The New York herald., 1861-12-06
The RebeIlion-signs OF an Impending
COLLAPSE.

It would not be surprising if this overtaxed
rebellion in the South were soon to fall
with crash into mass ofruins, like ricketty
old building with its supporting walls under
mined. The immediate consprators who pre-
cipitated this rebellion upon The South are the
vagabond politicians Of that section and they
have contrived to draw the bulk of the great
slaveholding interest into their tolls, under the
delusion that the only safety to their slaves is
Southern confcderacy. They have been
strengthened in this idea by the incessant hue
and cry Of their own newspapers that "thc
usurper Lincoln has entered into this war for
the determination of slavery, and our abolition
organs have been doing all in their power to
push the administration to this extremity
But what is the policy of President Lincoln
as set forth in his Message? His policy is to
the South with its institution of slavery and
not to destroy it. His policy Is simply to
restore the reyolted States to the Union, and
with as little injury to their people and their
domestic institutions as possible. This Message
will get among those people, and, though South
ern confederacy politicians and planters may
have passed beyond the reach of reason, there
are seven hundred thousand non slayeholding
white men in the South who will have word
to say on the subject. This class is doing the
| heavy work of this war for JEFF. Davis. His
| soldiers, three or four to one, are from the non
slaveholding Southern whites. Poorly fed
badly clothed, and paid in worthless shinplas-
ters, these soldiers, from all accounts, are
already sick Of the service Of Davis and his con-
federates. The Southern "poor whites" as they
are called, who are left at home, are not much
better of. Thousands Of them, in fact, are at
the door Of starvation.
Granted, then, that they are strongly attached
to Southern institutions and Southern distinc-
tions between whites and blacks we think it
very probable that these "poor whites" when
they get hold of President Lincoln's Message.
will begin to think that this rebel
lion is miserable deluson, that the
longer it is continued the worse it will
be for them, and that the Union as it was would
be great blessing They will be assisted very
materially to these conclusions by the kipgly
ideas Of Governor Pickens, of South Carolina,
and by the late proceedings of the Virginia
State Convention in favor Of superseding popu-
lar rights and republican institutions in the
South by convenient elective oligarchy.
South Carolina, under this sort of an oigarchy,
has for thirty years past been under the control
Of half dozen men; and we see the conse-
quences.
| South Carolina is the fountain head of this
rebellion Her Legislature is an oligarchy, and
| her people under it have become as submissive
as the people of France to the edic.s of Louis
Napoleon. A few designing politicians have
thus ruled the Palmetto State in getting
reins of her Legislature in their hands; and
after thirty years of this training her people, in
the matter Of this rebellion, may be pronounced
incurable except by subjugation. But she
stands alone. Had her secession movements OF
| last December been snaifed out by Mr. Bucha-
nan, we should have had no rebellion. Every
! other State in revolt was carried into her con-
| spiracy by fraud, terrorism and usurpation of
power, and in many instances as in Virginia,
| North Carolina and Tennessee-against over
whelnng popular majorities. Let us bring
| South Carolina to the terms Of military occu-
patton, and we shall nave taken off the control
| ling head Of this hydra Of secession; and the