The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1861, Page 6

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AMRRICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway. <Soni - ‘Lets, Pantomimns, &¢.~—Miscuixvovs ‘Neves. ae ORYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, wery, =e Burixsques, SoxGs, Dances, do BMD Oe PARISTAN CABINET OF WO: — Open daly ‘tom IDA MANO F. Me ees 8 Broadway. NATIONAL MUSIC HALL, Ch ehet.—BoRies- aus, Soxas, Daxcrs, s0*Nasounnsoe Bae = MBLODEON, pUBLODEON, Brooklyn.—Soxes, Dancss, Pantomnexs, TRIPLE SHEET. ENew York, Saturday, November 30, 1861. THE SITUATION. Tho Navy Department received official informa- tion yosterday from Commander Dupont of the fact which we have already announced—namely: the occupation of Tybee Island at the mouth of the Savannah river by the troops of the naval expedition, and the planting of the national fiag on the soil of Georgia. He states that this point entirely controls the ship channel to the Savannah river, which is only within five hundred yards of the fort, and the pos- seasion of it closes the harbor of Savannah, and that Fort Pulaski is at the mercy of our forces the moment the latter desire to take it. Also that reliable accounts informed him that Savannah was being evacuated by the people ag fast as pos- sible, fearing, probably, that Commander Rogers would attempt to take possession of it, He further states that Commodore Tatnall, of the rebel fleet, had given it ag dis pinian thas 4. entire rebel defences of the Southern coast must be abandoned, as they could not stand the arma” ment of our fleet. This event has been welcomed with great joy a, the national capital, and both the government and the people there are congratulating themselves upon the fact that the flag of the Union has now been re-established in all the rebel States except two—Alabama and Arkansas. It waves in Texas, opposite El Paso ; on Ship Island, in Mississippi ; at Pensacola and Key West, in Florida ; at the mouth of the river below New Orleans, in Louisi- ana ; on the island of Tybee, in Georgia ; at Port Royal and St. Helena, in South Carolina ; at Eliza- bethtown and Bristol, in Tennessee ; over half of Virginia ; over two-thirds of Missouri and Ken- tuoky, and over all of Maryland and Delaware. When we consider the events of the past six months, surely this is something to be proud of. The rumors which for a couple of days have been prevalent here of the attack on Pensacola from Fort Pickens, were again revived yesterday by a statement in a Philadelphia paper that the Navy Yard at Pensacola had been destroyed and was evacuated by the rebels, and so forth; but the probability is that this story is only an exaggerated account of the original reports, and that there is really no more reliable information on the subject than we have already published. That there has been a battle resulting in a victory for the Union arms there can be no doubt, and the statement of tho evacuation of Pensacola may be true, but in the absence of authentic information we have to rely entirely upon the news from rebel sources which have reached us from Norfolk by way of Fortress Monroe, We give in our telegraphic news to-day some interesting accounts of the movements of the rebel steamer Geo. Page on the Lower Potomac, but she does not seem to have accomplished much in her predatory expeditions. A reconnoitering party of the Lincoln Cavalry, under command of Captain Boyd, advanced to within a thousand yards of Fairfax Court House on Wednesday, where they had a sharp skirmish with a portion of the rebel scouts, cavalry and in- fantry. No one was killed on our side, but one of the enemy was brought down from his saddle. Captain Boyd says that a small force of infantry, supported by a battery and a company of cavalry, could easily take and hold Fairfax Court House at the present time, The rebels at Harper's Ferry tried a pretty hot fire of shells on the quarters of the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania regiment yesterday, causing some excitement among the men. Major Tyndall re- turned the fire with Enfleld rifles, but the distance was too great todo any damage. None of the Pennsylvania men were hurt, We give much of our space to-day to the vital subject of the tripartite treaty of England, France and Spain, with reference to Mexico, believing it to occupy a very important position in the current history of the country at this crisis, A full ac- count of the entire question will be found in our columns to-day. By the arrival, from Liverpool, of the City of Balti- more off Cape Race, at half past five yesterday efternoon, we have intelligence that a large NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1861.