The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-26

really question q sentiment more than Of practica
Northern men, and whose hereditary wealth and iord
style Of living gave them peculiar PRIDE were naturally
enough irrtstsd at the tone n ransorous contempt 4
which they and the "pecuar inkSuton were spoken o
by large section OF the press aud the pupits OF III
North. Even at time when many eouthrons will
pleasant 70 find the word. absrbsrsrs, brutality,
and deg adation associated with their native States
Tese expressions coming from foreigeets had ne
cessarly TO be forgiven or to be treated with con
tempt but TO be obliged to hear In tho Congress at Wash
ngon the strongest foundations aud the most cutting
nature could be expected 10 bear. The Eorth may
gain nothing materially from It's secession it gain:
win Il
rally by the secession exactly as England would lose
seven Of her richest agi cultura counties were swa
lowed up by the sea- may be that to the
New England States may arise the satisfaction
that they will have fewer Shareholders in
tinction Of slavery may float before some eyes. But
without any hope Of the extinction Of slavery think
out in the North the old wish 70 mitigate slavery into
kind Of pariarchal servtude may ar again In Virginia
and Kentuckyas prevailed forty and nfty years ago
itself the freedom from eli irritation and fear Of negro
risngs provoked by Northern ncendisries will induce
much mider laws and regulations for the negro race
from the London Times, March,
the Lucretiau pleasure derived from witnessing In
calm security the struggles of tempest comrades
land has been highly favored during the past twelve
month. The winter Of 1859 90 set in with storms
lent - 70 remind antqnares Of the desolatng tornadoes
which preceded the Black Death in the 14th century
Summer came, but with Wild and lowering shy and
every symptom Of atmospheric disturbances, and tho de-
ess marked throughout Tho '; year 1885, o. OF the
i've great European Powers three have been btDily
occupied in securing Themselves against danger By
organic changes while Italy has undergone the greatest
moral convusion recorded in tie whole Of hpy
eventful history. OF all the countries, however,
much SO hing as America To Judge by the ruin It HIS
wrought there the vortex Of the cyclone muss have
s hs
appear very alarming The destructive agency seems
to become Intensified as its sphere becomes rzofe
party in the soafh making every cn0rt to prec,pt
tate the crisis and commit the seyea Confederate
ciilatory proposals from the new President or becom,
conscious OF their own isoatiok The extra sheets OF
Amsr;sn IL sxcrTrssnsy small
against Tie Union road Of the federal laws relating
New Orleans, and the FREQ navigation Of the Mis-
sssippi abrcgated BY Louisiana; Of beasons and
sells captured and revenue cutters Voluntary sur
rendered by their OILERS; OF federal buildings
converted to statc PURPOSES q public money apropr
ated; Of wholesale treason among officials Of ga 1ysem
Of espionage newn only .othe dcspotic governments Of
the Old World In short Of every enormity whiei hot
headed men would commit IN the hope Of rendering The
conflict morta. and compromise impossible. Mr. DAwts
had the start of Mr. Lincoln he has already suggested
soubsess claim the o. the a,he csnn
federacy by foreign nations before his rivals scheme for
controlling desperate men without boodshed, whatever
II moy prove to DO, can have o fair trial.
In spite of all these threatening appearances and tfe
unfortunate advantage given to- the party Of dsunon by
think detoct symptoms Of reaction in cert,xAi
particulars which have reached us By the last mall Ia
the Senate TO the House Of Representative so mutate
and patched with hundred and fsy amendments that
.I ss
session. At the Februasy go the present Con-
tain that its SUCCESSOR which viii not be assembled till
next December will contain larger element Of free
Wo do not say tia thetde hnstarned but say that
matters Just ss state which imposes very grave
.ssponsbity on iresaiy AND on Great
elves against the CONSEQUENCE OF the revolutionary
movement 50 far 6 shey affect this island without treat
instance by tho wrath Of New York contemporary from
cooking for sources Of Gotten supply and drawing If
MAJ ufac from ruin os the oher hama,
0nno fail to see, and Il is dssy u paint ot, the
isu,i Faro ,ean rade from Bos5n ana Ne~ Tork %
1 on al ID Nec Orleans 1kesc are matters Of business
nae I a Is ogus s Sy ssmm o But let
w. Lincoln show himself equal 10 the occasion, and lot
sa capable Of
con becom evident on which side English sympathies
20 engage d. . We know too well how rare
the ms trucsive genius In politss, and how small
proporth Of the Infant communities that Western
laope has planted In the four quarters of the world
arrive At maturity, to think lightly Of such loss TO
civilization Even from the commercial point of view
not blind enough to suppose that shcnd gain
the Gt ntegraton of the american Union into such
rae ment as Mexico the South American republics.
There .disun,onists cn@ts side OF the water
Every English merchant who has Thought at ali about
The matte haS voted for Lincoln In hts heart, and the
relief tina wlbe felt in America, he should succeed
In healing ue'wocnds Of hg country, viii bo shared by
many VINO lave very imperfect notions OF the ssc.of
Washington and Montgomery, end would ba puzzled
distinguish ,he orscd OF delaocEstsron that,Of rspIo
lcan.