The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1860, Page 4

4 — NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1860, NEW YORK HERALD. —— ‘The Republicam Policy of Coen tn: Resucr ov max Fuarrve Stave Case at To Mr. Lincoln is represented as having, in p€ivate | ronro.—Our readers will recollect that « short pervading spirit of the constitution—an! the submission of those amendments to Conventiow® $16, and prime at $10 60. Sugars were in somewhat bet- ter request, chiefly for refining. Grocers ina measure The Duty of the President Elect at This Crisis Considered. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPTIOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 813. TERMS, cash in advance. Money risk of the'tender. “None but Bark ba) conte , 81 per annum. pe DAILY HERALD. two | seas sheet EEK |ALD, every See elke Ruropean Ration Bille current in New ¥ Of the Comtinenty both ry, my part h Batra elidon on the lot Lith, and BL of each month, at ix Weinenlay, at four conte per conde por cope, oF 91D per a ids eae y HERALD, PH ER CORRESPONDENCE, containing importa PasPicULARLY ReQUESTKD TO SKAL ALL AGES SENT Us WYO NOTICE laken of anonymous correspondence. We do not fenced every day; advertisements in- seted im the WHEKLY Hunan, FAMuLy Hxwaup, and inthe sro rejected Com muss UD VERTISEMENTS venta and European Edition. JOB PRINTIN patch, it will be at the sant by mari ihe ‘executed with neatness, cheapness and de- were out of market. The sales embraced about 376 a 400 hhds. Cuba, for refining, part at 4%c. a 6c. Grocery grades wore nominal. Coflee was quict and trangactions small. Freight engagements were moderate, including corn at Liigc. in bags, and wheat at Ilic. a 22k. for bulk and bags. Flour was at 26. 3d. and cheese at 48. 54. To London some flour was engaged at 38. 10Kd., and 1,000 boxes of cheese a4 50s. (oF $3 per vnnumn the We vs aoe centa per copy, $4 per annwm tone part Goes Brivats, Southerm Secession Conventions—South Carolina Leads Of To-day. The State Convention of South Carolina, charged with the fearful responsibility of a ‘eitthe | new Declaration of Independence in behalf of MrT paid yor. a@r OK Fouxion CounxsronpENoe ane us AND PAGK- that Commonwealth, meets at Columbia, the State capital, to-day. The members of the Con- vention are said to be unanimously in favor of an ordinance declaring the State absolved from all further connection with, and allegiance to, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Hamuet, BOWERY THBATRE, Bowery.—Sracoise & Rooen's Equvernian Trovr®. 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Our readers are referred to our news columns for copious despatches bearing on the momentous it was reported in Washing- eral Scott had resigned question of the day. ton late last night that G his position as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, in consequence of a disagreement with the Presi: dent on the proper course to be pursued in the present state of affairs; but this report needs con. firmation. first only supposed to be appointed ad interim and his nomination will be sent in to the Senate A consultation of the New York delegation in Congress was held yester- to-day for confirmation. day in Washington, but the proceedings were no! made public. the secessionists. ly expected. The South Carolina Secession Convention meets expected that it will at Columbia to-day, and it promptly pass an ordinance dissolving the connec tion of that State with the Union. In another co- lumn we publish a list of the delegates to the Con- vention. Wendell Phillips yesterday delivered his lecture on “Mobs and Education’ in Music Hall, Boston audience. The Chief of Police, with a large de tachment of his force, was present; but beyond applause and hisses, no manifestations were made by the anditors during the delivery of the lecture, When Mr. Phillips lett the ball he was followed through the streets by a great throng of people, who hooted, yelled and groaned after him. The police and the friends of Mr. Phillips, however, ’ Hall, 472 Broad- HALL, 66% Broadway.—Sonas, December 17, 1860, Mr. Black is to continue in the posi- tion of Secretary of State, to which he was at The hall was packed by an anxious and excited the general government of the United States, and protesting, for all time to come, against any reunion with the non-slaveholding States, in any contingency or upon any terms whatso- ever. It is generally believed, too, that within the next three days some such ordinance will be passed, and that the State Legislature and ber exceutive authorities and people will there- upon instantly proceed to action under their new national responsibilities, limited in the outset to the boundaries of South Carolina. As in all great revolutionary agitations, it is the first decisive step in the way of revolution- ary action that is most dangerous to the cause of peace. It is not surprising that the friends of the Union, North and South, should feel the importance of arresting, if possible, this revolutionary act of secession on