The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-02

Ing our country q . LUMINOUS Ar msmsat af sn",,"
and beauty nlled with ali beneasent ionsc.us
Ing Inc wilderness 10 blossom a. garden and no Sat
After new State 10 spring up the gnt and neat ~
It's radianceso that by the peace and the ex aa
sve ehood OF our institutions the New word seemed 70
belong 70 us OF rsht and the name Of Americans hal
oomeio be alone and rang ear IA round xad
full a. ever that Of Roman did IN the pauer days
Union whoh Athen establisheta Union founded On
the stone Idea Of the original aa
constitutional ooelusiy Of AL the Sstea Union for
the purpose OF assuring each aud all against or-ga az
ereesion, but ees 10 al aud each npsl.
possession and full Enjoyment OF It's osn domestic rights
20 ~ 70 retain lawn Of religious conformity and compu
sion like Massachusetts, 70 repeal them, like Virginia
20 a. 70 iegsze enisii Of and like xassscnusets
70 unieaaze IL, like Virginia. 50 As 10 main tain
labor, ike Virginia, on 70 exclude Il, like Massachu
sets. That was the fundamental dss Of the fathers
Without having that idcs originally, tney could
have created Uoion without adhering idea OF
20 long a. they lived, tney could mite
the Union 70 the soaa Il left to degenerate sons
theirs 70 begin 10 undo Tint great work. ~hich they had
NOS wisdom 10 comprehend virtue 70 mAnta in its
presne integrity and strength. II mol until twenty
years after the establishment Of the wheo
the last OF the Revolutionary Presidents seat
OF federal power that Of the Northern States beg an
70 etrxe blows o. he equality of the States by insisting
the ban OF tho Union In excluding them from the
mon federal territory Trcadl1E In tho same path the
tou by The sons was for ns Northern states TO assume
70 conscae tho property aud other domestic hts of
citizens Of the South s"ourniue Ia raus the NORTH
,he possessions Of which. during sucn sourn transit
10 guaranteed 10 them by the explicit provision
OF the constitution which guarsrtees to the citizens
Of the North the privilege 10 go with their property
any Southern state Then the proceeded TO pass
acts IN the Northern stsses 70 nuy impede the right
recamAsion OF fugJves from servios, which the
tions right the iahsr, had by an appropriate
act Of Copercss Next degenerate sons In contempt OF
the idea and work Of their fathers 70 organize
In the Northern states setsm OF agitation and propa
for the purpose OF preaching Al the North crusade
sgsnst the Institutions aud tho people Of Southern
States This agitation went until the MINDS Of too
many At the got 70 be utterly all sense
Of truth or fasehood sht wrong aud ever, thing OF
good gave way 70 the fanatic Of
that to preak covenants TO scA properly or 10 IA
the stealing Of IT. 70 write and distribute documents u
sit0g TO ins.rrecton, murder and rapne to petition
for TO insist upon, - advocate and 10 urge
in season and out OF season, the deliberate
violation Of the compaoss Of The constitution or the
liar hts and sounds Of faly e Tue sacred pul
pit, 10 great extent become Infected With potical
shs n win an epidemic plague The oharcoes
broken up. Political parties became dcmorazsd. Cur
rent literature assumed morbid, jaundiced, foulsh
black hue The leading thought OF Governors and Legs
lsures came 10 be tbe meddesome interference by mes
sages resolutions and otherwise with tho institutions Of
the Southern states Political power the North could
be obare only by pandering 10 this
spirit OF ntermcddesomepess Mos. OF the political aud
many OF the religious aad pro'esseiy literary ,urra's
ie into the same perversc fftion tie local
public mind which they reflected The orators
In The Nor hern satss such declam Sd against
installations OF the southern ssae. who deaou,cei the
end the Unisp because Of the constitutional
rights which the South has IN the Uaion. who had
reached such pitch Of temonaic possetsiOn pray
Tor the advent OF "An anti slavery Constitntion
an anti slavery Bible, and an anti slavery Cod"
- 80 petty question tho serf labor
of the South the OF uryerse Of The Proy
dence Of Almighty Cot Thus The daily speech and
thought OF tens Of thousands Of persons n the
states wss Of such hostility Of feel0g rar ther fe
low ctizene or TIE Southern States as the bterest M
ionai hatred ard that only could apply to foreign
suo ,ae sentin cot aid no. a. to Intensity itself in
p.~.s~~~ sa~s.~ IN. aashoss sf he~A ava,ds
ned DOT in all. yet in but ,~o many Of the ost insch
gent and cultivated, and professediy aud religious
among the Northern States And d length, 10 zap the
climax OF political aoerraton the entered upon the.
