The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-07
The True Course for the southern Flrc-cater.

-crhcd i'll other and more practical issues.
The True Course for the Southern F1rc-caters.
The result OF the recent elections in Kansas
must eventually convince the most unthnking of
the Southern ultras and freeaters that they made
a mistake in endeavorng to extend their peculiar
social organization in that direction; and that
if they wish to keep up the equilibrium in the
Senate they must do it by course of action in
eonsonance with the natural causes that lie at
the very foundations Of the increase and migra-
ton of our population.
| Notwithstanding their senseless abuse of the
isothernal line and the policy Of Governor
Walker, that line still stands-a permanent
barrier to the northward migration of the black
race; and the principles that have impelled
| Governor Walker in his recent course in Kansas
are the very principles upon which all their
hopes of Southern extension and the admission
of more slave States into the Union are based.
Any one who will examine the natural flow of
our black population, both free and slave, will
find that its emigration is southwark 1t is a
tropical race and its very nature, as well as the
pecuniary interest Of those who are personally
AZ tuI AASut Vi It's ldDOT, Ill
impel il toward the tropics, In fighting
against this natural law the Southern
uitas are losing what they might gain
by acting in correspondence with it, and
gaining nothing from their struggle. So, too
in the principles that have ruled in Kansas If
the iiYe-eatcrs had succeeded in establishing
their right to pour an cxtrancous population
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wishes Of the true settlers there, what could
| have prevented Northern agitators from over
| running every new Territory temporarily, and
| thus introducing principles of government dis
| corduai with the laws of climate soil and social
| order existing in them.
II l. time for the Southern ultras TO throw
aside their hobby horses and look things in the
face - ney exist Had they spent half the
means. talents, enterprise and energy which
they have wasted on Kansas in preparing for
their true march southwark. instead Of being
a. they nov are, in the position of illogical dis
contents they might have been able to give the
leading idea to the new political issues that are
looming up in the proximate future. All the
old party issues have become obsolete ideas,
and old party organizations are either broken
or breaking up There is no great idea that
stirs the heart of the whole country and we must
have one II is in the very essence of things
that one should exist, A commercial poll
cy may, and will, agitate Us q little while
after the revulsion We have gone through but
some great issue must follow. That of 1887
wa followed by the question of the admission
Of Texas, aud it overwhelmed Clay Van Buren,
and every one else who opposed ii.
Instead then, of beginning futile and sense
lcs. attack upon the administration, which has
every element of success in it, let the Southern
ultra, ,urn their attention to the procuring of
two az three new States out Of the abundant
elements that are presenting themselves to their
band. The Spanish government in Cuba is
already in stress Of money there, in consequence
OF tie revolution in the financial world, to say
nothing Of the distress of the Spanish govern
mcnt ii home. Let them take a stand upon the
purchase Of Cuba Mexico, too il Offering
three % four new States to their hand. The
Apache are fact driving the whites out Of
Chihuahus sonora Sinaloa and Durango.
There field for them to serve themselves
aud Mevico at the same time. The old idea
- ! Sierra Madrc republic is still full of life.
VI their old leaders will not show their
hands, lct the Southern masses seek
nov onc- Leave JEFF. Davis to ride his
curious hobby OF opposing Gov. Walker
aud supporting the administration; let him cx-
prc with the ridiculous Kansas question which
he helped 80 strcnuously to create There Is an
abundance Of men, both old and new. Where IL
Quiman or Mississippi! Where is Henderson
~ Texas! Where are all the old war horses
that have kept themselves aloof from Davis
Kama folly! Then. for the young bloods. John
Breckenridge il laid for time on the shelf of
thc VICE Presidency; Forsyth is embalmed in
foreign missions; bat there il brain and pluck
enough 10 the South to bring out scores of
young a.pitants for fame. We advise them TO
look 10 IT, Their time i now at hand The
new Issues arc close upon US, and they must
grasp them Ut their birth and impcl them on to
ibc attainment But Kansas Il killed by the
i.otbcrnal line, and il Of no avail to preserve
,he equilibrium of the Union.