The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-05


the right Of peaceabe secession Their leaders have
beon plotting these twenty the only refuge
from the inolerabe pressure OF the preponderant ma
Why not then consent what they necessarily de-
MANDY We know In hearts that they justified in
their fears Of Northern sentiment that they stay
In the Union they in Union whose legitimate aud
constitutional action henceforth will be and must be
damaging 70 slave property perpstualy favorable
emancipation Why not consent then to pacific and ami
bold them to the Union by tho exercise OF perpetual
forceS Are prepared to enter into state OF civil
defence Of constitution which is hateful 70 fifteen
| States OF the confederacys
Isay no. when it is proved that fifteen States Of this
confedeacy prefer slavery TO tue and Union
in thinking that they need new securities for their do
NEST institution and are not willing that the polili-
Of slavery should govern and shape tho public poll
cy Of the nation when IT is proved that new com
they ought to be permitted 60 Of il in peace They
should be bribod TO stay by concessions on paper
duced by political rickory into new Complications des
tined these difficulties Anything more than
the constitution it Is cannot honestly be granted
supported could not be recreated to DO done
over shape favorable as it now is TO the
slave power But the people, in their for its
famc,s respect for age, be made, and
will found faithful 70 its letter aud its spirit Any
thing beyond it granted the slave power, fear would
be fraud Southern oreduty, because political mis-
representation Of the actual aud growing sentiment Of
Standing on the constitution unchanged and believe
Interchangeable, ready TO fuln all its obligations painful
they for the sake Of union and peace unwilling TO
local institution which we hold to be curse to its own
people, scandal to civilization and eyesore TO Chris
to concede nothing To the threats or
the desios Of slavehodersI declare unhcsatingy In
favor of allowing the slave States to seccde they de-
So l admit no right OF secession l acknowledge
theory of State sovcrogntes coequal with superior
question OF expedency Of the least OF two evs-separa
ton, long and bloody civil 1t Is the numbers,
the extent the power of the fifteen slave States-
IL united among themselves-which makes it SO
frightful an alternative to enter upon civil war
or indefinite extent aud inevitable ana unspeakabe nor.
peaceaby to retire consider separation the least Of
the three evils before First-War with the united
slave powernvolvng, as believe It would ruin to the
South-frghfu Instructions terrible slaughter OF thu
people and desolaon Of their property with universal
emancipation its only blessing Second-Further con-
to the principle of slavery which hold to DO
immoral faa, to national honor and character ruin
prospects a government, and to duties
custodians OF modern and Christian civilization this
continent Third-Peaceabe separation, serious blow
our nna Gul runon a 9na
| sis more favorable to liberty and right.
But now returns the question Of fact Are the fifteen
slave States united and deliberately in favor Of SECESSION
II slavery cannot receive new guarantees are theyhe
obligations Of the constitution being pune iously full
fled-dcsrous Of going out Of the UnionS have very
serious doubts Of this From the the information
can obtain most diligently sought, the present mon.