the part of South Carolina. To this end our late city Union meeting has detailed Hon, Millard Fillmore, Judge Bronson and Mr. Richard Lathers asa com- mittee to proceed to South Carolina, in order to urge upon her State Convention the proprie- ty and expediency of delaying a little this at- tempted act of secession. We presume, too, that some of the members of a National Com- mittee of Conference, recently appointed at a public meeting at Trenton, New Jersey, are now on their way to Columbia, and that dis- tinguished visiters from other Northern States, and official commissioners or volunteer dele- gates from many Southern States, will con” tribute to give to that quiet and charming lit- tle city the strange faces, solemnities and bustling manifestations of a revolutionary as- semblage. But we have no hope frem these peace commissions at Columbia of any influ- ence over the action of the Convention. We expect that within the next three days South t Mr. Wade, of Ohio, is to address | Carolina will stand before the world in the at- the Senate to-day on secession, and it is supposed that he will be very violent in his condemnation of An exciting time is consequent- titude of an independent nation, and quite as ready to appeal to the red right hand of war as to listen to the counsels of peace. Following in the wake of South Carolina, the other “cotton States,” which are shortly to try, each for itself, the direct question of se- cession in a State Convention, are Florida, January 3; Alabama and Mississippi, the 7th, Texas, the 8th (called by a sort of popular spontaneous combustion, in default of a call upon the Legislature from the anti-secession Governor, Houston); Georgia, the 9th, and Louisiana the 23d of the same month. A special session of the Legislatures each of Virginia and Tennessee meets on the 7th Janu- ary upon the question of a State Convention; and from all these and other State movements the reader may perhaps be able to comprehend the length and breadth, the strength aud mo- succeeded in protecting him from the crowd and | mentum, of this Southern last resort of disunion getting him safely to his house. John Brown celebrations for the present. A rumor was prevalent yesterday that a mob would attack Plymouth church, Brooklyn, in the Beecher would p discourse. police officers were detailed in and about the building; but notwithstanding the immense crowd ance. their services were not called into requisition. A sketch of Mr. Beecher's sermon, together with the incidents, will be found else- where. Atthe morning service in Mr. Beecher's church a collection was taken up in aid of the sufferers in Kansas, In our Washington despatch will be found some late and interesting news from Mexico. The parti. suns of Miramon had appropriated to their use some $300,000 worth of the church property in the capital to assist them in their defence of the city aguinst the liberalists. Juarez had raised a loan of $600,000 for the assistance of the latter in carrying on the siege. The New York City Tract Society held jts thirty- fourth anniversary meeting last evening in the church corner of I'wenty-first street and Fifth ave- nuc. The receipts during the last year have been $16,205 75, and the expenses, $17,109 96-—Jeaving a debt of $904 5 Rey. Thomas 8. Hastings, Rev. F.G. Clark and Rey. William Hague made elo- quent appeals in behalf of the society, as on ac- count of the present hard times the poor of this city wil require a large amount of assistance aad relief. The annual meeting of the Teachers’ Association was held on Saturday evening, when the following were chosen officers for the ensuing y: —Presi- dent, Samuel M. Perkins; Vice President, Charies H. Kimball; Corresponding Secretary, Wm. P- Harrison; Librarian, Wm. A. Owens; Treasurer, Henry C. Martin. The customary annual reports were read, showing the Association, now in the seventeenth year of its existence, to be in a flourishing state. We learn from Mr. Albertson, mail agent, the beautiful residence of General Sonis te Davies, located in Mansion square, Poughkeepsie was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night at twelve o'clock. The flames were first diaco- vered issuing from the upper part of the building, and had made such progress before the firemen arrived that all their efforts to save it from de- struction proved unavailing. The furniture in the jower part of the house was mostly saved. The origin of the fire is unknown, but supposed to have canght from some defection in the heaters. Lone from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. Pally insured. We also learn from Mr. Albertson that the Hud- son is now firmly closed from Al! down Poughkeepsie. South of that city ore is fal of beavy, floating ice to a point Opposite Pier- _ Bia bee ae Of & few miles between ‘est Point ‘ort Montgor poses atgomery, which is still ‘The cotton market continued frm on Saturday, witha The Union men of Boston are determined to compel the abolition- ists to keep more shady, and hence the latter have concluded, it is said, to