The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1861, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. ‘ON AND NASSAU ATS, . No. 25 ai *MUSEMENTS Tilis EVENING. NIBLO'R LRCTURY GARDEN, Broadway. —Afternoon—Raney's Evening—Ros GARDEN, Bro opposite Bond streot.— POWHKRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Atiornoon—Crnevs Prn- Foumancr Evening—Tiwrroe bain, O& THA BIOKING OF SERINGAPATAM WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.--Tae Lavy or Sr. Txorez. _LAVKA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 64 Broatway.-- BEYE! GMSTERS. Pd BOWERY THEATRE Rowery.—Mysrewes ann : Dorcunans THEATRE FRANCAIS, 585 Broadway —Les Cavorinns Dw LA Seine. BARNUM’S AMERIOAN MUSFUM, Broadwoy.—Day and Evesing—Jossra and His Brerunes—Livina Cumiosi- sms, &u BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Buninsevis, Soncs, Daxces, &¢.—Sorzes D'Bravors, HOOLZY & CAMPBRLL’'S MINSTRELS, Nibio’s Saloon, 1¥.-Krmi0Pian SONGS, Daxcus, BuaLseques, &o.— Tave's Disaviees shies CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 663 Broadwuy.--Sonas, Dancas, Burtxsqves, 4c. MELODEO. ‘0. No. 68 Broudway.—Sonus, Dancers, Bur: LESQUKS, IN FALL, A Miner ets—7 The News. Our Waal con correspondent announces that the govern has despatched reinforcements to Fort Samt: Charlesion harbor, and Fort Pickens, at }e>scccta, and this report is some- what confira y the departure of the steam sloop-of-wa, Bivoklyn from Norfolk on Thursday, bound South, with sealed orders, having on board two companies of soldicrs from Fort Monroe. The preparatic f the government have been quietly nade, nnd there is reason to believe the expedition will ps ove snecessful. ‘There was a report current in Washington yes- terday that the (1.and Jury of the District had in- dicted Mr. Floyd, ex-Secretary of War, for mal- | feasarce in office. An interesting le(ter from Capt. Doubleday, to which allusion was made yesterday, giving an ac- count of the condition of affairs inside and outside of Fort Svwuter, may be found in another column. The Rhode Island House of Representatives yes- terday concwrred with the Senate in repealing the Personal Liberty bill of that State. The vote stood forty ¢ to eighteen, A telegraphic correspondence has passed be- tween Senator Toombs, of Georgia, and Mayor Wood, rela..ve to the recent seizure of arms iu this city. Mr. Toombs inquired if it was true that the arms haé been seized by the public authorities. The Mayor responded that the arms had been seized by the police, but that the city of Ne York shouid in no way be held responsible for the outrage. He furthermore states that if he had the power he would summarily punish the authors of the illegal and unjustifiable seizure. An enthusiastic Union meeting of Southern resi- dents of the metropolis was held at the Cooper Institute on Thursday evening. In Congress yesterday the Senate considered private bills and adjourned till Monday. In th Tlouge the debate on the report of the Committee of Thirty-three was resumed, and Messrs. Nelson, of Tennessee; Leake, of Virginia, and Pottle, of New made speeches on the crisis of the nation. ‘ow offered a resolution directing the Special Committee on the President's Message to inquire concerning the reports relative to the existence of an organization for seizing theTederal buildings. A number of private bill were considered. A company of fifty United States troops from Governor's Island was landed yesterday on pier No. 1, East river, destined for Washington city. The s\ pinwall January 15, arrived at this port yesterday morning, bringing the passengers, mails and over one million of dollars in treasure which left San Francisco on the Ist inst. The Ariel also brings the South Pacific and Central American mails. The news from California by this arrival has been anticipated by the overland expresses. The news from Central and South America is | not marked by any important features, with the | eaception of that from New Granada, where | the revolutionary friends of Mosquera were tri- umphing over the government forces in all divec- tions. Mosquera himself had crossed the moun- tains into Nieva with a considerable force, and was marching straight on the capital, where affai are in # very disturbed state, and the garrison dequate to defend it for avy length of time. Gen. Jones, United States Mini-ter, was on his way to Bogota, and expected to reach the about the Ist inst. As fur as heard trom, the votes for mext President give Vi President Arboleda a majority over Gen, Her- | ran. The revolutionary States had, of course, not voted. Our Panama correspondent states that the missing sloop-of-war Levant has not yet been | heard of. she is still prehend th: The probability, nevertheless, is that There is po good reason to ap- worst until proper and sufficient time has been given fora search. She has doublless putinto some distant and 0! ire port for repairs. ‘The progress of Chile is every day more marked. New laws just been passed, making the most libera! provisions for popular education at the public expe’ The budget of estimated ex- penses for 1861 amounts to between six and seven millions. The Indians at the south are again troublesome. In Valparaiso business was dull and copper had declined. Peru is unusually quict. ‘Gcneral Mendibure has been nominated for the Presidency by the Conven- tion. From the report of the Minister of Finance, the reccipte of the national treasury amounted in 1869 go more than nineteen ond @ half willions, and the expe: very little less, There are rumors of an nded reve in Salvador during the absence of President Berrios, whe intended paying a visit to President Carrera, of Guatemala, who was preparing to receive his guest with every mark of cousideration. The for mer bad taken precautionary measures to -coure himse!