The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1861, Page 6

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January 3, L403, The News. ‘The news from: Washington is of the highest im- | portance. The President has prepared, and wilt , probably transmit to Congress to-day, a letter in reply to the demands of the South Carolina Com- missioners. The substance of this letter is givon in | our despatches from the capital. Mr. Buchanan not only refuses to comply with the demand of the | Commissioners, that the forts in Charleston | harbor be evacuated by the federal troops, but he informs them that he not only intends to collect the revenue and | execute the laws, but aiso to defond the property | of the United States with all the force at Lis com- mand. It is stated that the Commissionsrs for- warded a communication to the President yester- day, but that it was such an offensive character that he returned it to them without raply. Tho Commissioners were astonished at the stand the President has taken, and st last accouuts were busily discussing in secret meeting the new and | qpnexpected turn affuirs have taken. The President has appointed Mr. McIntyre, of York, Pennsylvania, Collector of Charicston. He will proceed to his post in a vessel-of-wur, proba bly the Brooklyn, that vessel having been ordered to that port, | Major Anderson is the manof the hour. The people of the Northorn States heartily endorse his conduct, and in almost every principal city guns have been fired in his honor. Mrs. Major Andor- gon is, as we have before announced, spending the winter at the Brevoort House, and on New Year's | ew HERALD. |“ eRS AMD PACK: | LAURA KEENB’S THEATRE, No, 6% Broadway. | ‘PF Dances, Bur. | day hundreds of the leading citizens of New York, irrespective of party, called upon her to testify their sympathy with her huwband and their approbation of his condact. Mrs, Anderson was too unwell to receive calls, how ever, but during the afternoon visited Mrs. Colonel feott. Major Anderson's youngest son, a boy of | about twenty-one months old, attracted much at- | tention by his dress, which was an exact fac simile of that worn by his fatherat FortSumter. The ar- | tion of the President in sustaining Major Anderson so QTatified the democracy of New York that they had one hundred gans fired in the Park last evening in honor of the President and the gallant Major. It was arranged that similar salutes should be fired at the | fame time in Philadelphia, Bo»ton and other cities. ‘We publish in our news columns additional facts felative to the Charleston inner fortifications, accompanied by a sketch of Castle Pinckney, now fn possession of the secessionists. This description | will no doubt be acceptable to our readers, from the fact that Castle Pinckney, in case any of the federal naval vessels are sent to Charleston wo en- force the revenue laws, will be employed in the Attempt to repulse any coercive measures, Both houses of Congres« were in session yestor @ay. Inthe Senate, Mr. Baker, of Oregon, made & speech on the perilous condition of the country. It was expected that Mr. Douglas would address the Senate upon the same subject, but the specta- tors, who had assembled in large numbers, were disappointed. Nothing of importance occurred in the House. The New York Legislatare commenced the busi- ness of the session yesterday with the reading of the Governor's message. We give the document in full in to-day’s paper, together with reports of the proceedings of both houses, to which we refer our readers. In the Assembly Mr. Robinsou Offered @ preamble and concurrent resolutions, re commending as ® compromise on the slavery ques- tion that after the admission of Kansas as a State, with her present constitution, the whole remaining | be divided in two great States, and ad. mitted into the Union as soon as they adopt com stitutions which are republican in form. By tho arrival of the overland express at Kear- ney on Tuesday morning, we have advices from | Ban Francisco to the afternoon of the-19th ault., ‘and from the Sandwich Islands to the 24th of No- vember. Owing to the continual heavy rains at Ban Francisco there was no business doing, but prices remained withont alteration. There ix no news of importance from the interior of the State. The bark Mary J, Kimball, of New Orleans, tinder the command of Captain MclLelland, was Drought into Key West on the 224 ult. by the United States steamer Mohawk, Lieutenant J. A. Craven, having been seized off Havana on suspi- clon of being fitted out for the save trade. She bas o large amount of stores, medicines, water, fumber for slave deck, botlers, Xe. she will | Goubtiess be condemned by the United states Dis- trict Court and forfeited to the United stare The Mary