The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-29
The War Policy OF the Northern and
Southern Governments - Impending
Ruin the Country.

SOutherh Governments - Impending
Ruin 10 the Country.
The latest intelligence from Washington and
Montgomery, is gloomy and dispiriting The
secession government of the Gulf States, and
the magnates of abolitionism in the Nerth,
seem equally bent on civil war, as the only
means Of maintaining their supremacy. Both
live in fear of an irresistible uprising of the
people, which shall sweep away every vestige
Of old parties and platforms, and prove the
inextinguishable attachment of an overwhelm-
ing majority in all of the thirtyfou States, for
the federal Union. The demagogues who WELD
authority in the Confederate States, and at the
national capital, seek, therefore, to widen the
breach, and effect bloody collision, so that
reconciliation between the two sections may
become impossible. Advices were contained,
yesterday, in one of the most confidential city
organs of the Lincoln administration, that, in
accordance with orders sent by q. special mos
senger, Fort Pickens had probably, ere this,
been reinforced with four hundred United
States troops. A collision with the forces of
General Bragg was anticipated, and the South
is warned that it must "take the consequences"
of any attempt at resistance. According to
our dispatches from Charleston, President JEFF
ferson Davis had made acquisitions upon the
various States for several thousand troops;
Notifications on the coast were being vigorously
pushed forward; and hostilities were confident
ly expected. General Houston has, also, been
authorized, from Washington, to concentrate
the fifteen hundred or two thousand soldiers
scattered through Texas, in order, as q
republican contemporary boasts, "to ad
minister q useful lesson to the traitors"
end snake q stand against the con-
spirators." Add to these facts, the recall of
our naval forces from the Mediterranean, the
Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico; the logged re-
fusal of the Lincoln government to give sin
gle authoritative peaceful utterance; and
thousand other causes of distrust; and it Is
clear that, If the country has not already been
plunged into the horrors of an internecine
strife it has not been owing to want of vi
cious and depraved policy, on the part Of the
respective Northern and Southern republics,
but to lack of power and depleted treasures.
The extremists of both the North and the
South have so far gained their objects, that
both factions are in the possession of authority;
but, to retain it, the will Of five sixths Of the
people, in both sections, must be resisted. A
critical observation Of public feeling in all Of
the States-those that have withdrawn from, as
well as those that remain in the Union-must
convince every candid mind, that three fourths
Of the people are In favor Of reconstruction
Of the confederacy upon liberal basis. The
vast majority of citizens throughout the land,
are law abiding and peace loving. They view
with dismay the approaches ola political hur-
ricane, which, if abolitionist and secession
counsels are much longer permitted to rage,
must shake the fabric of the liberties, purchased
at such cost by their forefathers, to its foun-
dations. The moneyed, hard working elements,
that constitute the worth, intelligence, integri-
iy, and patriotism, of both the slaveholding aud
non-slaveholding States, cherish the Union, and
aesire such amendments to the constitution, as
may secure a restoration Of its pristine great
ness. The planters of the South, including
those in the cotton districts Of Georgia. Flori-
do, Mississippi, Louisiana aud Alabama, who
are interested in fostering African slavery, a.
well as the Union strength Of the border Sta ses;
the manufacturers, merchants, fnsnciers, farm
ers, mechanics, and honest laborers OF the
North, are, as classes. filed with discomfort ut
the perils which partisan ultraists have con-
jured over the land, and are anxiously seeking
an opportunity TO remedy the evil They are
the bees in the national hive. Those who are
e. he ~
ing it, and wasting the fruits Of the tolsone
lGbors Of nearly a century, are drones, Who
have preyed upon it from the beginning, and
have never contributed any share to the gene.
raj good. The strife of these latter is directed
owsrcs exhausting the wealth of the land by
loans, with the sole object of perpetuating dis
cord, and destroying what remains of conf
deDce, prosperity and credit The fifteen mil
hons TO be raised by the Montgomery govern
ment, a. well as the twenty-five millions asked
or by Secretary of the Treasury Chase, are
only demanded for warlike preparations, aud
hundreds Of millions more will be required, If
the ruthless purposes of the leaders Of the two
sections, are carried out Universal bankruptcy,
and . wanton, causeless national ruin such As
has never before been witnessed In any period
of the world, would be the result Of the triumph
Of the policy which has been inaugursted.
The Virginia Convention has not yet passed
the resolution, calling for border slavehold-
ing States Convention, but it Will undoubtedly
be summoned TO meet in Kentucky, early Id
the month Of May. The future destinies of the
country wiIl nrohahIv daoaod In = rr>~t