postpone any further ch another violent anti-slavery A posse of two hundred Metropolitan and a separate and homogeneous Soathern con- federacy. We may safely say that, with any- ing like emphasis and uniformity in the work cession on the part of the “cotton Stetes,”’ it will be much easier to precipitate all the other slave States into the same movement How, then, can this Union be saved or re- stored? With South Carolina once outside the Union, how are we to arrest the anticipated ge- neral stampede of the cotton States in the same direction? The President in power has failed to point out the remedy for this violent Southern epidemic; the President elect, standing back upon his dignity or his perplexity, continues as dumb as an oyster; the House Committee on the Crisis sits from day to day, like a consultation of quack doctors over @ patient in the col- lapse of the Asiatic cholera. Is there any hope? A drowning man will catch at a straw. tor Toombs, from the central camp of the Georgia secessionists, thinks that it is possible, by amendments to the constitution, to save the Unio. He suggests a trial with the republi- eans {11 Congress, and a little delay. He would bare the act of secession on the part of Geor- giw dekerred till the 4th of March. There mug bes mething in these hints worth more to the country than all the gold and silver mines on the fove of the globe. But as the great Southern incentive to dis uniov‘is this @vershadowing republican party of the North, w ith its- watchwords of eternal hostility to the e. tension of slavery, the first necessity for the | ‘niowis the abandonment by that party. of that r evolttionary ides. Nor will the crisis admit'of t urther delay. If Mr. Lin- {con would be Ptesic ent of these United States, .as they now stand, he an“his party must come down from their Chica 7o platform, and recog- nise slavery and the “ yslave oligarchy,” not as outlaws to be expelled fromthe Union, but as institutions indispensable to the maintenance of tte Union. Is ikis expecting, too much? We fear so, and that the proces dings of the present we sk in Congress will show that the hatred of | the republican party against Southern slavery is si Snger than thir love for the Uniom Gr pated, then, that South Carolina will se- cede, and that several other “cotton States” will speedily follow her example, what is to be done tot reclaim them? The answer to that question’ ‘bas been suggested by Senator Toombs, But in thé meantime there is a dan- gerto be feared and guarded against, apart from whicl \ secession is a mere abstraction as harmless as °® passing cloud. That danger is civil war, The attention of our reaponsible peacemakers *bould. be especially directed to this danger, ar “4 to the ways and means of for- bearance, indui Wenee and coneiliation, required fair demand from the trade. The advance from about the lowest point sinee the panic set in has been from 1c to Ke. per Ib. During the depression Mitdiing uplands sold at 9%c.; to-day they closed at about 10\6. « 10\c., according to style or quality. The sales reached about 1,600 bales, Flour was leas active, and without change of moment in prices. For cash sales wore dim. ‘Cult to make, except at a low range of figures. Southorn Sour was in good request for shipment to the Weat indies, and prices closed with firmness. Wheat was firmly beid, while sales were moderate. and chiefly without changes of ‘moment in prices. Corn was heavy, with a fair amount of aales, closing at lower rates Pork was heavy and lower. while the saioe embraced old mess at $15 62%, new do. at to prevent aecee won from expanding itself into civil war. To th end Congress shonld at once roceed toconsid: the legislation necessary, not fe wilestar Bet \th Carolina back into the Union, but the leg Wiation required to prevent that first bloody col. limon between the State and the federal vent, which may burry us headlong into the + *votutionary anarchy of Mexico. © mye the Union from is fot too late to save war Tt may be too tate t dismemberment, but it us from the horrors of ci ‘Thou, too, sail on, O, ship of State! Longfelow's poem, “The Ship.” The black republican journals, which have hitherto painted passing events en coleur de rose, now are forced to admit that the result of Lin- coln’s election to the Presidency is the great national panic we are, throughout the States, suffering from. The continued aggravation on the part of the Northern States against the slaveholding States of the South—their bitter invective, their keen taunts, their incendiary abolitionism, their daring nullification of the Fugitive Slave law passed by Congress—have, during a period of a quarter of a century, at last stirred the inde- pendent and chivalrous Southerners to a point where resistance is demanded as a duty they owe to themselves as co-citizens of this great republic, and where passiveness would be but another name for cowardice and utter lesa of self-respect. They now demand the rights gua- ranteed to them by the constitution, and have solemnly resolved that unless