The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-26


have sourhr commune with his spirit, and 10 learn
ffm him wheshe, the hi & Ia which vas engaged was
well and worthily Conc. What commentary upon the
wscorn Of mar Is given this single fact that ds.ecn
years only after he death of John Quincy Adams the
people of the United states who hurled him from power
and from place are calling to the head Of the nation 10
the very seat from vi ich he expelled brohdm Ltn
c'ia aaose claim % that seof is thof he con,esSs the o
fnn = ha higher dc. unich me Sasc QUINCY proc iiue
and that he hims or aoedi far lfe Or dsct
a sidieron The sde Of freedom IN he irsp ess.5e co.ftt
tttsea etdtm and larry ins, gentlemen my simple
Confession. desire now Only 70 say to you that you
have arrived at The ast stage % This conflict before You
reach the triumph which iugurate this grea. policy
into the COVER nmcnt of the United States.
At the present moment, Mr.. Seward, indulg-
ing in my sterous antiquities at Washington,
as The mouthpiece of Mr.. Lincoln, lags behind
in the race which his Boston friends are run
ming, ito maintain, in the school Of Massacbu-
sets the rights and interests of the free States
Severe was the reproof which Mr.. Phillips ad-
ministered to him some days ago, for "having
forgotten the teachings of that Adams he had
eulogized, and who, in l845, prophesied that
the Union would not last twenty years" But
his remonstrances are directed to comrade
and friend who appears backward for an in
slant in common causc-they are not pointed
at an enemy. Both agree that sour institutions
are ephemcral." and that the future welfare of
the country absolutely demands its division
into two separate republics Both kave labor
ed for years to establish the supremacy Of the
quasi-religious theory, that the social institu-
ton Of slavery is question involving national
and individual salvation and damnation, and
have, in their respective spheres, contributed to
the growth of that aggressive intolerance which
extends throughout the length and breadth OF
the North and forms the bone and sinew OF
the party which elevated Mr. Lincoln to the
Presidency. The views of Mr.. Seward may be
more statesmanlike, and include the final an
nexation TO the Northern republic of not only
Canada and the British territory, but also of he
Russian territory, and Of every acre ofland be-
tween the Potomac and the North Pole; but
there is no dscordance between them in the
sentiment that slavery ''must be shovclled out
of the Union," and the free members OF the re-
public depend upon themselves alone for their
future prosperity
The sad spectacle presents itself to Union
loving men; those whose hearts cling to the re-
membranes of halcycn days, inaugurated by
Washington, Jefferson and Madison; of sections
which should have chung together in eternal
amity, strengthening themselves day by day III
the determination to sunder the bonds that
unite them. The measures that have been
adopted by the Southern States, render it GER
tdn that any attempt to retain them peaceably
within the Union would be futile, and that the
eyes of the statesmen who direct their destnies,
are covetously turned towards Mexico, Central
America Cuba and the northern part of South
America, with the fixed purpose to found a vast
empire, based upon slavery as a bencGccnt do
nestle institution, which they are convinced
will make their future nation the richest and
most majestic that the world has ever
beheld. A very short time since remedy
might have been applied, by proper conces-
sions to the South to the disunion contagion.
1t is probably now too late. The bitter end
has come at hast The period has arrived to
paw for the treat of elevating Massachusetts,
abolitionism into school of politics, aud Gle
waiting antislavcry rcpublicanism to power.
Under such circumstances, the most practical
suggestions which were contained in the letter
from New Orleans, published by us two days
ago, and, if part we must, to part in peace. If
the people of the slaveholding and non-slave-
holding States, are determined to explore the
future in different paths, let grateful remen-
ORANGES Of the past remain, and an alliance,
offensive and defensive, founded upon mutu-
ally advantageous commercial treaties bind us
together. If the Union must be dissolved, pro-
badly no more favorable auspices could exist
for the creation of two American confedcra-
cics, than those that are to be seen at present;
and from that point of view "if 'twere done,
then 'twere well done, were it done quickly"