The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-06

up ard broken down through the mean. misery
and bcggarly spirit Of the United States go
vernment. The Post Office Department sends
the mails all over the West and Southwest. to
the most distant points, where the remuneration
does not liqudate onefourth of the expense Of
carriage, while New York and the commercial
interest make up the deficiency; and while, we
have been doing this. Congress and the Cabinet
composed of men from all quarters Of the coun-
try, refuse a fair compensation to Mr.. Collins,
and destroy line which was credit to the
nation. Our contemplate and miserly 60
vernment is to-day paying British steamships
for carrying its own mails, and it is now getting
up another difficulty with the Vanderbilt line,
and making great noise about it.
If the United States government acted In the
same liberal spirit towards our steamship lines
as the British and the French governments do,
and supported Mr.. Collins as he deserved, we
would have now the finest ocean steam marine
of any country in the world, instead Of being
dependent upon foreign countries for the trans
portation of our mails across the Atlantic. If
the carrying of the mails were in the hands al
together of such persons as Mr.. Vanderbilt
who, whether Spectator or monopolist, IS
certainly man of enterprise and energy, al
most a second Collins-instead of in the hands
of our inefficient government, there would, per-
haps, be none of the difficulties and delays
which universally beset our postal service. We
do not see why Mr.. Vanderbilt had not the
privilege to refuse to take the mails at the
price offered by the government and we APP
prove of bis resistance to the Infringement upon
his legal right to manage his own business in
his own way. We approve Of his refusal to be
dictated to in this matter by beggarly and
contemplate government, because it is the
only way to return the poisoned chalice to its
own lips.
The course he has adopted may conflict with
the interests of great many for a little while,
but it will all come right in the end, and it will
teach the government and Congress lesson
which they very badly needed.
Important from yirginia-The Attitude
OF Governor Wise.
On another page we publish an interesting
letter from Norfolk Virginia, giving an ac-
count of the movements of Governor Wise in
relation to "the impending crisis" and "the
conflict" between the two wings
of the democratic party. 1t appears that the
ratification meeting announced to take place at
Norfolk, and at which it was expected "Massa
Henry" would make 'the greatest speech
of his life," was postponed by the advice and
with the consent Of the orator himself He
ia opposed to Douglas, and in favor of
Breckenridge. Why does be hesitate! He
waits the action, we are Informed, of the State
Convention, which it is hoped will adopt the
wait rule, and choke off Douglas in every part
of the State. Fortified by this decision, it is
said, the Jupiter Tonans Of the Old Dominion
will then launch his thunderbolts at the head Of
the Little Giant of Illinois in an overwhelming
tempest But why not begin at once! Why
disappoint the thousands who hocked to Nor
folk' Why faltcr at the last moment? II was
He is the quickest of all the politicians of the
South, the most rapid in his combinations,
being in politics what Napoleon the First was
in war. Why does he hold back? II is evil
dent he shrinks from the fight. He feels in his
bones that himself and his party are beaten be-
fore they go into the field. In 1856, when Free
mont, Southern man and democrats man
moderate in all his views-obtained the nomi-
nation Of the republican party, which had not
then committed itself to revolutionary designs,
Henry A. Wise declared that the Southern peo-
pie would never permit him to be inaugurated II
elected. and that he would himself march on
Washington with the militia of VirginiaSand
take possession of the Capitol to prevent the in
auguration. Why has he not come out in the
same tone about the Inauguration Of Lincoln-a
Northern man, who has better chance of cleo
ton, and is the author of the irrepressible con-
Hic, programme set forth by William II. Seward
ut Rochester. Lincoln is committed to the most
ultra and revolutionary views. Why has not
Wise pronounced since his nomination, and why
does he not come to the scratch even after
being announced to speak, 1t Is because there
is a political revolution in progress at the
South, and because there is a Union ticket
in the field which will sweep half the
Southern States, including, probably, yir-
ginia itself. Our correspondent remarks
that democratic ascendancy in that State
can no longer exist and that the Bell and
Everett ticket will be carried, unless the divi-
sion in the Virginia democracy be speedily and
thoroughly hcaled-a condition which there is
very small prospect Of seeing realized. The
new Union party springing up in the South
strikes terror into the hearts Of the democratic
Southern leaders. In 1851, the year after the
compromise measures were carried in Congress,
the fire-ea,ers raised the cry Of secession, which
called into existence Union party which de-
feated them in Georgia and several other
States of the South, and carried the Presidential
election of 1852 on Union principles. The dis
union faction at the South slept from that time
till last fall, when John Brown walked them up.
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