The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-10

u OPINION
aw can appreciate the sentiment Of one who thus re-
pudates and epels the constitution and laws OF his coua
try even though be az the inen hazard Of civil war
snd the desu ncon OF the liberties Of his country But
cannot appreciate the motives Of that man who afrms
pat hs own interior thought is DO the exposition of
ne Jaw shove me law, and who dsregards that law be-
cause OF bis conscientious objection t. when he himself
has Voluntarily taken oath TO obey that law cloud
appa ,fe No he who does that adds the folly or lo
gca Irrational reasoning, deliberate perjury (Applause)
say that cannot appreciate that conscientious rule OF
action understand the motives and conduct of the
Quaker who in his reprobaon Of war, steadily refuses
10 pear arms, and who Ia ready TO suffer any wrong
rather than do violence to his conscience But man
voluntarily enss for the war for any purpose Of GAIN
amoon and Afterwards refuses 10 obey upon the ground
OF higher law he deserves be drummed out of
the camp, but TO be shot traitor. applause And
Just SO with man who has taken an oath Of obedience
upon his conscience, and then sets up conscience as
reason to that voluntary perjury (Applause.)
Gentlemen, state this point In its naked deformtya de-
formity patent that this illusion Of aboltionsm this
folly Of the higher law has passed away into the limbo
vanity and laid up among the discarded lumber Of the
man talks rev OF the higher law. Everybody is glad
enough to have forgotten We come them 10 the next
pretex for this pretended necessity for dscord and dis
union and that Is another thought from the quarter
1t the so-caled slave power We have depicted
In terms Of prejudice and reproach the fact that the
fifteen Southern States only some half million persons
slaves aud that therefore they an oligarchy an
arstocracy as compared with the rest Of the population
of tho Southern States and OF the United States This
suggestion in the rst place. is mere fsllacy Of factan
error in It's inception Those who assert forget to con
slider that the master OF the family, in whose name the
Der Of sous he father-wife, children and male or
female connections are dependant upon him. And 90 it
himself only but the family OF which he the head and
would be just as competent and reasonable to sayuay,
would be Just as bad an argument to address TO human
eudcesthat the landhoders 10 the Northern States
oligarchss and arsocrats For, you viii count up the
number Of men at the North who can be deemed 70 be
win nnd that is relatively small There Is no part Of
the world in which wealth is unequaly distributed
than IN the Northern States So that this argument Of
propretors in the Northern States and any Southern
speaker debater might with equal proprey reproach
muudes Of working men who are not large propretors
Gentlemen the argument not only faacious in fact but
an appeal TO the worst preudces and passions OF the
heart Associated with that assumption is another
ton that the Southern States undue influence in
the nation That deny say the people Of the North
In the government They have had II both q persons
and communities and in the few instances which con-
been Presidents from the Southern States those Pres
dents have been selected nominated and elected BY the
Northern States (ApplAuse) For we, unfortunately,
Northern society such universal competition every body
go free do everything, and every aspIres to
politically when we otherwise might be omupoent Our
weakness Ia caused by the ryares esousies O! COM
peg statesmen and therefore the unity Of the South is
only apparent Indeed, have seen In the recent
election Of Speaker how little there of concert Of
action among Southern membersS Whatever there is Of
concert OF action because they are smaller in number
and because they attacked and have act on the de
fensive. The North forces them into combination by its
perpetual assaults upon the institutions Of the South Let
us cease our aggressons and attend 70 our own affairs
Abstain from intermeddlng with their affairs and rey
upon you will see them as much divided any portion
undue influence q the SOUTH That also has s ss'S 10
place in the lumber loft Of the limbo Of vanity and that
now presented to us-he alleged irrepressibe conflict
between the Northern and Southern States That assumed
conflict put In the first place. as question between
free labor States and slave labor States We were not
long since told that there necessary rrepressbe
conflict between them Let ponder moment and sea
and to to his conscience he is able to see
how any conflict of labor should between aborcr
at the North and abcrer at the South in respect ton
dusres which are necessarily distinct dependent upon
our climate, upon geographical and typographical facts
wholly independent Of human control For instance,
and to insist that that fact course OF conflict of labor
o oe'~esn r,r us ana the people Of New Orleans
se o 70 wh reverse 40 not and cannot produce
the aborers at the South because Of the congenal eli
mate, produce cotton and sugar. which cannot pro.
there where the differences of production constitute har
mony Of relatonG II Is lot identity but difference OF pro-
duction that creates harmony WHAT sort OF harmony
would there be between two men that should marry each
other (Great laughter There is Identity instead of DIFF
ference is difference Of observation-disclosures Of ca
pabiesthne invites the man to the woman aud congt-
tutes tho harmony Of the family which the basis Of all
civil institutions and Of oil virtue (Applause.) Bat
Let us What would be- the , Condition q
e. 81, win x for
dcut about anything QAughisr.9 whist would BE- the
condition Of Massachusetts, every pursued ident
cally the same labors know 4 is Impossible thing
but are dealing with supposition What would DO the
condition in regard TO happiness wealth and prosperity il
every in Massachusetts were occupied in doing
pabe that prosperity the result Of difference ofpursutsP
But enlarge the supposon Let suppose that every
in the United States engaged IN doing the Same
thing raising the same crop or Manufacturing the same
product Of art That, again, Is impossibty; but we
have got 70 suppose ~ because tie assertion o. conflict
hal nj
conflict II there identity OF labor. Then let US
Iwoud like to know ~hether would do any good
leave off raising cotton and betake himself to manufac
turing it. would like to know IL would be any advan.
ss the city o. linn syes man In south Caroline
coming to the State Of Connecticut would like TO know
every man in Louisiana should leave of raising sugar
and betake himself to making coaches. Naughter)
How would our industries in New England fare In that
bases Of the alleged irrcpreible conflict between the
Northern and Southern siatesf Why gentlemen IL is so
rational, mere powder with which to fight party
contest that would be dscredable 70 your Judgment
70 the M
author now? We longer told Of the rrepressble
conflict between the free labor States of the North and
presibe connctbetween the "capal stes Of the South
and the s.sbor States" of the North aughter) That
and s
In fact II s tnklirg jingle Of Names The capt.
tai States Of The South ard the labor States Of the North
ID there capital at the North and s there no labor
the South? The nomenclature assumes that and behiud
1t another ideshat the coored .ssorers At the south
are The property Of certain capitalists there. Suppose
they ask you 70 challenge your memories 10 inter-
rogate your Judgment TO cudge as II were your reason
into action and tell how any possible differences can
be drawn from this fact 90 far a. II is fact Gentlemen
inference 10 be drawn and, indeed uerence
drawn, for twas application Of artificial naes
for the purpose Of making new discrimination between
the North and South, the object Of which IL u easy
to sce. How does it happen that at this day any
person falls upon that most far fetched andeost ground
less idea, that State Of the Union Is full Of capital
and another full Of labor, that Is to conflict
between them? Gentlemen, there B no such conflict.
vert the attention Of the Northern States from The fast
that here upon our own sc!b in New England,
there living conflict now, 10 day, between labor and
-(applausel-so cause 70 look elsewhere and
rot to see that conflict which I too apparent That