—TRIPLE SHEET. privateer Nashville, Captain Pegram, had arrived at Southampton on the 2lstinst, On the 19th sho captured the American ship Harvey Birch, bound from Havre to New York and, having taken the crew prisoners, burned her to the water's edge. After landing the captain and orew at Southamp- ton, the Nashville remained there with the rebel flag flying at her peak. Mr. Russell, in his last letter to the London Times, soys that Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet wore not indisposed towards an arbitration of the diffi- culty with the rebellious South, and that the ques- tion of accepting the aid of some of the potentates of Europe was actually ander discussion at Wash- ington. «It would’ require some more reliable au- thority than Mr. Russell, however, to verify this ‘btatement. It was reported that several veasels were be- ing insured in London to run to New Orleans and back. THE NEWS. By the arrival of the City of Baltimore off Cape Race last evening we have advices from Liverpool to the 20th and Queenstown to the 2lst inst., four days later than the accounts previously received. The news is highly important, as will be seen on reference to ouf telegraphic summary, given in the third page of to-day’s paper. The mails of the Canada srrived from Boston yesterday evening. Our European files are dated to the 16th instant, and contain some very interest- ing details of the news—telegraphed from Hali- fax—published inthe Hzmatp on Thursday morn- ing. Our correspondents in Paris and St. Peters- burg furnish very important reporta of the condi- tion of the continent of Europe—executive and fi- nanciah—at the latest moment. The revolutionary feeling was progressing very seriously in Russia. The steamboat Francis Skiddy came in collision with s schooner on the North river on Thursday night. The steamboat was considerably damaged in her machinery, and three persons were killed and six seriously injured by escaping steam. A despatch fromonisville, published in yester- day's Hxgatp,announced that » ‘secession ordi- nance had been passed by the Législatare of Ken- tucky. This is decidedly an error. Both branches of the Legislature of Kentucky are strongly for the Union, and that body was not in session at the time that ordinance was passed. The declaration of independence and the ordinance of secession referred to were adopted by a few soldiers of the rebel army, who were called together at Rassell- ville, Ky., by John C. “Breckinridge, Humphrey Marshall and H. C. Burnett, 8 cabal with no more constitutional power than the same number of Washington Market huckster women would have to perform a similar work. Colonel Croghan, who was killed in the rebel army during Floyd’s retreat from Kanawha, was a son of General Croghan, who defended Fort Stephenson, and was once the owner of the Mam- moth Cave, in Kentucky. It is said that before he died he regretted having joined the rebels, A company of Union cavalry visited the farm of the rebel General Buskner, which is situated on Green river, near Mungerdsville, Ky.,on the 24th inst., and confiscated a8 his stock, wheat, corn, &c. The Union scldiers of Cheat Mountain, Viaginia, have built a little mountain city for their winter quarters. It is composed of log hats, properly Toofed and chinks well filled with mud, The State of Mate has 9,729 men in the field, 2,050 infantry in incomplete regiments, and one regiment of cavalry numbering 2,110. General Neleon’s brigade, consisting of the Seo- ond, Nineteenth, Twenty-first, Thirty-third and on the 25th inst, from Piketon, Ky. Captain Gordon, convicted of serving on board the slaver Erie, will be bronght into the United States Circuit Court this day (Saturday), at eleven o’clock, when a decision will be rendered on the motion for » new trial. Should the decision be final, the United States District Attorney will move the Court for judgment. As will be seen by report elsewhere, the Board of County Canvassers yesterday finished their work of canvassing the returns of the late State and county election. The official declaration of the reault was ordered to be published exclusively in the Henap. The cotton market was again excited and higher yes- terday. The sales embraced from 1,600 to 1,600 bales, chiefly to spinners, closing on the basis of 270. for mid- dling uplands, which was an advance of about 1c. per lb, ‘The flour market opened with steadiness, but closed heavy and rather cagier for common and modium grades, while extra brands were without change of moment. ‘Wheat was stoady at the opening, but closed easier, while salep were some lesa active. Corn was less buoyant and active, while it closed with the turn of the market tn favor of purchasers. Western mixed, for shipment, sold at 63c. a 633¢¢. Pork was unchanged and less ative, while sales of meas were made at $12 60 8 $13, and prime at $3 50a $9. Sugars remained firm, and the advance of ‘ge. @ 3c. per lb. on the week’s sales was sustained. ‘The sales embraced about 800 bhds.,at prices given in another column. Coffee was firm, with sales of Ceylon and Laguayra at 19c., and 600 bags Rio at p.t. Freights were without chango of moment, though rather easier for English ports, while engagements were moderate. The Meeting of Congress, The first regular seasion of the Congress which meets in Washington on Monday next will be one of the most important, and, we trust, one of the most orderly, practical and satisfactory to the country since the organiza- tion of our government. Relieved of the disorganizing secession cle- ment of our rebellious Southern States, the two houses will be free to give their undivided at- tention to the immediate exigencies and neces- sities of the government and the country in reference to our domestic and foreign relations. In this connection