J. Kimball sailed from Havana | on the 2th wl. for St Tome, coast | of Africa. The brig Toccoa, of New Orlean apt. Stanley, was also captared by the Mo- | hawk on the 2ist ult., off Hovana, and brought into Key West ou the sane day, in charge of Lieut. Carpenter, United States Navy. She was boarded by order of Lieut. Craven, of the Mohawk, who waxpected her of being fitted for the slave trade. Her cargo, papers, Ac., were auch that he con- sidered himself justified in puiting a prize crew on hoard. She has been libevied for forfeiture fur Deing engaged in the slave trade. The officers and crew have been placed in jail. The stcamehip Australasian, with two days later Qews Lom Marope, arrived off Sandy Hook last _ NEW YORK HHRALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 19861—TRIPLE SHEET. » had not reached us. The Police Commissioners yoaterday dismissed no member cfthe force, and made three transfers, fcr which they adjourned, ‘The Commiasioners of Emigration failed to mv for a quormm yesterday at their weekly meeting. ber of emigrants who arrived @t this port ar 1860 was 104,668, and the number past week was 1,213. The commutation esont remaining to the credit of the g 42, which is a considerable falling off » the past week. The waviet for beef cattle remains buoyant un- s, and with a good demand prices . Mileh cows aro steady and firm, request, and the receipts being light ain last week's prices. Sheep and lamb» were scarce, active and firmer. Hogs were very plenty but steady. The total receipts were — 2.700 beeves, 111 cows, 826 veals, 6,703 sheep and lamba, and 12,010 swine, Vhe Cunard steamship Jura, ts sail to-day for J. :crpool, will take a mail. Letters and papers to eo forward by the Jura, will be received at Mr. Cunard’s office until half-past ten A. M. The cotion market was again excited yesterday, with ative demand, ‘The sales embraced about 5,000 a comprising pretty much all offered, closing at of full Ye. per Ib, We now quote ig vilauds frm at 12\\c., with an upward tendeo- ey in prices. Flour was held’ with more firmness and sales wore made to a fair extent, and al rather bet- , for medium aud common grades, which were in good request, i part for export, with moderate sales ‘ull prices. Corn was in good request at moderate pri ) With sales Of about 50,000 bushels. Pork was quiet, salts confined to new mess at $1625 a 1 $1225 a $12.50 for new primo t, and gales confined to 100 boxes at Tc ‘be, on private terms. Tho market closed bhi aness. Coffeo was quiet and sales Licht, ‘There was 4 speculative movement in rice; the nibraced 600 a 700 casks, closing at 340. a4%40., were the extreme rates. Froights were rather Lrmer, with more doing, eapecially for English ports. Whe Criss In Washington—The Presi- @ent’s Reply to the South Carolina Commissioners, Mr. Buchanan’s administration is coming out , of this flery ordeal of revolution as fine gold from the furnace. His reply to the South Caro- lina Commiseioners, as indicated in our Wash- | ington despatches, brings him forward in full ; relief as the man who rightly comprehends his position, bis responsibilities and the expecta- tions of the American people. The three South Carolina Commissioners in question presented themselves to the President | 8 ambassadors from a foreign government. Mr. Buchanan ells them that he can only re- cognise them as distinguished citizens of the United States from South Carolina, They de- manded, as the first preliminary step to their contemplated negotiations, the withdrawal of the federal troops from the forts at Charleston. Mr. Buchanan tells them that he not only in- tends to collect the revenue and execute the federal laws in South Carolina asin other parts of the Union, but that he will defend the pro- perty of the federal government with all the 1 power at his command. Thus, as Chief Magis- trate of the United States, sworn to support the constitution thereof, Mr. Buchanan rises to the fall standard of his official obligations to the country. We are gratified that our confidence in him, as a statesman and a patriot, is thus vindi- cated before the world. Had he made his own well considered views and opinions upon public affairs the laws of his Cabinet from the beginning, it would have saved him a world of trouble, He should never have permitted his late Secretary of the | Treasary, for instance, to urge upon Con- gress a tariff policy in direct conflict with that of the head of the government. If th® unity of the Cabinet upon that subject do- manded the removal of Mr. Cobb, he should have been removed at once. Mr. Floyd, too, as Secretary of War, should have been dis- | missed upon the discovery that he had been dabbling in army transportation jobs and fort site speculations to the prejudice of the