The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-02
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Total al.........................2,3 2,3l' ioo2 DO
OF all this territory the Southern States have been per
mted 10 enjoy only 2S3, ,713 square miles, while the
Northern States have been allowed 0S3 $50 square miles
or between seven and eight times than has been al
iced the South Sou,herners have thus not only been
localized and circumscribed their operations but
sade persisently maintained against them and their nst
tuition. Turn to the centre of the political systemto
the city which bears the OF the ustrous Father OF
his Countryand for weeks and months the spectacle has
been of Speaker Clerks no Sergeant at Arms
no Chaplain, organization for public good, but per
petual readiness for agitation and mischief The great
and good men who be there from the North have
been superseded by those whose sole delight to be
to deal blow after blow upon the constitution, until the
ruins Of the Union shall crumbe around them Look at
some of the nvasons proposed upon that heretofore a
cred instrument
The first is that the clause allowing the representation
Of three-fs of the slaves shall be oblteraed from the
constitution; or other words that the South already
in vast and increasing minority shall b. still further
reduced in the scale Of nsniicance. and thus every
invasion Of her rights be far below the protection OF
even a Presidential veto.
Next has been demanded the abolition OF slavery In the
District OF Columbia In the forts, arsenas, navy yards
and other public establishments OF the United States
What object have the aboltoniss had for raising all this
clamor about little patch Of soil ten miles square, aud
few nconsidcrabe places hny scattered over the land
mere grain Of sand upon the beac-unless it be to es
bish the preceden, Of Congressional Interference which
would enable them to make wholesale ncursion upon
the constitutional rights Of the SOUTH and to drain from
the vast ocean Of alleged nationa guilt its last droe9
Does any one suppose that microscopic concession
like this would alone appeasc conscience wounded and
acerated by the "sn Of slaveryY'
Another of these expressions that which Is proposed
under pretcxt Of regulating commerce between the
stateshat noslave for any purpose aud under any cir
cusances whatever shall be carried by his lawful owner
from one slavehodng State another that where slave
nv now is there il shall forever remain, until by its
own increase the slave population shall ouinumber
the white race, and thus by united combination Of
cause.-the of the master the dminuton in value
OF his property and the exhausted condition OF the soil
the final purposes Of fanaticism may be accomplished
Still another In the series OF aggressons Is that at
tempted by the wimot Proviso, by which Congress
called upon prohibit every STAKEHOLDER from removing
with his slaves into the territory acquired from Mexcoa
territory large the old thirteen States originally CON-
posing the Union appears to have been forgotten that
whether slavery be admitted upon foot OF territory
not cannot affect the question Of its sinfuness in the
the ghtes degree and that If every nook and corner Of
the national fabric wore open 70 the institution not
single slave would be added to the present number, and
II excluded thcF n0mDeF WeWa hVt Dc onc WV
lees.
We might also refer 10 the armed aud bloody opposition
to the Fugitive Slave law to the passage Of Personal
Liberty bills political schemes in Congress aud out,
and to systematic agitation everywhere with view to
stay the progress OF the South contract her political pow
r and eventually lead her expense n not Of the Union
itself 70 the utter txpurgstiou OF this tremendous
toual sin"
in short, the abotionist has contributed nothing to
one hundred and ffy millions have been expended BY
Shareholders IN emancipation the aboonst, except iu
those sporadic cases where the amount capital in
vested in sefglorfcation has hot expended cent
More man this They have defeated the very objects
Al which they have aimed When Virginia. Maryland,
Kentucky or some other border state has ncar
to the message of gradual emancipation laws that the
bones Of the real friends or tho seemed about
70 be realized aboltonism has stepped in, and, with
frantic appeals ncendary publications and begerent
activity dashed them TO the ground, tightening the fct
,ors or the slave sharpening authority and pro
a,crg a reaction throughout the entire com
,,,n,,v ina, has crushed out every inclpent
,torebt a. future nauumlssion. Such have been the
tons Quits or abolition Church, State and society
Nothing hrs eseaped H. Nowhere pure, nor pcaccabe,
~ eer,le nor easily cntrcatcd. full Of mercy and
GOOD rrpis tut everywhere forward scowling uncom-
nro,n,stue actce breaking peace order and strucrca
cyerv stem. crushing III its foot What woal not bow
e. m defy lug government. dspising thc church II
va,ue tll eouatty AID Striking Heaven iteof d i
dared 10 cbstluct ily progress. Purifying reG Gug UP.