The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-16

ton Of Europe; therefore must go to work. and
within years may surpsss the slave States This
ne sra four o. r the o~ sssssics II Enosi.A WORK
men could make out 70 hoe; during that
time the English manufacturers could maintain
their ground ana not be drYen Of the markets but IT,
will not easy avoid these deporable consequences
and thus the question still remains In al its ominous sig
niicance.
TO cap the climax Of misfortune circumstance has
CURED which threatens TO embron with
the Southern States named Anderson fed from
his master citizen OF Missouri and took refuge In Ca
NADIA. Touching free SOIL the slave became free man
The master claimed him, and the State Of Missouri do
manded from Canada the property Of OF its citizens
This would not be OF any consequence II were simply
question is complicated. Anderson is not de-,
manded as fugitive from labor, but murderer, and
the extradon treaty concluded in 1S43 explicit on this,
point The question has the Court os
Queens Bench IN England and appears 70 embarrass "
considerably the pronounces in favor of extra
don asave is returned TO his master free
consigned to slavery and ell the phanthropiss in En-
treaty clear and be violated this occasion TO,
from the yoke man who has lived for seven years
the free soil Of Canada and who became a murderer
only himself from arrests BY declaring against
the negro they outrage public opinion by declaring for
to become Power and which produce cotton The sa-
cond dilemma not less formidable than the first and
shows how vexaous this American question will become
for England.
They have no hope but In the reconciliation OF the
Northern and Southern States, at least in the tempo
raIy patching up Of the Union The Times however,
does not indulge this hope and believes that IL the
threatened disunon is carried out thoroughly the South
will have the advantage over the North. The slave
States have immense natural advantages. They bold
the mouth of the Mssissipp the Missouri, the Ar
theirs All the riches Of the New World are found
among them-the climate the soil and the minerals.
If Southern republic is formed, it will assuredy surL =
pass the other in power and eventually become the ar
questions which agtate the world at the present moment
we have the American question II does not excite much
e on ns side Of
probably does not all 1t thinks on the subject They
admit that the destruction Of the Union threatens En-
glsh industry; do they imagixe tha does not reate
Cosada slsoS very possible the free States win
seek on that side for their losses and thus
new troubles may arise for Europe and America
An English View OF the American Crisis.
from the London Times, Jan. 70
The events which have asunder the great Amsri-
can confederation yet too recent and the materia
which opinions formed too uncertain and ds}
putabe, to allow anything like a calm historical view Of
this memorable transaction. AS the ragedy-of which
Of south Carolina, Florida, Alabama and aississpp~sd
vances in complication and intensity, expect to
ses ssS
parts which they have long studied and II the North has
been taken by surprise the South has evidently boon
pletey organized and prepared We about enter
contingencies which the first planners of this movement
could not possibly foresee and shall be able divine
the true significance OF the past much better from
actions and words which arise the spur Of the moment
Still the time s come when ought not TO con6ne
at the sudden disruption Of fabric apparently founded
solid basis, but should endeavor, even now, TO.
many other countries might have been quarrel easily
reconciled into breach which II ID evident c0mpro
mise concession is destined TO bridge over
First among these stands the form OF govern
men itself The election of President every yealsi
for raising and bringing to issue any question wh
parties may differ. Nothing lie 30 easy to associate
man with an idea and to make up your mind to regard
| the success or failure OF your candidate at en-
| election as equivalent to the success or faios
Of whole creed of political principles. 1t is bette!o
| no doubt that parties should contend In the peace
arena Of an election than in the field Of battle out
the excitement Of elections unreasonably multiplied and
involving the material interests OF large sections Of the
community who have or who hope for Office, may, by
their stimulating effect on party passions stir
conflicts which they Intended TO prevcnt. Let /.
be forgotten that the great federation Of America
has been shipwrecked the election OF the head G.
the Executive possessing right the obedi-
Of his fellow subjects except will Of the ma
jorty, has been repadiated by the minority There s
negation Of the infaiibty the majority sufces TO
strip the chief magistrate Of the State of all power
nearly half Of its citizens A second vice in the
American constitution has arisen from. the original
differentiation a. TO tho duties Of the electors
who stand between the citizens voting on uni
the belief of the founders Of the constitution that
election Of President would not be decided by tho vote
for appointing electors but by the deliberations Of tho
electors themselves. Between the two votes ample
period suffered to intervene, which was no doubt
hoped would be used the TO whom the people Of
the United States had delegated the power Of choosing
the President in making all requisite inquiries to
devised this scheme did not allow for the enoroacng
spirit of democracy. They did not observe easy Il
d,date and thus eectuay to forestai their dsiibera
TONS II is curious to consider that the election of
President which has torn the American Union
not yet taken place and will not take place for month
from this time But this antedatng the election by four
months has far serious consequence IL introduces
into the American government every four years most
dangerous nterregnum-a species Of twilight between
the Getting Of one President and the rising Of his
cessor. During this period, which legislator would
puposey have created, the powers Of the State d
vided, and tho minds Of men distracted between tho
actual tenant OF office and his designated and expected
successor between the man who yields the power apf
patronage Of the government and the whom ~
vove. II would not have been difficult for speculat
writer to predict that ruin overlook the
omened interregnum that the plague would break OUT
The man who is the CHOICE Of the majority is withov
place or power for the moment. The whs
is possessed Of place and power has been rex
pudiated by the voice Of the nation. Nsvea
and De rs more sharply marked Where there Is poweT
there wanting all the elements that support
where there authority there withheld all means
and appliances Of power II IL easy what an OPP
poruny such state of things offers men desirous OF
overthrowng by force the constitution their country
II is just II il the that every Premier
who has been defeated vote of confidence by the
House Of Commons were obliged 10 hold Office for four
months after his successor was appointed. In sucb
ease what energy in action could expect from mar
which alone makes the exercise Of
beneficial had deserted him. and ranged on the
side Of his opponent To invest persons in such stua
ton with executive functions is TO countermine
object Of government and make head for the tim
being representative not Of the strength, but the weak
nees OF society These considerations should lost
sight OF in estimating the position OF Mr. Buchanan
he certainly needs all the and allowance that
most tolerant critic can suggest in his behalf He
his election TO the very Southern States who
open rebellion TO his authority and his friends haves
lett him in body rather than submit be employed ir
preserving the Union whose bread they have eaten and
whose official stations they have filed during the Last
four years. still more OF Mr. Buchanan principal
supporters while counsellng their States to secede,
tain their seats in the Senate Of the United states, ins
order by abuse OF the forms of the constitution,
impede the action OF the Executive in cocrcng tho Sout
10 obedience To break through these trammels the
duty of the President but every must feel how much
better the duty would be performed by the Northera
anti slavery republican Lincoln than by the Southern pre-
slavery democrat Buchanan.
stil when all this allowance has been made, VIC foar
IT Ia impossible 10 avoid the conviction that few mssa
called upon TO play great historical part have bes,