The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-30

Present Federal Crastsg
There il not a rigntminded, sensible indl-
vidual or single conservative journal, in the
city Of New York, which does not desire the
preservation of the Union, a maintenance OF
amicable relations between the North and the
South, and the perpetuation Of republic
whose liberties are the pride and example OF
the world. The overwhelming majority Of the
people of this metropolis, condemn the policy
Of slaveholdipg ultraists who would reopen the
lave trade; annex, by flibustering aggression
Mexico, Cuba, Vene zuela, the Central American
States, and New Granada to tho confederacy;
and establish that Southern empire, which is
tire Utopia of disunionists in South Carolina
Alabama and Louisiana. They equally repre-.
bate the anti slavery propagandism, which has
assumed such monstrous proportions, since
craft and fanaticism inaugurated it, twenty-five
years ago, and loathe the monstrous and uana-
ural alliance between ambition and priestcraft,
which has reduced the country to its present
sad condition. They have urged upon their
representatives in Congress to grant concessions
to the South which should restore the land to
its pristine integrity. A full recognition of the
rights Of citizens everywhere; certain needful
stipulations which republican intolerance has,
hitherto, denied; full liberty to carry slaves into
the common territory; the privilege Of transit
with bondsmen through the free States; and the
universal federation Of opinion respecting
slavery as a social institution that is granted
to religious sects, arc all that the South de-
mand, and they are sustained by the public
opinion of the masses in this city in their just
requirements. If, then, a dissolution of the
Union shall be the result of the present crisis;
if two confederacies shall take the place of the
one that has raised us to the high place we oc-
cupy in the scale Of nations, the blame will
rest upon others but not upon us. Mainly to
the Massachusetts, school Of politics, of which
Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Sumner and Gree
ley are the chiefs, and to which Seward, Will
son, Lincoln and others are affiliated, is attri-
butable every cloud that obscures our great
ness, and every disaster with which we are
threatened.
Twenty years after the constitution was
enacted, certain Northern States insisted upon
putting Southern institutions under the ban of
the Union, by excluding them from the COM
mon federal territory; then the right was AFRO
gated Of confscating the property Of citizens of
the South sojourning, or in transit at the
North. Later, acts were passed to impede the
right of reclamation of fugitives from service,
which the constitution had expressly guaran-
tecd; next, an active system Of propa-
gandism was inaugurated for the purpose
of preaching a crusade against the
social institutions of the Southern States. The
pulpit was desccrated, and the press prosti-
tutcd, to incite to Instruction, murder, and
rapine. Last of all sectional party was
created, on the basis of an "irrepressible con-
fiict," in opposition to those who entert aimed
freedom Of opinion with respect to slavery, and
a President and Vice President have been
elected, with view 10 consummate the acts of
aggression which have been carried so far, and
of Finishing tho battle" which shall fill up the
measure of tribulation to the country. All
this has been done by the Massachusetts school
of politicians, to which the leading republicans
of the day belong, and it is TO their persevering
and steadfast violation Of the constitutional
privileges of the South, that evils are owing
which are rapidly becoming incurable.
Senator Wilson has not hestated to avow his
adhesion to the sentiments of Garrison. Seward
declared that, however he might prevaricate
otherwise, he could play no part and affect no
Disguise" when called on to acknowledge that
he had 'studied in the school of Massachusetts,"
"If have ever" he said, conceived a resolu-
az thA :ctn x~f r-aa
States, learned ii from Massachusetts," And
the future intentions Of himself and his aboli-
ton friends in the Bay State, were most clearly
laid down and defined by him, when he was
requested TO do so. As the disciple Of John
Quincy Adams, who prophesied, in 1915, that
the Union would be dissolved in twenty years,
ne exclaimed. at st. Paul The institutions
which you desire to conserve are almost as
cphemeral as yourselves. l look far of into
the Northwest, and say to the Russian, go on
build up your outposts to the Arctic ocean,
they will yet become the outposts of my own
country, to extend the civilization Of the United
States in the Northwest" And Great Britain,
he apostrophized, respecting st. Rupert's Land
and Canada: 1t is very well you are build
ing excellent States to be hereafter admitted
into the American Union" Wendell Phillips
declared on Thursday last, in Boston, that "the
slave States must be shovelled out Of the con-
federation" His pupil Seward had preceded
him, by several mouths, in finding "seat of
power for North America within radius not
far from the head Of navigation on the Missis-
sippi river" to countcrbalance that which he
had previously discovered for a slaveholding
confederation "in the valley Of Mexico" "Let
South Carolina, let Alabama, lot Louisiana, let
any other State go out" he said, "and, while
they are rushing cut, you will see Canada and
all the Mexican States rushing in TO fill the
vacuum"
II is not to be wondered at, under such cir.
cumstaDces, that our brethren at the South have
seized with avidity upon the idea which has
been so widely preached by Massachusetts, Sec