The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-02

this fratrioda quarrel. The action Of the Presi-
dent and Of Congress appears TO be completely
paralyfed. Washington, under the direction of the
veteran General Scott, is about to be placed in a
position OF defence, and the incoming President
viii thus in all probability, be permitted 70 assume the
rens OF Office, cannot say OF power without the risk
OF meeting civil At the very doors OF the Capitol But
the secessons States TO forget that there s great
and obvious distinction between de fa and de ue in
dependence. Georgia and South Carolina at the present
moment beginning 10 show those signs Of mutual
teal rivalry The New York iri1une says The singu
lar In which Georgia has seeded is thought TO be
inspired by ingenious calculation that trade will be
drawn from Charleston to savannah Now, be-
lieve that commercial considerations, the prospect
Of direct free trade with England, and possibly
a revival Of the African slave traffic, have
moved the sympa'hie as they have influenced the
policy Of the Southern States IL Is said that at Charles
ton the local authorities to grant and that
vessel Ealing from that port is TO enjoy all the privi
ieges OF national vessel This question, however, can
not be dentvey settled until foreign nations consent to
recognise the de faco Independence OF South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida. II maritime war be-
tween the North and the South should unfortunately
sue the courts administering law of nations would
laced in position Of great perplexity and danger II is
icult under any circumstances to draw the line where
lawful resistance ends and revolutionary force other
words treason begins Is the government OF this
ry the English Admiralty Court to be called upon de-
de whether the Union l7SS constituted compact from
which any Of the parties al liberty to retire. bold
The violation Of which amounts to the crime Of treason
Will foreign nations recognise blockadee embargoes pr
Watering, and the other usual sanctions Of maritime
warfare when sought to be exercised by provinces who
re engaged in insurrection against State with which
every Power in the world is amy? The people Of the
South may rejoice in having in their pose many OF
the federal ports arscpas but they carelessy
the cost when they forget that New York which has
offered both men and money to preserve the Union can,
single banded by OF its mercantile marine sweep
from the every cotton ship which may venture oeave
harbor II Girl udr is TO cone, wN MOI be fought out
Southern commerce u only Tqeceds Internal ,ceakness con-
calsion and disaa,r. When the American government
refused TO concur in that declaration Of the Treaty of
Paris which says that s'privateerng is and remains
abolished, people little imagined that this barbarous
relic Of tho middle ages might speedily be used by
Union which it's authors believed would endure for all
time. But, whilst these complications likely arise,
Congress wasting It's time with impractcable resolu
tons and impossible compromises. The State Legisla-
lures Of New York and Ohio willing to
resort to coercion, but the announcement of this
policy only initiates and oiends Virginia, which
still besitatcs between separation and union in the
words Of the Governor this menace twill have no other
crease difficulties and embarrass all efforts to adjust
troyersy." The impression in the South evidently s
that Virginia and the other border States taking advan
tage OF the secession movement without directly em
barking in it, eventually extort from the fears Of the
North concessions respecting the Fugitive Slave and Per-
soual Liberty laws which may bring back the rebeous
States 10 the Union Mr. Buchanan must have some hope
OF this kind otherwise he would see the fatal consequences
Of PEI hitting to continue state Of things whics not
only unfair to his successor but shows the utter ncapacy
Of the federal government TO enforce the law and TO punish
treason. In this state of affairs which exci.es the
sympathes and regrets Of the English people, the masses
OF the American public least in the North
view with comparative indifference events which already
have seriously affected their national power and national
prosperity We hear nothing of Indignation meetings;
in fact the recent proposition OF Mr. Buchanan to
BILE national convention met with response. The
acy ty and success Of the South however, may be
rasted with the apathy and indecison Of the North
The Tecdee great nation falling to pieces through its
cun folly ana internal aIousies Is ldn,entdbe enough but
its features heightened and aggravated when the public
ioice speaks tcth sound uncertain that of ced
Eascire and an c6rged and divided federal Legislature
Piquant English View OF American In
stftutiOns.
From the London Telegraph. Feb.