administration. Had Mr. Buchanan, resisting his own generous feelings, followed the ex- amples of Gen, Jackson in this matter of a loyal Cabinet, even to the extent, if necos sary. for the first year or two, of a new Cabinet every six months, there would have been no ministerial imbecilities and desertions, and no astounding discoveries of frands in the executive departments now in the hour of trial and danger. But, returning to the main qnestion, the in- quiry naturally arises, does this ultimatum of Mr. Buchanan to South Carolina inaugurate a civil war? We hope not. The President de- sires to avoid an appeal to arms, He will | seek, as he has sought by all available means of conciliation and forbearunce, to preserve euce. The South Carolina Convention, on the | receipt of his ultimatum to their Commissioners, | may proceed to extreme measutes, Tt is pro- | buble, however, that the strength of Fort Sumter will suggest the expediency of delay in that quarter, and that a vewsel of war or two will be able to look after the federal revenues at Charleston, without any warlike collision with the local authorities. Under a rigid in- terpreiation of the constitution, the President might proceed to the arrest, not only of the South Carolinians in occupation of federal pro- perty in a warlike attitude, but to the seizure of those three Commissioners, on charges of treasop. The President, however, acting under tho fraternal considerations of good will and reconciliation, will overlook everything in thie business except the ovort act of war against the United States We would therefore kindly sdmonish our fellow citizens of South Carolina to the exer. cise on their part of the saving virtues of re- flection and forbearance. They may yet secure all that is necessary for thelr protection and safe. ty, a8 @ community, whether in or out of the Union, without war. On the other hand, a resort to war may be more disastrous to South Caro- lina, from ber exposed situation, (bap to any ng, bot ep te the time of going te press, her | other State of the Union. The people of that State, in common with our Southern brethren generally, have just causes of complaiat against | the anti-slavery spirit and power of the North. | But there is a way of redress, oven in the re- sort to secession, without resorting to war. Let all the Southern States, for instance, meet to- gether in convention and adopt such amend- ments to the federal constitution aa they may think indispensable to their future security end -welfare, and upon this basis let them form a new Union, Let it at first be limited to the Southern States, but open to ail the other States on the condition of the adoption by each of this new conatitutlon, and we will answer for the best resulta. i We believe that a Southern movement of this comprehensive character would sooa bring the | Céntral States and the Western States into a | happy aceord with the Southern States. The New England States might hold out, and the best thing that could be done with them would | probably be to assist them in the oxperi- ment of a little Puritanical confederacy all to themselves. Despairing of any relief for the Union from this factious and !ncompe- tent Congress, and of any seasonable proposi- tions in behalf of peace and harmony trom the President clect—~who seems to un- dorstand neither his position nor the condi- tion of our public affairs—we present to the Southern States our proposition for a Southern National Convention, a new constitution, and a reconstruction of the Union upon & new South- ern basis. To this ond we appeal to the local authori- ties and to the people of South Carolina to de- lay yet « little longer the ruinous alternative of the sword. There is a limit beyond which the President cannot forbear; he has indicated it. Let not that limit be hastily passed by those to whom it is addressed, if they would escape the sweeping disasters of civil war. Tax Governor's Mrssace.—This document, which we lay before our readers this morning, has not many points to mark it as anything out of the course of ordi- nary messages coming from the Executive of this State undor the present political régime. It isin many respects a very commonplace production. In the references made to the present agitaied condition of national affairs, evidence enough is furnished that the Governor does not understand the crisis through which the country is passing. He deals in old, stale platt- tudes and ideas that might have passed current before the crisis set in, but which are nothing better than mere words in the face of those mo- mentous events which sre transpiring from day | to day. He does not seem to realize in its en- tirety the question which is shaking the whole country from its centre to its extremest