{ against his enemies. Mr. Dimitry, United States Minister, had m the Legation from Costa Rica to Managua, the ca Pital of Nicaragua. The coffee crop in the former republic Will not exceed S0,000 quintals fur short of last year's By the California mail town of Gusyias, in A have news from the la the October last, that p of Mexic Sadia: e Consul, Mr. Steen, emt an wry hut polite roquest to the officer commanding hey Britannic Majesty's ship of war Pylad wm lving off the harbor, for assistance amd prove (on i desperate an extremity, these ow bu means of defen: in the town, The an turned by Captain De vasa bl couched in terms charocierts Briti«h The consideration of the Governor js message being the reg i 1 Albany yesterday, an iat ran t place thereon, leading i on the part domators With regard t coorcion and other beter ranel ft eer tational F wks OF New YorK—Scuoon iN aN Urkovn—FLYING | vamship Ariel, Captain Wilson, from As- | feeling exhibited at present, it is thought ; the Legislature will comply with the recom mendations of the Governor in his specia message of Thuractay, and choose delegates, in ac- cordance with the solicitations of Virginia, to rep- resent this State in the proposed Convention at Washington on the 4th of February, Various bills of local interest were introduced in both houses, several of them relating to this city, which will be found noticcd in the regular proceedings and@n the letter of our Albany correspondent The Central Park Investigating Committee made their report | i in the Senate, The action of the Park Commis- slouers is fully justified, and the report states that none of the charges against them haye been sub- stantiated. In the Assembly a bill was reported repealing the Capital Punishment act of 1860, and substituting therefor a new law, dividing murders into two classes, the former class punishable with death, the latter with imprisonment for life. The bids for tho half million State lcan were | scrutinized at Albany yesterday. The offers reached nearly four million dollars. It was taken at within a fraction of two per cent premium! | While the federal government has been compeiled to pay twelve per cent interest, New York ob- tains over two per cent premium on a six percent stock, We give this morning a graphic and very inte- resting report of the proceedings at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, which convened in Trement Temple, Boston, on Thursday of this week. It was intended by the | abolitionists to hold a twodays’ meeting: but after avery stormy morning and afternoon session of the first day, the performances met with a sudden | check through the closing of the Temple against them by Mayor Wightman and his police. Yester- day the abolitionists assembled in another hall and continued their procecdings, without meeting with the difficulties which impeded their opera- tions on the previous day. They applied for the | use of the Representatives hall, in the State House, for a meeting latt night; but the legislate fused their request by a vote of 69 yeas tol nays. | The one hundred and second anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns teok place at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening. The festival was well attended, and much enthusiasm prevailed among the “‘laddies fra the land o’ cakes."’ Burns always | has been and ever will be revered by the sons of ' Auld Scotia, and one speaker said that the songs of Burns had “done something even to preserve this land,” and he in them had shown he was a lover of freedom and independence. The cotton market was active yesterday, and the ‘ pecent advance su: The sales embraced about 7,000 bales, about 2,700 of which wero sold in transit, the market closing on the basis of about 124\¢. for middling uplands, Flour was more active, and cl with a firmer eling. The same ‘nay be said wheat, while corn was heavy and prices rather e Pork was in moderate request, | with sales of now moss at $17 874 a $18, and of prime at | $13. Sugars were without change of importance, while | the sales embraced 600 a 700 Dhde. and 550 boxes at | rates given in another colamn, Coifve was steady, with moderate gales. Freights were sustained at full rates, | while exgagements were mod: | Progress of the Revolution—Triamph of | the Politics of Massachusetts. |“ Massachusetts,” exclaimed Wendell Phil- | lips, on Thursday, “ does not make money be- | eause South Carolina whips negroes.” There- | fore he “invoked God's curse