The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-01

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They" Irrepress,ble ConnicC'-Important
Semi-ORcial DEGREES in Behalf OF Z" Old
Abe LincOln.'
More than one Of the travelling newspaper
correspondents of the republican'fath, having
fulfilled the pious pilgrimage to the residence
of Mr.. Lincoln, have invited the. .unbeliever in
his superior qualifications for the White House
to "come out here and see Old Abe at home,
and talk with hislueighbors, if you would learn
what he is.' Adopting this idea that his imme
date neighbors and colaborers know him best,
and that when they assume to speak authorta-
lively they speak by the book, our readers will
appreciate the importance which we attach to
a brace of editorial articles transferred to these
columns from the Chicago Democrat, a paper
possessing more largely the confidence Of "OId
Abe" than any other newspaper in Illinois.
The editor of said paper is his Honor John
Wentworth, Mayor Of Chicago, Familiarity called
Long john from his altitude, which is ak
feet six. or two inches more than that Of the
original rail splitter himself. A man of such
proportions and of the Official position of Went
worth, and of his skill, activity zeal and power
as a political editor, cannot be doubted as
a man who speaks by authority when he
undertakes to proclaim the principles and pur-
poses of his Presidential candidate and the
party supporting him. We have no doubt.
should Lincoln be quietly established in the
White House, on the ith March next, that Went
worth will be duly installed as lord of the
kitchen and the kitchen cabinet, much to the
disgust of the Blairs, the Greeleys and the For
ncys; for we dare say that much more than to
all these men put together Is Lincoln indebted
to Wentworth for his nomination.
Having thus established the semi-ofiicial cha
racter Of the aforesaid leading editorials of our
Chicago contemporary, let us see what they
are. Taking the irrepressible conflict as
proclaimed by "Old Abe" in 1853 as his plat.
form, Mr.. Wentworth, in a review Of a late edi-
torial of this journal on the subject of disunion,
proceeds TO show that the game of soaring and
bullying the North" is 'but the old game which
has been used time and time again TO scare the
North into submission to Southern demands
and Southern tyranny that 1--WE might as we'll
make up our minds to fight the battle now as
at any other time;r that " If we do not place
slavery in the process of extinction by hemming
il in where il is, and no. suffering it TO
expand, it will extinguish us and our liberties:'
and that against this work of "hemming them
in the Southern States will not dare the
ruinous experiment of seeding from the Union:
for that 1.-The only thing that can prevent a
complete and bloody slave Instruction
throughout the Southern States is the preser-
walton Of the Union
Thus satisfied that the Northern mission of
extinguishing slavery in The South may be safe
ly undertaken, Mr. Wentworth tells us that ga
scheme may be devised and carried out which
will result in the peaceful, honorable and equi-
table emancipation of all the slaves that 1.-The
states must be made all Free that "the work
will be one Of time and patience. but Il must
be done" We are next assured that il is only
their fear Of the general government which pre-
vents. at this moment. "A general Instruction
among the slaves in the border States from
which Il follows that, with the removal Of this
fear. there will be an Instruction which will
make 1.-The peaceful emancipation of all the
slaves an easy task.
With the outlines Of the republican programme
for the abolition Of slavery thus presented
by an editor fully. possessing the confidence
Of Mr.. Lincoln is IL any wonder that the alter.
native Of secession and Southern confedcracy
should be agitated in the South. What means
this peaceable extingushment of slavery We
presume il means its exclusion from the Terri.
tories, and its removal from the District Of Co.
lumbia. navyyards, dock yards &c, by act Of
Congress; next, the suppression of the inter
State slave trade, and the repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave law; and next, the babeas corpus pro.
eesses Of Lysander Spooner in regard 20 slaves.
In brief, with Congress, an Executive and a
Supreme Court all Of the same model and the
same mind, il would not be a difficult m,tter.
under an abolition Interpretation Of the consti
tuition, so to cripple thi, vital Southern institu
ton Of slavery as soon to render even faithful
Virginia field hand, now worth over thousand
dollars, utterly worthless TO his master.
And such. We doubt not is this peaceful re-
publican programme for the conversion of all
the States into free States. Are not Southern
men aware of this! Do they not know that
within the Union they have fallen completely
under the overshadowipg power Of the
North. and that this anti slavery repub.
Iican party have taken possession Of the
North l. Il not patent 10 all the world