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THK POLITICAL BzKv0GUFION e,F
TEzE NORTH!

HAE POLITICAL BEEVOEsUFNON eBl
TAE NORTH
From the unpublshed sheets Of De Bows Review !
Ia what idees-whst pTinoiples, what feeling
/. this revolution is founded, must be first asee
tsiDed, before It's bearing upon the issue
peace, or war, can be defred and the recel
remarks Of Mr Richard O'Gorman. and Of N
John Van Buren,, in the presence Of the D Dsno,
Tacy Of the State Of New York, open mp man
reflections on the gubiect in the mind aequaiute
with the social structure Of the North and III
political tendencies Of its restive and uRbsl
lAseed communities.
The structure of Northern society is aggrsga
fioAal Ike that Of France, and not iadividual, lk
that of England; and its political Tendencies
have been, far macy years past, Ike those 0
France rather than those of England, toward
esntrAlization and an imperial system of gov
eminent The revolution Of I776 at the North
IS with that, afterwards, Of I7s9 ia France
sloughed Of from society The sristoerasicsl els
ment, and frou government the m0naTchica
element. snd, on he one hand, leveled down to-
fabric Of society to the standard Of the masses
and. On the other hand, reduced the form c
government to the model Of Democracy. From
the North, as we'll ss from France, were swept
all conservative principles eiviIly and politically
alike in regard 70 Church and to Safe, giving
birth to the crude PHILOSOPHY Of speculative
minds, and to the wild humanitarianism of the
wilder rabble; and to this day life in the one is
ghsFseterixed by the same features with life in
.-E- frs d 6, l..
the 'sside, in the family circle; but life in the
street. 10 the croud, st the thestsr ct the opsra
In the hotel, or in hired lodgings i-lifs uitAOus
Tsss-encs for God, or Fespeot for nan ;-ac tive.
rssiive, unstable, and withoat fixed ideas in
morals religion, poiitics, or law ;-ieOzOclastie
and get not Tsf0THat0rg
Napoleon Bonspayts, with an analytic power
of thought never surpassed, soen discovered in
France that democracy 50 extensive could not
mdntsiu selfexistence; but that return to
the monarchy Of Louis XIV was impossible,
since there remained neither sn hereditary sris-
tocyacy, nor church establishment for 1t tn rest
upon. and consequently that the system Of the
Inperator-0fths CGsaT-hoding the sword as s
scepter, and Constituting place the patent of no
bility. was the only refuge of society: and
taking sdvsntsge Of the war that followed with
the rest ef Europe, be mounted the l0ftiest
throne Of modern times. The struggles that
hsve since occurred in France, terminating in
the empirical system OF Louis Napoleon. demon
strates the correctness Of the view Of his great
progenitor, c0inciding ss it does with that Of the
great Julius entertained, under similar circum-
stances in regard to Roman aff sirs and realiz ID
in Augustus that Hui5rrsqi democracy IN a
StGts constitutes the tTs basis Of imperial deSpOt
ism that, instead Of peDeeting people IN self
COVsrzHleHt, u merely prepares them for the
efytsHcs Of q ProPer master.
ard political truth, thus evoked from the chaos
Of human sffsirs by the two mighfest minds
that have ever adorned existence, and 50 grandly
applied IN the worlds history, is as imiReBt in
the North through the civil war now raging bs-
tween lie sections, as Il was iu Rome when Cas-
Ear after wrestling with Pompey. stood in every
eye or in France, when Napoleon, after crush
ing the proud Austrian, stole awsy the public
heart Nor is it the frst time that we have sllu-
ded to the fact We have tine aud sgain called
attention 70 its existsnce, and warned the people
EsrtL, as well IS South, against the designs
Of Black RepH5lieGHiSm aAd The aims Of HTllsGm
n SstsaTd" As early as February and Mtrch
1857, and again in March, 1860, through the
columns of DsBOis's ReUicU, and other sources
Of intelligence, We invited special consideration
20 tie social and political stat1s of the North, to
she dread issues upon the country, and TO the
imperious purposes Of Seward and the0iher lead
Lincoln administration has realized, is realizing,
and will realize our Httersnces. 1t has not only
perfected revolution and generated civil war,
but, through the war, it Is Tspidly preparing the
road 10 an empirical system aud en- imperial des
y,otism. Il is well known 70 Seward that 81
may be accomplished al the North, as C@ssr &C
complished Il az Rene, in the manner set forth
fa March, 1860. IeithOHt ths alteration Of RePub-
lscos titles or RepRbliean forms. Il is perfectly
4 h-E fhrt ff1lza oF1ir-
= eonsElsr-uibune that is, 8 chief magistrate
and commander. ia chief clothed with tribunitisl
powsr, and, therefore, hat President may Be
ssms CGsaT-
Have these ideas at last taken root in tha
thoughtful minds Of the North, is the question
Have ibev entered into the recent elections there
and controlled fbe action Of the Democratic party
gTogerf Let the speeches Of Mr. Richard o.
German and Of Mr. John Ven BureTl, together
with the editorials Of the Chicago Times and
Of other kindred sheets, snswer; for no other
answer can we of the South have. If they evi-
Sence the fact that the Democrats masses Of the
North have taken alarm for the safety Of their
liberties, then there is reasonable ground te hope
that this war cannot be prolonged; that II can
neither be constitutionslly nor unconstitutiOn-
ally conducted, for to conduct it at all win be
simply to work change Of masters to them,
and whether the South be suhiugsted or not,
So IT, on the contrary, these productions are
20 b. read merely in the light Of party tactics,
and Nnly evidence the triumph Of party in op-
position 10 the administration, the wsr viii be
continued without abatement until Cesar
Skal arise and tks liberties Of the tOsi
fsreUsr For the sake Of humanity it is 10 be
hoped that The FIRST is ths right Interpretation,
and that the masses Of she North are awaklng
10 3 fear for their liberties They would be, in
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IonPer blind 70 The danger With which they are
threstensd BY the property holders Rud mouied
CLASSES In their midst, wko, ii is well known,
were foremost for the war, and who still stand
with open parse, dsuntlessiy, By the side of Sew
ard and Lincoln IN its prosecution, doubtless
trusting that through lis instrumentslty the
government nasy be finally EnbveTted, and that
the unlimited gway OF the people, through The
law Of universal suffrage now obtaining, may be
eurthiled by the sword and subjected to a .des=
pot Of their selection. .---
And have not the property holders ard mon
led tsssses Of the North good reasons to enter
tain tbGse designs against the masses When
she politic&l constitution Of Northern society Is
considered. a2d the action Of the n0n-property
holding classes against the property holding and
noUled classes is remembered, csndor c0opeis 3
reply in the afirmstivs Estimating the populs-
lion Of the North, in round numbers, at twenty
two millions, only two millions Of the whole
number posses property interests. Against
twenty millions an execution for debt cannct be
levied, SO email IS their title to property. Twenty
nilliens stand ia tbs condition Of day lsoorers
supplying, by the work Of Their hands AL the
needs and exigencies Of themselves and fami-
hes, includinR rent, rsiment, fsel, ns1ieine, and
dnedieal attendsuce. But through their e0asffV-