these be obtained in their fullest sense they will secede from the Union, at latest, on the 4th of March noxt. From this antagonism between North and South has arisen a crisis, rapidly prostrat- ing every energy of commerce and it dustry, crippling the banks throughout the Union, driving merchants into bankruptcy, throwing thousands and tens of thousands of the industrial classes out of employment, and that, too, at the commencement of along and severe winter; causing the loss of millions in the depreciated value of all kinds of public stocks, and reducing the market value of United States stocks lower than any vious crisis has effected since the war of 1812. This is the cause, and this the result of that cause. No man can to-day close his eyes to the monstrous fact, and thousands of honest minded but wickedly misled men, who were in- duced to vote for Lincoln in the delusive and shallow hope that such action would inaugu- rate haleyon days throughout the land, are now in the deepest destitution and despair, mourning over their unwise acts, which are now beyond recall, But the grand questions now in the hearts of all—perhaps excepting the rabid demagogues and traitors to the noblest principles of Ameri- can virtue—are, ‘How can this great evil be remedied?” “how can the plague be stayed?” “how can we preserve the unity of the States and keep this great republic before the world in its integrity and in its majesty?” Congress is moving in it, but with tardy and uncertain steps. Patriots are using their voices and their pens in the noble effort to save the Union. Journals that are not venal and corrupt are using the mighty power they wield to teach the nation wisdom. But it is at this moment in the power of one man—the President elect, Abraham Lincoln—to do more than cari be accomplished by all these infla- ences combined, Neither the elevated station to which he has beet? “onstitutionally elected, nor his country’s claim oy him as an American citizen, dare he disregard, per can he absolve himself from the responsibility he is under to discharge the duty now imperiowsly demanded of him by the solemn exigencies of the times. We have shown already that Mr. Lincoln is “a purely sectional President”—that he recety- ed, out of 4,700,000 votes cast, but 150,000, and that if he had encountered but ou com- pctitor he would not have been elected. We have shown that the popular vote gave a mill- lion against the Chicago platform; and a mik lion more to-day, who were entrapped into vot- ing the republican ticket, pow bitterly lament their folly and abjure the Chicago platform No Southern State voted for Mr. Lincoln. This platform, which “denies the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal exist- ence to slavery in any Territory of the United States,” is repudiated—cast out by such an overwhelming majority that it is stamped as a dead letter, and should bind no man. it were therefore idle for the President elect to assert for one moment that he is boand by it. He is the President of the whole repub- lic of the United States, and not the President of a section or of a party. What “party?” Democracy was rent asunder and prostrated before and during the contest at the election. The crisis created by the black republicans has called up a spectre of such frightful mien that they have fled in ail directions, and have no rallying point; and Mr. Lincola stands to-day as the President of the whole republic, with all ties to “ party” severed, and free to act as his exalted position and responsibility demand he should act, viz: to create from the ruins of two obsolete and adverse parties one—a Union party—strong, nay, overwhelming in its power; for tts source will be the affection and loyalty of citizens, breathing a prayer for the perpe- tuity of the Union at large, and whose amb- tion is to create a new era of fraternal peace and universal prosperity. We have reiterated our appeals to Mr. Lin- coln to step out from the seclusion of his re- tirement and proclaim to the North and to the South—to the whole counwy——to the world— the policy which will guide him in his adminis- tration. No fancied delicacy can now be con- sidered as influencing his silence since the Electoral College has acted and inevitably made him the Chief Magistrate over thirty-three millions of American citizens. We therefore again appeal to him to come forward, and to lose not a day longer in doing so. While he remains silent the devastation and ruin of the crisis are sinking deeper and deeper into the wealth and material interests of the country; and were he to declare himself, as the President of the whole republic, unshackled by party prejudices, and, while rendering to the North all—fully all—that is their due as an in- tegral part of the Union, hold out the olive branch of poace to the South, and assure them that their rights will be protected. and. their property be preserved to them in security as sacredly as the North hold theirs, we hazard no vain prediction that in one month there will be a calm on the troubled waters; that