bor- ders. In fact, the Governor would have done bet- ter had he borrowed a few fresh ideas from Thurlow Weed, which Mr. Morgan needs very much. Mr. Weed has the sagacity to see that the Chicago platform will not do for ihe pre- sent crisis. He knows that it has done all it waa intended to do—namely, to elect Lincola— but that it by no meaus contains all the duties of man. The Chicago platform is nothing in the present exigency but « pile of rotten, use- less boards. As a thing of life and subsiance, it expired on the evening of the 6th of last No- vember. Since then we have taken a stride in advance of about a quarter of a century, and have tallen upon times demanding new ideas, new principles and new men. Upon the affairs of the State Mr. Morgan makes a few good suggestions. For example, he recommends the repeal of the absurd and mis- chievous law in regard to capital punishment, enacted by the last Legislature, which the Court of Appeals decided was void as applied to cases of murder in the first degree, and which we all know has acted as a premium on coldblooded murder generally. But the best recommenda- tion In the message is decidedly that which re- fors to the appointment of a Board of Commis- sioners, composed of respectable citizens of New York, to draw up a now charter for this misgoverned metropolis, and submit the same to a vote of the people—the officers provided for under it to be elected next December. This is precisely what we want, and it is a pity it was not done a year sooner. But the suggestion that the new charter should be drawn up by a commission of citizens, and not by the Legisla- ture, shows that the Governor appreciates the status of his republican friends in that body; and in so recommending he speaks more like a citizen of the metropolis, whose interests are centred here, than a Governor of tho State, elected by the votes of the rural districts. Governor Morgan takes this occasion to boast that be has granted fewer pardons to State pri- son convicts than his predecessors of the oppo- site party—which, perhaps, may be readily ac- counted for bythe fact that the republicans have not yet enlisted in their service so large # detachment of that class of physical force politi- cians as would render it politically expedient to relieve the State prisons of their inmates. The Metropolitan police come in for a share of the Governor's praise. He tells us that they have grown into popular favor, and command gene- ral approbation—a fact with which we were not acquainted until now; and as an evidence of this he remarks that the streets and polling places in this city, during the Presidential election, were so peaceful and orderly that the police won the unqualified approbation of all good citizens; or, in other words, that the people were so well behaved and so peaceful that the police had nothing to do, and they did | it in @ most commendable fashion. ‘The in- | crease of fearful crimes, of murders, street | homicides and burglaries, as well as the bold- | ness of gambling house keepers, however, and the paucity of arrests and convictions in such cases, tell a very different siory as to the efficiency and popularity of the police. Rise or Stocks. —Severalstocks suddenly rose yesterday from two to six per cent in Wall street. On inquiry we learned that the cause of the rise was @ report that the compromise measures proposed by Mr. Crittenden had been agreed fo unonimously by the House Committees of Thirly three. It turns out, however, that the report, unfortunately, is not true; and nothing, therefore, can save tho stocks from coming down again but the President's strong letter to We Gouth Caroliga Commission, Ever Fince the opening of the session Congress and its committees have done nothing but what is caloulated io bring down securities of all kinds, and to promote revolution and civil war. Immineace of ® National Catastropho— Is there no Hope from Comgress and the Administration? We are beurly importuned with inquiries whether, through the imbecility and cowardice of Congress, the last step isto be permitted which shall rend the United States into thirty- three or more helpless, discordant fragments, or whether, in accordance with the energetic attitnde of the President towards the Com- missioners from South Carolina, the Senate and House of Representatives can yot be induced to throw off their culpable apathy and make an earnest attempt to save the country. There is certainly not an hour to be lost. South Carolina has de- clared itself independent, organized a régime of terrorism, committed acts of warlike ag- gression upon federal property, virtually com- menced hostilities against the central govern- ment, and the highest consideration of Con- gress seems to eonsist in paltering