The New York herald., 1860-12-17
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, DECEMBER IT, 1866


The RepubIicaa Policy OF Coer. sen'
Mr. Lincoln Is represented as having in pvlvs'e
conversation, excused himself for not cor 0ing
oiN with manifesto in the present crisis of t.Ns
county, by observing that he has been talking
on the subject for the last six years, and II
people hare not discovered what his politics
are before now, 1t is impossible for him, by
anything he can add, to make himself better
understood. His organs say that he is not yet
President; that it will be time enough for him
to declare his views when he Is inauguYated;
that he will then uphold the Union and carry
out the laws and that he and the republican
party have nothing to change.
In view Of the fact that in all humm proba-
bility several of the States now in the Union
will be out of it on the 4h of March, the
meaning Of the republican journals is that the
future President Of fractured Union will re-
unite the parts by fire and sword, by blood
shed and rapine, by servile insurEection and
all the horrors of civil war between the North
and tho South. But when it is taken into ac-
count that in the Presidential election on the
9th of November the popular vote stood
2,s2l,S ,S74 against the republican programme,
with only 1,s6s,2oO in its favor, it may be
fairly asked, from what source does Mr. Lin
coin expect to derive the means of coercion,
or what two-thirds of the people will be doing
while he, with the aid of one-third, is inaugu.
rating bloody civil war, which, if it ever
should be commenced, must signally fail in its
objees
The Southern people are Of the same
race as the men Of the North--Of the same
blood AZ she South Carolnians who manned
Fort Moriarie and defeated the British at
Charleston in the Revolutionary War-of
the same blood as the brilliant Georgians, who
at the same psriod fought SO gallantly at the
North side by side with she people Of New
England-of tie same hood with those
WHO ended the seven years struggle with
Great Britain by the capture Of its army
at Gorktown-of the same blood with
those who defeated double their number Of
the British at New Orleans in 1915, in
the most disastrous battle ever fought by TIE
disciplined troops Of Old England, at time
when the Hartford Convention il New Eng
land mu,tercd its treason against the Union,
and i,s citizens held out blue lights on its
coasts to "give aid and comfort to the enemy"
The Southern men are Of the same race with
those Southern regiments and their COM
manders who played so brilliant part in the
Mexican war; whipping twice their number Of
the chivalry of Santa Anna, end by their yaler
and their blood aided the North in wirr6ng
California for the confederatioa, and adding
500, 100000 in gold to the wealth Of the
country.
But there is another view ~ take Of this
matter: Americans are the most migTa-
tory people among civilized nations, ard
of the whole native born population there
is nearly twenty Eve per cent residing in Statcs
in which they were not born. According to-
the census Of 1850 there were then residing in
the slaveholdfng States 726,450 persons who
were natives Of non-slaveh0lding States.
Suppoeing the Increase in migration TO the
South to be in the ratio Of the increase OF
population, and the wonderful develepement
of the enterprise 1f the country in the last ten
wears. there wouidbe now upwards of n nlillhon
and a half of Northern people residing in tie
Southern States. As they are for the most pai I
adult, very large proportion of them an :
connected BY marriage and blood with the
Southern population. WIN the Northern States
wage a war Of subjgsstioa or extermnstion
against a people whs are thus not only OF their
owr race, but closely related to them by the ties
os kindrcds Gains murder Of his brother Abel
co,,a not be more hciaens in the sight of God
and man than such wax as this.
Those who propose such means OF bring
inn hack the seeding: States would be held up
- exs,rstion for attcxrpting to subvert the
,,.,oos,,i omicabie union Of voluntary communi-
ties. founded by our ancestors. and turn It into a
military despotism TO hcliin bondage sovereign
states ee ainst their will II this can be done
n the United States, thsn no statesman can
doubt their speedy transition to an absolute
monarchy. Shall not the spectacle oil the
crowned heads OF Eurore paying homage to
liberty in permitting the petty States oil Italy
10 decide by their own votes from what other
| states ,hey viii break of, OF with what Others
,bey will unite, put to shame the proposal
Of republicans in Arneri0s to coerce into
| slavery fire and independent communities O
| ,heir own race and blood