on all compro- | mises,” and, amid the thunderings of the | assemblage before him demanded that the | “slave States should be shovelled out of the ‘nion,” and capped the climax of enthusiatm by the announcement, “We have conquered the New York Henatp.” This is one side of the picture. On the other, we see Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Georgia, emulating the secession example of the Palmetto State; Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia and Maryland, breaking the links that bind them to | the confederation; Fort Pulaski, Pensacola, | the defences of the Belize, Fort Morgan, and | various arsenals, in the possession of insur- | rectionists ; post offices, custom houses, and sub-treasuries, confiscated by local govern- | ments whom the bitter aggressive fanaticism of | over thirty years has goaded to madness; a | bloodthirsty hatred engendered among the masses which a spark might develope into civil war; and the absolute certainty that, before | many months have elapsed, adirge may be | chaunied over all that remains of the most glorious and grand political fabric that ever, under the sun, was created by the hands of man. Truly may Mr. Phillips say that he and his friends have just so far “con- ; quered the New York Herirp,” as trea- | son, disunion and the most mercenary | abolitionism can succeed in effecting such a result. But while “shovelling slave States out of the »n,* because no money is to be made , , by retaining them, they have neither ame- liorated the condition of bondsmen, reduced | ‘ their number, made any inroads upon the “covenant with hell,” nor advanced the cause of gion, philanthropy, benevolence and | civilization, in any part of the Union. On the contrary, where the cause of slavery was weak | they have made it powerful; where one slave is now held in bondoge, they have insured the dominion of Southern planters over ten a few years hence; where a single State is cultivdted by slave labor, a dozen between the Orinoco and Missouri will assert their independence in ‘the Southern confederacy which is springing t into existence. This was the necessary conse- quence of a war against principles sanctioned | by the laws of nature, geographically and | physiologically necessary, and having their foundations in im ible relations between | races, which cannot be desiroyed. To the Garrison, Sumner and Phillips school of politics in Massachusetts, is mainly owing the ead result, which cannot, we fear, be long postponed, of a division of the American con- tinent into two vast republics, compatible with | each other, but representing opposite systems and incongruous principles, hetween which, for the last thirty years, there M rd openly proclaimed his adhesion to it, in August and, addressing the people of Boston, did not hesitate to say: Tn the Stat affect no ti “trrepressible conflict. Teun play no part, I can ugh nota gon of Maca I fel and know idind the of my coun + Of Mossachner mori | ve ‘ghia and interests of these free Stats in the Trionof the confedivecy, Mearned it fin Massachusetts It is twenty-two yeare ago, not fir from this eevaon, when a distinguiahed and venerable stiterman of Maen chuetts had ty his heme, afew miles urbe of y yy. under constr citivers, driven home to hia quarters by the pe love proclavery le, that 7. younger made a pilgrimage from 9 eto om my way, tothe Sige of in him what became @ af the deplorable ¢ nt of the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, J. ANUARY 26, 1861.—TRIPLE SHEET. 1 ¥ have sought to commune with hie spirit, and to learn from him whether the Qhieg in which Twas engaged was well and worthy cove, What a commentary upon the tye from which he was expolied, Abroham L col whose claim to that sat is that he conressea the obht: ten of that higher law, wnrch the Sageaf Quaney procl simed, and that he anciws himself, for weal or wor, fur life or death, a sildieron the sdeof freedom in Ne irrep essble confit | between freedom and slavery. vius, gentlemen, is my simple | ce T desire, wow, only tu say to you that you | riumph which is to iinugurate this great policy | government of the United States, At the present moment, Mr, Seward, indulg- ivg in mysterious ambiguities at Washington, j | as the mouthpiece of Mr. Lincoln, lags behind in the race which his Boston friends are run- ning, “to maintain, in the school of Massacbu- setts, the rights and interests of the free States.” Severe wus the reproof which Mr. Phillips ad- ministered to him some days ago, for “having forgotten the teachings of that Adams he had | eulogized, and who, in 1845, prophesied that the Union would not last twenty years.” But his remonstrances are directed to a comrade and friend who appears backward for an in- stant in a common cause—they are not pointed atan enemy. Both agree that “our institutions are ephemeral,” and that the future welfare of the country absolutely demands its division into two separate republics. Both kave labor- ed for years to estublish the supremacy of the quasi-religious theory, that the social institn- | tion of slavery is a question involving national and individual salvation and