over the pro- priety of Major Anderson’s ocoupation of Fort Sumter, and in catering to the personal vani- ty of its members, Alabama, Florida, Missis- sippi, Georgia and Louisiana will have follow- ed South Carolina into the red sea of secession within « few days; and with the remainder of the slave States withdrawal from the Union has become only a question of time and expedien- cy. Anarmed organization exists in Maryland and Virginia, prepared to march from forty to fifty thousand men into the District of Colum- bia on or before the 4th day of larch, and to prevent, at every hazard, the inaugura- tion of Abrabam Lincoln as President of the United States, Is such a moment one for trifling? Is not delay or hesitation treasonable under the pressure of so terrible an emer- gency? Since the opening of this second term of the present Congress, the country at large has awaited, with the most intense anxiety, the co- lution, by it# representatives, of the dificult problem what course ought to be pursued to allay imitated sectional feeling and restore peace to the Union. The President's annual Message—well meant, and aiming to pour oil upon’ the troubled waters—only complicated issues, It exposed the folly, wickedness and’ dangers of extreme counsels and ultra measures, and called upon each good citizen to aid in averting the perils and preventing the disasters with which passion, self-interest and Northern and Southern demagoguism menaced the country. it was, unfortunately, too late for such an appeal, and it did no good. It neither conciliated the fire-eaters of the slave States nor diminished the clamors of republi- cans at the North. Since then the tinkering of buncombe, with here and there a faint effort to rise to the dignity of statesmanship, has daily warned the people how little is to be ex- pected from the weakness, ignorance, selfish- ness and petty vanity of their national repre- sentatives; but not one substantial step has been taken to preserve the integrity of the con- federation. The elements of disorder have been becoming more and more heated, and the Juggernaut of history is hourly asserting somo new fatal claim to truth, in spite of the “let there be peace” theories of those who will never believe there is danger until destruction actual- ly overtakes them. The crisis, met wisely, might, notwithstanding the dark clouds that have ob- seured the political horizon, have proved even- tually beneficial to the Union. If unskilful pllotage and evil counsels continue to prevail, no modern Cassandra can depict in gloomy enough colors the horrid picture of disaster which inevitably awaits us. Mr. Buchanan, in his reply to the South Carolina Commissioners, has now spoken In a manner worthy oi ihe Chief Magistrate of a great country, and he ought to” be supported by every good citizen. . The time has passed for either the Senate or the House of Representatives to imagine that the downward whirl into a maelstrom of national destruction is to be prevented by mere words. To insure peace requiresstrength. The animus of the government cannot be too forbearing, too conciliatory; but its religious deprecation of disunion and civil war, with their attendant horrors, must proceed from sincere and unsus- pected patriotism, and not from weakness, We call, therefore, upon Congress to pass an act at once, without the delay of a day, empower- ing the President to order out sixty thousand militla for the defence of the District of Co- lumbia against invasion and insurrection—ten thousand from each of the adjoining States of Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York and Kentucky. If requisite, let New Jersey and Delaware furnish an extra con- tingent, After the threat which has been openly made that the duly elected President of the United States, from the 4th of March next, shall not be inaugurated; with the evidence before the public, broadly intimated by the press of Virginia, that a revo- lationary conspiracy is organized to sieze upon and occupy the District of Columbia; with an excited background of thirteen other slave States, frenzied into hatred of the institutions of the North, panting to avenge real or ima- gined injuries, and ready to throw their whole strength into the scale in the case of civil war, it would be madnes+—worse than madness—to leave the seat of government andefended, aud to make fuiure sectional hostilities a matter of necessity, or dependent upon the caprices of a mob. ‘if the efforts of the administration shall be seconded, and Congress will display the requi- site firmness and decision—such nerve and character as would have sparkled forth under like circumstances in the time of General An- drew Jackson—a way may be opened to save the country and to restore peace to the