tbe discord now rampant will cease; and with the return of confidence the ruin that is now epreadiiag in extent and intensity will be stopped, and bright hopes of a happy future fill every breast. Let Congress instantly follow up such a de- claration with constitutional enactments to enforce its pledges and insure their per- manence—‘The adoption of. certain’ amend- ments to the constitution—in part explanatory and in part new, but all in. harmony with the or the Legislatures of the States for ratification within the courre of tke next two months.” Will the President elect heed the sound ad- vice we give him? We commend to him the proverb, “It is better to run back than to run the wrong way.” Will he act the part of a sec- tional President, and see the country ruined in its commerce and its industry—dismembered and resolved into three or four distinct govern- ments alien to each other—or will he have the moral courage to imitate the examples history sets before him? Let him search the records of America, and see with what bold daring Jackson, fired with a true patriot’s zeal, exclaimed, “I take the re- sponsibility;” or of England, and witness Sir Robert Peel submitting to the odium and sneers of his party in his abandonment of protection— preferring the welfare of his country to the eickly plaudits of his late party in and out of Parliament. In the history of all great men there is, usually, one grand opening for the ex- ercise of those great powers and nerve which God has given them to benefit mankind. Those who have at heart the love of country in its purity, and in its sterling integrity, win s name which is handed down to posterity encircled with glory and renown; but those whose indif- erence to their country’s weal, or circumscribed | minds, cause to shrink from high and noble | deeds, sink as far below the level as they could have risen above it. We again assert that the duty of Mr. Lincoln at thia moment is clear and defined. His re- sponsibility is great, and he cannot in honor shrink from so manifest a duty. There has per- baps never been, since the day of that pure mind- ed patriot, George Washington, any other Presi- dent called to rule over this vast republic who has had so glorions an ocension presented to him to create for himself undying {ame—to have the blessings of all true Americans—to have his memory revered by future generations, as the deliverer of his country from disunion, anarchy and disgrace—as Abraham Lincoln now holds within his grasp. To him we now, in all sober earnestoess, again appeal. As a public journal- ist, we have discharged our duty, and we abide the result with an anxicty commensurate with the mighty interests involved. Nortners Overturss TO THR SovTu—A Gizam or Liaut.—It is the opinion of many of our most prominent’men, in all sections of the country, that the settlement of the question of the day is in the hands of the North. Senator Toombs, well known: a6 an: extreme Southern mem, declares that the Union may yet be pre- served, provided the constitution shall be so amended as to guarantee protection to Southern property and security to Southern interests, He believes that the postpone action until after the Northern Legis- latures sball have bad an opportunity to act upon the obnoxious Personal Liberty bills: Mr. Gourdin, of South Carolina, has no faith in the presumed change of Northern sentiment since the election, and declares that the secession of South Carolina is a fied fact. But if South Carolina goes out alone, ard subsequently finds that there has been @ opinion, the inference is irresistible that the Palmetto State will return to the fold. As the matter stands now, South Carolina is past pray- ing for; her people have gone too far to recede without first trying the experiment of secession. Mr. Gourdin may be Lincoln must adhere to his party principles whether he will or no; elect dare to overlook the fact that his party was in an actual minority of a million ia the | popular vote; that over a million and a balf of the Northern people cast their votes aguinst the Chicago platform ; that his majority of a qaar- ter of a miBion in the free States has already disappeared, and that, judging by the local elections in Boston, Newburyport and otber black republican strongholds, that party is now in an agtual minority at the North? Sogif Mr. Lincoln anderstandshis duty to his country he will know that it is far swperior to his party obligations. and he will bow to the will of ahe people, as expressed at the polls. time the coaservattves of the North should spare no paias in werking up the opinion of our people upon a firm Union basis. like those already helt in Trenton, phia and this city, sould be gotten ap in ery considerable town in tie North The million and a half of people who wowed ogaim \t Liacoln have done only a part of their work s 6 patriot?, as Christiana amt a men. The fick? looks badly, but all is honor of our common country, let as all unite, heart and hand, to save it Seem destrnction. Asomuen Way TO Many of the Southerm