The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-07

were originally Union men. At heart they
may be SO still. But they have aided, for selfish
purposes, in Enchanting giant in their section
of the confederacy, as Seward, Greeley, Chase,
Sumner aud kindred spirits have done here,
easy task to loosen the rock from the sammit
of the mountain, but they cannot stay its down
ward course of destruction. Revolution, like
Saturn, devours its children; the Gironde de-
stroys the mobiles; JacObins eat up the Gironde;
the ultra-Montagne swallows the Jacobins, and
a final reign of terror witnesses bloody
anarchy, which is the logical but always un-
foreseen consequence Of a false principle un-
chained SO it will be in the United States.
unless the people intervene to save the
country. They still hold the power
in their own hands, and pause Of hesitation
would appear to have interviewed, just on the
verge of civil war and national destruction
which augurs favorably for an array of the
conservative nationai sentiment .sgainAt the
politicians, North AID South, who have been
hurrying the Union o. to aim.
We have more than once had occasion TO
show, by careful Analysis OF the late Presi-
dental vote, that, odt of ,s1l0;54S sahrases ia
the country, $4,000 of those for the President
elect were whig and conservative, LIST SEQ
were cast for Douglas, $4,000 for Breckin-
ridge, and 500 for Bell; so that solid mass
of 1851 500 people may be regarded as array
ed on the side of concession and the preserva-
ton Of the integrity Of the nation, while but
a Ia
9th OF November last, to be considered as
siding with the principle that "the Northern
COINCIDENCE is irreconcilably opposed to
slavery, because slavery is wrong" And
while the Northern popular voice has pro-
claimed, by majority of three and half to
one its adherence OF abolitionism, the shrink
ing of majority of the Southern States from
the mad excuses of South Carolina proves that,
if reasonable guarantees for the South are
granted for the future, the attachment Of
npe majority of the inhabitants to the
Union will avert the dangers of the crisis
at which we have arrived. In fact, in
the clear, unmistakcable, demonstrated love of
fve-sixths of the population Of the United
States for their native land rests our only hope
of settlement Of existing difficulties Mel
Their abolition fanatics and prosecutors nor fire.
eating mobocrats and logocrats can quench the
patriotic fire which was kindled during the
seven years that achieved our national indie
pendence. The ashes of expiring fossilism in
Congress cannot smother it, nor can it be extin-
guished by either the aggressions of South
Carolina rebels or the Faneuil Hall haranguers
who have driven them frantic. 1t is the great
po1 popeai which Daniel Webster represented,
and which was indellibly grated into the ma
tional heart by the words Of our first President.
Let the people, therefore, speak. Let State
conventions in the North and the South ap-
proximate the wishes of the different sections,
and amendments to the constitution be adopted
which shall correspond with the exigencies Of
the time. The possibility, nay, probability, that
{" the constitution might be changed by an ex-
plicit and authentic act of the whole people,
was recognized by Washington. He appealed
to it as the future remedy against disunion, on
the basis Of :" the right Of the people to make
and to alter their constitutions of government
Let his voice be listened TO. 1t behooves
the people of the South to give the
key note, and to make known their wants
They will insist upon the recognition Of the
property rights of their citizens everywhere !;
upon the needful sipulations which intolerance
has hitherto denied; upon full liberty to carry
slaves into the common territory, and upon
the recognition of universal federation Of opin-
ion respecting slavery as social institution in
the several States Of the Union. We believe
that the people of the North and West will re-
spond, instantly, to these rational require
ments. There will be no issue Of parties. In
State conventions it will be the people only,
who, "like the voice Of many waters" will
overpOwer and drown beneath deluge of re-
probation the anti Union heresies which infect
the republic. New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey will follow the leading of the
South, as surely as light follows the sun, and a
contagion Of Union healing fire will sparkle
once more, from height to height, from the
banks Of the Connecticut river, at least, to the
Gulf Of Mexico, which will be the final con-
demnation of the encroachments upon the con-
stitution which have imperilled the prosperity
of the confederation for the past few years.