we are gratified to learn from Washington that this policy of legislation will be adopted, and that the two houses will set aside, fora ‘more convenient season,” all extraneous matters calculated to interfere with the accomplishment of that grand object and uldtmatum of President Lincoln, “the integrity of the Union.” All parties, therefore, interested in the prosecution of those peculiar claims, jobs and contracts connected with the lobby of our late peace establishment will do well to take their soundings before investing very largely in the lobby operations of this war Congress. We expect from President Lincoln a calm, clear and practical schedule of recommenda- tions touching our domestic and foreign affairs, and strictly in accordance with that general line of policy declared in bis inaugural and in his message to Congress at the extraordinary session of July last. We expect him to adhere to that conservative line of action on the slave- ry question indicated in his instructions to General Fremont in reference to the emancipa- tion of the slaves of rebel masters. In a word, we expect from Mr. Lincoln a firm adhesion to that wise and eminently popular platform, the “integrity of the Union,” including the Jand- marks of the constitution on the subject of slavery. Upon this strong and impregnable platform we also anticipate the cordial co-ope- ration of his Cabinet. One of the most lament- ; able manifestations of the imbecility of Mr. @aamer, ladon with a full cargo of munitions of | Buchanan’s administration was the conflict of war for the rebel States had left London, The { official views, arguments and recommendations | dynasty once waved. St. Domingo, she claims which he permitted between himself and some of the leading members of his Cabinet on the most important public issues of the day. Thus fur we have had no auch manifestations of weakness and indecision from President Lincola, nor have we any misgivings that he will allow any division of sentiment between his own offi- cial expositions and those of the subordinate members of his administration. President Lincoln, having won the general sympathy, co-operation and confidence of our conservative people of all parties, all classes and all sections, will surely understand the ways and means by which to hold his ground and to improve his advantages. Ho will stand fast to those conservative and practical ideas, and to that practical unity and industrious co- operation of his Cabinet, which bave already achieved so much in developing the power of the government and the warlike resources of the loyal States as to assure every intelligent mind of the speedy suppression of this Southern rebellion. Let Congress, therefore, steer faith- fully by the charts of the administration, and we shall have an eminently practical, success- ful and satisfactory system of legialative moa- sures in behalf of the great cause of the gov- ernment and our loyal States. To this end the administration possesses an extraordinary advantage in reference to our political parties and platforms. Where are they? Where are the parties and party princi- ples and measures, even of our last Presidential election? They have been swept away as by a consuming fire. The miserable clap-trap of the Baltimore democratic factions, and the peculiar resolutions of the Chicago Convention, are as dead and obsolete as Anti-Masonry and the dark lantern mummeries of Know Nothingism. This Southern rebellion marks a new ora in our political history; for our only political land- marks remaining are those of our federal con- stitution. The demoralizing issues upon which the democratic party was destroyed, and the dogmas of the slavery agitation upon which the republican party was founded, have all gone down before this overwhelming issue of a war of life or death to the government. Upon this grand issue the monsing politician has become intolerable, and mere party principles have be- come @ public nuisance. President Lincoln, rising to the grandeur and momentous exigencies ‘of the crisis, recognizes no party but that whose platform is “the in- tegrity of the Union.” He has thus liberated his administration from the manacles of scheming politicians. He fully realizes the fact that our vagabond politicians, North and South, with their reckless schemes, and plots, and measures of discord and dissolution, of the last thirty years, have brought this terrible war upon the country. He knows that the salvation of the country depends upon a different class of men— upon those honest, practical, working patriots to whose industry, under the reign of peace, the country had attained a degree of prosperity and happiness unparalleled in the history of na- tions. Of this class McClellan, called from his peaceful vocation asa railway engineer to the head of our armies, is a notable example. And just such honest, practical men, from the walks of peace, are the men now demanded in every department of .the public service to aid in the yigorous prosecution of this war. ae sures, Yet us hope, will control this approach" ing session of Congress. And yet it is to be feared that there is a sufficient remnant of radi- cal abolitionism remaining in both houses to encourage the politicians of that disorganizing faction to