The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-06

and the ultimate political ensia ssment OF its peo
pie which the North has to fear.
1t has TO apprehend the loss Of 9 commerce,
the prostraton Of its shipping Interest, aud the
destruction, TO q greater or less extent OF its
manufacturing interest.
The Gulf Of Mexico will become the Mediter-
ranean OF the New World. surrounded by States
more wealthy, more advanced ia civilization and
In all the arts Of government than were those OF
Greece or Rome; and which occupy country
around ia shores more fertile and fruitful than the
land Of the laurel and the olive, while great
river. more vast in its outstrotched tributaries
than the Ntle, viii ceaseiessiy pour its tide OF
commerce into the city Of Its delta.
Already several foreign and American importing
houses are preparing to leave New York and to
establish houses in Southern cities. These move
nents viii soon be felt upon the value OF Northern
trade.
The Southern States, possessing every facility
for manufacturing pursuits such az water power,
mineral deposits Of iron, copper and lead, with
timber and coal capitalists Of the North will be at
tracted there for The purpose of developing them,
and also In the manufacture Of iron into the multi
tudious forms Of tools and machinery, thus con-
trbuting to render them indo pendent OF the North
When this il ccomplished-when the North fnds
her commerce her shipping and manufactures
nously Frustrated; her political machinery COR
Iupt and debauched, and rapidly drifting into the
vortex Of consolidation, with the future loss Of
liberty made apparent-her cities and towns
checked in their growth if not retrograding; then
q cry Of indignant inquiry may be raised, the
people demanding TO know who have been the au-
thors Of this work Of desolationg They will be
told-and future history win repeat the truth
that all this calamity in all its wide ma
terial and political ruin, has been brought
upon tie North BY its own folly. Brought about
by giving license TO traitors in the form Of abo-
lition eXhorters, fanatical preachers editors po-
litica demagogues, selfish and hyT ocritcai spoils
men, both foreign and domestic; by voting for
men who aided in circulating one hundred and
fifty thousand copies Of Helpers Book, In which
the purpose ives ayowcd, in defiance Of al State
rights, to abolish slavery throughout the Southern
States; by elegatiDg to Office who had preached
an irrepressihle conflict with the South and
its exclusion from all the common Territories Of
the States; who made merit OF John Browns
murderoue invasion; set at naught all fugitive
slave laws, and tolerated organized bands of no.
gro thieves known as Underground Railroad
agents, ana SeiHed WITHOUT 0uInOrlLy Oh INV shVcS
in transit through free States; whose clergy do.
noupced its people as barbarians unfit for church
association OF recognition even IS civilized beings
who should be met with Sharpe's rifle in one
hand and halter in the other.
These, these are the men Of the North. Those
the acts, the causes; this the fanatical madness,
these the abstract ideas, "the higher law doc.
trines which have, by swaying tho minds Of the
Northern people and large portions of its foreign
born citizens, severed the greatest, most prospe
rous and frecst government the world has ever
seen, and that in the midst Of its highest aud
greatest success leaving the North to realize its
own overthrow by having suffered its fanatical
propagandsts with their demagogue followers and
place. hunting parasites TO seize upon the govern
ments of the Northern States, and then upon the
Capitol at Washington.
Partisan scribhlers Of the "higher law school"
may dim and pervert the truths Of the passing
hour but the impartial pen Of the future historian
will unfold them to the astonshed gaze Of all sue.
ceeding generations.