The New York herald., 1845-09-22

The Court of Oyer and Terminer opens at Delhi
this day, and begins another act in the strange
DRAMA SO full of fearful and gloomy interest, now
proceeding in the interior of this great
and influential State. Judge Parker-a man
largely endowed with sound common sense
and practical intelligence-delvers charge
TO the Grand jury in which he will enter fully into
the subject OF anti-rentism, and which will be one
of the most important ever made in any court OF
ustlce in this country. We had despatched a corps
of reporters to Delhi last week, for the purpose of
reporting the trials. and this morning another men,
Der OF corps will reach that place and will report
this most important charge in full, returning to this
city by express in order issue in extra Herald
at an early hour tomorrow morning In every as
pect, and particularly in their bearing the ap.
preaching election, the proceedings at Delhi are o.
the most momentous Importance, and we have there
fore made arrangements to have full and accurate
reports of them transmitted to daily by express.
We are, indeed at this moment on the eve of one
of the most remarkable epochs in the history of this
republic. Elements Of disorganization, anarchy and
ruin are banding themselves together-the most ex
traordinary and anomalous combinations are taking
place amongst the revolutionists OF the day-and
with one wild trenzled shout OF" Let us have
Convention-down with the Constitution '-agrar-
ans, infides, abolitloniss, socialists, Fourertes,
whg radicals and locotoco radicals are organizing
in every direction, and making the convention
question, the one great issue of the coming election
in this State, prepared to carry every thing
before them. A glance at the past history OF this
revolutionary movement, and the origin of the Con.
venton question: will Lead TO more just apprecia-
ton fthe dangers that now menace the institutions,
social moral and religious, OF the State and also'
let us hope clearer perception of the duty which
devoves upon all the friends Of peace, and order,
and the stability OF the republic itself.
The agrarian movement first commenced in this
city nearly twenty years ago, and can claim
Tammany Hall as its birth place. In the year 1923
the principle was broached in an address and series
of resolutions prepared under the auspices of Mr..
Skdmore-the master spirit of that initlatory move
ment-who had got up Committee of fifty from the
Trades, who issued address denouncing the great
landed proprietors of this State in the
ed terms, as having been arbitrarily and barbarousy
made enormously rich " at the expense OF thousands
of their felow-men. That movement however,
was rather failure, and it not till the year 1886
that it attained any considerable degree of promi-
nence or vigor At that period it taken up, for
political purposes, by portion Of the Tammany
party, including Slamm, Bang S Co., and others of
that ilk A great public meeting was held in the
Park, and flaming address, with resolutions to
match, adopted and issued The "Land
Monopoly as it was termed-was denounced in
the most vehement manner, and the cry for con-
venon remodel the constitution of the State was
raised with great deal of enthusiasm, real and
affected Soon dropped by the locofoco leaders and
small agitaors, not having answered their purpose,
being no longer of any service the agrarIan move
ment dropped IN this city; but In the antlrent dis,
trcts, the seeds of rebellion and insurrection of
the most formidable character had been sown,
and from year TO year they grew and ripened, capa-
BILE laborers in the field OF agitation being neither
few nor inactive Agrarianism had found congo
NAL soil And thus we have seen IT, suddenly, yet
not without much solemn neutrality-suspicious. up
into gigantic Notwithstanding nearly 200 600
population-openly setting all law and all authority
at defiance-and by fearful of outrage violence
and blood, in great counties Of the State, fully
declaring its deadly purposes and its determined
will
An element of such power agrarianism has now
become, is, OF course too influential to be overlooked
by the politicians of the day. So once more the
lecofoco party seeks alliance with the spirit of re-
belon, and-notable illustration of the purity and
disnterestedness OF party politicians-fnds large
section of the Wings still more eagerly and success
fully engaged in the same game. This is by no means
a
same pious manHuverng that Thurlew Weed OBJ
tanned influence with his party. The anti.
excitement in its earliest dawnng, presented to him
the means of thrusting himself before the public,
opportunity of turning local agitation to the be.
nefit of the party" Then came the disastrous
era of bank soppages, and commercial revusion in
1887, which was sojudiciousy improved as to effect
the election of VIM. II. Seward to the Gubernato-
nal Chair OF this State The same policy was al
forwards adopted with regard TO the Irish Repeal
movement Weed, Seward and Greeley Jumped
into that movement, and out-heralded O'Connel
himself in their devotion to the cause of poor, op
pressed, down-trodden Ireland. But the sagacous
and patriotic triumvrate were taught that they
handled two-edged sword. The repeal movement
produced reaction, and led to the DEVELOPMENT of
the "Native" party, which killed Whigism in this
State as efectually-for the time-as the renowned
Dick Johnson killed Tecumseh Cast down. but
not disheartened, Greeley and that section of the
wing party which rejolces in his organising, have
now fastened on the antl-rent movement and from
week to week, for months past, the Tribune has
teemed with articles IN which doctrines of the most
ultra agrarlan tendency-now concealed under the
subtle guise OF abstract philosophical theories and
propounded in the broadest and most sweeping
terms,-have been set forth, and advocated with
Aea, very siHcere, we uouDt not, but also
very much like that reprehended by shrewd
and intelligent man, who was one of the twelve
apostles, as being without knowledge" Yet our
modern politicians wise in their generation The
antl-reners in this State boast of possessing twenty
or thirty thousand votes Here is the secret spring
OF that sympathy with which the politicans-Greeey
and O'Sullvan-Whig radical and Locofoco rad,-
cal-convention men Of all grades and colors--regard
the insurrectonlsts in the interior of this State
Hence their vehement appeals in favor of an entire
repeal OF the laws regulating the rights of propetrv-
hence the phllanthroplc exertions Of Greeley and