attempt the experiment of embarrass- ing the government, or of pushing it into a crusade for the extermination of Southern slavery. This faction, however, may be readily controlled by @ firm front on the part of the President. We are confident, too, that he will amply satisfy the expectations of our conserva” tive people, and we accordingly anticipate the active co-operation of Congress in the prosecu” tion of this war, not for the extirpation of slavery by fire and sword, but for “the in- tegrity of the Union.” —— The Condition of Mexico and the Triple Alliance ef European Powers. In the midst of our domestic troubles our foreign policy remains unchanged. It is mani- festthat no internal difficulty can or should alter the fixed principles which the government has laid down for itself in its intercourse with foreign nations; and hence the demoustration now being made against Mexico by the alliance of France, England and Spain—a demoistration which has assumed all the features of ¢ forcible interference with tho affairs of the american continent—cannot be viewed withow intense interest, nor tolerated without an eartest, and, if need be, a hostile remonstrance. We lay before our readers to-day a very full history of all the complications in reent Mexi- can history which have led to the European alliance, together with a descriptim of the fleets and armies which are now on tluir way to rendezvous at Havana, and a succint account of the complaints against the Mexian govern. ment upon which are based the reasons of the three European nations for enterhg into a treaty to overshadow Mexico witl a foreign protectorate, Our description is a:cpmpanied by a fine map of the Gulf portion o’ the Mexi- can republic. The Mexican question is a grave ee, and as such it must be treated. The combned fleet of three foreign Powers will soon bi floating in the waters of the Gulf. The treaty inder which this foreign tripartite alliance has leen created is in itself offensive and insulting b the United States government, not only invting us, as it does, to ignore the most cherishedprinciples of our policy with regard to the Anerican contl- nent, and ally ourselves with thow nations in the act of violating them, but provifing for car- tying out the schemo in any event, whether our government consents to it or not, The ostensible object of the naval expedition to Mexico is to restore that country to peace, to protect foreign commerce, and to enforce the payment of certain debts due to foreign credi- tors, But, in carrying out these}purposes, each of the three nations has its own peouliar end to serve, which underlies the surface presented to the public view. Spain, while securing the payment of her debt, looks forward to the reconquest of her old colonies in America. The difficulty of the United States, said Marshal O'Donnell, is the opportunity for Spain, as O'Connell used to boast that England’s difficulty was Ireland's opportunity. The speech of Queen Isabella to the Cortes the other day points, with a precision not to be mistaken, to the reconstruction of dominion in all the countries over which the standard of her Catholic Majesty’s oxultingly, bas already returned to its folds; Mexico is to follow; next come tho Guano Islands, and 60 on, wntil Old Spain, with her kings or viceroys, ocouples all the South and Central American republics. France bas, no doubt, entered the alliance partly to recover the debt due to ber citizens: but mainly to worry England by her interfe- rence in measure the largest profit of which the Iatter country hoped to realize for herself. France, too, has another object, It ts said that asecret treaty bas been made between Napo- leon and the Spanish government whereby Spain cedes the Balearic Islands, in the Medi- the wealth of Mexico in bullion and products by England, through the agency of her West Indian mail steamers, she would never reap « that she is only using Mexico as @ pretext keep her fleets in the waters of the Gulf, without creating any alarm in the minds of our govern- ment and people, to use them upon our Southern wey opportunity or emergency may de- As woe have said, our domestic difficulties can- not alter our policy with nations, The Monroe doctrine is as sound, as sacred and as much a part of our principles to-day as it was when Monroe enunciated it; and if the govern- ments of Europe are going to take a mean vantage of our troubles here at home to fere with our settled policy upon that or other question, they had better reflect thet will not always be divided by internal strife, that this rebellion will not last forever, and that @ day of retribution will yet come to the thirty millions of freemen whom they are plotting to injure in the hour of domestic afllic- tion. With regard to Mexico itself, what should our government dot The Mexican government is friendly towards us now, as it has been ever since the liberal party obtained power. Our Minister, Mr. Corwin, bas just made a treaty with Mexico, guaranteeing us a free tran- sit for our troops through that territory, in- suring us several commercial advantages, pro- viding for the settlement of ?the claims of our citizens, amounting to over three millions of dollars, and otherwise evidencing a fraternal spirit towards the