The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-11

present indications the radicals OF his Cabinet
and his party, and its hordes Of office beggars,
will carry the party, the administration, the
peace and the hopes of the country, to swift
destruction.
The Second Act OF tho Anti-Slavery
Drama-The Aboliti0nists at Work
Again.
While the more moderate men of the repub-
lican party, satisfied with the barren victory of
the late Presidential election in relation to
slavery in the Territories, think that the party
has fulfilled its function, that the question which
agitated the country during the late campaign
is now dead issue, and that there ought to be
an end of the matter, unless perhaps, in order
to arrest the progress of disunion, some guaran-
tees might be given to secure the institution of
slavery in the Southern States against further
aegressions of the North, the radical wing of
the party hold, on the contrary, that the cleo
ton of Mr.. Lincoln is nothing in itself, and is
only valuable so far as it is q means to an end;
that ii Is but the capture of the outer works OF
the fortress but is not possession Of the citadel
within-the ultimate object of the abolitionists,
for which they have been laboring for the last
thirty years.
There is abundant evidence to show that this
is the design Of Giddings and Greeley and the
other republican leaders Of the same type, and
that they are doing their utmost to prevent any
reconciliation with the States which have Sc
ceded, and to force the border slave States, if
they will not abolish slavery, to join the cot
ton confederacy. They insist upon wrestling
from the conservative republicans the "pound of
flesh" nominated in the bloody bond, though it
were to cost the life Of the government founded
by Washington and Jefferson-a government
which has hitherto kept in awe the oligarchies,
the monarchies and the despotisms Of Europe.
This they desire to extinguish in blood, de-
stroying the hopes and prospects of the present
generation. Here Is the latest declaration of
Garrison, the father OF the abolition party,
commenting on the inaugural of Mr.. Lincoln
How is IL possible that the President be deluded
the belief that "there need be boodshed vo
ence in enforcing the laws Sin all the Sates?' Does
Southern confederacy stand ready meet his
effort execute those laws within its domains by tho
bloody Of war on their par And do not the
slave States stand in bullying attitude threat
enng make with the seceding States II
any coercion" is attempted by the administrations
North must back down. and confess that the American
Union dissolved beyond the power Of restoration In
vain does he beseechingy say to the traitors
In your hands, my dissatisfied dss fellow countrs
men, mine is the question Of civil
The government will assAi YOU You have conflict
registered Heaven 10 destroy i6e government whe shall
have the most solemn one protect and defend
Win they give any heed to this? viii they not rather
laugh his oath to scorn Are they not hourly committing
acts of treason? Are they not nsolent and agi
aggressors stealing the property firing upon
the flag Of the country, nstituting hostile government
and arming themselves for deadly conflict which they
sh VAIN does the President e
them, ''we not enemies, but friends" Friends do
not behave in this manner The breach natural nevi
table and not to be repaedt is the result of the rre
pressbe conflict between justice and oppression right
and wrong, which admits of no Cancellation compro-
mise. Therefore the time has come for decisive action
Let there be cipI udr but separation biccn the free
and Stare States in the spirit of Abraham and Lot. The
Covenant with death must be annulled, the "agree
ment with help must no longer stand II Is sin, o
snare, dcuson terrible curse to attempt to perpetu
ate It. God wills its immediate and eternal overthrow
the will Of God be done Let the free North be free in
deed-fashon her institutions and dictate her
policy, leaving the South with all her dread responsible
ties resting upon her head In that she cannot
long uphold her totterng slave sysem-speedy emanci
patton will follow and the final result viii be the forma
tion of Union stretching from the Atlantic TO the Pa
cfc one in SPIRIT In purpose in glorious freedom, the
bitter past forgotten the future full of richest pro-
mise.
The republican platform adopted at Chicago
gives only part Of the anti-slavery programme.
Garrison tells the whole story. The victory
over the constitution as regards the Terri
tories is but the first act of the drama. The
second is the breaking up of the Union by
playing into the hands of the secessionists and
feeding the fame of revolution by sternly re-
flsing all compromises, and by urging such
measures Of coercion as may force even the
most reluctant border slave States to rally for
their menaced institution under the banner of
the Southern confederacy, in order that two
distinct, homogeneous governments with
free and the other with slave labor-may be
established in antagonism to each other;
that the irrepressible conflict may be de-
fined by geographical line, and that
the aboltionists may thus escape the dangers Of
civil war in the Northern States. They fear that
if civil strife were to break out at the North
as it certainly will if an invasion Of the South
should be attempted by the federal govern
ment-the ultra republicans would be doomed
by evenhanded justice to drink the poisoned
chalice which they had prepared for other
lips, and that the leaders would swing from the
lampposts in every commercial city whose
interests they have ruined. This would be the
first fruits Of anarchy at the North. They have,
therefore, no stomach for an immediate civil
war that would come home to themselves Be
fore the final conflict with "the slave power"
they want the North to be united against the
South, which can only be accomplished by the
establishment of two separate and independent
confederacies.
This is the close Of the second act Of the anti
slavery drama. The third act Is "a war against
the Southern confederacy as foreign Power,
with view to liberate the negro by domestic
Instruction" on the plan Of George LII. aud
Lord North; or, If such war cannot be brought
speedily about, then to foment q servile rebel.
lion In tho Southern States nv means of emissa.