pesgle argue that al- though the present organisation of the Senate, with a strong oppot ition majorit y to Liacoln’s administration, may prove @ bar toany extreme moasures, yet that there is a4 qreat fear that the complexion of t he Home, a nd even of the Senate, may be materially o aanged before long by the election s te-filk tie places of out- going members. The y eontemd also that as the tems of many Sens \tors expl re in 1863, the present organization continue for two year Now, in addition t sonal Liberty laws, the of the South im the Te: sion. of fresh guaranter ag measures of concil North, there is still an: Southern people can fealing and dispositic whieh may be very ea instance: seven North upon to elect each of those who will be next, namely, Maine (° by the eleetion of Ha: New York, Pennsyly Wisconsin and Califo one Senator from Island, Vermont, Mino expire in 1863, and soom be held ip eac eleven States voted fo | people desire to give t their conciliatory disy conecrvative man to their retiring Senator known, are on the & publicanism. By 30 conservative strength would effectually che sures on the part of ) besides giving » stron; that the Northern Stat and fair towards thee gonversation, excused himself for not coring | time ago a colored man was arrested at Toron- owt with a manifesto in the present crisis of t@ | to, Canada, under the operation of the Ashbar- coun‘fy, by observing that he has been talking’ } ton treaty. This man Jones, alias Anderson, on the sibject for the last six years, and if ; eseaped from slavery in Missouri, and while people have mot discovered what his politics | r\aning away killed a farmer named Digges, are before now, it is impossible for him, by | who attempted to arrest him. The State of anything he can add, to make himself better Missowri claimed Jones as # murderer, and, understood. His organs say that he is not yet after a full hearing before the highest court in President; that it will be time enough for him } the provinee, it has been decided that ho must to declare his views when he is inaugurated; be returmed to the authorities of the State from tbat he will then uphold the Union and carry | qrhich he escaped. Tho Canadian government out the laws, and that he and the republican | p as taken such precautionary measures as will party have nothing to change. re nder a rescue impossible, and, although the In view of the fact that in all humsn proba- sy mpathies of the Toronto people are with the bility several of the States mow in the Uniow | pra soner, the obligations of the treaty will be out of it on the 4th of March, the | wit) be respected to the letter. We meaning of the republican journals is that the | beg to call the apecial attention of our fature President of a fractured Union will re+ | binck republican friends to this case. Canada unite the parts by fire and sword, by blood- | iskmo wnas the especial asylum for runaway shed and rapine, by servile insurrection and 8. Already forty thousand slaves have all the horrors of a civil war between the North | sought. and found protection under the British and the South. But when it is taken into ac- |‘ flag. T v¢ Canadians contribute freely for the count that in the Presidential election on the | supporte ‘f the underground railway, and are 6th of November the popular vote stood | sincere sb litioniste. They hate the South bit- 2,821,874 against the republican programme, | terly, and, the South reciprocates that feeling with only 1,858,200 in its favor, it may be | tenfold. #4. ‘ll, when a case comes up where the fairly asked, from what source docs Mr. Lin- | law is om the ‘Side of 8 slave ashe Cerin j cola expect to derive the means ot coercion, | authorities & ° not hesitate to we oe in oe or what two-thirds of the people will be doing | promptexeews ‘on. They feel that ak ra —< while he, with the aid of one-third, is inaugu- | an existing law is enicidal. It wor wel i j of the Personal Liberty bills in rating a bloody civil war, which, if it ever | the originators: ‘a Ss his ubarent should be commenced, must signally fail in its [ the Northern Sta the people who. & ; the federal officer, 3 in the discharge of their du- bi ig ‘ition parsons who hold that The Southern people are of the same | ties, and the abel anbaa akae hia race as the men of the North—of the same | theslave hasasorte cas tee ab eA blood as the South Carolinians who manned | ter, should that mas eo se fa gd Fort Mowitrie and defeated the British at | escape of his slave, \ © 3° ay - : are ics Charleston in the Revolutionary War—of | thelr Canadian: friem 1 Mapes sag age the aame blood aa the brilliant Georgians, who | Which all of waren ” Salfering arise directly sat most othe re peal of the Per- at the same period fought 60 gallantly at the ih the majority of the North side by side with the people of New England—of tie same bleod with those who ended the seven years’ struggle with G at Yorktown—of the the British at New Orleans in 1815, in the most disastrous battle ever fought by the whea the Hartford Comwention in» New