damnation, and have, in their respective spheres, contributed to the growth of that aggressive intolerance which extends throughout the length and breadth of the North, and forms the bone and sinew of | the party whieh elevated Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency. The views of Mr. Seward may be more stateemanlike, and include the final an- nexation to the Northern republic of not only Canada and the British territory, but also of ‘be | Russian territory, and of every acre of land be- tween the Potomac and the North Vole; but there is no discordance between them in the sentiment that slavery “must be shovelled out of the Union,” and the free members of the re- public depend upon themselves alone for their future prosperity. The sad spectacle presents itself to Union | loving men; those whose hearts cling to the re- membrances of haleyon days, inaugurated by Washington, Jefferson and Madison; of sections which should have clung together in eternal amity, strengthening themselves day by day iu the determination to sunder the bonds thut | unite them. The measures that have been adopted by the Southern States, render it ce tain that any attempt to retain them peaceably within the Union would be futile, and that the eyes of the statesmen who direct their destinies, are covetously turned towards Mexico, Central Amcrica, Cuba and the northern part of South America, with the fixed purpose to found a vast empire, based upon slavery as a beneficent do- j mestic institution, which they are convinced will make their future nation the richest and most majestic that the world has ever beheld. A very short time since a remedy might have been applied, by proper conces- sions to the South, to the disunion contagion. It is probably now too late. The bitter end has come at last. The period has arrived to | pay for the treat of elevating Massachusetts abolitionism into a school of politics, aud ele- vating anti-slavery republicanism to power. Under such circunistances, the most practical course that can be pursued is to follow the suggestions which were contained in the letter from New Orleans, published by us two days ago, and, if part we must, to part in peace. If the people of the slaveholding and non-slave- holding States, are determined to explore the future in different paths, let grateful remem- brances of the past remain, and an alliance, | offensive and defensive, founded upon mutu- | ally advantageous commercial treaties, bind us together. If the Union must be dissolved, pro- bably no more favorable auspices could exist for tho creation of two American confedera- cies, than those that are to.be seen at present; and from that point of view “if ’twere donc, then “twere well done, were it done quickly.” Tar Porrrtcat DEMORALIZATION OF THE AGE.— The seizure of the forts and arsenals and other property of the general government by the se- ceding States of South Carolina, Florida, Loui- siana and the others, creates a good deal of excitement, and is denounced by many people as a great outrage, a violation of the law, trea- son, and so forth; but if it be regarded in this light, is not the seizure of private property | on the steamers bound South from this port by \ the Metropolitan police, without any authority in law, an infinitely greater outrage? And yet this has occurred in two instances, and was un- successfully attempted in a third. Upon this subject the following telegraphic despatches have passed between Senator Toombs, of Geor- } gia, and Mayor Wood, with reference to the seizure of arms on board the steamer Monti- cello: To Tix Hoxor Mayon We Ta let iy arm. the State of Georgia bay , ties in New York? Your answer i# important to na and to New York. Answer at once. TOOMIS, | Hon. Ronmer Toomns, Miliedgeville, Ga.:— In reply to your despatch, T regret to say that arma in- tended for and consigned to the State of Georgia have been seized by the police of this State, but that the city of New York should in no way be made responsible for the outrage. As Mayor, I have no authority over the police. If I had the power I should summarily punieh the authors of thia illegal and unjustifiable soizure of private property. FERNANDO WOOD, Mayor. Mayor Wood is unquestionably right in de- | signating this seizure of private property as | iMegal and unjustifiable. The United States is not «at war with any nation. The | State of New York, or any other State | in the Union, has no right to declare | war on its own bebalf; that right is exclusively reserved to the l’resident, with the consent of Congress. Hence the assumption on the part of the Police Department that the merchandise on board these steamers was “contraband of war” was impudently absurd; for it is manifest that when no condition of war is admitted by the Executive there can be no such thing as con- traband merchandise, However, that such things can be done at all, either in the South or the North, as the seizure of government property by the people of one section, or the seizure of private pro- perty by the police authorities of the other, without any sanction of authority, only shows ‘the utter demoralization of the age in which