government of the United States. Mexico does not sympathize with this unnatural rebellion. She is anxious to draw nearer the bonds of neighborhood which unite the two countries; and, in order to make the connection closer, the Mexican government has consented to prolong the time for the fulfilment of a contract for a line of steamships from some Southern port until the expiration of the war. What the Senate at Washington should do, then, anatery” ifort fhe’ PWENGion; aod’ give all The moral strength in the power of our government to Mexico, As for the conduct of the European nations, that may be left for time to settle; but settled it assuredly will be, and that before long. The Mayoralty Election—The Metropolis @ Conservative City. ‘The charter election which is to be held in thia city next Tuesday is beginning to assume features of the highest importance. The aboli- tionists of the metropolis have at length boldly thrown off the mask, and virtually acknow- ledged that they intend to maintain a direct issue with conservatism, in whatever shape it may present itself, and either to suffer defeat, or elect their candidate, on the wild, mischievous programme of Garrison, Greeley and Fremont. The prominent part taken by Mr. George Op- dyke at the meeting of the New York Young Men’s Republican Union, on Tuesday evening, where, side by side with Cheever, the incen- diary ecclesiastical malcontent of the Puritan church, and Goodell and Johnson, radical amal- gamationist newspaper editors, he assisted in the adoption of o resolution denunciatory of the policy of President Lincoln, and upholding the doctrine of general negro emancipation and the arming of slaves against their masters, is amply significant of his political proclivities, and of his determination to identify himself with the diabolical schemes of the disunionists of the North. The most desperate effort is, in fact, being made to deliver over this city, body and soul, to the tender mercies of the nigger worshipping faction, and make the approaching struggle at the polls an entering wedge to dis- organize and break down our federal adminis- tration, and the constitution and government of the United States. The outcries of the Tribune and Post; the recent demonstration of Mr. Op- dyke, and the factitious excitement that has been created, on account of the removal of General Fremont from command in the Depart- ment of the West, are all parts of a vast con- spiracy to compel the government to cease to carry on the war with the South, for the exolu- sive object of restoring the integrity of the Union, and the supremacy of the constitution and the laws, and to enlist our armies in a vast John Brown crusade, for the sole end of raising blacks to a level with the white race, From time immemorial the city of New York has been distinguished for the eminently conser- vative character of its population. The pride of its merchants, mechanics, laborers and manu- facturers has been to maintain a comprehensive and impartial fairness towards all sections of the republic alike. Its commercial policy has ever led it to eschew every element that could impair its position as the great depot of trade for the American continent. It is from this high attitude that the abolition conspirators in our midst would cause our metropolis to fall. They are straining every nerve, and employing every appliance of misrepresentation and fraud to make itan accomplice with @ project which would reduce the nation to barbarism, and de- stroy every hope of the re-establishment of the constitution as a bond to unite once more the dissevered members of the republic. Every one knows with what avidity the anti-slavery party haye seized upon all possible occasions to villi- fy, malign and calumniate the patriotic Chief Magistrate of the country, and dampen the ener- gies of those who are engaged in the loyal work of suppressing rebellion. This alone would is | Hon and disgust of good cltizens; but the insuf ferable impudence and arrogance with which they are endeavoring, in the midst of the most trying crisis to which any nation was"ever sub- Jeeted, to overturn every landmark that was ea- tablished by Washington and the founders of the nation, and to make New York a pivot on which to binge the revolutionary spirit they have evoked, cannot be too summarily and offectual- ly rebuked. To elect Mr. Opdyke to the Mayor- alty would be equivalent to the consecration of the principle that the constitution of the United States is “a league with hell and a covenant with death,” and it is to attain the sanction of this abominable doctrine that the abolitionists are striving. Its the duty of every individual who would not witness » triumph of the anti-slavery dis- union element in our midst, such as bas never before been achieved in the Northern States, and who would regret to see an endorsement by this metropolis of the infamous and treasonable resolutions that have lately been passed by Fremont sympathizers, calling for an armed up- rising against the government, the overthrow of the administration by violence, and the tramp- ling under foot of the “Stara and Stripes,” or, » they have nicknamed them the “bars and stripes,” to record his vote against Mr. George Opdyke, on Tuesday next. Mr. Fornando Wood, in spite of the calumny and vituperation with which he is continually assailed by his ene- mies, stands forth before the community as an Tae Conroration Apvextiauvo—A Rerery ro Bestvess Parscirias.