The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-25
TIE CRISIS OF THE COUNTRY.
EcoNrrNuED FROM FIRST PAGE,

IA this Cnon. We are in most pero,s err ~ bat one
which the country might yet pass without serious harm,
the honest masses everywhere could At IA rsao
ed and made sensible Of the gree danger that hangs
over
Whilst extreme Northe N an, southern ppliticians have
been dividing and disrsctrg the country, thos wao
care nothing for off, or political position, and who
have been laborng IN the agricultural u.ey hancal aud
trading depars arts Of tho country, have, under tho
blessings OF ~ evidence, made really al that
This great Isiorty ana most worthy portion OF the
citizens hav Mt had tae = oyaine and satisfy their
minds as e whittier have been drifting BY tho lead OF
sectional selfish, ambitious mon. II we can in time
call into counsel those TO whom most indebted for
II rriai and intellectual attainments, aud in fact
for 1rr superior prosperity and greatness, the nest
gov saent ever fell the lot Of may Yet be
~ @gs ef
All that is wanting is for the honest masses
Nita and South 10 be induced without passion
&rd with their cool heads, understand the alb
,~trlct points Of difference, and they win at once arm
themselves with the fraterna spirit OF their Revo-
tntonary fathers, inFuse the same into their
political agents, force settlement Of al sectional
deulties and again their elds shops, stores
ships anal schools They taken BY SURPRISES they
ecarersd They have IL Is true with trained
bancs but there is time and they will come and settle
thee Quarrek about trhes, II they car IN proper time
and uaannef be appealed 10.
When our government was formed Of the States
North not good To form conf doriey aud
usn a government with Shave owners md save states
syes escaped from they should be return
to them They generously recognized tue rights OF
an for the general welfare they voted 10 continue
rfe African slave trade Cor twenty years An that is
needed to have again with our people, OF all sec
Gns the independent and patriotic spirit OF our fathers
virginia up territory and agreed that free States
IOw territory in which all the States free ana slave
ase tenants in common shall not the slave States, as
such have a share In this common territory We
are not the people that here In the
days OF the Revolution or there could be no
uincuhy In relation this. The question Is too
insignificant 10 distract, divide and ruin this county
The Tree states number eighteen the slave states
only The free states have maiorities in both
Soses u Congress and these maiortcs to be in
The free states have the surplus population 10
settle and make free states out OF the Territories Tho
slave States have surplus Common sense ought to
teach t people Of the free states That the chances are
wa,e 70 gran, an that tie slave States rcqueei the laws
al climate soil and productions viii settle the question
any Of the theories about which thc polsians Of the
two sections have each other 50 much by the ears
our Northern friends say they fully sens bic Of
rhs but thcy rear % what Jefferson and others
said They say they rely ON political authority
son spoke we had no cotton gin it hid not then been
discovered that slave labor useful IN hot climates
day they worth more and did not sell for
than horses. They were rather consumers than pro
worth from 10 fifteen hundred dollars each Their
labor Is the source Of than hundred millions Of
dollars annually TO the national wealth new and pow
erful interest has sprung up
Judg ing from what the fathers did when they formed a
Union with the slave states under the then condition
and circumstances, have ready answer 10 what
they would do they here, with this Territorial
question, under existing circumstances No fair minded
doubt but they If alive, would say, LET their
southern saveholding brethren have all the territory
which they fairly settle under the Invitations of SOIL
climate and productions, especially If II is understood
that the bona de settlers, when they come TO agree
state constitution, fairly determine the question Of
slavery themselves Ia their way
One Of the beauties and excelences OF the common
law thai II conforms itself TO embSace and shield
and increased interests.
As these interests grow up and increase, the
law extends is circumference and strengthens It's pro-
rectiye power
II has been lkened 10 the bark upon the saplng which
widens and thlckens imperoeptiby as the tree grows.
We have only 10 have the people-the industrious
masseso0k these questions practically and in their
proper bearings, and they will at once have this quarrel
eeed and the great ship Of State again floating at
and in safety.
would have them at pull up their stakes and
pitch their tents around Washington, and command
their representatives, 10 adjust the difficulties which
divide the two great and powerful sections
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