Union. The masses of the people at the North are to- tally opposed to the sectional strife which he« been raised by republicanism, and only some unfortunate new causd of irritation can prevent thelr becoming stl more conservative in sen- timent, We have repeatedly had occasion to show of late that, by a strict and careful analy- «is of the popular vote at the Inte Presidential election, although Lincoln is elected, yet it is by « plurality only, and that a majority of three and a half to one clearly proclaimed its abhorrence of abolitionism and the Chicago platform. If the revulsion of feoling, from Maine to Kansas, in the two past months, is taken into consideration, it is within bounds to assert that not one out of six of those who are entitled to vote within the United States is prepared to endoras the con- tinuance of an aggressive policy against the South. The Garrisons, Wendell Paillipses, Gid- dingses, Greoloys, Boechors, Wades, Holes and Sumners will, of course, continue fo rave. Tt is their business and policy to be wore dis unionists than the most savage Charlestonian revenue cuiter seizers; but their inflacnce has forever departed with the majority of their own party in the Northern Staics. Tho teriors cole tained in the word “panic” have froven dismay inio the hearts of their Litherto clergy-berid- | den, crotchet-mongering followers. Stognation of trade and commerce; the closing of manu- factories; the decline in public, State and cor- poration recuritica; the closing of the outl and inlets for produce and imports; prospec- tive poverty and actual bunger, are every day making new Union converts. The itea that slavery is to be any longer considored a reli gious question is repudi:ted, and mon are be ginning to see the necessity of granting to pro- élavery and anti«lavery citizens the same pri- vilegetof free thinking with respoct to tho so- cial institution, which Catholics, Preshyterians, Methedista, Episcopalians, Baptists, Uvitarians and Free Thinkers have enjoyed in religion. The hand of peace should be extended cor- dially and sincerely to South Carolina and other members of the confederation which have or may incltne to hostility. Congress cannot too soon enact that the social instiintion of slavery shall be placed on preci» the same footing with the religious opinions of dii- ferent sects. It should submit to the States amendments of the constitntion which shall en- tirely equalize the rights of the North and the South. It should fall back upon the common | law of the country at the time the constitution of the United States was framed, in 1787, cognizing slavery, and make it now, as i was then, the basis of all wrilten law. But while is the bounden duty of Congress to adopt such measures of conciliation, ils most pico ing, immediate responsibility relates to the Dis- trict of Columbia, and its defence againsi the attacks with which it is threatens more patriotic or high minded commander lives ia the world than General Seott. Let th President be empowered to put a militia force of from sixty to eighty thousand men under his command, summoned from the States ad- joining the national capital, and ihe couatry will have perfect confidence in his ability and wisdom to secure us from danger there. This is the first necessity. As other evils arise they may be provided for; but if such a step is not taken the terrible odium will justly rest upon Congress of not having adopted ihe only | measure which can now avert the horrovs of civil war. Hestile Movem: in the Border slave States. Elsewhere we publich « telegraphic despatch from Richmond, to the effect that Governor El- is, of North Carolina, had despatched troops to seize upon Fort Macon, at Beaufort, the furts at Wilmington and the United States Arsenal at Fayetteville. The information had come from Wilmington, and is said to be “reliable.” If the news be true itis important and alarm- ing, a3 ench a measure would greatly compli- cate the existing difficulties and accelerate the already rapid wheels of revolution. But we can- not give any credence to the despatch till it is confirmed by further intelligence. The doctrine of the secessionists is, that a State can only with- draw from the Union by a sovereignty conven- tion; and no such convention has yot been held in North Carolina. The Governor of North Carolina, therefore, could not commit an aot of war against the United States and precipitate his State into revolution without the authority of the people, It is true that Governor Ellis, who was for- merly conservative, came out strong tor seces- sion in his message, and that the revolutionary movement has recently been gaining ground in North Carolina; but it is ecarcely credible that he would resort to such a step as this even be- fore