The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-28

dustry and employment of capital, in general
depreciation and ruin.
Revolutionary state OF the Uni0n-The
Reports OF Our Special Reporters.
We have recently published accounts of the
state of public feeling on the present crisis
from our Special Reporters in the East and the
West of the Northern States. To-day we pub
lish not only further reports from these Sec
tons of the country, but highly interesting cor
respondence from our Special Reporters in
in the South, daguerreotyping the opinions and
acts of that section of the Union. To the latter
we direct the attention Of all Northern men,
and in the words Of the Book of Common
Prayer, exhort them to "read, mark, learn and
inwardly digest" They are reliable accounts,
and those conservatives in the Northern and
Middle States who think there is no danger
may rest assured that they are sleeping in fan
cied security upon a smoking volcano, which
may at any moment send forth its fiery flood to
overwhelm and destroy.
A commercial and non-intercourse war is
already begun, and extensive military prepa-
rations are being made throughout the South
ern States to defend their intended secession,
and repel their real or supposed Northern in
vaders, for whom they are preparing "hospita-
BILE graves" Their attitude is that of defiance,
and preparation to mingle in the irrepressible
conflict, just as much as was the attitude of the
Sardinians two months before the late war with
Austria, or as was the attitude of our ancestors
a short time before the battles of Lexington,
Concord and Bunker Hill. The tyrant mother
country, by series of acts of oppression, and
lastly by shedding the blood of citizens in the
streets of Boston, kindled revolutionary flame
which the blood of seven years war was not
sufficient to quench. The North, by series Of
acts of aggression and wrong, and lastly by the
invasion Of Harper's Ferry, has wrought up the
South to the same revolutionary pitch; and if
the political affairs of the country 60 on much
longer as they are now doing, the consumma-
ton of the revolution will be as complete as
when the Declaration of Independence was is
sued by the thirteen colonies Of old.
By the act of Union, these thirteen Colonies
entered into partnership with articles of agree
ment that slaves were property, and that this
property should be protected for its lawful
owners In ell the States but one negro slavery
had an existence then. In process Of time
some members of the firm discovered that,
owing to climate, immigration from Europe
and other causes, negro slavery would not pay,
and they concluded that they would abolish
it, while at the same time they continued openly
and above board to supply the Southern States
with slaves from Africa, after they had sold
them all their own. This slave trade was qua
ranteed by the constitution till 1908. No one
then dreamt there was anything wrong in it.
Soon, from q jealous intolerance of the pros
perity Of the South, arising from its slave insti
tuition, q party of Northern politicians aided
by Northern fanatics, pretended that slavery
was a sin, crime, the sum Of all villany, and
ought to be abolished in the Southern States,
in despite of the constitution, which recog-
Misses slaves as property, and makes provision
for its protection and restoration to its owners
when lost or stolen.
This was a plain declaration Of an intention
to break the solemn league and covenant, and
to defraud and wrong the South Northern
men have been ever since running of the
negro slaves to the free States and to Canada,
and passing laws to nullify the constitution and
the acts of Congress which provide for restitu-
ton of the property. They have kept up
continual agitation, in order to render slave
property insecure, either from servile insurrec-
ton or from the running away of the negroes.
They have thus, to say the least, been guilty of
bad neighborhood. They have prevented by
violence Southern men from taking their slaves
into the common territory, as they had right
to do under the original compact They have
expressed their determination to hem the slave
States in, and never allow the citizens thereof
to take their property into any Territory of the
United States; and, further, that there shall be
no more slave States in this Union. Lastly,
the leader Of the Northern abolition party has
proclaimed an "irrepressible conflict pro
mulgated declaration of perpetual war, not
merely against the existence of slavery in the
Territories, but against the institution in the
Southern States In aid Of this design an in
cendiary book has been sent forth, calculated to
stir up servile instruction at the South, and
member Of Congress who endorsed the treason
is the candidate of the party for the Speakership,
receiving every vote they have to give. To
crown all, they commissioned Captain John
Brown to invade the Southern States, supply
ing him with money, arms and ammunition,
and when he perishes in the attempt, raising
him TO the dignity Of martyr and hero.
How much further can the Northern revolu-
tionists 60 before they have the whole country
plunged into bloods DO they imagine that
the South will fold her arms and coolly look
on till she is despoiled of all she possesses
Those members Of the firm called the Union
who do not find it profitable to hold slaves
themselves can now outvote the slaveholding