The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-27


to have been violently opposed TO such step Is GER
tain that nothing would ead in higher degree to revive
the popularity of the present King which has been con-
siderably shaken of late aud things have to
pass when public opinion no longer be dsregardcd
with IMMUNITY. The election OF Wadeck is striking
symptom Of the moral revolution that has been wrought
during the last few weeks and is still progressing Not
long ago he was rejected in Berlin-thc focus Of demo
cracy-by vote Of than two one, for fear of
offending the Prince Regent and his ministers by the
election OF man who figured conspicucusly in the
events Of 1s4S now he has been returned BY large
ority in Beleied the centre OF district Of Westphaa
which has always had the reputation OF conservatism, AM
has certainly never been suspected of leaning to ex
cratic leaders that appears in the House Of Deputies since
the emp do Of ls4a, when universal suffrage set
aside to make way Tor the three class system; but he
will not be the last Every new election will strengthen
the ranks Of the popular party who determined to
vndcate their rights and who feel that the moment has
arrived to vindcate them with successful prescribe
terms to their rulers instead of submitting to those i'm
posed upon them.
We are in the midst OF Siberian winter This morn.
ing Reaumur thermometer showed IL degrees Of frost ks
Of Fahrenheit or q below the freezing pont everything
is showed up the railroads are impossible all the mails
overdue, and without from the outer
world, except by telegraph.
The English Press on the American
Crisis.
From The London Times Jan. IL
We in this country may be content with uncertainty
regad de American affairs when fud how much the
most experienced observers Of the republic differ. The
newspapers and letters which have been brought from
the United States By the last mail show public opinion in
second stage. At first the Northern States both free
ard slaveboldng the great West even the quiet polti
Clans OF the extreme South stunned BY the violence
of tho secession outbreak The Of Mr.. Lincoln
seemed to act on the democracy Of the South like
electric shock ON the day that the telegraph wires
conveyed t. the extreme limits OF the Union the
that he republican party, tho opponents of
slavery IN the Tetrcrs aud the Of tho Per
soaal IAbtr'S laws haa forccS President OF their
cl,o,e on the republic, tac Union was cony ulsed "a
,rner Tor which the North was Who'll v-,ppreuarec A:
uumaniy rs a weaker feeling than self Interest SO The
poiticalenegy OF the free sellers ker tha .a, Of
men whose fortunes, whose life itself dcpeHd the
ut he Ittt ctD
fore the election the general feeling that the demo
cratic and slavehoding party woald bear with eqaani
u acchoticrs few voleit stump oratiuns add some
"scrcau & articles in the Southern news papers. were
all that wa expected ~ the partisans Of Mr. Lincoln,
and may ado ~ the voters for Breckenridge them
selves II Is curious subject TO consider why an cleo
ton viii was all but certain beforehand, which brought
into power man comparatively unknown aud
unp,dged, and which gave Office to a party
never accused Of undue aggression, should have
been followed by sudden and universal movement
Much o the curosi.v excited England by these events
arise from inability c,Dceive why Southern iig
tHn has famed up 81 the occurrences Of event so
complete, foicscen the election ~ opposition Pre-
sideIt Mr. l'c'n wher installed at the White House,
eau d. nothing TO hut the slave States and If he could
they at least aware of theic danger long before
Whey they should remain quiet long burst
violently y. bust u 70 most Of US nexplcabe To act
pcro'tcu abd 10 imhue numbers Of men with the
iden 'st's TIME How, then. could few days change
~ mil, ms Of citizens from patriots into rebels,
ana make men who hsd grown up with the notion that
Aucrna Was "thc greatest country between the poes'
ready sgmatze the Union failure, ard the GO
,ernn er' o Washington as tyranny like that Of the
old country
From many sources and from the speeches and writ.
