The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-17

SUNDAY, MARCH IT, 1851
The Rise OF Natfons-The New Italian
Kingdom and the southsrn Censsds-
racy.
Historians in ages to come will ponder over
the remarkable circumstance of the Old and
the New World having almost simultaneously
presented the spectacle of new nation spring
ing into existence. They will compare the
relative positions of those two nations that
threw off the yoke by which they felt them
selves oppressed. They will, on the one hand,
take into consideration the tyranny and OBJ
nervousness Of the Bourbon dynasty of Naples,
which impelled the populace to welcome their
deliverer Garibsldi with open arms, and on
the other they will inquire into the state Of
feeliag between the two great sections Of the
same community which proved sufficient to
make the one section separate from the other.
The conclusion will be that both the Italians
of the new kingdom and the Americans Of the
Southern confederacy were justified and actu-
ated by similar motives in declaring their inde-
pendence. 1t will be happy thing If the
historian can then say, that while the Italians
had, in the achievement of their liberty,
to resort to the sword and wade
through blood, the Americans accom-
plished the work by peaceful process
He will see that Northern opinion differed so
far from Southern opinion, and Northern in
situations from Southern institutions, and that
the abolition fanaticism at the North was so
outrageous, that the only road left open to the
South was to secede and form a separate re-
public. For a time he will be able to trace
the disastrous results of the secession in all
directions, and he will find much to deplore in
the dismeuberment Of the greatest of all re-
publics-the United States.
By and by, however, affairs will assume
a more promising aspect, and the loss of
prestige sustained by the shock of dis
union will gradually be regained. The South
will have gone on with the development of
her natural rasources-the cultivation of cot
ton, corn, tobacco and rice, the working her
coal and iron mines, and much beside that
the country abounds with-while at the same
time she will have been preparing for an ex-
tension of her territory by the annexation of
Central America, Mexico, and even Cuba.
The North will have been making rapid strides
in population and commerce, and looking for
ward to an extension of territory also, by the
admission Of Canada, or even the whole of the
British North American Colonies, into her con-
federacy. When these objects have been
respectively attained by the two con-
federacies, both will experience an aug
mentation of power, prestige and pros
perity. A similar movement may be
afterwards repeated by both, till in the end
the whole continent of America will be divided
between the two great confederacies. Then
not only the historian but the world, will ex-
claim, great indeed must have been that people
from whose differences, and that republic from
whose disruption, two such mighty nations
could arise. Magma est Hbertas, ct pr9ralebn.
The same motives which induced the fathers
of the republic to wrest the old thirteen colo
MES from the grasp of George the Third we
now find actuating the people of the
Southern confederacy in proclaiming their
right Of self government. They found, as
their forefathers and the Italians under the
Bourbon dynasty found, that they were living
| under government which was uncongenial to
them. Therefore, when they found themselves
encroached npon by the tyranny of Northern
abolitionism, and their runaway slaves withheld
from them in defiance Of the Fugitive Slave
law, and worse consequences threatening them,
they resolved to leave the family roof, and set
up housekeeping for themselves.N, A rupture
Of this kind in domestic life is Always attend
ed with unfortunate consequences; but with
nation such as ours 1t is a great calamity, and
its causes always to be deplored. Neverthe-
less, if those causes are reasonable, as in the
case of the South, who can say that 1t is not
better to part, and more especially when the
parting may take place peacefully And
would it not be the height, not only
Of folly, but of crime, to endeavor
to coerce the seeding States into remaining
in the Union! We deplore the disruption Of
this glorious Union most sincerely. But there
are reasons for it, and as long as those reasons
remain, through the absence Of proper amend
ments to the constitution, the Southern States
which have seeded will be better under their
own separate government To Northern fana-
ticism and negro worship we owe the ruin
which has overtaken us. God grant that the
train Of disasters we may yet be called upon to
suffer may not be capped by the horrors Of
civil war-the worst fate that can befall ma
ton, and the greatest scourge that wickedness
and folly could infict
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