—Tho Board of Supervisors, sitting in their capacity of County Canvassers, wound up their work of canvassing the returus of the last election yesterday. It will be seen, by the report of their proceedings, which ap- pears in another columa, that they have ordered the official declaration to be published exclu- sively in the New Youk Herain, as the journal of the largest ciroulation. Last year they pub- lished it in some twenty newspapers, the ag- foe waare antwithetanding the remonstramoes offered by us against so wasteful and unprin- cipled a course. In this, as in other things, the peblic interests have been subordinated to money, a number of small and worthless party rags which have never given and which never can give an adequate return for the sums lavished uponthem. The Board of Supervisors have set en example of reform in this respect which, if scted upon, would effect @ large economy in the expenditure of the city and twenty in journals of minor circulation. result will of course be that they will bave the work better done and at » twentieth part less cost than formerly. Tas Execrioy or Scuoot Orricrs—Our citl- one-half of the Board of Education, School Trustees and Inspectors, who are to have charge of the educational department of our city gov- ernment during the coming year. The several political parties and factions have trotted out their candidates—some good and others indiffer- ent—and, under the whip and spur of party dis- cipline, they are trying to elect them; but if there is one interest in the city that calls for the abandonment of all party lines by the honest voter and taxpayer it is the election of school officers—the choice of those men who have con- trol of the educational fund, the employment of teachers and the general supervision of the public schools of the city, where thousands of children receive the instruction that fits them for the active duties of life. The fear is that in the three-cornered struggle that is now going on for Mayor the educational interesta will be entirely overlooked, and the very worst men be elected in the several wards to the positions of schoo) officers, and an injury inflicted that the election of forty reform Mayors cannot remedy. The educational de partment of our city government is one that affects every citizen of New York, be his station in life what it msy—high or Jow, rich or poor. The education of the youth in a city like this is a question that goes home to every inbabitant of the metropolis, and should be guarded with a jealous eye by every voter and taxpayer who has any interest or pride in the future welfare of the city. We trust that every voter will take pains to inform himself in regard to the candi- dates for school officers in his respective ward, and when he goes to the polls on Tues day next vote for the best men, regardless of the party that has placed them in nomination. “4 geeh HES an, ile - Thanksgiving and the WarneThe Clergy on the Stump. The ovent has proved that we did well in not publishing the Thanksgiving sermons of the clergy of New York. The abolition journals have spread them before the public; and never did we read any compositions so like sour beer, “stale, flat and unprofitable,” with the addition of some poisonous ingredients highly deleterious to tho community, and requiring the administration of @ strong antidote. A most remarkable negative feature, common to the whole batch, is the total absence of one lucid idea, one grain of etates- manship—in short, anything of a redeeming nature to compensate for the mischief they are calculated to produce. Among those who have signalized themselves in aiding and abetting the abolition conspiracy to defeat the objects of the war, to prevent the restoration of the Union, and to supersede the President by revolutionary violence, unless he will accede to measures for the emancipation of the negroes throughout the Southern States, are Beecher, Cheever, Thomp- son, Tyng, Bartlett, Burchard and Sloane. The Satanic tone adopted by some of these Clergymen would go far to prove that their mission is not from Heaven, but the place below. One of them, for instance, rejoices in carnage, not because it will restore the Union, but abol- ish slavery. He says:—“Let us put in the sickle, and thank God for the harvest before us, terrible with death.” “ Another—Henry Ward Beecher— says:—“Our country, like the Laocoon, had long lain in the ever-tightening serpent folds of slavery; yet the government ‘could not break the pact’ made in ‘the compromises of the consti- tution.’” “But what the pen of the legislator could not do the sword of the warrior would do;” and “these two antagonists, liberty and God, slavery and the devil, were to fight out the matter between themselves.” Cheever sings hallelujah because of “the great opportunity mercifully granted of God, not merely of re- union or reconstruction as before, with slavery as a central element, which may God forbid, for separation and war were better than that—but the opportunity of resurrection and transfigura- tion into a higher life