The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-09


their coming, and soon find themselves left to
tread the pathway of life alone-add all the
horrors of cities sacked and land laid waste
and then weigh them all against" slavery, "and
tell me if Waterloo or Thermopyla can claim
one tear from the eye even of the tenderesr
spirit of mercy, compared with this daily sys-
tenn of hell amid the most civilized and Chris
tian people on the face OF the earthr'
Notwithstanding this awful language, M.
Phillips is explicit in asserting that slavery is
CONSTITUTIONAL that the encroachments upon it
of the last thirty years have been Illegal, and
that he and his partisans raly upon revolution,
and violation of law, to accomplish their nefa-
rious ends. He exclaims:-
Understand me. In 1887 slave property worth, per-
haps three hundred millions OF dollars strengthened by
the sympathy Of all other capital, was mighty power.
II the Rothschd Of the state The constitution oy
ts three hs slave basis made shareholders order Of
mobiles II was the house Of Hapsburg joining hands
ever bore Hugucnot or Hungary ever spit on Moslem
This fearful trinity won to It's side that mysterious omni
cered ection, without either thought religion
s side, seems stronger than all Of them, and spare no
foo but wealth. Such was slavery.
This is the school of politics which has re
duced the country TO its present degraded con-
dition. From tho proudest place among the
Powers Of the earth; envied and admired by
the enlightened Of every land; our institutions
model for patriots, and our form of COVE. n
mcnt q salutary and beneHcent example to
those who are throwing or a aespotio yoke;
we have become, in the.short space Of quar-
ter of year, byword and laughing stock,
and o cloud of shame darkens our horizon,
foreb0des still greater evils in the future. The
Queen of Great Britain pities, while the En-
peror Of the French mourns over us. and the
statesmen who lead the cabinets OF Europe be-
hold with amazement the hideous national
suicide we are perpetrating. Yet We are told
by the incoming administration, that now we
shall shave an adjustment" Mr.. Seward las
added that posterity would wonder at the
magnanimity" of the government, and that
"every sacrifice that shall be needful will be
made even to abandoning "party platforms
and organizations" to secure the welfare of
the Union. TIE people call upon the leaders
of the republican party, who now hold the
reins OF power in their hands, TO fulfil their
pledges. The last planks that hold the nation
together are being rent asunder; material in
terests are every hour becoming more i'm
perilled; and political differences more difficult
of settlement Let the administration begin to
do something towards relieving the republic
from the pressure that is dragging Its prosperity
In the dust
Up to the present hour, not one step seems to
haor, <ol.a Nv NJ, Y ;co L L..
beyond giving vague and unsatisfactory assur-
snces which have alarmed rather than tran
quilted the public mind. During the late ses-
sion Of Congress, every obstacle TO proper
explanation, not to soy amendment of the con-
stitution, was opposed by republicans in the
Senate and House of Representatives. The
4th of March came, without single reasslring
measure having been taken on the part Of our
national representatives. Since that time, the
single thought OF the President seems, to have
been to satisfy the greedy, hungry, Goth and
Vandal Office seekers, who swarm In every
thoroughfare of the capital. Tie bowling Of
these wolves, shuts out from the ear of the
Chief Magistrate the cry of distress which rises
from every patriotic heart, in view Of our
troubled interstate relations. If the admins
tration, however, sleeps, the people do not.
They are alive to existing dangers, and cry
aloud for relief. A responsibility devolves
upon the republican government, from which
it cannot escape, and unless it has resolved to
permit every interest to go to ruin, it must
speedily turn its exclusive attention to the
events that are so rapidly progressing.
Position Of Douglas I'm Relation to tho
Administration.
In his speeches of Wednesday and Thursday
in the Senate Mr.. Douglas interprets the Inau-
gural OF Mr.. Lincoln as entirely pacific and as
abandoning coercion. On Thursday he forti-
fci ais opinion by the fact that Fort Sumter
cold not be reinforced by Mr.. Lincoln. "He
beiieY ed it could not be reinforce row without
To use Of at least ten thousand men by land and
sea- There were but few men to serve the guns,
who would soon no o yhauetcd. and thev had