The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-09-11
NEW YORK HERALD.
Affairs mt the Seat OF War.

csived Yesterday, and are very iate' Inc most I'm
portant piece of intelligence from Mexico is the
election of Herrera to the Presidency. OF the two
war candidates he was the midest Almonte being
the most rabld and unreasonable.
According to the intelligence from Arkansas Bay
five days later than the government has received
there were signs of the Mexcans. General
Tayor's position had become strong and well pre-
pared for them Ii is to be hoped however, that he
will not permit the non-appearance of the Mexcans
10 lull hls suspicious and thus afford them chance
to attack our troops. Let him keep all the force he
now has in camp, till Mexico has faithfully pro-
missed not to infringe the territory on the east
bank of the Rio del Norte.
The news from the interior OF Mexico is conflict
ing, and very little dependence is to be placed upon
it, There will soon be revolution there.
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Decentralization OF the Age-The Danger and
the Remedy.
We hear a great deal about the prosperity-the
unexampled growth-the fast accommodating resour-
ces of the United States. On all hands are pointed
out with JOY and gladness, beckonlng omens of fl,-
ture greatness And all this is quite natural The
signs of the times are indeed full hope and cheer;
but for all that, the calm and thoughtful observer as
he looks abroad upon this country, much to oc
casion dlsquietude and alarm. Influences of evil
of disorganzation-of general disaster, are al work
the land He is patriot, no friend TO his race
who shuts his eyes to that which is dark and threat
ening in the aspect of hts time. Let us, then, in
the midst of all the glad shoutngs ct prosperity,
which are ascending from all quarters and when
the nation, glrdng up its lons tor battle reolces,
with fresh enthusiasm, in its strength, candidly, and
in the spirit Of true philosophy, examine the progress
and causes OF that decentralization which casts It's
portentous shadow on various portions OF our belo-
we'd land.
First we would direct the attention OF our readers
10 the dark deeds OF mobocracy for years past ever
and anon, startling the friends of law and order
The burning Of the Convent at Charlestown, is one
OF the most memorable illustrations, Of late years.
of this accursed spirit opopular ignorance, prejudice
and passion. That black deed was perpetrated in
section OF the country which is in the eye and belief
of many, the chosen sanctuary of civil and reli-
gious libsrty-he very citadel of all those glo-
rous principles of freedom, truth and order, which
constitute the foundation and glory of the Repub-
lie. We need not recapitulate the horrors of
that scene. But did it excite that universal and
overwhelming burst of public indignation which
the occasion demanded! Were the actors in
it covered with the infamy they deserved Has the
convent been rebuilt Alas the blackened walls
still stand monument of that unpublished, unatoned
for outrage Then we had the burning of African
churches in New York, Still more recently the
fearful outbreak in hlladelphia-the burning of
temples consecrated to the service of the Most
High the burning and sacking of dwelling houses
and the slaughter ofnumbers of citizens in the public
street. Did any of these terrible leave on the
public mind that widespread and solemn impress
sion which would have indicated the pervading IN
fuence Of healthy state of popular sentiment? Not
at ALL brief, ransitory excitement, altogether,
at least in almost every quarter imperative for
good, was the only result. There was no loud and
universal utterance Of indignation and horror-no
prompt and energetic effort TO crush, at once and
forever the potent elements of anarchy and ruin
that then presented themselves-no pressing and ac
tive sense of the necessity of providing against the
recurrence Of such fearful crisis.
Such is hasty review of the past few years The
present is full Of alarming indications. The recent
outrage in Lexington-for however gross and
wicked the conduct of the individual who provoked
it, it must still be regarded outrage-is very
pregnant of danger 1t is example of mobocracy
of anti-law-and order violence, in many re-
spects peculiarly alarming. Antrentism, too,
has assumed most threatening form-a
gigantic stature. In one of the most respect
able and intelligent counties of this State, a
minister of the law has been murdered in
open day. whilst in the act Of discharging his official
duties. Every day brings fresh adherents to the
standard of instruction, and we have every
to dread the organization, at no very distant day, of
widespread and general conspiracy against
all the laws of tenure by which property is at
present held What is there to be urged against
the feasibility of the conjecture, that by
and by in all our cities and towns war
will be declared by the tenants against the
andlords-that the principle will be broadly laid
down and carried out by the same species Of argu-
ment has been adopted by the ant-renters that nc
man has right to own more real estate than he
himself can occupy-that the idea of paying rent fol
house is preposerous, and contrary to all just no
tions OF human right and human liberty! Do not all
the indications now before point TO this issue! Il
II not almost certain that the landed proprietary
OF the lnsurrectionary will be deprived OF
their estates by due form of law, either by Legislative
enactment the action of the people in the general
State Convention, which is to assemble in shor,
time? And, is there not in all this matter serious
enough for the consideration of the intelligent OBJ
server, who with the enlightened prescience o
true philosophy, trace out the shadows which the
events and movements taking place around him cas-
upon the future
When we look at the state of private moral
amongst us, there is, we constrained say witt
deepest regret much to strengthen those conviction
Of the prevalence and power of the disorganizin.
spirit which are forced upon the mind by contem
patlon Of the combined movements of bodies of tn,
people, in direct and avowed opposition TO those
principles Of law and order, whose nvariable ano
onbroken supremacy Is absolutely essential to the
safety OF the State Looseness Of morals amongs
the clergy-gross generalization at Washington
the quarrels of members of Congress-the disgrace
full squabbes Of members Of the bar in the verv tenn
pie Of justice itsef-the insubordinaton every now
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