live, «© of madness to whieh Mirxncsvitte, Jan, 24, 1861, tended for aud consigued to porn seized by public authori- we and the dew politioal agitation has brought the whole country. New Broows, we MeCunn’s charge to the Grand Jury on Thursday lastis fall of what they say thet world fs paved with. He i i lo render the administration of justice tn this city, so far os his court is concerned, a mode! of hidictal vigor and Impartiality. ‘This ey sounds well, and we only wish that we could place faith in it. The influences to which the Judge owes his elevation to the bench are not, however, of a character to render the realization of bis prewises an easy matter. He is under too .any Obl *#¥ > to the fancy men, the shoulder hitters and «ae rowdies of the city, for him not to extibit #y their regard an occasional rele ing of the stern purpose which at present ates him. His predecessor made no pro fe s, but he performed his duty vigitantly und without regard to his persona! interests And yet be was ubused and driven out of office by thos who, if they really felt any interest in the efficiont cdministration of the laws, should haye bcen the first to defend and sustvin hin. The Story of Puritanism—Real Ortyin of Southerm Secession. In another part of this day’s Heratp we pub- lish what we have uo doul sost of our readers will regard as an interesung history of Puri- tanista, very appropriate to the present time, and bearing directly on the fierce controversy which has sprung fr the propagandism of the Puritan sect of New England, forming a combination with desparate politicians who caught up the pious cry against “the slave power” as a means of bringing them to office at the risk of Lreaking up the government by re- volution, The chief value of the historical sketch which we publish consists in its trutl and impartia’ity, having but little in common with the Fuurth of July orations and Pilgrim celebrations, at which even such men as Daniel Webster have been go long in the habit of glori- fying New England and its Puritans at the @x- of the rest of the people of the ey, and glossing over the indubitable ocy Which tell 4 very different tale. tovian goes back for the origin of the Puritans to the time of Edward the Sixth of ingland, who brought with him sore German fanaties to that country. gone bac: nineteen centar the first of the sect, the Vhari by the founder of Cir them praying apart by themseives, and “thank- ing God they were not like other men.” “Stand by thyself, Lam holier than thou,” is still their motto, as the very name Puritan imports. The one idea that penetrates and pervades them is { they have a right to regulate the whole po- cal, moral aud religious world, and that God bas appointed them as supervisors over the conduct of their fellow men, to control even their domestic affairs. Hence the lutionary resistance now being organized a! the South. The root of the evil underlying the anti- slavery agitation in the North is to be found in an impudent assumption of a superior iutelli- gence and a hight purity, fostered by self- complacent divines in the pulpit, and flattering orators at mutual admiration arniversaries, where Plymouth Rock, the blarney-stone of New England, is set mp as an idol for pub- lie worship. It is impossible for a gen- uine descendant of the Tilgrims of the Mayflower to divest himself of the notion that he is one of a superior race, and that he is born to rule over all other races by foree or fraud, notwithstanding the asser- tion of the Declaration of Independence that “oll men are created equal.” It is this innate feeling which prompts the New Englander to deny the Southern States their rights in this confederacy as co-equal partners, and to ir upon forcing his ideas of negro servitude down the throats of all men, "orth and South, at the point of the bayone!. This has led to the present disastrous condition of the Union, and what else it may lead to time will soon de- velope. The sincerity of the Puritan politicians touch- ing the slavery question is on a par with their pense confede But he might have to the time when es, wore rebuked revo- sincerity touching religious persecution in | days of old. If we believe their harrowing tale, their ancestors fled to America from per- secution in England by the Established Church and government, and ‘ese enemies of perse- cution for conscience wake brought into the New World the principles of civil and religious liberty, on w? ‘cb the federal and State govern- ments are constructed. So far from the truth is this claim that history shows the fiercest of religious persecutors in England and Scot- land were the Puritans—so intolerant were they of other mon’s political and religious opin- ions and social habits that they iook up arms | against them, and involved the couniry in the + horrors of civil war, as they are now laboring hard to do at this side of the Atlantic. If they were aflerwards persecuted it was be- cause when they had the power they were persecuiors themselves. A party of them seceded to Holland, which they left in ble fenatical despotism. Had the ideas of the Puritans prevailed, or had they predominated