The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-09
THE AMERICAN CRISIS.


COntrasted.
from the London News, Jan "a
We ehould ourselves have thought of drawing out
programme OF the and issue uf the anticipated
civil IN ito United States but when leading
temporary undertakes TO prophecy, and builds up
scheme assumptions directly opposed to established
facts is necessary TO chow what The elements Of tho
are and what relation they bear to the FUTURE IN
the event Of civil war.
Following the course Of the specuIations which
temporary has INDUCED IN have first the consdcra~
ton Of The slave States have the larger a~a
may specify that the difference consists OF Z38 600
square miles But il the South included in her territory
the desert Of Sahara, would look very big the map
without being element OF greatness In the existing ter
roy Of the South there large tracts Of pine barrens
sends and swamps, never yet turned to and there
annually increasing Of lapsed land whore ths
forest epcroaches, wild beasts return after
disappearance Of century As for the territory beyond
the existing boundaries which assumed to be watt
ing for the South to il, bears comparis -
the new soil actually IL the hands Of the federal govern
mpracticabe desert SO parched az 70 forbid even the
construction OF railway. New Mexico Is enclosed be-
tween California and Kansas which rcpudise slave instt
buttons; and New Mexico cannot be taken even as
sailed without federal force, which will certainly never
be lent to seeding States As for the division Of Texas
into several States there than Offset TO that In
the broad which lies between Kansas and Canada
ana me MISSISSIPPI ana oregon Moreoser Lexas U.s., 30
that the field Of conflict between free ana slave
labor. Germans and free negroes grow better cotton
there than planters the reign OF
under whch the people Of Texas have been living for
above year renders 1t absurd TO talk Of great place
and so wretched. But tho North will have no need 70
gve up to the South all the south and 'uthwestern
territory here contemplated California with the North,
aud will for the sake Of her gold and trade
There strong hatred of slavery all Mexican soil;
and there force in the slave states disposabe for
foreign no curb were imposed by the North.
Next u the mption Involved Ia the pro
cecDg that the frontier slave States viii certainly join
tho South The plain facts these-Mssouri Is d.
Weed the slavery question and last year returned
tree soil representative Congress Enclosed three
sides by anti slavery states Missouri has everything -
GAR hy
shown themselves well aware OF the fact. They
have indeed always felt that the imposition Of slave in
stutions upon them, when circumstance OF climate
soil could be made excuse for it, injury
Kentucky is nearly in the same position When KerucAy
became State thit scr years the inh0itdnfs desir6
70 ec'ue ',acery, TIT e orsrtcre BY their great aass
nor Mr. Clay ,cho bodSed TO the md Of his life that Ne
hnoarng hot she c0ld resort % free labor whenever sM
ohoe Ever since the great rise Of Ohio, the opposite
bank Of the river Kentucky has been jealous q se adj
yanagts of free labor and for there has beea
avowed onttsavery sec,on Of society there support
ing local abolition newspaper There remain Virginia,
Eeawsre and Maryland. The two little states complain
bitterly of their position, unable TO keep their
slaves and made answtrable for the passage Of other poo
Cd lands have been passing into hands Of New York
capitalists who rcti the soil and grow food upon 10,
and from yea, TO year the o. German and
Free negro labor also far exceeds slave labor
that the interest OF these small frontier States In South
institutions has nearly died out As FOR Virginia.
hear nothing from contemporary about the will
pleasure Of the inhabitants OF that western portion
selves Of tho burtrn Of slavery. on the western side q
the mountains the Inhabitants 70 a disconnected
with slavery and so anxious to get rid ct that th0y
have. from time TO time, brought forward sshemes o.
emancipation These schemes have been less w'sc than
well intended but thoy show that IL would be
rssh 10 assume that, In case Of being compelled
10 choose, they would go with the South. Evcu
IN Eastern Frginia. between the mountains and
the sea, there are extensive Judgements OF free
labor, while slavery IL shrinking rapidly into a mere
traffic negroes. That trsfc IL itself nearly DESTROYED
by the present disturbance; and there good many
citizens sensible enough TO that their territory no
site for slave market, from the day when only river
viii separate from for ign country Taking this line
frontier States IN the mass they have repeatedly de-
cha that they could not undertake TO he the Gordon o
he Sout-thc ailors OF her negro y pnation Nothing
oss CT such position Jnier these circumstances IL IL
piece Of audacty 70 that the border slave
states VIII certainly throw Ia their lot with the South.
To speak OF the free states rump In any case,
abubdnntly absurd, as any one may by looking at
the map from Maine to Oregon but the Witness OF tho
notion can be understood only the consideration OF
Few facts which make us wish bad The now cepsus
However, can satisfy ourselves without IT, though
unable 10 do full justice TO The free States
We are hidden TO look at tho map and see the compare
tive extent OF coast The inhabitants may perhaps be
OF opinion that the coasts OF the great inland seas mag be-
At least rs valuable To them those OF the Cuff and Il
so The only question o tho comparative value OF the
Esteth hpe q coast The free states have noble ram
mft OF lock- with ndestruoblc harbors thokset along
tber shores from the Ray of Fundy TO rhihdephia
whereas me Southern peoples have always regarded their
coae ne as their fatal and nsurmountsble weikness.
" long Hat line OF sand incapable OF defence and UNI
favorable 70 the formation OF hatbors. Now Orleans, Mo-
Die, savannah, Charleston aad Norfolk thor ports
alu we hetd spend no more timo In comparing them
with those of the North than 10 say That IN 1889 the
tonnage 81 Massachusetts alone exceeded that OF AL
Tue slave s1aigs together The South j. weak on 10