The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-15

Frenont's election. If they are to do SO it will
be N consequence of some measure Of policy Of
his which they shall deem f~4aA ~ Southern int
rests. Now what measure can this be? 1t can
not well be the abolition of slavery in the Dis
srict of Columbia, or the restoration of the
Missouri compromise, or the repeal Of the
Fugitive Slave law, for none of these mea-
sures are in the programme of Mr.. FIRE.
mont's supporters-nor can it be any measure
referring TO Kansas for, as we showed the other
day the Irrigated questions on the subject of that
Territory are likely to be settled long before Mr.
Fremont's Inauguration. Nobody wants to inter-
fere with slavery in the Southern States What
then, can Mr.. Fremont do, that would provoke
the Southern States into secession We wish
Mr.. Fillmore or some of the ultra conservatives
who identify Fremonts election with the finale
of the Union, would take the trouble to answer
his question:; for, for our part, we are wholly at
loss for an answer. We can conceive no mea-
sure that as President, Fremont could father that
could be construed into such an injury to Southern
rights or Southern interests as would justify the
Southerners in even agitating seriously for
repeal of the Union. On the contrary, we are
well satisfied that his policy would in reality
open the eyes of the South to the smallness of
the danger they have to apprehend from the
anti-slayery sentiment of the North, and would
tend greatly to soothe the irritation which the
present attitude of parties is calculated to keep up
If the danger of disunion cannot come from
the North, who will have nothing to gain by
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under any circumstances, the change of dynasty
cannot hurt them much, can it come from Mr..
Fremont? And here we imagine is the strong
bold of the conservatives. They have got it into
their heads that Fremont will no sooner have been
elected than he will set to work seriously to break
up the Union. We have already touched upon
the difficulty he would experience in this event
from the want Of crevice for his opening wedge;
for, if he wanted dsunion, how could he 60 about
it? But there are stronger reasons than this.
Does any sane man believe that Fremont would
want to pull to pieces the Union which elected
him? What could he gain by doing so? Could
he be greater as President of fragment than as
President Of the whole? Nay, more; is it not
certain that in the very improbable event Of any
one else trying TO split the Union, he would exert
the whole of the authority and power Of the fede-
raj government to prevent them? His past
history and ours would be much belied if he did
not.
This disunion business is very i'll understood,
even by intelligent and otherwise well inform
ed people. When South Carolina wanted to
dissolve, in 1882, she had ample reasons for
har ba bar uto
levying taxes for the benefit Of hungry
manufacturers in Pennsylvania, and New
England; and the manufacturers who con-
trolled Congress at the time would listen
neither to reason, equity, nor policy. They were
blinded by avarice, and in their insane gut for
money, they forced on Congress tariff which
stands alone on our statute book as a monument
Of injustice, unfairness and sectional greed Pre-
sident Jackson and his administration were at
bottom all on the side Of the South Yet how
did they act? When South Carolina mustered
militia, Jackson put Fort Moultrie into fighting
condition. when she elected general, Jackson sent
Scott TO the field Of action when the Carolinians
alked Of notification, jackson told them plainly
that he was put there to preserve the Union,
and with Gods help be would do 50. We know
now he did, and those Of us who are familiar
with history remember, too how patient and for
bearing Carolina was how she temporized, and
put Off the collision day after day, and month
after month; how she submitted to odious taxa
ton for years. rather than endanger the Union.
Why should We suppose things would happen
differently row? VIII not Fremont think you,
be as vigorous in preserving the Union as Jack
SON. win the South be more reckless, more alb
surd now than them