The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-26

dynasty and passing through the changes OF various re-
now a second empire, founded universal suffrage, a
legislative branch derived periodically from the same
source an admirable civil CODE army associated In
feeling with the families from which /. Is drawn as to
catch the sympathes which peryade the empire All tue
powers OF the State being rooted In brave n'e'ssa.
nation OF feeholders In town and country, the s,ca'
estates being cut into small homesteads and a Us Gun
dren made TO spring from the soil when lucy ,,na
terested TO improve and defend, LOUIS Napoicou AZ NV
head of half million of disciplined soldiers, becomes m
stantly sensible Of public opinion from us srounu a~o
among the psHp'e a is bands re:orm and voice
n The establishment Of free institutions Hence nus
nte coriale with Great sIaa ana France Nn rr.
lev 10 sbec the whole East to serfdo. and bring the
enslayed nations just breaking loose from the relaxed
hand OF expiring Ottoman power 10 the strong grasp
of Northern desposm and hence too the compulsion en-
forced by France and England the Sultan TO extend en-
TO the subducd races, and liberation to the
Christian religon-a mark Of grace to Chrsendou, which
has been followed by order for the suppression OF the
slave trade with Circassia This triumph OF tue h0erN
principles Of the Western nations the policy OF Peter
the Great handed down to his successor Nicholas has
brought the enlightened Emperor Alexander to inquire
s in the sronebod meant to defy the world He
saw the light alert, well instructed Fronchman an over
match for the robust Russian hardy iWpsssys rugged
disciplined animal strength overthrown by the
gay alacry Of that parade, that q little time
Russian soldier was 9 serf; he had
home bu, the camp no country 70 crown him with glory
his h To- tho sosr
gions Of the South and East by making them freemen
and inspiring their faculties with the enthusiasm which
body, and home Of his own on earth. tremendous
applause He too, is said, has joined his banner to
the Italian people Of establishing government for them
selves The Holy Allies that paceed out the people Of
Europe like herds, as belonging to them by divine right
all Russia, admit that there Is an original sove
reignty IN the people, which they bound to re-
spcct Austria herself ntimates that she is disposed to
reform and Yield something TO the spirit of the age
Have we an
Danube 10 the light spread over the world by our Revo
luton Reform OF great abuse at war with our political
system imposed upon us by foreign power and degrad
ing to national character and wasting to stery the
soil OF our country 10 not only spurned in the slave
States, but that which makes such blot on our con
tinent, sets such mark on our front, as a
people, threatens such fatal results 10 the Union that binds
toge Their in power exalted seems, for these
very tendencies, above the constitution ITSELF Those
venerable patriots who cherished freedom In the infancy
still later, when they confederaed as nation recorded
against England as her greatest crime that she made
cruel against human nature itself in sezng men for
slaves carry ing them into another hemisphere and keep
ing open market where they should be Sold" Yet the
OF he very man whose fixed this accusation TO
stand forever in the history OF the country against its
royal oppressor is now called up to sancty the principles
Of party urgent 10 reopen the slave uadeto spread sa
very ali the new Territories. and to subvert the
government elects chief magistrate hostile TO, their
designs (Faint applause.) Austria in Europe is taught
surrender something promote the growth of liberty
therc Here We have Austria that would etrangle II
with slavery, returning to that old Kings policy who
introduced It, notwithstanding the protest Of the colonies
pronouncing il "an execrsble commerce." (Applause)
To what is this retrosrade impulse In portion OF
people TO be at,rbueoy Not, venture 10 affirm, TO the
unbiased feeling judgment OF the slaveholders
been familiar with this class all my life Born and reared
among the farmers OF MISUNDERSTANDING all my early
notions Of domestic relations from race exclusively vir
gnian while my public life has been devoted to Missouri
and that Of my father ocerous applause) with whom
feel that have always lived, although apart from
hm), spent between the two great slave States Of
ter and views OF the most prominent and mpor
tans class OF the commanding slave States The de-
the character of their principal citizens the fault
Of the institution with which they have labored. Tue
worlds history does not show better race OF than
the farmers Of the States TO which have alluded They
Of the best stock Of that middle class that built up the
glory Of the country whence they They inherit the
sterling common sense, the benevolent feeling the firm
temper the lofty spirit thu led the way the civilization
ton Of this continent Cheers They have never and do
not now look upon ssvey good to be sought BY apns
upon producing the difference In the prosperity Of the
North and South, vsblo to eye They the
abandon the fertile regions Of the South which now lie
open TO slave labor the greater portion yet untouched
free white among them deprived Of occupations and
the means Of maintaining foothold In their native SOIL
from which slavery II !. continues must ultimately re-
icy that must hasten the exile Of the free white race
duce the value OF slave and landed property render
Least Of ali do they dissolve the Union s.Ssr
extend slavery, experiment to make more safe
the institution where II exists in peace (Applause)
The Shareholders Of the straia-vigorous
in mind and body, brave law abiding, patriotic, dis
right themselves by abolishing the forms 70
which they are accustomed; they will continue to
endure the oppression that the OF slavery obges
them to encounter while bare subsistence is attainabe
while "hunting fshing, and occasional jobs or little
tenemcnts held at will wasted fields or the wilderness
fate ike stocs in despair But when they are driven Ss
generally 10 the other alternative, which Mr.. Hammond,
The %S Of The .
Of "seducing the slaves TO steal for their support"
think there will be danger Of convuson class already
driven 70 the extremtee by slavery which have been
forciby depicted by Southern men Of tho highest dis
tncton and which have recently in Louisiana led the
drive them nom neghSorhoods to which they had be-
come Offensive would hardly bear the influx Of new
hordes Of negroes from Africa. This would make the
price OF labor low that the utmost industry of the free
white laborer would not yield bread 70 4 family. It
would compel them all 10 take refuge in the peonage sys
receive food and raiment from the landholder,
and AZ debtors bind themselves and families
making the bondage or drive them once from
their native land to the Territories foB homes where
proposed to follow the Kings colonial system for
the South and pour in successive cargoes of Africans
in the Territoreeto slave States and
subject the poor white aborers there again to the aterna
sress lssht applause The non slavehoders Of the
South, constituting ninetenths Of the population,
~ 70 the nocv ney
~ with such fated results to themselves much less
would they. knowing i, contribute to the seve-
selves to the attempt TO drive republican President from
station, the influence Of which he will to give them
and their children homeseads in the rich regions Of the
West thus securing them forever from the
mcnts Of slavery How does happen when the int.
rests Of the two great classes Of the South are
opposed to the renewal OF the slave trade,
and the filling up with exotic barbarians our
fair free Territories, reclaimed from native savages
with better rights, and whose presence was never 1t.
tended with such fatal omens that the country should be
alarmed with such threatnng camor from that quarter
to compass their schemes The politicians Of the South
are disciplined corps, schooed in the of managing
small embodied force 10 subjugate multitudes
The attempt Of time has the slave interest OF the
South for its pivot Alarms affected that dangerous
designs are mcdated against Il in the North The slave
holders are combined to man, under the leaders who
undertake the championship Of their cause They are
well aware, however, that the maniacs who made the
late forav at Harpers Ferry, and thoee who approved H.
consist Of mere handful Proof that the shareholders
themselves while this abolition coucocon has been bub
bling IN its eervescence constantly, have never felt
apprehension Is found In the fact that slave property
has always been rising in value In the face Of the false
alarms The mine and all its underground preparations,
Ofy M and toa nfE,rt