The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-24
The Latest British Argument In Favor
ofNhc ReDeIs.

IL.
The secession had been contemplated and threatened
fer thirty years psst r dee,d.d Jy arguments
good as hare Je usually ddecncd for national i-
1ecti0sS and 1t was IN opposition to the dictates Of
p1lt cal WISDOM it in conformity with tho passions
of human nature The States Of the old American Union
would PEI has have been PROSPEROUS at home and
certainly formidable abroad il they had remained
united but the may be said of tho States of all the
empires which have ever fallen to pieces. Union is
strength always and everywhere, and the ger the popu-
len that can be retained under these conditions the
greater will be the result. But it happens that
tn 'se considerations net allowed prevail
against Influences Of more immediate kind. The
vision of Independence IS attractive than the
vision Of power The reo,ls T he Southern States
dom fire htm Trey may b shorsiahtcd but they are
determined They may be mistaken, but They know their
own minds. They may BE- wrong, but they arc len mil
ols. The fcderalsts themselves admit q right Of in.
s,lraecon, but deny that nsurrectn can be justi-
fed in the present instance. That Argument ,however
can never stand. Is absurd 10 soy hat rebellion is
sacred lorolor friilse, bit that il only be enycied
uih ~ assn q those o9qiss' chons ,copld be direccd
The Emperor OF Russia might admit the doctrine thus
stated. If people have right rebel against govern
mclts, il must be when they think fitting and when
the govern M nts allow 1t.
80 long as The fsurrecon of the South seemed spite
iu rebellion against the results of partcula election
we were comsoled 10 regard it as utterly unjustabc
# meant only as has been asserted, 'bullet against
balot we should look upon wicked and treason.
able act for could the North be charged nowith
ing its commercial bias with a want of considcra-
lion icr the institutions Of the South IT, again the
question could be argued on pure grounds of expelcncy
we should here also, though rot decidedly pronounce
ueahl the resolution taken by tho south to divorce it.
self from the North. But the actual case is very differ
ent The last twelve months have shown that Northern.
ers and Sonterners reconcieabe as Greeks and
Turks, on Germans and Magyars. This viii but in.
cnsity and perpetuate anmosies which the very ma
tire q things had long ago created. sectional
antiathies have proved us stubborn national an.
upathcs. They could rot be assuaged by compro-
mise, and they will assuody not be alb psled by con
quest. The armies OF tn, North may ovcrpowcr the
armies OF the South, but South and North can never be
expected TO amalgnmate again II is for reason and
because territories prodgous those Of the Southern
states can never be retained by armed occupation that
think the policy OF the federal government wrong If
the whole case Of the war is to be analysed, we must
needs say the Northerners have the their side
for the SouhsrBers have destroyed, without provocaton
mighty political fabric, and have impaired the glory
and strength d the great American republic. But as
they have chosen to do this as they have shown them
selves hitherto no less powerful than tho gonsts as
the decision of large population cannot be condemned
and cannot persuade ourselves that genuine peace
likely to spring from protroctcd war should rejoice
to the pacfca;ion q America promoted by other
means.