The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-09

Hints and SuggcstiOns from the Herald
Correspondcnts-The Herald Letter Box,
&c., Sc
The correspondence of newspaper like the HwAID
must TO the generality OF people, almost incredi
oe AS the Herald is the organ Of the people the peo
pie send TO 1t all sorts Of communications upon all sorts
Of subjects, TO read which ordinary task and
IS for publishing them that would take AN the space
daily Of newspaper very much larger than this These
communications come by every mail, express and
veyance from all quarters of the globe Their styles
- varied their subjects, and their authors occupy
every rank from the highest to the lowest The
chant slips his pen the edge of his ledger TO
drop . hint to the HERALD in his crisp,
succnct, condensed style. The lawyer sends us
letters longer than his briefs and difficult
10 decpher The laboring has grievance
10 be redressed thought TO put in print, and,
after work hours writes his letter TO the Herald,
his hard hand tightly clasping the unaccustomed
pen, and the very words he wishes 10
yittng out Of his reach like mischieyous fairies.
The Yankee schoomaster has his word TO say and his
display OF his hairne penmanshp 70 make. The
clergyman writes in order 10 speak from the secular
pulpit the press what much interests him but what he
thinks inappropriate for his Sunday discourse. The
farmer taking advantage of these long winter EVENING"
borousy puts upon paper the ideas which he has been
turning over and over in his mind s(munching straw
expects TO himself presently in tie HERALD The
politician, handling his pen deity his tongue,
spreads himself page after page Of fools.
cap, and sends his lucabratons to the HERALD.
And so the manager and the actor; the
ployer and the employ ed; the man Of leisure and
the man Of business nay, the ladies OF every age
and station all have their representatives in the hun
drels OF letters, Of all Sizes shapes AM ooloTs, which
pour daily into the HERALD Office If that were, in fact
the general post office of the country.
To many is as it must be- dead letter Office AM
many write never TO be answered. The HERALD
ply letters only through it, columns AMI its co,mus,
alas, will only hold much Especially during the pre-
sent crisis, when all have little 70 do and much
epare time, and when all have many thoughts about
the questions Of the day which to them Il and
interesting is the demand upon columns
More letters written than to the HERALD,
and fewer Ind their way into print. The
cause of this few know. Jones cannot be aware
that before mis- communication reaches the
rapid march of events has proved its wisdom foolish
and its predictions absurd. Brown cannot tell that
his ideas exactly identical with those OF rhomp
con, whose letter received the day before, that
th very ideas published last week. So they 20
on writing looking for the appearance of that
nication which will staTte the country get matters right
and send statesmen again TO school. So too, the HERALD
letter bag is always fun, and advice persuasion n.rac
ton, threats entreaties news information, IDEAS opn
ions, reach in thousand varied forms; welcomed
and used somehow or cther-the letters being pro
ductve of good, if only by being destroyed.
1t may readily be beieved--ndeed, 1t could hardly be
otherwise-that among this mass of correspondence
there is much which is valuable and timely
much which would be glad 10 publish If the
laws in regard to space admitted Of exceptions. Some
communications are entirely good; in others, under
of
hidden singular jewels, found, in the fable even 10
dunghill Very few letters come which have not
real value. Unable publish them all, or indeed to
refer them all select and condensc from them the
hints and suggestions which follow upon the questions
Of the day
COERCION UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE.
New Orleans correspondent, signing himself South
"a favorite de plane at present--thinks
that time for the people recognise the difference
between affairs and the pul,Hcatan in 81 He
tends that the Union already dissolved and Southern
confederacy fixed fact. Not tho passage OF slave
CODE by every Northern State, could the Union.
The South has warned and warned, but in vain. Now
correspondent thinks that she has acted rreyo
cably The North should in all consistency be rejoccd
10 get rid Of institutions odous and Improbable in
stead of seeking to bring the South back geographically
the two sections independent and they equally
independent in their resources The North should count
and thirty mliona Of doarsthe revenue OF the South
Now, If II intends coercion, II must support standing
1sa h e &c tone such wa Win
England submit TO have hcr communication
with the cotton make, thus interrupted wiil
friendly relations In the south broxcn up Can the
South be conquered2 ''Southron" thinks not and
closes his communication by the statement that il has
already cost the South twenty Ave millions Of dol.
lars to leave the Inicn, and by recommending to
Bcccher the study Of the fable or the goose which laid
unlIq 90 md az fhs Wis ri maj "a hp
killed this two legged mint.
SAVE THE UNION.
Our next correspondent Ga New Yorker complains
that here at tie North luminosity against the South
carefully fosered incucaed That Northerners
taught hate institution which originated with the
country itself. which in high favor at the
North; which was only abolished here because be-
came Improbable; which Is retained at the South be.
cause the climate, the SOIL the country fsvors it. This
feeling at the North has made civil war imminent How
Is it be avcIted ny removing the curse Of slavery
(f ii be a cursc) says correspondent. And how IS
this to be doaey By passing some compromise
now, settling line OF dcmarcation between
freedom and slavery Then when the present
rseIaemens srbsises cs national convention Of dele
gates from all the states offer % pay the south Tor It's
slaves 70 colonize them when freed (or the South
we our horses) and thus settle the question amcably
This will prove whether tic abotonsts are in earnest
and really love the slave Thus far they have only made
his yoke tighter. In this way can save the Union.
correspondent was born Ia slave state has lived 10
New YORK since 1885, anu MAKES THIS suggestion ior inc
good OF bis country.
A rLAN or ADJUSTMENT.
Tie author 81 the following plan Of Adjustment was
free soier in 1sis anA black republican in 1900 He is
dsguscd with the milk and water propositions to settle
the great question OF the day. and thinks that something
oold novel; nereete should DO devised. He has devised
A. aud here il sHe proposes that all children Of slave
parents shall he free at the age OF twenty thirty
years as they are born before after jan l, 1861.
That all slaves under nfty years Of age shall be
gradually emancpated In 1915, 1917 and 1870, AMI
that all over nfty shall remain slaves be taken or
Other pIovrcns follow, ouch that the slave states
make negroes o2cns and that after the passage o. these
propositions no slaves be sold (no slaves viii be sold after
the pfopcs ltions pass viii warrant That the GO
vernmeht issue special stock to reconpense the slave
owners NC In response 70 al OF which the North viii
repeal Tho Personal liberty bills-doubtlcss.
COMPROMISE AID A CROMWELL WANTED.
"tmicus," Of Waterbury, Connecticut, says that
Senator's and representatives are givng party what
Eaeant for mankind and IL IL time for the great
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