Eng- land muttered its treason against the Union, and is citizens held out blue lights on its coasts to “give aid and comfort to the-enemy.” The Southern men are of the same race with |' those Southern regiments and their com- |) manders who played so brilfiant a part in the the chivalry of Santa Anna, snd by their valer and their blood aided the North in winging California for the confederation, and ad@ing 700,000,000 in gold to the wealth of the Southern States should } country. matter: Americans are the most migra- tory people among civilized is nearly twenty-five per cent residing in States in which they were not born. the census of 1850 there were then residing in» the slaveholding States 726,450 revolution in Northern | were natives’ of non-slaveholding Suppoeing the iacrease in migration to population, and the wonderful developement of the enterprise of the country in the last ten years, there would'be new upwards of a million nd a half of Northern people residing in the Southern States. As-they are for the most part adults, a very large proportion of them an» connected by marviage and blood with the Southern population. Wilt the Northern States wage a war of subjagation or extermination against a people whe are thus not only of their right in deelaring that but will the Presidant of kindred? Cain's murder of his brot! could not be more heizx and man than such a war as this. Those who propose such a means of bring- ing back the seceding: States would be held up- to exeeration for attempting to subvert the peaceful, amicable unioe of voluntary communi- ties, founded by our ancestors, and turn it intoa military despotism to hol.bin bondage sovereign. States egainst their will. If this can be done in the United States, then no statesman doubt their speedy transition to an absolute. } monarchy. Shall not the spectacle of the crowned heads of Burope paying homage to liberty in permitting the petty States of Italy to decide by their own, votes from what other States they will break off} or with what others they will unite, put to shame the proposal of republicans in America to coerce into slavery free and independent communities of their own race and blood* ——— Tax Waster Canstvan at Ceytrat Park. — ‘The grund winter carnival at Central Park was fairly aud propitiously inaugurated on Satur- day, by # jovial company of twenty thousand people, and continued: yesterday by thirty thousand. more happy men and beys. The da were in fine condition, the skaters agile and skilful, and the amusement heartily enjoyed by the fying crowd. Sumdry large doses of good health tites inust have been taken home sates who participated tn the exciting p! a of the day, and. itis quite probable that the skating ponds wit do more \ of the city this winter than any hygienic pro- ores that could be devised. ‘The regulations of this portion of the Par appear to be admirable, contributing greatly to the safety and comfort of visiters. cold weather continmes-—aa it probably will for In the mea n- Philadel: | not yt lowt. For tho Heer ‘Pactricatos.—- of that body will oaly «recog ition of the rights viterio 4, and the conces- os to t) 1e Southern States, jatior , on the part of the other way by which the be ‘assured of the good nm ‘to do them justice, siky accomplished. For ‘ta States will be called ‘one Senator in place we to retire in March where @ vacancy occurs niin as Vice President), ania, Illinois, Ladiana, rmia; again, the terms of Massachusetts, Rhode | FP in the delightful exercise of skating will in- crease day by day, and many ® one will be heguiled from the gloomy contemplations whieh the present times beget while cutting through the bracing air like a bird. Fastixo, Hemmuatios ano Prarer—The ‘resident of the United States, in view of the esota and Michigan will | dreadful dangers of dissolution and civil hint elections will probably | pending over the country, has pam hb. Every one of these the people of the United States a day fasting, + Lincoln; and now if the humiliation and prayer. If we are not feos \ be South an assurance of the Convention which formed our present ral constitation, at a crisis of great dahger to fill iteelf, from conflicting counsels, wns saved 8, whose opinions, it is through @ motion of Dr. Miny. ace, fe 3 ctreme side of black re- | saving remedy of prayer. , then, may , doing they will give « fasting, humiliation and prayer save us now? in the Senate which | Fasting takes down self-conceit, humiliation ck any dsngerous . mea- takes down pride, and prayer brings repentance Lincoln's administration, t@uarantee to the South sa are disposed to be just results will surety follow from the disrespect with people of New England, ern States have shown’ land. When a law cam Britain by the capture of its army ceases to be of Binding’ & same blood with | when ome law is rendered! t those who defeated’ double their number of | lence theentire frbric falib nation trembles upen the vor, civil war. That is precisely disciplined troops of Old England, at atime | these United States: at presa | there