The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-23

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white mans resolution people. They do not
coalesce readily; and deducting their force from
the two great parties, they seem to be steadily
coalescng to an independent organization. Will
they hold outl Will they go onl 1t will be for
them to decide.
General Cass has defined his attitude on the pro-
viso II is, non-interference. 1t is leaving the
question TO the inhabitants of the territories
That would do very well but for this impeachment
to the barnburners In the interval to the organi-
cation of new territorial government by the peo
pie on this question, the people of the South may
form slaveholding nucleus--say, for instance, IN
California. Moreover, South Carolina and Ala
bama claim that neither territory, nor Con-
gress, as the sovereignty of territory, has any
power over the question OF slavery in ter
ritory but though it is open, and the terri
tory Is open to all the citizens of all the States,
and all their property until such territory be-
comes State, in which capacity alone it mas
jurisdiction over the question of slavery. The
position of General Cass, then, does not satisfy
Alabama, or South Carolina; but as far as it goes,
it is a concession which does not satisfy the Pro-
viso men OF the North. 1t displeases them, be-
cause IT is concession upon question upon
which the Ordinance party will admit Of no con-
cession For us, or against us, Is their idea.
General Cass does not then answer their
demands. How is 1t with General Taylor! He is
SILENT and he is STAKEHOLDER, and therefore equally
unsatisfactory in the conlectures to be made OF his
real sentiments and Intentions From the platform
of his Allison letter, he would sign bill aboshing
slavery in the District OF Columbia but would also
sign bill on the same day establishing slavery in
California.
IT, then, the declaration of Mr. Niles, in his letter
IN he Rar IN I
amounts to this: That the proviso party cannot
sustain either General Cass or General Taylor,
without disgracing their professions and them
selves In the estimation OF every body Such Is
the opinion of the late mass meeting at Cincinna-
Il. This meeting, more than any thing else, goes
to show that while the party presses at the North
acting in obedience to their respective conven-
tons, very large proportion OF the people are act
ing definitely upon the proviso, as more lmpera-
tive than the dlctum OF any convention, and as the
paramount and pre-eminent principle OF the CAM
palgn. All the Northern States have urged the provi
so upon Congress. We know of no exception. Some
have done it unanimously, all by overwhelming
majorites, in their legislatures. There must be a
strong, general, and fixed public sentiment on this
question to produce such uniform expression up
on It,
Such appears to be the case.
Now, sir, were these State resolutions superced-
ed by the action of the Baltimore and Philadelphia
adopted at said conventions change the popular
tlment In the North to such an extent to merge
1t into the doctrine of non-interventon?
Such does not appear to be the case.
On the other hand, while the presses and the
leaders of both parties are tardly coming in, and
urging their respective candidates to the North,
the sentiments of the North is heaving like a
ground swell, under the apparent subsidiDg agta-
ton upon the surface of the political salt lake.
What, then, Is the prospect! II is that we shall
have one or two provlso tickets IN the field, which
may neutraize the North, as between General
Cass and General Taylor. and throw the election
into the House of Representatives.
If the contest were simply between Gen. Cass
and Gen. Taylor, the result would not admit OF
doubt. But as between Gen. Cass, Gen. Taylor,
and the Proviso it does not admit of doubt. Ii
admits of three doubts =
!. Will the proviso people be able to effect an
organization including wings and barnburners
2 Or will each faction be able to effect
ganlZatlon OF Its own
3. Without any organization OF JOINT or separ-
ate ticket, will the provisosts vote for either Cass
Taylorl
allegiance all estimates of the probable vote of New
England, New York, and Ohio, on the seventh OF
November.
The Oregon bill, with the horrid appendage of
the prOvIsO, still lies on the table IN the Senate
The case is urgent. The Indians have risen, and
are in open war with the hlte settlers of Oregon;
and mutual determination Is impending, and yet
the bill lies upon the table. The Senate stand APP
They know that Mr.. Calhoun viii demand spe
cific decision. Even Hale may be disposed to
drop the provIso upon this bill but Mr.. Cal
houn. appears determined to make it the
question of the present session, from which there
shall be escape. Scarcely less important than
the action of the provlso people in the North, will
be the action of Congress upon this question
An impression is, that the South will gain the
day in Congress, upon the Oregon bill; but then
there are the appropriations upon the treaty with
Mexico, and the provisional governments for the
territories acquired by said treaty.
Put all these things together, and no man can
count TO certainty upon either the election Of
Gen. Cass or Gen Taylor.
Another thing. We feel authorised to say that
Mr. Clay will take no active part in this campaign.
The wings having dropped him, he will let them
take care of themselves. He will make no ratl-
are correctly advised; and our information is from
an intimate personal friend of Mr.. Clay. We ex-
pcct to keep up our guerrlero warfare on this mat
ter of the Presidency, without distinction of party
preferences. The DocToR.