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

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They. Irrepressible Conhict''-Importan
semi-OMcial DEGREES i'm Behalf or 80 Old
Abe Lincoln"
More than one Of the travelling newspaper
correspondents of the republicanfaith. 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, il 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 authorita-
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 bis skill, activity, zeal and power
as a political editor, cannot be doubted as
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 4th 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 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 Eve might as we'll
make up our minds to fight the battle now as
at any other time;' that I" if we do not place
slavery in the process of extinction by hemming
il in where it is, and no. suffering il to
expand, II 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 "a
scheme may be devised and carried out which
will result in the peaceful, honorable and equi-
table emancipation of all the slaves" that "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 II 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 II any wonder that the alter.
native Of secession and a Southern confederacy
should be agitaied in the South What means
this peaceable extinguishment 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 habeas corpus pro.
cesses Of Lysander Spooner in regard TO slaves.
In brief, with Congress, an Executive and
Supreme Court all Of the same model and the
same mind, il would no, be a difficult m,ttcr.
under an abolition Interpretation OF the consti-
tuition, so to cripple thi, vital Southern iustitu.
ton Of slavery as soon to render even faithful
Virginia field hand, now worth over a 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 rcpub-
lican party have taken possession Of the
North l. Il not pa,ent 70 all the world