The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-02

selves slaves 10 the one idea, that our army, by
going South, will become inimical to slavery,
and join in the crusade against it in common
with the fanatics of the North. They look for
ward to the conversion of the soldery to aboli-
tionism with that species of hopeful joy which
only irrational enthusiasts are capable of feel
ing when their imaginations supply them with
the prospect Of realization of some base de-
sign. But in this case at least, they will meet
with nothing but disappointment, and the Sc
quel will prove to them that they are as de-
luded as they have ever been misguided.
Our army is composed, to great extent, of
gentlemen, and 1t is the tendency of the military
profession to develope the qualities of gen.
tleman, even in those who were deficient in
such before entering the service. As gentle
men, therefore, they will respect the rights Of
others under the constitution, and those of their
number who 60 South will, apart from any
prejudices they might have previously formed,
only require to witness the working of the
patriarchal system of servitude in order to be-
come decidedly pro-slavery in Their sentiments
They will see, as any impartial man Of ordinary
healthy, contented people-are in their proper
position under the existing rule Of domestic
servitude, and that they are fitted for no other;
that, indeed, any other would be as injurious to
themselves as it would assuredly be to the COM
munity of white men; that their emancipation,
tive sin to mankind, and tend to the speedy de-
generation of both races. They will therefore
keep the negroes in their proper place in the
social scale and make them work as they were
made to work. The whole army will be unan-
mously in favor Of this
Instead Of promoting the schemes Of the Gar
risons and Phillipses of the day, this insurrec-
ton in the Southern States will establish the in
stitution of Southern negro slavery on irmer
basis than it ever rested on before, and ut
terly defeat the Vaccinations Of the worst enc
mics Of this republic, who have been for
thirty years plotting its destruction. 1t is
therefore great mistake for the politicians Of
the North to indulge in any fresh abolition alb
stractions with regard to the effect of the North
ern army coming in contact with the slaves.
They may rest assured that they have no hope
in this quarter, and that the army, if they have
occasion to take care of the blacks, will use
them to the same good purpose as their
masters.
Some of these abolition agitators tell MS that
the negroes will become very popular in tie
army and be regarded as so many idols carved
in ebony in the image of the Almighty, and
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to deliver from the yoke Of their so-called OPP
pressors But this is simply nonsensica. The
case, as we have shown, will be exactly the re-
verse
Had it not been for the poitico-abolition
conspirators of this country, originally acting
under the evil inspiration Of the Puritan party
in England, this rebellion would never have
taken place; for it was their Vaccinations that
first aroused and afterwards fomentcd the seces-
sion feeling in the South. Two bitterly anita
gonistic parties were thus formed North and
South-the one determined on the extirpation
and the other on the maintenance Of slavery
and both equally regardless of disruption of
the Union, and looking only to their own
triumph. We see the result in the civil
war that now afllicts the land. one
good effect of which will be to sweep
away the demagogues who are responsible for
this disaster, and with them the corruption that
underlays their nefarous schemes The poiti-
cal ard social atmosphere of the country will
be purified by the war, and those who We're in
strumental in producing it, instead Of finding it
a source Of fresh political capital, as they an
ticipate, will soon discover it to be freighted
with the means of their own destruction; for
not vestige Of the rottenness which they were
so active in creating, and upon which they -four
ished SO long will escape or survive the search
ing and mighty ordeal through which the re-
public is now passing. Let them, therefore
calm their minds on the subject of ant-slavery
in the army, and rest assured that it will never
become the prey Of any such fanaticism. The
country has had far too much Of that already.
The ABOLITION CANDIDATE FOR MAYoR.--If any
voter of our city should still be laboring under
any delusion or uncertainty as to the abolition
proclivities OF Mr.. George Opdyke, one Of the
aspirants for the Mayoralty, he has only to re-
IcI W HIS lcSlSldtlNc TeCOTu OH inc question
the Personal Liberty bill of this State This bill
passed tie House of Assembly at Albany on
the Sth of April 1850, George Opdyke. then Il
member, having voted for it, 1t proposed to
violate and nullify the constitution of the
United States in regard to the return Of fugitive
slaves. and to abrogate the federal laws, courts
and officers. An adverse report was made
upon it in the Senate, signed by two republican
Senators, in which it was declared that the in
tent to defy the provisions of the constitution
could not be more evident. In consequence of
that report the bill failed to pass the Senate.
II the city Of New York will now elect to its
chief magistracy supporter Of the measure,
and an avowed advocate of abolitionism, it will
be thereby proclaiming to the world its adj
hesion to a political dogma which has been
argely instrumental in producing the present