The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-23

uiIers OF New Epgland are not willing to bury
their dead and take care of their wounded,
We call on the metropolis backward in
any good or charitable work-to contribute
freely. Let every one contribute according to
his means sending donations, large or small to
Mr.. John H. Watson, No. LOG Broadway.
The Conservative asses or the Couutry-
The Irrepressibie Conflict Means CiviI
War i'm tho North.
Mr. Hickman, In the zeal of his new CONVEX
sion to the abOlitionized black republican party.
undertook to handle few statistics and, be.
sides bungling the figures, he drew from his pc.
cnliar arithmetic the deduction that, "a the
Northern States greatly exceeded the Southern
States in their total population, if the latter
undertook to find peace out of the Union the
former would easily whip them into submis-
sion.
This is one of the impudent declarations of
the black republicans, who assume to be in
possession Of the entire North, and able to carry
it intact and united into the brutal and bloody
conflict with the South promulgated by Seward,
preached by Helper, philosophically postulated
by Theodore Parker, and practically inaugu-
rated by John Brown. A few figures drawn
from the census returns of 1850 and the Presi-
dental vote Of 1856 will demonstrate the utter
fallacy of this assertion, and demonstrate that
if the bloody conflict which the black repub-
icans aim to excite should really occur, it will
come in the shape Of civil war in the Northern
States, and not as conflict between the North
ern and Southern sections of the Union.
The republican party obtained in 1856 proba-
bly, as large an. aggregate vote as it will ever
obtain as party. In that year the entire vote
cast for Fremont was l,34l,5l4. Against Ere
| mont two candidates were run, by parties
neither of which will assimilate with the black
republicans, and which together demonstrate
the strength of the conservative feeling. The
following table of the vote of the free States in
that year shows the true condition of parties in
the North -
CONSERVATIVE VOTE IN 1856-FREE STATES.
Mau 20 80:
Total Northern conservative vote 1921 OPT
Excess over Fremonts VOTE observation-disclosures. 279 5l3
In the Southern States the republicans had
no ticket in 1856; and as the leaders of the par
ty have completely aboliionized it since then,
the South has become united against it. The
total conservative vote, therefore, stands as fol-
lows -
TOTAL CONSERVATIVE VOTE IN 1856.
Conservative vote In the free States Il ,621 027
Buchanan in the aave States. ........... Gil $50
Fillmore in the slave States. 4S0,032
Total conservative vote 2712 a3e
Fremont vote in 1885, s4i ,6i4
Majority of conservative vote. s7l 425
These figures demonstrate the utter iupossi-
bility of the abolitionized black republican
party becoming the controlling party in the
Union; and we therefore need only to con-
slider what would be their chances if, by their
violent and incendiary course, they compelled
the South to secede. Mr.. Hickman, and not a
few of his fellow disorganizers, brag that the
North would whip the South back into the
Union. To do this it would be necessary, not
only that the black republicans should possess
large majority in the North, where, as we
have already shown, the majority is now
largely against them, but it will be imperative
that the North shall be as united in pursuit of
IL.
The instinct of selfpreservation, the domestic
affections, the love of property, the lessons of
history, and lifelong practical knowledge of
the capacity and impulses of the inferior race,
form the Southern white people into compact
and firm union in defence of the existing social
institutions there; and this union would find
strong support from the slaves themselves.
Apart from the fear which all communities en-
teItain of sudden and violent changes in mat
tiers that affect the social relations and condi.
! tons Of the people, there exist between the
slave and his master in the South great and
strong ties which those who contemplate
slavery only through Northern spectacles
know nothing about. There are the ties of
mutual dependence which each feels in the
daily incidents of life, the feelings of affection
| incident to continued intercourse from the
cradle, and on the part of the slave perfect
relief from the fear of future want The ope-
ration of these ties was strikingly exemplifed
when Lord CORVALLIS, during the Revolution
airy war, marched with a triumphant British
army through the States of South and North
Carolina and into Virginia proclaiming free
dom to the negroes who would join his stan
dard. When the patriot forces were scattered
or destroyed, the number Of slaves that he was
ableto seduce was incomparably small in pro.
| portion to those who preferred to remain in
slavery with their masters.
What chance has the braggart Hickman to
unite the North to initiate the British example
of CORVALLIS? None whatever. We have
demonstrated that the Northern majority is
opposed to bis ideas, and those Of Seward,
Helper, Sherman, Theodore Parker and John
Brown. If the black republicans insist upon
| creating the irrepressible conflict they talk
about, that conflict will come, not be-
tween the North and the South, but