. The extracts we have made from the South
Carolina Times and the Riclnsas3 Enquirer show
| very plainly that, at bottom, these Southern men
know perfectly well that the non-slaveholders
would not fight or put themselves to any incon-
veniepce either to maintain slavery or to pro-
| mote disunion-simply because they would have
no interest in. doing either, and. large interest
in not doing the latter.
WAT. then, is the key to these anomalies
| Simply this: When we hear Southern speeches.
or read Southern journals. we hear and read poll
ticiass only, who are not the South. or any res
owners will no more stoop TO the devices required
Of politicians in the South than rich and good
men will here: in both sections OF the country
the trade Of politics is left to the ios insignii
cant If not the most worthless class in the COM
munity. These Southern politicians ride the
hobby of slavery, and try to arouse The base pas
! sions of the Southern people-tLeir jealousy,
| their spite. iheir sectional hatreds-by abusing
the North and villifyng it, just as many of our
politicians keep alive bitter feeling here against
the South misrepresentation of its people, its
! society and its morals. In both cases the object
IL the same-mcre personal aggrandzcmcnt.
Neither theulba Southerners nor the ultra North
erners believe what they say. Knowing human
nature, and how easy il IL 10 awaken the meaner
passions in The human breast, they trade on
them, In order TO secure their individual aims
ard promote their political advancement. For
n time, il il natural they should sueeeesl SO
long a. the North and South are kept at arms
length they may bark at each other long time
without doing much harm; and the masses in
both sections, enjoying the diversion, will lei the
politicians bave their way. But let the two rar-
ties once approach within reach-lct the wild
schemes OF disunion and civil war once draw near
practical realization-and the people will drew
back and the political leaders win find themselves
brought suddenly 10 stand. If such men as Mr.
Toombs and Mr.. Fillmore ever have the misfortune
toresch this point in the political history Of their
country their tate win be a warning TO political
spectators for ever asterward
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