The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-08

Ii is the iniquity of British laws in Ireland
which has driven 80 many Of the population to
America to people it's States and develope its
resources, to the great impoverishment Of the
British empire.
History is ever repeating itself. England
has paid severe penalty for her violation OF
the treaty of Limerick. Ferdinand and the
Spanish Catholics broke faith with the Moors,
on the principle held in that day, that "no faith
is to be kept with heretics" The Mussulmans
surrendered Granada by treaty which
formally insured their religious freedom. But
they were denounced as rebels because they
would not obey the laws in becoming Catho-
lies, and were prosecuted and put to the sword
till their final expulsion, seventy years after the
treaty. In like manner faith was broken with
the Huguenots, who were driven from France
eighty seven years after their charter of free
dom granted by Henry of Navarro. Thus
solemn league and covenant was established
three-quarteIs Of century ago between the
Northern and the Southern States Of North
America, guaranteeing equal rights to
all. In about thirty years after the
prosecuting Puritans, who had previously
driven out the best Of their own citi-
zens to enrich other communities, resolved to
break faith, and commenced crusade against
the Southern States and their institutions
which with some intervals of intermission,
they have waged ever since, in Congress, ia
their State Legislatures, in public meetings,
on the rostrum, on the bench, in the press, in
the pulpit, in the Sunday school, by tracts and
pamphlets, by caricamres, by lying novels
and more lying statistics, by emissaries melting
servile instructions, ending with John Browns
invasion OF Virginia. Having at last gained
possession of the federal power, the army, the
navy and the public purse, they avow their de.
termination to carry out their design of ex-
terminating negro seryitude and making the
black equal to the white man, or Of exterminat-
ing the shareholders and all who sustain them
in the Southern States. Without this institu-
ton il is impossible for either the whites or the
negroes OF the South to exist. The slave owner,
alarmed for his safety, tells the Puritan, "You
take away my lite if you take that by which
/ live, and hence we must part COM
pany." Thus have the intolerant sect cap
ped the climax Of their national crimes by fore
ing out Of the confederacy seven States whose
staples have been the great sources Of our
national wealth, giving the United States the
balance of trade against Europe, and afford
ing employment to the half starved population
of the barren soil and ungenial climate Of New
England. Seven or eight States more will pro-
badly follow the other seven from the same
cause-thus taking away the largest, the most
fertile and by far the most valuable portion of
the soil. Nor is this all. Their grasping
greed and tyranny are likely to drive to the
South the skill the enterprise and the capital
Of the North, aud this d onhly imrnoyerish the
unhappy people left behind, whose misfortune
it is TO have their lot cast among those covenant
breakers and hereditary prosecutors who, from
the time of their disembaI kation on Plymouth
Rock to the present, have been the fruitful
source of strife and discord to the country,
which hitherto has prospered in spite of their
fanatcism, but which has now received at their
hands blow from whose effects it may never
recover.