The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-07


present, when there is no knowing what cslami-
ty day may bring forth, or how soon the
grand fabric of our constitution will be swept
away, and the arm of brother be raised against
brother in deadly strife, it becomes us to pom
der gravely over the dangers that surround
US, and, as men end patriots, to combine in the
endeavor to avert the worst of those evils by
which our country is mensced. To the anti
slavery propagandism which forty years ago
swayed 80 violently the people of England, and
thence found its way into New England and
the Congress of the United States, and was
years afterwards nurtured 30 warmly by socie-
ties and portion of the press, we may trace
all the causes that distract the United States.
Il has ever been prolific source of disturb
ances, riots, family feuds and national discord
1t has led to scenes which have disgrsced
our halls of Congress. 1t has caused
the proper objects oflegislaion to be neglect
ed, and the general interests of the country to
be injured and miamanaged, and by its per-
nicious agitation has engrossed the public
mind to an extent that is positively lamentable.
From its inception to the present time the
question has undergone three phases. In the
first instance it was moral one; provoked by
discussion and prejudice in England; in the
next it was social one, induced by the North
ern States finding slave labor improbable,
and, therefore, wishing to abolish it; and, in the
third, it was politico-relgious one, which we
may call "nigger worship" In this last phase
we find it now. 1T has become pulpit theme,
and diverted the stream of religion from its
course heavenward to the stormysea Of poll
tics We have a prominent example Of it in the
case of Ward Beecher. 1t has ruined churches,
ruined parties, and now it is ruin
ing the whole country. Ani-slavery ia
naticism has stamped its character upon
our Northern literature, and led away
the minds of those who had not phi
losophy enough to withstand ito subtle in
fuence, which, for the thirty years of the forty
it has been in agitation has been gradually un-
dermining the constitution of the republic and
the best interests and liberties of our people.
With the secession of seven States, and the
prospect of the eight Border States adding to
lhe number, ii may be said to have.reached its
eliminating point. What will follow is uncer-
hazard conjecture on the subject. 1t may be
the secession Of the remaining slave States,
and mayhap civil war. But the worst conse-
quences staring abolitionsts in the face would
not turn one out Of a thousand Of them from
their fatal purpose; for fanatics are deaf to rea
son, and like the English Crusaders to the Holy
Land, have only single object to accomplish,
and that whatever may be the sacrifice. The
disruption of the Union is not enough for these
| men; they want blood, and they would cal
lousy exterminate every STAKEHOLDER, from Vir
ginia to Florida, in order to realize their favo-
| rite, and we may add fendsh, purpose. And
| what is the actual condition Of the slaves over
which these rampant abolitionists are bowling
SO insanely? Let them 60 down to the South
| ern States and look at the four millions of ne
groes they viii find there, and see whether they
are the i'll cared for, abject creatures that they
would make the Northerners believe. Let
them remember that, at the time of the Revo-
luton, the colored population of the
same States amounted to less than
an eighth part of what it is ct present
| The very fact OF the immense increase of num-
u
treatment and happy, oontented lot Of the
slaves. They are comfortably fed, housed and
clothed, and seldom or never overworked.
They present in sheir condition favorable
contrast to the white slaves Of Europe, who live
| in the utmost squalor, and are at once half
starved and overworked, and who only find
| rest in premature graves Their condition is O.
| far happier one than that OF many of the white
| poor of the North, who are driven to seek re-
| ilge from want in tie warehouses;, or yet of
many even outside Of their walls, who vegetate In
filth and hunger in the obscure parts of our cities
| The heartrendiDg accounts which are occasion
ally given TO the English public Of the miseries
endured by the London poor show far more
| deplorable state Of things than could ever
exist under slavery in America; and English
| travellers who have taken the trouble Of in
quiring, by personal observation, into the state
of the slaves in the South, have acknowledged
in print the superior comforts enjoyed by the
| latter over the white slaves of England. What
| the Garrisons and Phillipses, who pronounce the
| constitution ian agreement with death and
covenant with hell" may do next is more than
man can tell; but they may rest assured that
| heir fanaticisn, although il may destroy the
Union, will also destroy them. All that we
pray for is that We may be spared tho horrors
| Of civil war.
WuI. THERE he CoERcIoS One Of the New
Orleans papers Of the 9th ult- contains the fol-
lowing extraordinary telegraphc DESPATCH
| INFORMANT FROM wAsHINGTos--No BLOCKADE or
Southern PoRTs--sua1sENDER OF THE SOUTHERN
FONTS.
WAsgusor0r, Feb. &c, 1891
Tho incoming administration will not blockade the
ports ~ the secedng states, will attempt collect
duties in Southern ports II will also Voluntarily
the ors and military posts still In the possession
~ the federal government, II they not attacked be-
tore into power and the negotiations to that
end compcies. In the meantime fear tho border
states viii accept any compromise cferod 70 them, IL
/ be such az 10 quiet their people.
Tho above oespatdh Addressed 70 one OF most