The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-26

kline d recamseh This, am told is but al instance Of
the manner in which faithful slaves are generously re-
warded by tber ndugent masters Can your crowded
and factories exhibit instances OF eqaa gene
rosty and are their ndsfatigabe abofers ever so TO
war0ed?
There occurred sad street fight on Friday, between
two residents. One gave blow with stick the otner
opponent The wounded man carried TO his home ana
expired next day.
The volunteer military corps Of this city are numerous
for It's size, and are exceedingly well drilled.
AFFAIRS IN VIRGINIA.
OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE.
Rcuxosp, Va March o. 1851.
Fneytncss Of tie Adninisyaion-As Objects Of ne Indu-
ourol-u Territorial Policy Based Upon q Message Of
Andrea Jaeksow-Tae Requirements Of the North and
SouA-7ne IGrNs and Taen influence Destruction Of
the Political Equilarium-Ay. Se0ard and His Duties
IN ne Present Cisis, dc.
Your Warrington correspondents evidently troubled
by the mystery observed the departments Of the go
vernment. They may console Themselves. Their per-
pexy does not arise from their lack Of capacity to dis
cover any thing which has been resolved upon rey
at fault only because the administration has NO fixed pur
pore It's members ssher Chan Mr. Sewari see no clear
path before them They waiting events, trusting
that the Confederate States may commit some error
which win prove fatal 10 their seeming union and
strength This s the whole meaning Of their policy, and
the classical among them esteem it Fabian.
When Mr.. Lincoln was preparing the first draft OF his
inaugural message he looked upon the proceedings Of the
Southern States as many local insurrec.
TONS Two modes Of suppressing these out
breaks suggested themselves 70 his under
standing The first TO call 70 his
aid the Union Of the border and Gulf States and 70
organize. by their aid, party which should overcome,
by sheer uAnal strength their discontinued fellow
citizens" The second TO concern himself with no
alliance beyond his own party, and to rely upon the
physical and moral power which he possessed as execu
OF the nation suppress these yevots against leg
innate authority.
He could not pursue the line Of policy first Indicated to
do tectualy he would been obliged To give pre-
ponderancc his Cabinet 10 men who had acted
with his party He wonld Also have been constrained to
take his officers from class Of in the North and
South who moderate IN their opinions, If they
could be called republican converts Against the bare
intinaiicn Of such a policy his domestic friends,
Themselves anxious for place, first rebeiled; and
they readily created a pressure OF opinion,
beneath which he gave way. But while he reinquished
Of cary good nature, he resolved in his mind
that ne would enter cautiously upon the dangerous
path which lay open to his choice.
Taking into his cOunEels advisers who possessed the
confidence Of the republican patty, he set himself
work 70 revise his inaugural 30 that he might accom-
psh several ends. First, that he should in the
ceaTes his festy TO the principles of the party
which hal elected him. second, that he should imply
in language satisfactory to his party, his purpose 70
all the powers Conhded 10 him by the constitution
and the laws thirdly that he should gain time by
ing upon his party not then able TO act because ad
by law all measures Of aggression or coercion fourhy,
that he should restore 10 vitality the territorial policy of
bis party which had been seriously damaged by the de-
cisou OF the Supreme Court.
This last otect-whch was most dificnh for him TO
accomplish in satisfactory wayne thought he could
attain by adopting the reasonngs OF the message by
Senate, Tuesday.
1882 IN The veto Of the act modify and continuing the
charter OF the Bank Of the United States It Delighted
him to think that DO could plead Jackson authority For
his theory that che opinion OF the supreme Court In the
bred Scott case ought not to control the and the
Executive in their legislative capacities 1t covered
the Whole ground Of any law proposed upon the subject
Therefore We may conceive the innocent
pc-ated bis message the words almost which
had been used by the potent Tennesseean Mr.. Lnco
came 10 Washington believing that this portion Of his
wheels Of his chariot. He thought, have doubt,
that the whole fabric OF his carefully constructed
sage would endure the raging Of all the party storms that
According the lights which his experience and edo
cation afforded him, Mr. Lincoln judged well Bat he
pretended the case Mr. Seward seems to have hestsd
TO tell them the whole truth Accustomed only 20 the
cratic organization existed they accounted the disturb
At the South az its work. They believed hat they
pous - s x an 70 mat unde
exist in the Southern States They erred in both ways
The democratic party had ceased TO exist, and all APP
peas 70 its ancient maxms were made In vain The love
OF the Union no longer controlled the south.
The success Of the democratic party in the last Pres
tal contest would only have delayed for season the
events which are now throngng upon us.
whether climatic nfluences-which, OF themselves
work radical changes In the character Of naonswould
have alone in time have made our continue union
possible cannot ray But may accord with certain
~ such Influences 10 differences interest arising from
efent prsducts industry ana differing sorts Of labor
ing free labor for the cultivation OF their soil and States
requiring slave labor Tor the purpose possible aud
may well tend TO the prosperity OF both casses Of States
but a Union which in any way extends the legsatiy e
power Of the class the system labor
n another class 10, We fear from henceforth impossible
The schem which now exists has compelled to re-
cogrse the ncongrues of old relations ard the nher-
ent nAppcabty Of any general system for their
element.
The cotton States require slave labor and free trade for
full developement Of their resources The Northern
states demand for the same object free labor and pro
Northern States s political power To the cotton States
free trade brings wealth. 10 the Northern States poverty
OF hcNorthern states diinahes the recources
and markets Of the Southern States Between interests
diverse there middle ground which both interests
can occupy 70 their several advantage Tho exhaustive
arguments and ingenuity Of Statesmen for the psst thirty
six years have enabled them TO arrive only at concu
sons which justify them, in their view In maintaining
tina. the general interests of the country advanced by
The adoption Of one line OF policy or the other They
lave not Affected TO- maintain, with any show Of
could pc equally advanced by the application Of one
theory ~ che other 70 both sections.
SO long a certain equipoise maintained AZ Wash.
ingsonso long as the shtings Of political opinion threw
power alternately into the Northern and southern scale
both sections angry but Interested submitted TO the
otrarept OF the ballot box But when, OF late years
the weight OF political power inclined, and finally
clincd, 70 the Northern scaewhen the grain growing
states Of the Wet, influenced by phosophic more
ty industrial views, Of the negro question: added their
weight 70 the sum Of Northern influence the deed
along the very limo which every economist might
have marked out as being the true natural boundary