The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-14

liked are chiefly made up of vast ranges of sterile
mountains and desert wastes. which can
.eve be permanently colonized TO any extent
by any race Of people upon the face of the earth.
Perhaps million Of square miles Of tina. i'm.
mense western section Of our Continent lying
between the immediate Valley Of the Mississippi
river and the Pacific ocean, and stretching from
Oregon down to Mexico, will remain un teaa.t, d
by any fixed popu' alton to the end of time.
Thus the rule of Congressional intervention in
behalf of slavery in these Territories would
amount to nothing, even with the more Affi-
cans" indicated by Mr.. Stephens. The second
proposition of Mr.. Brown, relating to CUBA,
Mexico, Central America and the Monroe doc.
trine, Is required to give vitality to the drss.
Establish the rule Of legalized flibusterlog aud
thus bring in the tropical States of Mexico and
Central America, and we shalI have splendid
margin for more Africans" and the projection
Of Congress in the work of their colonization
and the Transformation Of these tropical apauisi-
tons into slave States.
But, to secure this Congressional intervention,
to reopen this African trade, to legalze this fiji
clustering, in order to recover that numerical
equilibrium Of slave States which was lost with
California, and which Is now weighed down by
the additions of Minnesota and Oregon. TO say
nothing Of Kansas, Washington aud Nebraska,
there is the obstruction Of the existing over
whelmiDg Northern majority in Congress And
here it is that the unauswerable logic of Senator
Hammond, of South Carolina, may be brought
to bear. Fully approaching the folly, the stu
pidity and ruinous tendencies Of all these wild
Quixotic projects Of Southern expansion, he re
pudiates them ALL lie possesses large sub
stantial interest in the Union in lands and
slaves, and he cannot afford to risk IT 10 the re-
evolutionary schemes OF desperate politicians
II is TO be hoped, too, that these revolutionary
slavery issues Of the Presidential programme of
Mr.. Senator Brown and his brother fire-eaters
will be repudiated by the people of the South
whether upon these Issues the democratic party
shall or shall not be broken to pieces at Charles
ton We believe that If the fre-eaters fly off at
tangent upon these ruinous distractions they
can be beaten from South Carolina to Mis-.
sitsippi, as they we're beaten in 1851 by Union
the Northern democracy we would now extend
to the Union democrats of the South in recon-
mendirg them to prepare to vindicate in 1860
the practical, safe and reliable Union policy of
Mr.. Buchanans administration.
TIE Crisis In the War in ItnIy-whI the
Great Question OF Europe be Settled.
The war in Italy is approaching crisis which
cannot be long delayed, and which will deter
mine whether il shall involve the whole of
Europe now, Or be patched up for time with
hollow peace, to last for two or three years, and
then break out in some other quarter.
The Allied forces have broken through one of
the lines of the great strategic square between
the Mincio and the Adige, and have reduced it
to triangle by cutting off the Austrian commu-
nications with Pescbiera- The next great battle
will decide whether Verona shall be reduced to
the same condition, and the Mantua-L egnago
line left standing like the side wall of fallen
house, Or whether the Franco Sandman forces
shall be driven back across the Mincio, the stra-
tegic square reconstructed, and the war of des-
peration for Louis Napoleon begun. For this
decisive conflict both France and Austria are
Fastening forward their achievements, and the
populations Of Italy are arming. There will
soon be gathered on that classic battle ground,
famous ia the early wars Of the Roman republic,
Ia the conflicts of the Roman empire both in its
rise and fall, in the history of Charlemague
and the contests of the Middle Ages, in the times
Of Henri ", Charles V. and the first Napoleon
half million Of men marshalled in war of
opposing opinions No man Of sense now be-
ieves that the war in Italy is a war for terrific
rial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. All see that it is the con-
hict of political opinions and systems, where one
side battles for satisfied natienalities' and the
other for ''the rights Of sovereigns and poyd7s
etaJh." Convinced of this, the governing classes
out Of the Germanic Confederation have been
hoping and praying that Louis Napoleon may
succeed in Italy, and not be forced by despera-
ton to call to bis aid the dissatisfied natonali-
ties Of the rest Of Europe.
This is the crisis to which the war in Italy has
come, and which must soon be decided. The
battles of Monticello, PalestFo, Magenta aud Sol
ferino seem to indicate that the tide of victory
rups with the Franco-Sardinian arms. In this
Dehel, anu anticipating AuotueT AuS6fia1 OeIeat
The diplomatists Of Europe are already whetting
their pens, and the minor and semi official organs
Of the governments are feeling public opinion
WITH their varied announcements which may
be hereafter followed or disavowed by the
rulers, as events may render expedient The
Attorney General Of England thinks that
his government must say to France, '1hus
far shalt thou go and no farther" The Paris
Patrie announces that France will be satisfied
with nothing short Of the Adriatic for the king
dom Of Upper Italy, and the German touters are
calling for tho line Of the Mncio as the boundary
Of Germany proper. The governments will pra.
IDENTIFY abstain from taking any position on these
questions until the next decisive battle has been
fought, when they viii shape their course in ac-