The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-08

them, for which we will readily pay large sums
OF money Nothing is more erroneous. We
once had possession Of the whole country, and
gave II up when we could easily have kept it;
and if We had any desire to regain that posses
sion the disorder which now reigns there will
conduce to that end sooner than any other
plan. The best plan for Mr. McI.ane, there
| fore, is to place himself on the plain common
sense ground that Mexico has little she can sell
us which will not come TO us without pay as
fast as we want 1t, and not to try to extinguish
himselfby making treaty which will not pass
| the ordeal Of the Senate. If the Juarez govern
ment, to which he is accredited, does not dis
play more energy than it has done for the past
few months, il cannot long continue TO exist
| The Revolutionary Sentiment and the
Crisis ~ tho South.
We have hitherto published letters from our
correspondents at the South, and extracts
from Southern papers, indicating the state Of
feeling which pervades tie Southern half Of the
consederacy, excited and exasperated by the
recent invasion of Virginia and the applause
with which the act of hostility has been re-
ceivcd by inauential political leaders and jour-
nails at the North. The Southern papers con-
tnue to be filed with articles evidently written
under the highest excitement and indicating a
revolutionary condition Of society in the South
ern half of the Union. To-day we publish
strong article to the same effect from Rich
mond paper-a prominent, we'll known organ
of Southern sentiment We give it as q spcci-
men Of many others; and accompanying it will
be found original correspondence, depicting
and illustrating the dangerous pass TO which
national politics have come at the other side
OF Mason and Dixon's line.
Tho Richmond pepper pointcdly foreshadows
the secession Of the Southern States at no dis
tant day. 1t declares that local party politics
are forgotten and swallowed up in the
national question Of dissolution of the
Union, and that the Southern people
are united as one man in defence Of the
rights of the South. II says, ''the anxious in
quiry is made every day whether the Southern
Senators will take their seats with Seward,
Hale and Sumner, implicated as they have
been in this affair."" Whence il is easy to infer
what sort Of scenes may be expected at the
opening of Congress nex month. Indeed, the
effect Of recent events on that body will be
tremendous, and the discussion of the question
by its members, instead CT soothing the public
excitement, is very likely TO add fuel to the
flame.
Our Richmcnd correspondent states that it
is the determination Of the Virginia authorities
to demand Gerrit Smith Cor trial, and lhas
reguisition to that effect will be sent to Cover
nor Morgan, Of New York. This will be like
oil TO the fire. IL Governor Morgan should re-
fuse to surrender the accused, the excitement
at the South would be increased tenfold, and
another argument would be given the seces-
sionists in furthcrance of their designs If, on
the other hand, Gcrrit Smith should be de-
livered to justice, the antislavery feeling at the
North will be wound up to the highest pitch,
and it is hard to say what dangerous coase-
quences may follow. But the refusal to surren-
der him would involve still greater peril and
3 responsibility which, we think, the Governor
Of this State would be unwilling to incur. The
requisition, however, should come from the
federal Executive, not from State Executive,
and he should be tried in the federal courts
for reasonable conspiracy.
Another Southern correspondent writes from
Norfolk in the following alarming strain -
ssThe deepest interest is taken here in the New
York elections; and if they should go for the
black republicans there will be an almost
universal sentiment in favor of immediate seces-
sion, 'peaceably if we can, forcbly il we
must" There can be no doubt that if the re-
evolutionary ticket Of Seward should be elected
in this State to-day, the effect on the public
mind Of the South will be most disastrous
Already the evaporation is very great. Let
The ingredient Of republican victory in New
York State be thrown into the cup of Southern
Indignation, and it will be sure to overflow. II
will show that either there is no conservatism
at the North worth mentioning, or else il is one
that can render the South no practical service
in the hour Of need. 1t will demonstrate that a
majority Of the people of the Empire State
the leading State Of the North, the State Of Viii
liam IL. Seward endorse the "irsepressible
conflict which ne has proposed US the only
solution of the slavery question, and endorse the
practical Interpretation of the conflict given by
John Brown, whose act Of war against Virginia
is either excused, defended or applauded by
the whole republican press and the leaders Of
the party.
If the black republican revolutionary ticket
should be elected in New York and New Jersey,
the news will fan on the ear Of the South like
the knell of g departed Union, and the excite
ment will speedily reach a crisis and assume
practical shape which will appal and astound
the people Of the North. II, then, there be
any conservative element in this community,
let it boldly look the peril in the face, and not
skulk away from it, like the poor ostrich which
hides its head in the sand or in the bush, ina
ginning that it is safe because it does not see its
danger It is the duty of the conservative
classes to come forward, one and all, and rally
around the Union and the constitution that