The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-10

the Bank Of the Republic. Governor
Morgan chose to cap the climax of absurdity,
folly and political iniquity, by sending back q
Geographic answer. that the subject was too
grave one to reply TO cursorily, and that be
must await more detailed communication
from Governor Brown by mail, before giving it
his attention This was, of course, equivalent
to an endorsement Of the robbery which the
Metropolitan police had committed, with an at
| tempt at evasion and to gain time, similar to
those which have characterized every public
leader Of the Seward school of Massachusetts
politics, since the beginning of the crisis under
which the country is laboring. The Georgia
administration have met 1t with true Southern
promptness. They have retaliated by taking
possession Of five New York vessels with their
cargoes, and this is the latest and most fearful
development, as yet, Of the great " irrepressi-
BILE conflict"
No comparison can be drawn between the
occupation of federal property, and the seizure
OF fortresses, by seeding States, and the act
which has been contaminated in the port Of
Savannah. The latter stands all alone. Forts
Pulaski. Sumter and Pickens; the arsenals in
Charleston, New Orleans and Mississippi the
defeDces of the Belize and Pensacola;
and even the custom houses and sub
treasures in Southern cities, are a part
Of eopartnership fund.- of which each, upon
an unexpected. sudden disruption, snatches on
what is under his hand, to be disposed Of as
referees or umpires may finally adjudcate.
The Withdrawing members of the confedera-
ton owned share in all they had previously
taken. They had plausible reasons for believ-
ing it to be a large one, and not few Of their
statesmen pronounced their claim to be exclu-
sve. No pretext of the kind will, however, be
alleged by Georgia, in behalf of the coRfscation
of the five vessels and their cargoes, by Colonel
Lauton. They are acknowledged to belong to
Brown will find an abundant justification Of the
act he has ordered, in The responsibilities of his
position, and in the necessity of indemnifying
private citizens, who are his constituents,
Tor an unwarrantable robbery committed by
our police, for which they could obtain no
the beginning of a civil war; but let the blame
rest where it belongs, upon the republican Elk
ecutve of the State of New York, whose afro
cious usnrpation of powers that do not belong
to him has led to such sad result.
Thus day by day, is the Union drifting near
er, and with accelerating rapidity, towards
the verge Of a precipice, underneath which
naueht but its mangled ruins will be found,
if q remedy is not speedily applied. And from
what quarter is any good to come! The
bris'ling Of bayonets and the heavy tread Of
artillery, are already pioneering the "red
battle" issue which Mr.. Seward has declared
.hall be the last act Of his s.irrepressible con-
dict" Congress does nothing; the administra-
ton is powerless; one Of its members has or
dered that his subordinates shall 'shoot on the
spot' seeding individuals; Mr.. Lincoln and
his future premier are straining every nerve to
scrape together the sinews Of war; and, under
>uch regime as we see before us, it will re-
| quire bat very short time to sink the country
10 the lowest depths of degradation. Military
preparations are visible In the North, ostensi
bly, to pave the way for the Inauguration of a
new chief magistrate; but whose final results
will be the uprising Of ambitious leaders, and
The submission of the whole of this fair, free
and happy land to the despotism Of the sword
From the action of the State of Georgia, on
| Friday, the conservative sentiment Of the North
should receive a shock, whose vibrations should
be felt from Maine to Oregon. If the strenuous
Efforts of every good citizen are not used to
avert the evils with which we are threatened,
imagination itself can scarcely conceive the
horrors of the catastrophe with which the re-
public is menaced.