srous unannity in the Gulf States is artificial and
temporarythe results Of misrepresentation, ignorance
| and conspiracy among few interested and ambitious
recent campaign V disseminated iaisehoods which
have, produced CONFEDERATION, popular feeling
| utterly uncontrollabe by those VINO kinded ~ sucn
as that the President elecs would, on the
4th Of March, proclaim universal emancipation hat the
| Vice President elect was q mulatto-(l aughtcr)-and
that the party the election intended to vo
late the constitutional rights Of the slave States reign
Of terror evidently prevails IN south CAROLINA where
repeated in forced oans in the prescription Of suspected
citizens and tho threatened conscation Of property to
nothing Of reasonable seizure OF the federal structures
and functions. If, surmised, few docrnnares Of
the Calhoun school are sezpg the occasion Of sectional
defeat In political canvass 10 further certain long
cherished schemes Of local independence; II. playing
upon the ignorance and passions OF the popuace (the
are tho mo and reckless material
in the south), they are really multiplying the nc
tua wishes and opinions of the larger Shareholders
thought to be conservative Of necessity, property al
ways liz, whether In slaves moneythen this alleged
and seeming unanmity, the Gulf States, is APP
pearancc and spectre that will shortly be laid l sup
pose IL TO be great mistake to imagine the present
c one between slav ehoders considered as representa-
tivcs of property, and Northern sentiment doubt not
the 400 900 Shareholders Of the South are really the sin
lovers OF the Union in that whole country, and
that II is the ambition and jealousy Of those who for nifty
years have been using the peculiar institution en-
gnc of their political schemes gradually making of the
savcholdg millions of tho South and ignorant in
famed and misguided constituency who represented
in Congress by men like Hammond aud keitt, who
at the bottom Of this dreadful conspiracy. II,
moreover, ms is thought by the wise, the Dor
der slave States favorng tho Gulf States only for the
/ osIn OF the North 10 and more favorable
terms for slavery, then unnchng rmness IN the North
whether have deal with politicians factions, sche
and cousprators with great and united people,
convinced Of the ncxpcdcncy of union with us To this
great aud united pcope-when their wishes for separa
ton in proper and unmisakabc form made known
nothing to be said but, Be sol and be the conse
quences your mistaken and deuded heads" But to
the politicians factions schemer consprators midi
vidna states attempting secession, little cotcres Of
Stats proposing or enacting it, see no dgnlcd safe,
and Christian method of dealing with them
but with all the authority and force OF the federal go
vcrnrnent Great revolutions must In modern times be
made peaceful revolutions; little revolutions be in
stany quenched II this Union TO bel will say
dissolyed-hut divided, II must be done by mutual con
"A rmu lawn an
OF the will OF the people both SIDES made known in
legal ways To break II up IN caprice wfulness and
tutional ways never ought TO he submit
ted to; for there is something than Unien and
| nationality involved In such procecdings-uamcly,
the very existence of civil societythc sancty of 60
| vcrnment itself Those who do not much value tho
Union at the North value law and order; and they
are determined to maintain II. II must not be sup
. posed that II is the enemies OF slavery extension
torance Of federal authority their conseiences Many
who perfectly ready TO let the South 20 whero che
pleases, when she makes her wishes known in proper
and orderly manner will consent, cost what will
that the federal authority Of the nation shall be rampled
upon BY any all the slave States while the compact
slaver,-s war between one party and another
party, or one sectlon and another section, which
Will be precip,ate the federal and constitutional au.
thorities Of the rnea state. gsveIy
dcspscd; bot var q aefcnor cf civilization against
anarthy-a va - - ~~1 order uprn prstcai and bar
barous astanr ,4fle peace and sccurity-wh,ch
could not 80 = at ehcay and decisive Al
ratod party nnes ana unsed IN new party OF order aud
eiviza,lon the c,mplcte Nerth How must be the
symrsth. secretly feit ~ al property holders aud pa
fiot In the south ~h such cous-rvators cf all tbs pre-
cious .aercsts u "a, izstoas This party grow
It. issue must for tho time superccde every other Are
| We nationy Have We government II tho ccnstitu
ton 70 be respected by us subcctss These qucs
lions 10 M, Judgment, which will he pos,vel, and iinai
~ settled, IL Necessary with any cost cf blood aud
sure Settled anirmatvcly-before tho secondary ques.
lions of the Union sepaiatio OF the States viii admit
| Of dchste and adjustment.
let make false issue with our exaspcratcd and
unhappy fellow citizens Of the slave states about the
Union We are not going TO trust 10 force fifteen
states TO live under government they hate. But we
viii 60 TO war 10 order civilization, with any
faction conspiracy rabbe, poit cal party th sri
10 illegal and reasonable ways 10 break up the govern
mint. We owe II 10 the Intelligence aud worth of the
South 10 believe that they senced tyrannized
by mob that does not understand nor value thei-
interests and wishes. The sobricy sense ~ that
region has right to be heard They entitled TO tue
prot ton Of the general government and to the evidence
that theN live under consiitniinn and Execuiixe