is a thorough’ change* opinion of the North ihe Uniome be dissolved}. and the country’ p rained. Mexican war, whipping twice their number of | O'tio bonds, which were to be paidie ated. The General Assembly of Oto But there is another view t» take of tite |. December 31. posals for the new=loan were<invited bya nations, act) ft tisement and otherwise, and an agent was sent of the whole nafive born popvlation there | to this-eity to attend to the matter. No an aet (6th March, 1860) authorizing = * new loan, wherewith to pay off linbilitics dia ° after On: the 20th’ Noversber patted iver- According te | drawn, success The project has now been abamdo persons who} ed, aut States. | Mtate of. Ohio must wait for their money. the The people of Ohio have brought this South to be im the ratio of the increase of | maisfortune upon their own heads. Before ‘the ‘ato od well in the money market; they could. + ‘porcrow money readily at five per cent; but now they cannot get itat any price. Ohio gave forty- five thousand majority for Lincoln. Ohio: is the headquarters of the John Brown abolition- ists. Ohio. now suffers from the intolerance, higotry and fanaticism of the majority of: her citizens. ple of the State to reap the benefit of the sober: ; ly elated to them by the ties | second thonght, joeenoe mgr his tk Abel | the South and-averting the perils which threaten ons in the sight of God, } the ark of our safety, The full force of the Southern secession -move- ent, and the perilous condition of this.coun- try, have not yet broken on the: mind of the British people. Like many of our own people in the Northern States, they are skeptical, and are disposed to think that it will all blow over. “ can. | We have accounts from the London money market as late as December }, and the effect of the-news from this side was not very materially felt there. is true, and shipments of spscie to thin-country , commenced—the Europa bringing out half a million. in gold, and the Atlantic, now on hee way, bringing more. But the Londor. journals awure us that the commereial peop!s of Eng- lead are aware of the croundlessngss of the alarm, and feel certain that, as the depreciation 4 inexchange at New York.was only estificial, it ofetwo or three more aeemers arrives there they may take a different view of the subject. Qur pious cotemporacy, the Journal of Com- reerce, informs us that there is a great fallin pot im the reseipts of the several religious and philanthrepic societioa which have their head- and excetlent appe- | quarters in this city. the thou- | altogether about fowr millions of dollars per jes | annum, A number of them, have already suffered. severely trough the introduction of for the health | the irrepressible African into. their meetings; othera have beem split into Northern and Southern sections, and now that the seed which | some of them Rave sown is bringing forth its { legitimate fruit, we should, not be adall sur H If the } ptited to hear next «pring that the anniversary some time to come—the number of participants half. vnd some of the West- tin Wards the law of the be safely defied it orce anywhere, and ull by popular vio- to pieces, and the ye of anarchy and the condition of * nt, and unless in the public vill inevitably vill be utterly Errect or TH Secesston Agim “TION Uron Preuc Creprr im tue Norra.—The holders of n the Ist of January next, will be~ somewhys, surprised to learn that the State has virtuctly repudi- passed + a- therefore the creditors of the gpa ‘t 1 Presidential election their public credit It is not too late for the sensible peo- and do their part in conciliating the Union of the States. — Exouisn Varws ov TH Skcesoton Movessent.— American securities depresiated, it egnot be maintained. Derhaps whe the news Harp Traxa Amona THk ANNTIVERSARIANS.— These institutions reseive contributions for the year bad fallea off one- What will become of the almighty nigger thea" —— Fine Arte. Our leading artista have recently orgpa. wel A wewty for the wery laudable porpose of raising a fund to sellers eveh of their brethren, o# the widows of their bvethren, ns may be in need. “The Artists’ Pal Society is ita name. Each member 1* to contritwte yearly a picture wortls not teas than Sfty dollars. These pawures are 5 to Be first exhibited and thon seid at public auction, the proceeds to constitute tho fund, aud be apgeo- | pristed according % the by laws of tho Society. fuck + & spirit of generesity is worthy of all praia Th first exhibition is now open at the rooms of ths | Academy of Design, in Tenth strect, The caileetioa | is well Worth seeing, as it Contains same pro- tures of fare olerit by owe beet artists, Auch a8 «| Cignoux, Gifford, Kensett, Lang, Rossiter, Wongbton, 4 Caaitear, Colman, Shattack, Jerome Thompson, Migmot, | Hubbard, Huntington, Loop, Hagettine, Sontag and Say dam, We mias the uame of Church from the list of cow tributors. The collection will remain on exhibition uti Saturday, the 2d inet, when they will bo sold ‘st 4 auction, at eight o'clock in the evening. Such of ow §