hieh the fathers dreaded and waned against grea
last peril Of the Union Theae una Of the fathers
orrnnza sectional combination OF the Northsru stAtes
with sect onai candidates the oises OF President
and Vice President OF the Unitud States, through
hom, elec ed 70 impose their viii on the Southern
States ard falling Ia thsr nrst attempt 10 do this they
have now, A. they assume 70 believe at length sus
ceedet 10 q second attempt Of the sori by tho
lba, states with different domestic iustitutIoas-some
rcc labor some save aborcanaot exist together the
nion mat there Is an irrepresslole conflict between
hat States with varying domestic Institutions
exist, and In framing constitution exprcsay adapted
hai precise end, ana % consrucing the Uaon. Mean
While the expression at the North Of the sent or
opposition 70 slavery at the South has produced among
be people Of the latter sentiment Of angry rejection o.
Apgrer repulson Of II where u passes from advice 70
lcs and becomes according 70 their belief, unconstitu
opal int rference with their rights In the Uoon
hortation the side produces the otnor;
cncroscnent on the aide leads 10 reprsA and
on on the other the innocens and iae guilty on both
,ondemnaton We thus wrong the South and the South
wrongs the North frT,ve slaves from the sJuth run
,n or refcocd al the North, and osrsivs suspected
white uen from the North threatened or lyncbed
u the South; States scod at another from the
yabcroatora char or the Legislative halls aud at length
les.alate ouea and N
xe become heated on both sdes our blood 10 up and all
sudden We awake 10 the perception Of The fac tha.
We no lcnger have the common attachments Of
,ountry and toen II s but stepnay, ~ but ac,i.
lent Ct the OF State the mafaess
evolution. oorsumma,ed dissolution cf the Union To
hat point have arrived and u ls question OF
evolution, and nothing else we 10 not desire to have
hat text s1cp tAsen, nor 70 continue subject % that &C T.
ent which precpitate The caastrsphe the South
nus rerscc its false steps u have taken soy aud the
forth must rctrac Ia fke steps. ID TAX any;
nen at the south listen 20 reasoning among them
elv ~ TO their acts End NJ the North must listen
"a W. al ,ss Sor,s' who arc ressonina a. ,aaI' sCre togo
her this evening of orn acts, must not be l
bal the irorblca ot the time be trnootcd over
I'd hid sway-murt consider conscieDtousiy whore
e have done vropg-mus, rot be irritaied a. The sug
ttton u our wrng--apd must fully unierrtsnf II 10
Teer 70 iis correction and reparaon 10 retarn then,
se tenor and splrt tf the oo8situiion 70 tera as
leut are with the states not with tho Union; by the
,tsiiiioa the eccfA neut y bot Tho trustee ~
stat for purposes fenneI and preRcrbed tbs Sor.
'ern siatcs have rigl ~ undertake 70 convert the
orih their ideas of iooa 5iercst aud ths Northern
,sf have right r. undertake " c1avert tue south %
ler ieew ~ l0cal interest the attempt u d. this
rer sde y couary - tie constitution sni srtvegsivc
The Unlor aBd The orssnixtltn of tte personal ed
lf sifAlDn of the 70 'ess gvtrnment o. such prenFs
'ould be o tse the overthrow n the c1nsugton. In
lhtr vofde ihe coustcraion of the distinctive pltsNl
lea of Mr., lineoln-whether sc take tha, idea N
be form ~ frst eruncatcd by him, or a. copied,
.reated and elaborated 10 successive speeches by
II seward snd othes-i ssy ths conservation n that
ies by making Il " prcse the adm nstrlsioa %
he federal government, would be Of tfet revolution n
be Institutions or the Initcd States more rafica and
ompete than that which separated ~ from Great Bril-
ain, or that which otsblshtc, that which 70 estab
shod Tho dynasty 0f The Sapocons 10 France That the
1rms ~ the federal gJvcrumfnt woad remain IN
hepged, s q thing of NJ account. lorms remained un
hanged all observed y the very letter, when the
espoic ard aJs9ate rule of the imperial cWsars took
he place n elective liberty In The republic Of ancient
tome repeat then the Inauguration of the Idea s me
oorGct the lea that states Of d1erog
onsts instltu cannot cnntnul together 10 unton,
he iaes that one cr tho other g. 10 be- n re
olut,on revolution either In tbs impression OF unity of
domestic lass al The statfs alike Or In the dissolu
of The Uoon because Of the absence of suca unity
rcrcro 70 csrnro from that You the republicans,
" Abraham lincoln, the selected representative |
n vour oninl0ne and poilcy. And by tho pvin. |