This s not the first time that the conviction has been
forced upon that the portion Of the Transatlantic
tDent heretofore known the United States of North
Everything American is marvellous. We are great
country, sir" is the common remark-between whit
ting and expectoratng-of shrewd Yankees to English
tourists We 60 further than this assertion Not only
the States prodgo in extent but they are
extent, in their progress their civilization, their
press, their politics and their government. In
discussing things American We feel the weak
ness OF words however we may pile up the agony
TO use an American phrase Of verbal ampitcation.
What rivers are 80 great as the American rivers what
prairies, any 'salt cks" any aigators any rattle
,nakesf is there single snag' in the isis soil
fortnight, throw the metals over corduroy roads and
sweep cattle on the line by means of hearth broom at
tached to the locSmo,ve2 What are our tame public
dignation meetings Of the statesY Must Christ
mas show Of prize swine hide its diminished head before
We haven't street in London long as Broadway we
haven't haibor in Great Britain to equal the Bay OF
to the wondrous by dIauic machines OF the New York
brigade. The American trotting horses laugh our
cessrest butchers pone. 70 scor. ". can't make
twenty different names out OF bottle OF sherry quar-
tern OF brandy, ha perth Of milk and egg Now the
Americans can. We dom know the Of q bowie knife
They do. We can't play "poker." They are adopts at
that exciting game. Our transatlantic cousins have
picked locks outsaed our yachts very nearly but
qladi otO and INV
cracks reprinted our literature without paying any
thing for authorship and ''catawampously chawed US
up variety Of other ways, to say nothing OF having
captured General Burgoyne and Lord Csrnwals with all
their horses and all their men, and driven the veteran
egcns OF the Peninsula away from New Orleans by the
fundamentally OF popguns placed between cotton bales
When we have 70 deal with q land OF such almost
excused for surmsDg that II must be difficult IL not i'm
possible for any Engshman who has not resi- led many
years on the other side of the Atlantic to have anything
beyond the hazies ana most indefinite notions Of Amer
can politics. In common with the majority of our con-
tempoares, we have been seriously deplornR the appa
renty imminent disintegratons Of the American Union
We have expressed bitter and unegned regret at the
unfortunate complications between North and South-a
gravtaing towards that abhorred question Of slavery
between the States of the great federation Of the New
World But 30 astounding and nexplcable are all Anne
knfc-from caucusss to canvas back ducks-rom Ameri
can oysters TO American overshoesthat we should not
be At all surprised We were told ncxt March that the
whole Oh the secession movement is joke, and only 80
much "bunkum.n We only hope that the too famous
Barnum Is lot the Deus nachina who has got up this
agitation and that the publicity Of the quarrel between
North and South not preparatory step TO advertise
mens setting forth the proxmate appearance OF reah
mermaid or now wooly headed horse. To sober Eng
tish minds It seems that the State OF South Caro-
lima has already committed sundry overt acts
OF rebellion and high treason against the federal
government; bh Americans, sven d the Northern
side, seem inclined to regard the fezure Of forts
and the firing upon federal vessels ~ rather proof Of
Caroinian "smartress" and Ego aheadsmn than other
wise Whilst the American newspapers all one portion
Of their columns with warlke procamat intelligence
OF the actual commencement OF hostice and the most
sinister representations Of scrvile rebellion and an in
ternecne war in another part may be found light heart
ed aspirations for the future grandoquent euoy On the
grandeur and importance Of the Union and ocuar
ments ON the state Of anAirs "down South Tho Anne
rcan community resident IN Europe are, we informed,
the most determined skcptcs TO the Likelihood Of dis
union, and cheerfuy their friends that thoro D
real danger, and that the "muss in which Unclc sam
now finds himself win all be cleared up "bofors next
falln
recent paragraph the New York rcbssne says that
the state OF Mississippi has declared herself out OF the
Union and proposes TO amend her constitution as 70
enable her 70 borrow money. Tho New York journal
hazards satrica surmee that Mississippi had /" better
begin by paying back the money she borrowed ago.
of he bor