The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-27
sT-HE REVOLUTION.
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGRI

S Bat,more Their nunify ing friends on that occasion
relied upon the action they might take in separate Con-
yention which it was said contained many prudent and
rslrioc men They did not then hold out the idea that
he election of Lincoln would be just for disrupt
Dg the government. They held out the fact that
they had made a Union nomination, and placed
at the head Of their ticket Union loving
design disrupt the government they dc.
feaed and in case Lincoln was elected these men al
MED the charge manfuly. The who controlled
that party-the men who were first the Breckhrdge
ticket and who declared that notification peaceful
and secession was proper and peaceful remedywhere
they now2 They were scattered every where over
Me MI s1e dGs al they could Q oSa
What the course being pursued? Were they
giving the country time for reelection? We're they giving
Il time for thought and consideration No, but while
they State after State going out Of the conederacy
they s found men ndisosed TO let the country have an
hour TO do what II should do in this crisis. While the
Gulf calling for conventions, what did they
seer They found that dispatches were going from this
pace-despaches OF peace not for reason, not for
Ielection-no dispatches calculated TO rritate the
public mind and still 10 fire the southern heart, and
TO spread among the Southern people madness under
which they were now acting Mr. Gmer then read from
the Virginia manifesto, which declared that the republic
cans were determined to precipate civil upon the
south There were two propositions, dangerous in cha
racter, that manifesto. The first was that Virginas
only safety was in leaving the Union and the second
equally falacous, equally dangerous, equally destructive
that this was the only way to reconstruct the Union
he would also refer to letter written by Senator Cling
man to the Democratic Standard, paper published in
North Carolina In which the people were warned that it
the determination of the republican party TO subu
States, even AT the risk Of civil war. This idea of
reconstruction was only part and parcel Of that
South be lued for time, until they precpi
tated into civil war and disruption Of the Unon But
the separation Of the fifteen elave States from the
eighteen free States the proper mode to be pursued to Sc
reconstruction of the government There was
Ahem that if the people Of the border States could be
that the object of these who hurryng
the South into extremes was TO break up the Union they
would shudder with horror at the very idea the
who voted for Breckenridge would at the knowledge
q the truth, had they be, been told, as they oagh,
Mr.. Breckenridge in nomination intended 70
break up the Union if the JAILED
such a work The honest e.. and mechanics and
traders of the Saaih would shudder if they told that
the movement, represented TO them intended for
the purpose of securing southern rights under
strucon Of the government in fact designed by the
nan of the Baltimore platform to discover the Union and
break up the government. The of the South would
shadder at the great mistake they had made in voting in
compliance with those secessionists and disunionsts
They might well hope TO put together the delicate
chnery of watch after had been broken into atoms
by the heavy strokes of sedge hammer TO hope for
reconstruction Of this and Union after virtual
separation. He would have Virginia, North Carolina,
tennessee and the other border States to remember
what these Breckinrdgers had told them before the
election and what these men had since DONE that
they might fully understand in time what meant by
reconstruction of the government He would say to his
Northern friends in the face of those things that they
had in their power, without the surrender of ioa
OF single principle, to crush out these men and their
teachings in an hour. They in their power, by
single act in that House, to crush forever those whom
governmentthis great and glorious country. Let them
but give the country the assurance that they are willing
10 meet the exigencies Of the moment and that hour
consns those secession leaders to the tomb. 1t
not because the secessonsts considered the Crtenden
epSsons Of any great value 70 inc soI, n t1aa 1ney
grant them but because those men thought that hey
safe in making issue upon them believing that the
North would not concede BY refusing them he could
assure them that the work OF inlamng the southern
mind would go and ii would never rest till the Union
was irfevocaby broken up. And yet by Offering the
Missouri compromise line they would in fact yield
no principle. There was not a man in the House
who would put his hand on his breast and say
that he believed that the concession would
make slave State more or less, OF the free
States Let them do this and the ques
fion would be settled forever and those disunoniss
who were still amongst them would go hence, weeping
all their cherished hopes and ambitious designs. II
upon the principle recogn zed by southern men, that
slavery should not exist in Kansas being north of the
line OF SO So that the republican party had trumphed-
principle which DO man III the South would TO day
gainsay Upon they had elected their President, and
had got into power The laws of climate of soil and pro-
duction would settle the question Of slavery within their
Interference and he would therefore ask them, in the
Of peace the AID for the sake OF all those
blessings which had enriched them and had made the
country great and prosperous in the name and for the
sake OF preserving the blessings Of liberty 70 the great
est people on earth that they would adopt this compro
mise and defeat the hopes of these disunon asprants
BY doing they would the country from bankrupt
81 and ruin, aud consign eternal infamy those who
anxious for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the Union. Let
Them do this LET them be advised by one who lived IN the
heart or the South and they would preserve the country
and bcqueath It 10 millions yet unborn, AMI
who would in after times bless them for
the acthe blessings Of the freest and nobest govern
ment face of The earth. Would they tell him that
Cnpgress could make slavery go North SouthS just
w 70 forbid the rapid waters q the Ms-s.ippi lowing
into the Gulf Of Mexico IL was only when Terriuiy
passing from its Territorial condition and claiming
admission State that Congress could by the desire OF
the people themselves step In and that slavery should
CT should in that State but TO allow
60 no 'he m s0a anxs as the oS,O
OF the Crttendcn resolutions, not because ne
thought them best but because they would be acceptable
70 the people Of the South Give the people those propo
sions but If they did not give them, then the border
States propositions or the propositions Of the Committee
Of Thirty three Let them work together on this point
hike who loved the country and who desired the per-
petuty Of the Union. lie had carefully weighed these
propositions, and he would not give snap of his fingers
for distinctions that he could observe between them In
his Judgment he conceived the propositions Of the
Committee OF Thirty three were the best Of the whole
nsmuch as they showed disposition the part Of
Northern gentlemen Of Cancellation and compromise which
he had not expected from them The only question Of real
importance which had agitated the South was in con
nccton with the fear they had been taught to entertain
that the North at sometime other designed 10 interfere
with slavery In the South. constitutional pledge had
been proposed 10 quiet the mind Of the South this
point Let that pledge be given. Let there be perpe
tual bond against the interference OF slavery IN the
South, and that sad amendment shall never BE- altered
amended unless by consent OF all the states Of the
nrsbenstons ss 70 the people Of thS North nterfers
Nth them were removed forever; and tbs would aay
those feelings that had been engendered in their minds
and bring them back TO the Geengsof friendship aud
peace. He would remind them that they had aftcen
ureat statcs having nine hundred and fifty thousand
pauare miles OF territory possessing the best rivers in
The world the most valuable and productive climate. and
institutions most beneficial TO them, aid these, with all
tho blessings Of cheap and free government, we're
Guaranteed them for was true that Northern
gentlemen contendod that all this unnecessary-thai
they never intended 10 interfere with slavery in tho
Souh~that they had not the power and did not want
n. That what they said. But when he reminded
them Of what he had read as the despatch OF senator
from the other branch Of Congress aud that whit
the gentleman had stated was but sample
OF what was preached over the south 10 every
pledge the people of the South, who systemat
aty kept Ia Of their views by false representations
From those scduonsy aud unceasng
Nv circulated the people Of the South, unusty he
tossed but honestly believed that the republican party
did intend To invade and overthrow slavery IN the
South Ii the North in solemn manner, and by vote,
agree 10 make this amendment 70 the constitution they
will the question az rest forever and the south will
get rid OF those and disunonsts who have
long distracted country. They said that they hal
elected their President according 10 the forms OF the