The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-19

who have entertained any hopes Of a reconcilia-
ton between the North and the South, through
the efforts of the peacemakers Of the present
Congress, will be very apt to agree with US
now that all such hopes must be abandoned.
The House Committee on the Crisis sits from
day to day, and there is no end to the number
Of compromise propositions laid before 1t; but
they are all Of the same shallow and contracted
pattern. They all propose the same superficial
applications Of oil and honey to remove dis
ease which il difused through the blood,
nerves and bones of the suffering patient. 1t
il abundantly manifest that this Union saving
committee is incompetent to save the Union;
that it has not man among its members equal
to the necessities Of the occasion, and that it is
formed Of such irrec0ncilable elements as to
render impossible any agreement among them
of any practical value. The retirement of
three or four Southern members from the com
mittce has left it under the control Of a repub-
lean majority, and as that majority, for the
sake Of the party, will be guided by the Chi
cage platform VIC Can at once appreciate the
folly Of any further continuance of the useless
labors OF this special Congressional debating
society.
With here and there feeble exception, the
expressions Of opinion from our republican
leaders and organs justify the acceptance Of the
late speech of Senator Wade as faithful expo
stion Of the views and purposes Of his party.
Aud what says Mr.. Senator Wade! He says
that he has no compromises to makc-tbat the
day Of compromises is past-that the republican
party has beaten it, adyersaries +" on the plain
est and most raipable issue ever presented to
the American people, and one they understood
the best" and that !" il would be humiliating
and dishonorable to us if we listened to CON-
promise By which We should lay aside the YER
dict Of the people" He says thai the republi
can party, on this issue of slavery, stand in
the place formerly occupied by the most re-
vered statesmen of this nation Washington,
jefferson, Monroe and others. ard that in this
position his party stand pledged to prevent the
institution of slavery from invading another
inch Of free soil territory Of This government"
While these fallaces are entertained by the
managing leaders Of Ibis republican party it
is folly to even dream Of compromises. We
say falscios, for it i fallacy to hold that the
election Of Mr.. Lincoln involves the verdict Of
platform. The popular vote Of the Union
presents a majority Of a million against Mr..
Iircc,n. ala because he was the representa-
tive q the republican doctrines Of the restric-
hon and suppression Of Southern slavery. Nor
is il true that in their hostility 10 slavery the
republican party occupy the same ground as
the fathers Of the constitution. When the
constitution was established, all the States, il
sc are not mistaken, with one exception. were
-layeholding States. This will account for the
breyiy of the constitutional provision for the
return Of fugitive slaves. New York, for ex-.
ample, was then slave State, and hence there
was no squeamishness and no fanaticism among
slave 20 his master. or In reference 10 the transit
over the State OF Southern citizen with his
slave property. We sce, then, that between the
good faith OF the fathers of the Union on this
subject Of slavery and our Northern anti
slavery fanaticism Of the present day, a. re-
presented by the republican party, there is a
very broad line OF distinction.
republican views and assumptions Of Mr.. Wade.
ihey are entertained by his party, and they
stand in the way of any compromise that can
save or restore The Union Under this condi-
ton Of things, Congressional Union saving CON-
mittccs are mockerics. Presidential messages
arc waste paper, AMI Northern Union meetings
Of the parties and factions opposed 10 the re-
IL; A..
ha, arisen from the successful sectional struggle
1T the republican party for the control Of the
executive government 1T Washington. They
have elected President, who on the 9Th Of
March, viii take The place Of Mr. Buchanan.
The South has taken the alarm. Some OF the
cotton States win have seeded from the Union
in anticipation of republican regime. And
wherefore Because the people Of thosc States
believe that with The Inauguration of Mr.. Lin
coin win commence the practical work Of the
suppression Of the vital institution Of southern
slavery
Mr.. Wade answers. ~ Mr.. Seward has sn>
-wcred ihousand times before. that the
republican party contemplate no aggrcssions
upon the rights of the slarcholding States,
and will permit none. But, then, Mr. Seward
has predicted the extinction Of slavery
in the United States in q quiet, constitutional
way. and has said that Lincolns election Is
he downfall Of slrvcry." Buthow 20, in con-
stitutional way BY the exclusion Of tlayery
from The 1crriorics- by the addition, witlds
two Or three years, Of half dozen new Statesto
Tie side Of the anti-slavery North--by the reor-
ganizaton Of the supreme Court ION the side
Of Freedom" and by the enforcement, under
federal authority, of the freedom Of speech
and OF the pres in al the States. Under these
arrangements il may BE- reasonably supposed
that our Northern political, moral and religious
crusade~ against slavery would soon make even
no cotton States" too ho, to hold Il. We say
.hi,,sr Nnrthrrn ,.inlnIin nf lil Etiniiixl.