in numbers, if! would have fared the land; but | as the population of N:w England at the time of the adoption of the constitution was only one-fowrth of that of all the colonies, and as | even that fourth contained many other clements | besides Puritanism, it may be easily inferred | s how little ‘he fanatical sect had to do with the | formation of ‘he government under which we live. V iw Puritans of Massachusetts per- eecuted everybody, the Baptists of Rhode — Island, the Dutch Reformed of New York, the Quakers of Pennsylvanta, the Catholics of | Maryland, and the Episcopalians of Virginia, | guve toleration to the other s, and afforded aaylums to the persecuted of the Old World | and the New. How the Puritan. dealt with the | Indians, in consideration for whose future con- version and kindly treatment they obtained | from the English government a charter of the land on which they settled, their own historians have told Lire world. As long as slavery was profitable they not | only enslaved both the Indians and the negroes, making them “texable property,” but carried on a brisk traffic '» their flesh, selling them in | the best markets io the highest bidder. From | them the severest ¢ ‘ie “slave codes” of the Southern States have been borrowed: It was at their instanee that ‘ae abolition of the slave trade was postponed from the time the consti- tution was adopted till 1808, in order that | oy might retain the traffic as long as post. They sold their own slaves to the South, a1! was their ships that afterwards supp): ie Southern labor market with = im)» tions of negroes from Africa. slave trade is now abolished, their voest on is gone, and they are seized with a he error | even of domestic slavery, which m¢ that | they want a monopoly of the spoils o and of the public lands, as they io . claimed an exclusive patent from He.ven tor religious persecution—a Divine right to do wrong. Of and fon they also cluim a monopoly. In the sesnad war with England, 1812-15, they refused fu ib low their militia to be used against the enemy, and geve him all the aid and comfort could. They claimed they weve sove States and had a right so to aei. Lt was the troops of the uth that the honor of country was then redecmed, Wuen Louisiana was cout te be admitted, Massac! her Legi-liture, deck ved she codes and when Texas was about being admitted Puritan Massachusetts again voted herseif out | of the Union prospectively, but never carried ont the act. She is now very loyal to the Union, very ardent in her desire to coerce the seceding States, and very forward in sending her ufilitia to the Souti to inaugurate a civil war, under the pretext of enforcing the laws, while of Southern secession and revolution she is herself the chief source aud origin. ssion, treason re Usrress Riors iy Boxrox.--We see by the accounts from Boston that Wendell Phillips and his friends have imitated the example of the early Coristians, and have been very pa- tient under the worst difficulty they can expe- rience—the interruption of their harangues. ‘The authorities do not interfere in the matter one way or the other, The anti-slavery orators talk when they can see an opportunity to get in a word or two, while their opponents sing camp meeting hymns or make the hall where the abolition meetings are held resound with cheers for their s.c> ond groans for the other. All th’: may be very entertaining, but it is nevertheless childish, idle and useless. What men reg.:rd above all other things is the result of acombut, not the instruments with which it is fought. Thirty years ago Garrison, Tappan, Phillips and others commenced their crosade against the institution of slavery. At first it was purely philanthropic and sen- timental, then it became religious, and lat- terly political. I is idle to deny that the radical abolitionists furnished — the ideas vpon which the republican party went into the memorable campaign of 1860, and came out victorious. The first principle of the Garrisonians was and is “no Union with slave~ bolders,” and that they have carried into prac” tical effect. As Seward, Phillips and others bave declared in their speeches, over and over again, the almighty nigger has been latterly the prime political power in this country. They have euceceded in placing the North and South in antagonistic positions, and have broken up the Union. Mr. Seward sees his darling idea , of the irrepressible conflict made an actuality, disgust after a sojourn of eleven years, because | the people there were not sufficiently pions for them, would not adopt tL ir doctrines or their practices, and were far (oo numerous ty ve persecuted. Again they secede” agaist the will of the good natured Dutch, and after return- ing to England to take with them some more of their party, proceeded to Aimerica in the May- the rich lands of Virginia or New York, but | aj) this ie true. Mr. Phillips bas made it appear that the consti- intfon js a hellish compact, and Mr. Garrison’s pot project, the dissolution of the federal Union, is a fact accomplished. One of the great Powers | of the world—the United States of America— | cerned, is complete. has lost its prestige