The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-09

withdrawn, and $50 bags oil H'ef~Hu@
| sold p. e.. aud $50 bags ssyanla were
sold at i5c. Freishis were again higher saa Vessels
scarce and the wonder conaued TO be where they had
al gone TO- During the late dull period IN the feightng
business they .cattered to all parts Of the world, and
probably at no prev time in the history OF
camille marine has American tonnage been dis.
persed There only good demand for vessels for
England but also tor other more distant places Ia view
of the coming in China, American coal, beef pork
&C. being shipped " Hong Kong and Shanghai Yes
terday wheat in bags, taken at Hd which WAS re-
fused at the close AID in bulk at lod aad aour at Ga
and to Loadon acur was engaged At So. Ga.
Ltneoin's Election I'm the South-Ths Dis.
union Qusstion.
Mr.. Orr, of South Carolina, Speaker of the
House OF Representatives of the last Congress,
has written letter on the Presidential issue 10
his immediate constituents, which we transfer
TO these columns because there is point or two
in it upon which the future of all our political
parties aud of the country Itself viii depend.
The srst of these salient points OF Mr.. Orr's
letter, is that for the Presidency and Vice Pre-
sidency Lincoln and Hamlin, the black re-
publican nominees will be elected in November
next" and the second il. that 'the South vii,
then decide the great question, whether she will
submit TO the domination of black republican
rule, the fundamental principle OF their CT.
ganization being undisguised and declared war
upon our social Institutions" Mr.. Orr believes
that the honor and safety Of the South, 10 that
contingency, will require the prompt secession
of the s!aveholding States but he Is not will
Inc hat ;,o ~ t,aI nH a, vfa
handed. His assent to the movement would
require the cooperation of Georgia, Alabama
ard Mississippi Thus brought 10 the test, he
thinks tina. Southern Breckenridge men and
Douglas men viii only emulate each other" 10
their gallant devotion to the houor and inte
rests OF their section
These are the views Of perhap, the most
conservative politician in South Carolina, not
excepting those grea. Shareholders, Senator
Hammond and General Wade Hampton. Mr..
Orr would "repudiate any scheme having for
its object the separate secession Of South Caro-.
lina." There is something peculiarly signif-
cant in this. 1t refers to powerful party in
South Carolina, who desire and intend if they
can effect it, that, in the event of Linco cleo
ton, said State shall while the iron Is hot
strike the initiative blow for Southern COME
deracy, without waiting to consult upon the CO.
operation Of other States.
The admission of the whole Of California in
1850 as free State destroyed the equilibrium
between the North and the South in the Senate,
and made the States stand sixteen free States
against fifteen slave States. The South being
thus turned over TO the mercy of the North in
both houses Of Congress, very great sensation
followed in the Southern States Thus, in 1851,
the pre- existing democratic and whig parties
were superseded in South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi by Southern rights,
or secession party, and al opposing
Union party. The secessionisss were sig.
nally defeated in ali said States, Howell
Cobb, the Union candidate for Governor
in Georgia, leading of with a majority of near
ly 10000. But in South Carolina the issue was
not between Union and disunion, bat between
independent and cooperative secession. The
co.operationists succeeded. aud az no other
States came to the rescue South Carolina was
compelled to wait little longer
This action Of South Carolina, however. was
upon the comparatively narrow issue Of sub.
hitting to the destruction Of the sectional equi-
librium in the Senate by the admission of Cali.
foruia, giving the North in that body thirty-two
members, against thirty for the South. Now
how stands the case! Since 1850 two more free
States Minnesota and Oregon-have been ad-
mitted, giving the North Senatorial majority
Of six. Kansas will be admitted this mex. win
ter. which will increase the majority to eight.
should Honest Old Abe's" administration 60
on smoothly, Nebraska, Washington. Chippewa,
Idaho. Nevada and Arizona will be added TO
the free list, making Senatorial majority Of
twenty against the slave States, and a majority
against them Of perhaps one hundred in the
House.
The question, therefore of Union or disunon
will have to be settled with Lincoln's election,
because aequiescence on the part of the South.
ern States to his administration will soon result
in such an accumulation Of Northern anti-slavery
strength In every department Of the government
as to render any subsequent Southern secession
movement, under any provocaiion, utterly fool.
ish and impotent. The position of the Southern
States will be like that Of the italian States after
the European peace Of 1915. They will be put
completely under the thumb Of their Northern
masters Hence II Is that there Is large party
in South Carolina ready, in the event Of Lin
coins election, to take the Initiative, like Carl
baldi and to trust in the chances Of co operation.
This is the danger to which Mr.. Orr so pointedly
refers. He Is conservative and cautious man,
and does not wish to Fisk too rashly the chances
Of terrible civil war.
The simple truth Is, that 10 submitting to La
coins election, the South must be content to
prepare deliberately for the abolition Of slavery
from Delaware to Texas. This Is exactly what
this thing means. The will and the power will
be given, with Lincoln's election, to party
founded upon this {" one idea" and pledged 10