The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-07

theoretical oligs'chy which now is insurgent
in Mexico receive assistance indirectly through
our refusal to rstify the treaty, and ieha q
helping hand to the great principle OF separa-
ton between Church and State?
The Revolution ~ the Nsrth-The Be-
gtnaiAs Of tho End.
The irrepressible conflict between capital
and free labor in the North which recently
broke out in Lynn, and extended to other
towns in Massachusetts, and to the neighboring
State of New Hampshire, will soon spread in
other directions over New England, and pro-
baby over all the Northern States. 1t is the
beginning of Il revolution in the North--poli-
teal, manufacturing and commercial The
FIRE has been kindled, and who shall stay the
devouring flames, whilst they have such an
abundance of combustible material to feed
upon, and are famed into activity by the
potent agitation Of white slaves stimulated to
deeds of desperation, not by mere political
wrongs. but by the sharp pangs of hunger and
by the destitute condition of their wives aud
children The attempt Of the leaders Of the
anti slavery party in the North to foment an
uDqueDchable war between the capital and the
negro labor OF the South has recoiIed already
in fearful retribution on the North, and kindled
a contest between Northern capital aud the So
called free labor Of white men Of the Caucasian
race-men free to work ut prices by which they
and their little ones must starve slowly and by
inches, or free to refuse TO work on such terms,
aod die at once rapid and sudden death from
the effects Of famine
The hostile attitude of the anti. slavery party
which has gained the ascendant in almost every
State north Of Mason aud Dixon's line has
forced the South into corresponding attitude
of defence and defiance, and the result is that
great numbers of the Southern merchants have
refused to deal with the Massachusetts, capital
lists for shoes and other articles and the con-
sequence of that movement is that they have q
surplus stock. without q market, and they are
compelled to discharge many of their hands aud
reduce the wages Of the rest to starvation
prices. Hence the strikes, and the com
mencement of social, manufacturing and
commercial revolution, which will every day
gain strength and intensity and extend to every
branch OF business at the North, and even real
estate will share the general ruin. The unfor-
tunate men and women thrown out Of employ
ment by the criminal folly Of Northern agita.
tors cannot live upon air. Either they IN a;
emigrate in thousands, or the most sweeping
changes must Immediately take place ia the
legislation Of the New England States, giving
labor protection against capital by regulating
hours and prices, and thus compelling capital
either to retire from the field of activity, or to
afford labor the means of sustaining existence,
or the sociaIistic system of the French provi-
sional government in the revolution of 1S4s,
establishing State workshops, must be
adopted, so as to bring down capital to the
level of labor-which would be all very
fine for the workmen as long IS it lasted.
Such is the prospect before the New Fog
land States, and they may bless their stars
II they escape the bloodshed and confusion,
the rebellion and revolution, which their lead
ing men have been SO long preparing in vain
for the South.
Every day the evil will increase, because
every day that Northern labor il unemployed
poverty will become poorer and discomfort
will be exasperated, while all the time the
breach between the North and the South is
widening, and the preparations of the Southern
States to manufacture for themselves are has
tenipg to completion; and nothing is wanting
to consummate total alienation, and to place
an impossible gulf between North and South.
but the triumph of the republican creed next
fall To that, all that has yet taken place is
but the beginning Of sorrows-the foretaste of
the bitter cup Of retribution in store for the
North, which will overflow with accumulated
calamities, and which she must drink to the
dregs. m
On the other hand the equilibrium be-
tween the relations of labor and CAPT
tai in the South is undisturbed, and
there is the most perfect harmony be-
tween the master and the sieve. So far
from any of the negroes of the Southera plant
ers being in want Of the first necessaries Of
life, they can earn, after all their wants being
supplied, and after satisfying the demands of
their masters, what would purchase their free.
dom, If they did not prefer the protection aud
happy security afforded them against want in
sickness or old age by the justice and bened-
cence of the Southern institution. 1t is esti-
mated that the savings q the lesroess u tho
South, though thriftless race who care not
for money, amount to one hundred millions of
dollars. In every age and every country there
has been o continual conflict between free
labor and capital, in which labor has been al
ways worsted, though sometimes capital has
been doomed to signal suffering. The New
England States are no exception to the rule.
Under the fortunate combination OF circuul.
stances in the South, labor can never suffer
there as it does at the North. The land, which
is of boundless wealth and fertility, is there,