The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-26

after having spent 70 O0OOOO in the experiment The
schemes Of English coton associations to produce it in
the tropical wlds Of Africa visionary and only tend
70 the old of Exeter Hall and afford pleas
ing paragraphs abolition organs the United States
The UniOn-The Duty ofth Great Central
states ofNew York and Pennsylvania.
I" The Union is dissolved" This was the
proclamation made in flaming capitals to the
delighted people of Charleston the other day,
on the passage of the ordinance of disunion by
the State Convention Of South Carolina. "The
Union is dissolved" One State has left it,
Other States are preparing to follow her. In
all probability, from present appearances, in
her attitude of separation and national indie
pendence, South Carolina, before the end Of
January. will be supported by Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Georgia. tits probable,
too, that before the 4th of March all the other
slaveholding States will be drawn into an att-
tude of such active sympathy with the seeding
States as to leave to the incoming administra-
ton no choice but war or the alternative of
acquiescence in Southern confederacy.
The experiments proposed in the Crisis Com
mttee of Thirty-three Tor rather of thirty of
the House. and in the Compromise Committee
Of Thirteen of the Senate, have all fallen short
of the mark. 1t is manifest, and has been for
some time, that nothing can be agreed upon
among the clashing sectional elements
Of either of these committees equal
10 the necessities of these revolution
airy times. We have no hope of re-
lief from either branch of Congress. The
coercion wing Of the republican party rules
that camp. The party is to stand its ground.
No concessions are to be made to slavery, be-
anti-slavery Interpretation applied to that
instrument by the Chicago restrictive rcsolu-
tons is to be adhered to. Believing in the
paramount sovereignty Of the federal govern
ment, the republican party admonish the Sc
ccding States that, if they continue contuma-
cous, they will be whipped back into the
Union, and that the President elect as the last
resort, is unchangeably pledged to this policy
of coercion.
This is the Northern side of the picture. for.
since this last Presidential election, no man
will for moment deny that the republican
party represents the power Of the North. Nor
is the Southern side Of the picture in any de-
gree more encouraging in behalf of recon-
Citation. The secession agitation of the South
has passed beyond the control of the polit-
clans Of that section. The reins have fallen
from their hands. Secession has become a
popular Southern epidemic. The masses Of
the people of the South have taken 1t up, and
calculating politicians there and pru-
dent men of property are, perforce,
carried along by the resistlcss cur
rent Even in the hitherto staunch old
conservative Commonwealth of Virginia the in
verratc disunion hating and Union loving old
line wings are pushed to the extremity of "a
the Union.
II would thus appear that an impossible
| chasm has been made between the two sec
tions-that the secession spirit In the South has
| become popular mania, which must run its
course to the actual experiment Of Southern
confederacy, and that in behalf Of Mr.. Lin
coins administration, the only remedy TO be
expected for secession Is that Of the subjuga-
ton Of the seeding States by the army, navy
and militia of the United States. OF course the
only result to be anticipated from this policy Of
subiugation II a ruinous civil war-ruinous to
all sections, classes and interests Of the country
But how is this terrible alternative Of war to be
can avert II through Union of the Southern
States, as in the common support Of common
cause. and that in this Union the material and
moral strength Of the South viii suppress any
disposition to coercion on the part of Mr.. Lin.
coins administration.
There l. much force in this view Of the
subject; but can nothing be done In
the interval to Mr.. Lincoln's Inaugural
ton to pave the way 10 peace and reunion
Upon this point we do not altogether despair
TIE general aspect Of things on every hand is
gloomy and dispiriting. The Acknowledgement
and decentralization OF Mr.. Buchsnan's Cabinet
have rendered him powcrless; the two houses
OF Congress do not afford q shadow OF sectional
harmony; the President elect, we are susstan-
TALLY told, has no compromises to make, his
instructions, "fresh from the people" being
embodied in the Chicago platform. Oar only
alternative, then, is an appeal TO State Sstion
in behalf Of the Union, and without further loss
Of time.
We thus appeal to the Governors respective
" Of New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, to submit 10 the Legislatures Of said
States q recommendation each for an imme-
diate State Convention on this question Of the
Union. The legislatures Of Virginia and
Tennessee, in special session. and in reference
TO a State Convention, will meet ON the eth
January. New York. New Jersey and Penn
sylvanis, then, may provide simultaneously
with Virginia and Tennessee for their State