rigs % men al widely different opinions able TO
fo some tim the state OF the south at the time Of
MIR Iincs Ins ele ,tiop That triing spark should
have produc sud, blaze shows that the mate
rias IN which il 'ell must have been inlammahle to
high sge The south in It's acts exhibits
scosy one conspicuous pssion-that az fear Even its
boil ness parakes o' desperation denoupces and de-
fs the North much as tmorous animal turns at bay
when il secs J." han ~ escape from the hunter In
this cas- Who are at distance percei the
darser oud wonder what the South dread in the
c,ci0 % honest Western politician of good character
na mt derate views. But II IL Ilan that the people Of
.e Southern states have FOR some time been influenced
by teos ich whether yain not, have driven them
il some districts alu.cst u madness 70 understand
this state If things one must call to mind the his
tory OF the ahotonis agitation. II appears that these
yirtuous and well meaning but perhaps jealous ph
auihropSts have IL their southern adversaries harder
than we thought OF perhaps thar they themselves intend
Cd. 10 conversation with Amel leans every must
have remarked with what intensity OF dislike they regard
abiiontt wiiters and propagandss Even the sex and
the literary equation Of Mrs Stowe could her
from theii indignation, though Americans both gal
liant arf I. nd ~ their celebrities This feeling, which
spread ftom tn south among al who had any dealings
with IT, = we ,gioie when We consider how the slave
owners lock the efforts Of the aboltionists The cru
sadc 70 them one not ory against their properties
but agains: their lives and the lives and honor 81 their
sisters and daughters The tcrrors OF despottsn
have Of en- puzzled us IN Europe Every traveller has
his stories 81 Astiis or tho Papi States or even a
more famous Fewer shores. and can tell
how oil the officials of port turned out Of
their beds and all the telegraph wires of the pro.
vince set at work because hsberdasher from oxford
street bad not bis assport in orde The people OF the
slave states subject t. fears far terrible and
real. They live among population whom thoy TO
Keep IN Ignorance o. everything but whom they
hinder from knowing that hey slaves and that there
are white men who think they ought T. DO free. The
negroes are nccd in The most dangerous state Of mind
regards cal outbreaks they know that there such
thing as rebellion, and they do no: know that 1t
hopeless. Planters and oversecrs sufficiently &C.
quantcd with what IL passing with those stolid subtle
characters, who gain influence over their fellow
slaves. they know that, though ninety nine negroes
"a I'll "A he dreth oh sh,a
schemes OF ambition. vengeance, covctousncss lust
at the expense Of the master and hs family Though the
most panic stricken sllvccwner hardly believe a
general instruction or picture TO himself second ST.
Domingo, there b. doub, that FOR long time and
especially since the affair a, Harper Ferry extreme ap
prchcnsion has prevailed and belief met unwarranted
and unjust that the aboiionss "a body are willing to
effect their objects by exciting slave nsurrcction.
Yet IN land o. newspapers and free discussion
scarcely conceive that such ideas should have place In
the minds OF men The explanation ", we think, that
the mass OF the people in the southern states
state Of deporabc iguoransc We accustomed TO
look upon the United states country Of education
and To acknowledge infer ority this point
that II requires some effort to realize the that the
lghtenmcnt which exists IN New England gradually fades
the traveller sluhwards till In south Carolina
and Al bama the class which governs is really hardly
instructed than the Irish pessantry These men
are not tho grea, ssyeowncrs but poor proud lazy
revolver, and hating the negro and his Northern
friends With equal hatred These men, possessed
with the idea that the triumph OF the BLACK rcpubl
cans meant an armed propaganda favor abolition
rose in unrcasoning violence the Of Mr. Tin
lncflCh'r CiitzcnS did approve nut
could not stem, the move The regular politicians
thought IL wiser TO g. with the stream With Thousands
Of maddc0ed white incn each expecting the negroes Of
his Plantation 10 commit arocious before tho
next morning ana crying for separation from the North
ern abettors Of murder and pagc the m ,dcrate party
had no chance The hope Of the tnonsts IT, that this
frenzy Is on the waBo and that the conservative minor
~ will soon have an opportunity Of actt IN the several
states. This may perhaps. he eventually the case but
the attcpaons u The North for the present some
what too sangunr The south has gone far that self
esteem will forbid is return unless il receives
eons very humilating a. IT, opponents.