The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-03
The Drift OF the 0cvOluti0n-No COmpro-
Separation.

The Drift OF the 0evolution-No Compro-
misc Now EYcoPt ts..t - r-aU0aDac
Separation.
The 4th Of February as our readers are
aware, will be day of great events 1t is the
day appointed for the meeting of the border
State Compromise Union Convention at Wash.
ington; and for the assembling of the indepen
dent Southern Confederacy Congress at Mont
gomery, Alabama and it is also the day set
apart for the election Of delegates to State
Convention in Virginia on the direct question
Of secession.
The hopes of the conservative Union men of
the country, who still cherish some hopes of a
Union-saving compromise, are anxiously d.
rected to this border State Convention at Wash
ington. But we think it due to our readers
frankly and freely to admonish them to prepare
for the worst. We have no hope Of any COM
promise from this border State Conference. Il
comes too late to arrest this Southern tide of
revolution. The Conference may result in an
agreement upon some halfway adjustment;
but of what value will ii be at this late hour of
and there it will be laid upon the table for 1t
must be abundantly manifest at length to every
intelligent mind that the republican party, with
the Presid. mt elect at their head, have no CON-
promises to make" and will not listen to any
offers Of compromise until they shall have first
tried, under the direction of President Lincoln,
the Union savng policy of "the enforcement
of the laws"
Concluding thus, that this border State Con
ference will accomplish nothing to save the
Union, our attention is next called to the
Southern Confederacy Congress. The object
of this Congress is the organization Of gene
raj government for the six seeded States, and
such others as may join them. The pro-
gramme, as we understand it, Is already m ip-
ped out A provisional federative government,
on the basis of our federal constitution, will
be at once established, including a President
Vice President and Cabinet and a Congress,
mainly composed Of the representatives of the
seeded States that have Withdrawn from the
two houses at Washington. The government
Of the Southern confederacy thus org ,u,zed
will be proclaimed to the world and ambassa-
doris TO the government at Washington and to
the principal Powers Of Europe will be next
appointed. Next, q defensive army tor the
confederacy will be organized, over which II il
supposed General Jefferson Davis will be
placed as the active Commander in Chief
All this work will be done, rs we are IN
formed, within a few days, the whole pro-
gramme being already arranged. And what
next The Virginia State Convention And
what hope for the Union is there 10 that quar-
teri Let us inquire This State Convention will
assemble under the most powerful inducements
to secession. There will be an organized
Southern confederacy on the one hand, and an
Incorporating republican Congress and an
incoming coercive republican administration, on
the other hand. There will be the conviction
that IL Virginia shall elect TO remain In the
Union she will be cut OF from the seeded
slave States, a policy which will weaken her
sen weaken them, and lay the vital domestic
Institution, in which all the slave States have o
common interest, completely open to the repub-
lican policy Of coercion
Virginia, then, we may safely assume, will