the Legislature has called « convention ta determine the question of seoession. If the in- telligence should turn out to be correct, the act has been prompted, we suppose, by the course of Major Anderson in taking possession of Fort Sumter, and the purpose is to antici pate any such movement in the case of the forts of North Carolina. Not only in North Carolina, but in Virginia, is revolution rapidly spreading, as may be seen from an account which we publish in another column of the military preparations in the different counties of the Old Dominion. The design is to have in readiness a large armed force to co-operate with the revolationists in adjoining States, and take military possession of Wash- ington, to prevent the inauguration of Mr. Lin- coln on the 4th of March. To this step the people have been urged by the organ of Wise at Richmond; and it is no doubt in the recol- lection of our readers that Wise, four or five years ago, threatened to march upon the fede- ral capital in the event of tho election of Fre- mont in order to defeat his inauguration: Per- haps be will carry out his threat now; for it has been stated that, so far from having changed his opinion as to the propriety of such a course, he thinks there is a greater reason for it in the clection of Lincoln than there would have been if Fremont had been successful. But a measure which we lately indicated will baffle this design. We stated on Tuesday that sixty thousand troops could easily be ob- tained from the militia of the three border free and threo border slave States—ten thousand from each, viz-—Virginia, Kentucky and Mary- land, Pennsylvania, Obio and New York. We might, indeed, increase the number to 100,000 if necessary. The President has full power to call out the militia of those States to sustain the constitution and to “suppress insurrec- tion,” and there can be no doubt that plenty of conservative troops can be found among the militia of the border States on either sido of Mason and Dixon’s line to respond to the call of Mr. Buchanan, and to maintain law and or- der at Washington. If the revolutionists could even succeed in preventing the inauguration at the Capitol, it would not affect the legal status of th President elect, for the ceremony might take place at New York, where Washington was in- augurated, or take place at Philadelphia, or Springfield, the residence of Mr. Lincoln, and he would be as much the de jure President of the United States as if the celebration wero solemnized on the banks of the Potomac or in the city of Charleston itself. But in the eye of foreign notions a failure to inaugurate the President elect at Wasbington, where it has been so long customary to perform the coremo- ny, might be regarded as an evidence that he was uot de facto President, the capital being in the hands of tho. revolutionista. As Washing- ton lies between the two slave States Mary- land and Virginia, great efforts are being made to induce the population of those States No abler, | ae to rio tn order to prevont the } coln through their territory. By in this coup d’Aat, the archives ot would be in the possesston of the ius and an impression would be conveyed world that (hey were the stronger party. Th aliempt may, therefore, be made for the politi- it would have upon the South itself | ‘pou the great Powers of Europe, But Fthero is enough of tho conservative clemont siill left in tue border Stated, slave and free, to le this mochination, and prevent a false ‘ow of the relative sivength of the Union and | disunion forcea go forth to the world. Ag the border slay: tes hold the balance of | power in this revolution, thotr action becomes | most important as regards a peaceful ora | bloody solution of the crisis, ‘The Real Natare of the Danger. Some Northern journals are making a great fuss over tho revolutionary action of South Ca- rolina, the forts at Charleston and the high 80 r threats uttered by the orators and or- | Sane of tue little Palmetto Stale. Bat iese pom | pous proceediags are in theume!yes of no more account than would bea revolution of Jersey City. South Carolina could be whipped into subjection without much trouble, if tiat were to bo the end of the matter. But (he difficulty and the danger consist iu this: that South Ca- rolina is put forward by the ultra leaders of the other slave States to provoke a collision with the federal authority, for the purpose of cotabining the whols South iv rovolution, A bloody encounter 2 tu, Oven om the smallest goule, might have the same effoot Charle | upon the fifteen Sov Stutes that the blood | shed ia the first 2 » at Lexington had | upon the Thiriccn ¢ a firm league against the mother country. The aista are therefore most anx- lous to } wostilities at Charleston, ia order to