among the nations, and the victory «. the almighty nigger, so far as the breaking down of this government is con- Mr. Phillips claims this | Vietory for the Garrisonians: and he likewise | asserts, as no small part of their triumph, that flower in 1620, They had intended to settle in | Providence or the cunning Dutch captain, who ; did not want to bring them in contact with his fellow countrymen, who had already establish- ed settlements southward, landed them on the | Rock of Plymouth, when they took possession | of the most barren spot on the whole continent, and which, but for them, would have remained uninhabited by white men till this day. Had they settled in Virginia they would have been slaveholders to the present hour, nor would they have had the same chance of propagating their fonatical opinions throngh the country, for it is the poverty of New England which compels its inhabitants to mi- grate West and South. They formed them- eeives into a politico-religious aristocracy, in which only “the converted” had votes, and established a government in which church and State were united—which was the ground of their complaint against the English govern- ment. They persecuted all who differed with them, and drove out even their own brethren because they claimed toleration for other sects— for instance. Roger Williams, who fled to Rhode Island; and another clergyman (Blackstone), , who said, ‘! fed from England to escape the tyranny of my Lord Bishops, but T was glad enough to get back to escape the tyranny of my lord brethren They denounced tolera- tion as “a harlot’ ond “the first born of all abominations; and their Governor (Winthrop) “determined to exterminate all opinions of which he did not approve.” Quakers, Baptis Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Catholics were Il perseeuted, with more or less severity; and d women of the best character wliches by this intolora- innocent me , fade they have conquered the New York Henan, We have labored for the Union of the States more than thirty years, Mr. Phillips has toiled with equal assiduity to break up the confederation. The Union is now dissolved, and Mr. Vhillips’ ideas, so far as dis- union is concerned, have triumphed. Thus we see that the slave has done everything for Mr. Phillips; but what has Mr. Phillips done for the slave? Has the institution of slavery been tonched in any vital part? Are not the bond- men of the South held in servitude more strict than that of thirty years ago? Has one slave master advocated the abolition of the institu- tion for the preservation of the Union? Is there not « radical antagonism between the iwo sections of the country, caused by the teachings of Seward, Phillips, Sumner, Gar- rison & Co. ? These are pregnant questions, and must be answered, if answered truly, in the affirmative. The fact is that there is nothing before us but dissolution and reconstruction, The country | will be divided into two great confederacies the Southern States in one, the Northern and | Central States in another, The Southern peo- | ple expect to extend their frontier as far south | as the Isthmus of Panama—perhaps beyond that. Ln the North the annexation of Canada and the other British provinees is expeeted. Under | the new state of things the African slave trade will undoubtedly be opened, and the peculiar institution of the South may be extended over iderable extent of territory now free, “ueb are the net results of the “triamph” of | the radieal abolitionists. They bave injured the white man materially, but have not ame- liorated in the emallest degree the condition of | the slave. Politigaily the result is an import. | | iis purposes, and de ant one to Mr. Wendel! Phillips, who, it is very probable, will succeed Lincoln as President of the Northern confederacy. Extension of Our Revolution to Canada. From all that we can ascertain, from the best sources of information, the rapid revolutionary movement now going forward in the United as extended to our Canadian brethren over the line; and as the slave States of the South are about to secede from the American Union in consequence of the refusal of Seward and the Massachusetts school of politics to make any concessions to the just demands of | the South, so Canada is about to secede from the mother country and cast her lot with the Northern States, to which she naturally and histori¢ally belongs, The difficulties hitherto ia the way of the an- nexation of Canada are now removed. Before the dieruption of our Union the Southern States would not consent to the absorption of Canada, because they feared it would give a prepon- derance to the antislavery clement, already too large, just as the Northern States have here- tofore battled against the annexation of Cuba, lesi ! should odd to the strength of “ the slave power.” But as after the 4th of March both sections will be able’ to follow each its own bent and to expand in its own way without let or hindrance—the slave States westward to the Pacific Ocean in their own latitude, and south- \v to Jarien, or as far as they oan; the free ward in their own latitude, and ‘turd to the Pole, or as far as they