The national Republican., 1861-01-30
THE SOUTHERN EMPIRE.

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THE SOUTHERN EMPIRE.
The New York Herald, of the Oath instant,
had q communication from New Orleans, not
containing anything positively new, but setting
out the glores of the intended Southern EN-.
pire SO glowingly, that the editors of the Herald
seem to be completely carried away with it, and
are now writing up the immense advantages to
all parties Of dissolving the present Union, and
constructing two Confederacies, one of which
shall expand to the Arctic Ocean, and the other
TO the Orinoco.
We copy what follows from the communica
ton from New Orleans:
"Peace between the North and South is in.
dispensable to the welfare of BOTH The South.
ern States need your manufactures, and many
articles Of Northern growth, and your markets
are the natural outlet, as your ports are the nec-
essary medium, for the sugar, cotton, and to-
bacco, with which, after few years of sepa-
rate development, we shall supply the world.
Yes, the world. This is the key to the movement
of our great Southern minds. No hullucina
ton can be more deplorable that the too preva.
lent supposition that hatred per Sc Of our North
ern brethren lies at the bottom of the agita.
ton which has begun with the separation from
the Union of q few States, but must end in the
formation of Southern Confederacy." n
"Men like Slidell, Walker, Gwin, Benz amin,
Davis, Keitt, Rhett, Mason, Yulee, Mallory,
Brown, Wise, and Baysrd, have not toiled and
labored for years with view to destroy, but to
build up. They have not aimed at the extinc.
tion of the glories that shine around the liber-
ties of the American continent, but to add new
lustre to them, and to give to them increased
extension. They have comprehended that
upon commercial development, sagaciously
and wisely fostered, must depend the future
prosperity of the South; and that, just so long
as they remain an appendage OF States whose
interests contrasted in the very nature of things
with theirs, that development could not be OBJ
| tanned.
"Can the Southern States annex Mexico with
the consent and aid of Massachusetts, Ohio,
and Vermont-or even of Michigan, Wiscon.
sin, and other non.slaveholding States? Re-
member the strong opposition which the at.
tempts to acquire Cuba have ever encountered
at the hands Of Northern representatives in
Congress. Even the question of Texas con.
vulsed the country, destroyed existing party
platforms, and created new and embttered
sources Of political strife. But believing as
do the solid minded, enterprising constructors
Of the great future ediface at the South, that
Central American empire which shall make of
the Gulf Of Mexico a lake, and include in its
limits every acre of land, every estuary, port,
and river between the Orinoco and the Potomac
of what avail could Northern joint stock legis.
laton be to US, within the next ten, fifteen, or
twenty years? And, as this greatest political
fabric that ever was carved out by human
hands, aided by the kind Providence which
smiles upon the efforts of those who help them
selves, will necessarily repose upon slave labor,
will involve the reopening Of the African slave
trade, the civilization ofthe unfortunate millions
whom humanity would decree to bondage, and
whom only the narrow.minded fanaticism of a
handful Of turbulent agitators would have, from
age to age, buried in the darkness of canni
balism, massacres, and degraded barbarity,
what hopes are there of sympathy or active
succor from a nation like that which you are
destined to form?"
1t is visions like these, which constitute the
moving-spring Of the revolution inaugurated at
the South, of which the result of a Presidential
struggle is made the prstext. Unlimited con.
quest, after the restraint of the North shall be
thrown of, the opening of the boundess wealth
of the tropics, and labor supplied in unlimited
abundaece from Afrca-these are the themes
which L" fire the Southern heart" and which have
"precipitated the cotton States into revolution"
Few cool observers, we apprehend, will now
controvert the position, that the question of pre-
serving our present form of Government was
the one pre.emnently involved in the election
of Mr.. Lincoln, and that his defeat would have
been the death.knell of the Union. If he had
been defeated, it must have been in favor of
either Mr.. Breckenridge or Mr.. Lane, both OF
whom recent events have proved to be in the
interests of the Southern conspirators. With
four years more of the use and enjoyment Of
the Executive power, they would have so per.
fected their schemes Of disunion as to have put
them beyond the reach of failure. But the good
instincts of the people taught them that the way
to preserve the Union was to put Union men in
power, and they have elected President spe.
cially and most wisely with view to the pres.
eryation of the Union. And the measure which
they adopted to that end, while it will prove eff.
fective, was not adopted moment too soon.
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