precipitate the other Southern States be vortex of revolution, and prevent the jlity of any veaceable solution of the ions at issue between the North and the Th are opposed to reconciliation, nat all hazards and uader al! ciroumstances. A battle, or even a skir- mish, in South Carolina, would be the very thing they most desire, and to precipitate sok an event would be playing directly into their honds. South Carolina is but the advanced guard of the revolutionary legion which is at | her back, the head of the column, and if that beeomes engaged in bloody strife the main body soon advances to its aid, and the fight becomes general. To lay Charlestom in ashes and desolate South Carolina with the | federal sword might be easily accomplished; but the revolutionary flames would extend on every side. and to be successful in tho object of the war it would be necessary to conquer one by one every Southern State. If one house is set on fire and consumed, the fire does not usually end there, unless there is ample moans 10 arrest its progress, and before the conflagra- tion is extinguished many dwellings may be de- voured by the flames, and widespread ruin be the consequence. The Richmond Enquirer seems very desirous of bringing about the same result in a similar way. It proposes that before the 4th of March next revolutionary forces raised in Maryland and Virginia take the ficid and prevent the in- auguration of the President elect. If thers should be any attempt of that kind many thousand excited men would march from the North to give the insurgents battle, and the result would be one of the bloodiest civil wars on record, resem- bling in intensity ond duration the struggle of our English ancestors four centuries ago, when the people became divided in their affee- tions between the two rival houses of York and Lancaster, who, contending for the do- minion. involved the whole nation in the strife and rendered the mutual animosity implacable, Tho partisans of the house of Lancaster chose the red rose as their mark of distinction; those of York were denominated from the white; and this civil war was known over Europe as the quarrel between the two roses. For thirty-four years the scaffold and the field streamed with the noblest blood of England, till at longth the defeat of Richard III. on the plains of Bos- worth rendered the Lancasterians triumphant, and placed Henry VII. on the throne, who, by his marriage with a princess of the house of York, united the rival families and put an end to the irrepressible conflict of that epooh, How much better to have united these interests before the fand was deluged with blood aad the country became exhausted by the insane struggle. It is in vain that history Is written for their instruction, if the American people now follow the example of the partisans of York and Jancaster. Yet if they are not vigilant and fotive, a handful of fire-eaters and politicians at the South, and a faction of fanatios and poli- ticians at the North, may drag the whole coun- try into a fratricidal struggle. The day after the Presidential election there were two parties atthe North. If the secessionist leaders con- tinue the course indicated at Charleston and recommended at Ric!mond, there will soon be the first necessity of ‘his government is self. preservation. It will uot commit suicide, and cannot permit its destiuction at the hands of; malcontents within or cnemies abroad. There are only three possible solutions of thed impending crisis:—First, civil war, whose result it would be impossible to predict. Second, s , peaceable separation of the seceding from tly 9 other States. Third, prompt conciliation, ter » pered with firmness, which will prevent either of the other two solutions, and save from disrap¥ .on that great political fabric erected by the sage s of 1787—a structure cemented by the pa’ triot blood of a seven yoars’ war, consecrated ¥ ,y the holiest memories, and radiant with the br) ghtest hopes of the human race, Tux Goveryon's Mrsga@n UPON THY , Daata Prnarty.—The Go -rnor devotes t) .reo brief paragraphs of his message to the con sideration of one of the most important of its l ,oal topica, The last Legislature, in attemptiv g to amond the Revised Statutes so as to do way with ca- pital punishment, enacted a lw which has since been declared by the Court of Appeals to be null and void. The new law provid- ed expressly for the punisbment of 4 certain class of offences, but at the same time declared that persons thon under sentence of death should not escape the penalty of their crimes, This was all very well; but the Legislature did mot stop here. In asubsequent section of the act, that part of the Revised Statutes Which declares that thé punishment of death shall bo infligted in all