The national Republican., 1861-02-12
A GREAT MEASURE OF PACIFICA.
....' TION.

A GREAT MEASURE OF PACIFICA.
TION.
The Republican members Of Congress, who
have been seeking the opportunity to make, in
some authentic and solemn manner, such q
declaration Of their purposes as would remove
Misrepresentation at the South, and thereby re-
store harmony, at length got the desired oppor.
tunity yesterday in the House, in the form Of a
direct vote upon resolution, declaring that
the free States have no right to intefere in any
manner with slavery in the States, and that the
majority Of their people entertain no purpose,
or desire, so to interfere.
The details Of the action upon. this resolu.
ton, will be found in our Congressional sy-
nopsis.
Ecery Republican rote ,cas hroTn in the af
.frmatire. q.
The men in the interest of secession, incu.
ding few at the North, generally declined to
vote. They said that they would not vote
against q resolution which declared the correct
proposition, that the free States had no right
to interfere with slavery as an institution, but
that they would not vote for resolution, which
untruly affirmed that the people of the free
States do not intend to interfere with slavery
as State institution.
And this brings us directly to the real nature
Of the present popular excitement at the South,
so far as it arises at all from the subject of sla-
very. Large numbers of the people Of the
South have been deceived, by the false state
ments of the secession leaders, into the belief
that the Republican party intend to abolish
slavery everywhere, and to bring about every
where, what is called negro equality. Nearly
all the Southern members of the House, who
refused to vote yesterday, have circulated that
sort of stuff among their constituents, who are
never permitted to see either the Chicago plat.
form, or any other authentic exposition Of what
Republicanism really is. The vote in the
House, yesterday, by exposing their falsehood
to the country they felt to be deathblow to
their schemes of revolution, and they writhed
pierced with the spear Of victorious truth.
This vote Of the House will consolidate and
clinch the Union victories, recently achieved
in Virginia and Tennessee.
HUMBUGGING THE BORDER STATES.
In his speech in the Alabama Convention,
upon resolutions looking to Southern Confed-
eracy with continued prohibition of the for.
eign slave trade, Mr.. Yancey said:
"One great and prime obstacle to the earlier
movement of the border States in favor of Sc.
cession has been q wide spread belief that the
Gulf States designed, in seeding, to establish
q Government differing essentially from the
Federal Constitution, and especially that the
African slave trade would be reopened. have
received many letters from distinguished gen.
tlemen in various parts of Kentucky, Virginia,
North Carolina, and Tennessee, upon that very
point, informing me that were it not for the
fear of the new Confederacy reopening the
African slave trade, there would be a much
stronger and more general movement in those
States in favor Of dissolution.
"Those resolutions quiet such fears. The
action upon them by the Southern Congress,
instead Of being an obstacle in the way of other
States joining the Southern Confederacy, will
be hailed by them with delight will be consid.
cred by them as wise, and will command their
respect and admiration"
This policy of humbugging the border States,
recommended by Mr.. Ysncey in the Alabama
Convention, has been carried out in the Con.
bttuuOu VI Tic SOhlcucIhtc otulco vi NOEtu
America" just adopted at Montgomery.
With the example constantly before tho eyes
of the world, of the extensive slave trade car.
ried on in Cuba, not only against Spanish law,
but against the faith of treaties for entering
into which Spain has received large sums Of
money, it is only the unrehecting who will be-
leve that the African slave trade is to be put
down by mere paper laws. Such laws never
prevented q single cargo of slaves from being
landed in Cuba. Whatever has been done in
the way of prevention, has been done by Brit.
ish and American cruisers.
Indeed, without reference to the present pol
icy of hoodwinking the border States, it is
hardly likely that the Southern Confederacy
would ever put an endorsement of the slave
trade upon its statute book. That would be
unnecessary for the accomplishment of their
objects, while it would seriously offend the sen,
timents of the civilized world.
Even in the late condition of public opinion
in the Gulf States, it has been found impossi.
BILE to induce their courts and iures to enforce
the laws of the United States upon this subject.
With the necessary inflammation of extreme
views in favor Of slavery, to be expected from
the establishment of new Confederacy special
ly upon the basis of slavery, nobody will be
leve that any laws of its own, made merely
with the view of conciating Virginia, will be
treated with any respect whatever
There are plenty of capitalists, plenty o.
ships, and plenty of men, who will be ready tc
bring slaves from Africa into the new cotton
empire, with its enormous line of seacoast
There will be no United States cruisers TO in