The national Republican., 1861-01-30
Mr.. NIXON, OF NEW JERSEY.

This gentleman has written most excellent
letter to one of his constituents which we should
be glad to publish entire, il we had the room.
We make the following extracts. f.....I.s
al have given as much attention as possible
to what seems to be the real motives Of the
Southern people, in their present course Of &C.
tiou. They have grounds Of complaint against
some States and ssme people of the North.
Neither you nor l ever attempted to justify per.
sona liberty bills or anti.slavery organic atoms.
have never heard that any good results have
flowed from them but am quite sure that
much harm has. But, nevertheless, the posi-.
ton Of our Southern brethren is utterly mex.
cusabe. know of nothing in all history equal
to their infatuation and folly. Yet they are the
objects rather Of our sympathies than our re.
sentiments. There seems to be three classes
amongst them, governed by different motives:
al. Dsunionsts per sc. These have rea.
soned themselves into the belief that the Union
is a burden and curse. Their discontents
arise more from the past financial policy of the
General Government than from its legislation
in the matter of slavery. They have seized
upon the present troubles to carry out long.
cherished desires to overthrow the Constitution,
and establish Southern Confederacy.
"2. Political demagogues in the South, who
started the movement to retain power, and who
have since encouraged it to regain lost inhu.
ence This class finds much support, am
sorry to say, in certain political organizations
at the North. Having nothing at stake them.
selves, they do not care how much the country
suffers by the arrangement Of trade and the
general prostration of business. They misrep.
resent the objects and aims of the Republican
party, and thus induce the South to make un.
reasonable demands upon the North-not car.
ing to inquire whether they will be conceded
or not, or what will be the effect upon an already
inllamed public temper, by their refusal. If
the Republicans should say, we revere the Con.
stituton, and do not wish to change the handi.
work of our fathers, they hope to make capital
by procaiming to timid people how fanatical,
unyielding, and uncompromsing, the Republi-
cans are. If on the other band, they should
yield under the pressure Of present alarms,
they hope to disntegrate the party by showing
the country that its supporters have no faith in
its principles when the time Of trial arrives.
"3. The largest class are the victims of the
first and second. They are sincere, but misled
by the clamors ofthe demagogue. They honest
ly believe that the Republican party is power.
full anti slavery organization Undermined, in
its victorious progress, not only to exclude the
Institution OF slavery from the Territories, but
to overthrow it in the States. They expect the
energies of the new Administration to be direct
ed to this end, and hence are anxious to secede
form Government which, in its future policy,
threatens them with such calamities.
"The first class, we could not conciliate if
we would the second, we would not if we
could but this third class embraces many
sincere friends Of the Union, whose misap.
prehensions should be removed, and whose
failing hands should be strengthened by all
true hearts, in every part Of the Confederacy.
have been willing from the start to make any
reasonable guarantees to allay the present con.
test und excitement. Any compromises or
concessions, made to increase the slave power
of the Government, are out of the question
but any guarantees necessary and proper for
them to retain and defend all their constitu.
tional rights should be cheerfully, promptly,
magnanimously granted"
pG- In Mr.. Iverson's written communication
to the Senate on Monday, the following pas.
sage, significant of the real purposes of Georgia,
occurs:
"There are those who hope for reconstruc.
ton of the Government. War will prevent
that forever. Blu. he would not say that, if war
be retrained from, the Southern States would
for q reconstruction. Let the North make such
propositions, and we will consider them. The
people of the South love the Union, and when
they see returning sense of justice on the part
of the North and when they are offered guar
antics for equality, they may reconsider their
present action. For himself, Individually, he
would never agree to reconstruction, or to a
formation of new Union. The Rubicon is
passed, and he did not wish it should ever be
repassed. Still, his individual judgment may
be overruled, and his State may choose to enter
a new Union with the States Of the North, but
this would not be until the North has furnished
guarantees for equality, and made provisions for
the protection Of slavery"
DJ~ The NJ T. Tribune of yesterday says:
"The steamer Joseph Whitney, which sailed
from Boston on the 10th instant, with eighty
United States troops for the relief of Fort JEFF.
terson, at Tortugas, has been heard from. She
succeeded in her mission"
From the N. Y. Tribune of January 28.
NORTHERN MANUFACTURES AND
THE CRISIS.
While the Southern editors are amusing them.
selves with fancy sketches of the gloom which
they say gives funereal air to all our work
shops and factories, it will not be out of place
to give few facts concerning the state of af
fairs in one city, that of Pittsburg, Pennsyva
MIA. In two hundred and twelve manufacturing
establishments there operating, there are at