can— hvrous that Canada comes first within the ;¢ of Northern acquisition, and must soon aumnbered as a bright particular star on our reshield. The sole objection of Canada to the Union is now removed, for there will be levery in the States or Territories of the mm confederacy, und it will be a conso- ‘aicd government, in which secession will not admissible, and in which State rights will be kept in subordination to the federal authority, and the whole machinery will more closely resemble the British monarchy than it does now. The Canadians, on the other hand, have been long panting for more freedom than they can enjoy under British rule, and enter- g designs of forming, with the othee British provinces of North America, an inde- j pendent confederacy, entirely separated from gland. The opportunity is now offered of forming part and parcel of a far greater and more powerful confederacy, by a union with the States on her southern frontier, From all that we can learn her population are already meditating the annexation, and are only waiting to see the peaceable separation of our confederacy into two parts brought to ! the devoutly wished for consummation. The Canadian population new numbers as much as that of the thirteen colonies when they threw off the British yoke; and Canada is, therefore, per- fectly able to follow their example, especially aided, as she would be, by our tree States. But as the doctrine of revolution by peaceable secession is now taking the place of the abitra- ment of the sword in Europe, by the sanction of England herself, she cannot fairly object to tbe Canadians determining their own destiny hy the same method. The British government will allow them to go, and bid them God speed. It will, moreover, cede to them the fortresses and other property of the crown at a fair valuation. The Canadians are of the same rage, lan- guage and religion with the people of the free States; have the same ideas of government, and are intimately acquainted with them. They are only separated by a chain of lakes and a river on one side, and on the other by a mere imaginary line. What is to prevent a perfect union? In 1857 the population of the two Canadas was 2,571,437, of which Lower Canada numbered 1,220,514, and Upper Canada 1,350,923. As the population had then in- creased 729,172 in five years, it cannot be much short of three millions and a half at the present time. The total value of the com- tierce of Canada for 1856 was:— Total exports... . . . . $40,000,000 Total imports. 55,000,000 Tonnage inwards.. 5,350,762 Tonnage outwards... . 5,620,247 What the total value ot Canadian commerce was last year we have no meansas yet of knowing; but the value of the commerce be- tween Canada, the other British provinces and the United States was as follows:— Exports from Canada and other British i inces to the United States in impéiis from the United States to Ga- nada and the other British proyinces IR WOOD... crsrccctecverdccvccoceree MbphOO LUA If the union of these provinces with the free States of the North were only accomplished, this trade would be doubled, and a mighty im- petus would be given to every branch of busi- ness and industry, which would speedily de- velope the resources of the country, and ad- vance it more in ten years than it progressed in forty under its present rale. The North American free State republic would thus be- come a mighty Power on the earth, and make its influence felt throughout the world, and Canada would partake of its glory and pros- perity, instead of being tied asa province to the tail of « distant nation, who has no longer any interest in her developement and success. Let the Canadian people, therefore, have their arrangements all made early in March, so that there may be no delay to the consummation of their union with the Northern confederacy of the United States. A new and a grand destiny awaits them. 18,861,673 Penivasicat, Hyvocnisy iv BrookLyN—Brook- lyn is, as every one knows, the city of the elect. It contains more churches and more shining pulpit lights than are to be found elsewhere in the same area all the world over. It has is Henry Ward Beechers and its Chittendens, great actors in their way, though professing to abhor and repudiate the stage. It keeps the Sunday with all the severity of the old Jewish Sabbath, and cannot even amuse itself on the week days withont the concurrence and presence of the clergy. This is all very right and proper in the good people of the City of Churches, and we should be the last to find fault with it if they would only be consistent. Their conduct has of late, however, been marked by such strange contradictions that we bewin to fear they will lose their reputation for sanotity unless they are reminded of their backslidings. Our readers are probably aware that, owing to the promptings of the devil or some other evil influence. our neighbors recently erected an Opera Honse. 1. fs truc that in the begin ning ita projectors endeavored to disguise ignated it firet a Music Nall and then an Academy of Music, The aid of the clergy was as usual invoked in favor of the seheme, and (he justige must be done these