and indestructible unity, the old sole cause of disunion, crime and evil being cast out.” Another—Rev. Mr. Thompson— thanks God that we have a war which will re- sult in our ceasing to be “a nation of slave bunters;” and “it should be known everywhere in the land that righteous, loving and praying men demand that not only the rebellion, but that slavery incarnate in the rebellion, be de- stroyed.” Rev. Mr. Dutcher proclaims that “before God is done with us not one shall be left who shall wear the shackles of the slave;” and Rev. Mr. Bartlett, a sensation preacher rivalling brother Beecher, depicts “the glory of the Union hereafter, when every slave will not only be free, but educated.” Such is the millenium to which these visionary fa- natics look forward as the result of a war which one of them describes as “fratrici- dal, the worst of all wars.” And is it for this that a million of the white race are destroying each other—that the blood of their children and of the friends who survive them may be~ come tainted and corrupted by admixture with the negro race? God and nature forbid. It is remarkable that all the abolition clergy, however they may differ on otber points, agree with Sumner on the three following:—First, that negro slavery is the cause of the war. Second, that the war can only be successful by destroying slavery, aud that this is its proper and legitimate object. Third, that slavery is a sin of the deepest dye—so much ao, indeed, that Cheever does not scruple to say that the pre- sent war and its consequences are a judgment of God against the nation because of its sanc- tion of the sin of slavery. This is the burthen ofall the sermons of the abolition clergy, of all the barangues of the demagogues, and the stock in trade of the anti-slavery press. Now we hold that the true cause of the wari the revolu~ tionary propagandism carrieé on by such men as Cheever, in alliance with the British aristoc- racy, and that one of the most potent means of bringing about the war was the denunciation of Southern negre slavery as a national sin which it was the duty of the general government to abolish. It is this moral and political war on its institations which has kept the South ina state of constant irritation, and which, under the of ambitious leaders,*bas driven it to arms. Had Northera pulpits, presses and politi- cians let Southern slavery alone, secession would have been impossible. Negro slavery is a part of the constitution, and the attempt to abolish or impair it by Northern majorities in Congress, or by the influence of the Executive, is a violation of the federal compact—the treason, the «xg of the serpent from which rebellion has been hatched. It is, moreover, an imputation upon the character of Washington and Madison and the other founders of the government, who agreed, by a solemn league and covenant, that protection of the rights of slaveholders should be guaranteed forever to the Southern States. As to negro slavery being 4 sin, not one of the clergymen who preached against it on Thanks giving Day attempted to prove it, if we except Mr. Sloane, who quoted the case of Pharaoh be- ing punished for refusing to let the Larselitos co from under bis yoke. There are two points, however, to be remembered; first, that the Ls- raelites were white men, superior to their en- slavers; and secondly, that it was not the insti. tution of slavery that was complained of in their case. but the abuse of it, and galling oppression beyond what the institution warranted. Ac cordingly, we find that when thie very people migrated to another country, and God himself gave them @ government and laws, the regula tion of slavery as a domestic institution is a prominent feature in the divine legation. We find it recognised in the tenth commandment of the Decalogue—“Thou sbalt mot covet thy neighbor's male slave, vor his female slave. vor his ox, nor bis ass, nor anything that is bis.” others that God will not permit succeam Ce ee ver eaten tao cational dn ef slavery is abolished. When the war of the Revolution commenced one of the thirteen colonies held slaves. Yet the colonies triamphed. When the constitution was adopted every State but ‘one held slaves, and the institution was made part of that instrument. Yet the country pres- pered. In the war of 1812-15 the institution flourished in all the Soutbern and some of the Northern States. Still the band of God was Let our merchants and business men, at least, | with the nation, and England was again whip- pay as much attention to the qualificati ions of | ped. As well might it be sald that ten was the the Revolution of 1776 and of the tho candidates for school officers as they do to | cause of the selection of a clerk in their business. The | seven years war as that slavery is the cause of interests of humanity and the prosperity of the the present war. It was not tea that caused the y reat deal upon the character of ie ei te try to tax it; and tea continues to be used to | the present day. In the same way, it is not the men who control the educational interests of the city. Seo to it that none but good men have been suflicient to call forth the reprola- | are selected. war, but the unjust attempt of the mother coun- negro slavery that is the cause of the present a x