Year: 1860

A correspondent of the New York Herald, writ
ing from Washington City, puts forth the follow
ing:


have reason to believe that important dipIo-
matte notes have been dispatched lately to Europe
from more than one foreign legation at Washington
predicting turn in American affairs, One of the
foreign Ministers informs his Government that a
temporary rupture between the States is unavoid-
able, and that in the reconciliation and reconstruc-
tion of the Union, the New England States viii be
left out. There are two causes which it is believed
in diplomatic circles will lead to this result-one,
the fixed determination Of the Southern people if
once free FROM never to be again politically united
with New England; and the other, the dislike of the
New England people themselves to have any fur
ther community of destiny with the slave interest.
\ Everything confirms these views. The conflict
OF the sections, accompanied by temporary rup-
ture lis mere question Of time, to be followed BY
civil war, or q reunion. The Central and Middle
States will bring about reunion and New Eng
land may possibly go over to Canada when Charles
Sumner will achieve the darling ambition of his
life, to-wit seat in the British House of Lords


The Washington correspondents of Northern
papers are famous for getting up sensation sto-
ries, and this is certainly one Of them We take it
for granted that the representatives of foreign ma
tions at Washington City are not in the habit Of
communicating to anybody the contents Of their
private dispatches to the Governments which they
respectively represent-stl less that they hunt up
correspondents for the press to inform them of all
their movements Ministers from foreign countries
who come to Washington are the most secretire OF
any class Of people on earth-necessarily SO, be-
cause this sone of the first elements and conditions
of successful diplomacy.


There is, therefore, no probability that this COR
respondent was possessed of the Information he
pretended to have, even il what he states were
true. But this latter is even less probable than the
former.


The idea that the dissolution Of the Democratic
party at Charleston will necessarily lead to disso-
luton of the Union, is undoubtedly the most ridicu
lous one ever conceived. The stability Of the
Union does not depend upon the Democratic party,
the Wing party, or any other party that has ever
lived in the past, will exist in the future.
When the Union is in danger, either really or seem
ingly, men forget all party allegiance and free
themselves from everything in the nature Of party
obligations. In 1850, when the Union was thought
to be in peril, the Wing leaders, Clay, Webster,
pearce and others, were found in cordial coopera-
ton with Cass, Dickinson, Foote and the first men
of the Democratic party. In the Southern States,
during the subsequent popular elections, Wings
and Democrats, forgetful of all past differences,
united together in close column in support OF the
Union ticket against the Secessionists. In times of
peace and quietude, there is usually steady ad-
herence to party organizations but as soon as the
tocsin of danger is sounded, the utmost rigors of
party law will not avail to keep the people from
forming new political combinations. ste5


The capital error which this correspondent COM
mits is the assumption that the New England
States are Indifferent to the Union on account Of
the existence of slavery in the South. This is a
great mistake. The people of New England are
undoubtedly hostile to slavery. They have been
educated to believe it great evil-and in obe-
dience to a code of ethics which prevails nowhere
else on earth that we know of except in New Eng
land, and which enjoins upon people the duty Of
intermeddling in other peoples affairs that do not
concern them, they are willing to extinguish
slavery in the South if it can possibly be done.
And some of them are not scrupulous as to the
means of accomplishing the object. But that this
sentiment makes them Indifferent to the Union and
careless of its preservation, is grand error. The
Union is far more valuable in an economic point
Of view, to the North than to the South-far more
valuable to New England than to any other sec
ton of the country. And the people there have
sense enough to know it. They know that they
produce comparatively nothing to export to for.
eign countries. They know that if left to their
own resources alone, without the remainder of the
Union for a market, they would have sad time Of
| it. They know it is the Union that not only gives
protection to their manufacturing interests, their
ship-building and their fishery interests--but ena.
bles them to profit by the surplus wealth of the
whole nation, created by the agricultural produc-
| tions of the Southern States All this they know
and hence it is disunionist cannot be found in the
ranks of any party in all the New England States
They hate slavery and to forget that ii is the
| indirect means Of their own prosperity. But as
much as they dislike slavery, their love of the Union
outweighs it all. If the question were submitted
to them to-day whether to go out Of the Union, OF
to stay in it with slavery perpetuated for all time
to come their decision in favor of the latter propo
s:tion would be overwhelming If not unanimous.
Nor do we agree with this writer as to the disso
luton of the Union being mere question of time
1 We believe the Union is destined to become
/ stronger with every succeeding year. And why
Because the North is rapidly finding out, year by
year, how valuable the Union is to that section o
the country. They are discovering that it is the
| South which furnishes the material wealth of the
country, and maintains the national credit and the
national prosperity by her exports The Nortl
1 HAS everything SstiH ny u SoheihaSa utAidAot
with the South, and everything to lose by disrup
/ tion--and this fact is becoming more manifest, day
| by day. As for the South, she will not dissolve
the Union if let alone with her institutions and pro
i tected in the enjoyment Of equality of rights witt
the other States under the Federal Constitution
j The North will quickly yield the guarantees thu
South demands, when convinced that the existence
of the Union depends upon her compliance. Cot
ton is stronger than all the caucusses and all th'
Vaccinations of the politieans-for cotton is til,
source of our national wealth, and Edmund Burkt
said, and said truly, the revenue is the State"
4 RATIFICATION MEETING IN ALABAMA,-A dis
patch of Saturday last from Selma, Ala, says:


There was grand mpromptu rally here las


night, to respond to the glorious news from Balti
| more.


The nomination of Bell and Everett was cord
ally ratified.


Speeches were made by Messrs. Byrd, Phillip
4 and Frow, Whigs and by Alex. White and J. w


Lapsley, who have recently been acting with tn


Democrats.
Guns were fired aud great enthusiasm prevailed


Middle Alabama is strong for the Union.


Runaway NEGRoEs-When the Massachusett


delegation to the Democratic Convention goes t
Baltimore, on the 18th of June, people who ow


slaves there would do well to keep an eye npo


them {the slaves) or they may be run Off. Th


steamer which took them down to Charlesto


seems to have driven quite a brisk business in tha


line True. the delegation had their vessel stoppe