The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-16


t'iss~aun- .i'angs - ne Cnlsa.
The political movements which have lately been
started In this region Of the Union, by the discon.
tented and seeding sections of the two great poll
teal parties Of the country, are going on with
great activity, and may, prabably, unite and Goa
lesce IN some general movement calculated to give
preponderance to the abolition doctrne-to excite
the feelings and hostility of the Souh-to produce
ultimate disorganization of the two great organ
lied partles-and, perhaps, eventually to menace
the Union itself
The ultra wings, or friends of Mr. Clay, on the
one side are just as violent and rabid as the ultra
democrats, or friends of Mr.. Van Buren,, (called
banburners,) on the other side. The bite of
either is equally dangerous. The democratic con-
ventien at Baltimore is as bitterly denounced for
corruption, intrigue and incompetency, by the
barnbumers, as the wing convention at Philadel-
phia is denounced for the same Qualities by the
ultra wings Of the Fourier-Clay section One of
the leaders of these ultra wings calls the conven-
ton whichnominated General Taylor, ga National
Slaughter House," because il slaughtered and
killed of, not only Mr.. Clay, but many of those
issues, measures and principles which were iden-
titled with his name and history for twenty-one
years, three months, four days and ten hours Of past
time The first separate convention of the frstme
toned democratic utras will meet at Utica next
Thursday week, and there eat their fish and pour out
their fustian The next State Convention will be
that of the ultra wings, which will meet In Wor-
cester, Mass, on the 18th inst, to damn Taylor and
Cass, and eat tautog and Goldfish. Conventions
of like character and purposes will also be held in
several other of the free States-Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, and Coney Island. Both of these ultra
factions possess numerous newspapers, edited by
philosophers, poets, blockheads and other madmen,
in different parts Of the country, which are in their
interest, and toll night and day in favor of what
they call "free trade, free soil, free speech, free
territory, free labor" &c., which names are merely
signals for the discomfort and disappointment of
the different leaders, but the agitation of which,
and the principles which they involve, may shake
tho Union in pieces before many years shall have
passed away, unless railroads and electricity pre-
vent them.
No man acquainted with the history Of this coun-
try, can forget the dangerous agitation produced
between the North and the South, by the Missouri
controversy. That was crisis-a fit-a passion.
The recent movements and proceedings of the
ultras in the North, portend that the Missouri
troversy or excitement about to be revived, with
more intensity and increased acrimony, between
the North and the South.
In 1874, considerable secession was made from
both the great political parties of the country,
the question of abolition; and the faction which
then cast its votes for Birney for President, was
able to control the elections in several Congress
sonal districts, and to send several members of its
own body to the House of Representatives. Since
that time, the abolition party proper, which then
polled 81 1000 votes four years ago, has increased
its strength in the House of Representatives to the
round, ready, steady, rough, and furious number
of six members. Senator Hale, of New Hamp-
shire is at head and the Rev. Mr.. Palfrey, of
Massachusetts, is at their TAIL like Satan whipping
up the hindmost BY the late secessions from the
Baltimore convention, as well as those from
the " National Slaughter-H House" in Philadelphia,
it is probable that the number of members in the
House of Representa- tves, under the renewed agi-
tation sprngng out Of the nominations of Cass and
Taylor, will be increased by thirty members out of
the old whig ranks, and SIX out of the democratic
ranks; making in all forty-two members Of Con-
gress, who may be engaged in the new agitation
into which they will have plunged, out of opposi-
ton to the nomination of General Cass, on the one
hand and General Taylor on the other. This is a
fair estimate of the force OF the new abolition, or
colored, party in Congress. But what will they do!
That is the question.
The intensity Of feeling which seems to pervade
both these guerilla parties-of the barnbuners, and
of the ultra wings, or Fouriertes-s such, that il
is probable they will receive many adhesions, and
make much progress in the course of the next few
months. They are savage, wild, and Unsuitable.
Whoever is bitten is converted. The probability,
indeed, is that they will rise into Importance and
to dangerous pre-eminence, IN the course of one,
two, three four years. unless the dog killer comes
out now. All prudence, harmony, cordially,
and prospect of compromise between the diff
ferent sections of the country, or between
thu social systems of the North and South,
seem to have been entirely flung away
There is no peace-no harmopy-no Cancellation;
all is passion, madness, hydrophobia. In fact, we
cannot but look upon the present crisis in both
parties, as one which is now giving birth to that
terrible spirit of socialism, in new shape, which
may, indeed, at times, be great agent in accom-
plishing victory over monarchy and tyranny, and
in aiding to destroy any government; but which,
| when placed upon its own basis and possessed of
any power, seeks to overthrow all republican prin-
ciples and government, to Danish all order and COM
mon sense from society, and to destroy the maxims
and principles of Christianity for the sake of es-
tablishlng some indefnable and abstract philoso-
ply, which never can be put in practice, and only
serves to unsettle the minds Of men and produce
insanity in society.
| According to all appearances, these different
movements spring from similar feelings in the OPP
posite parties, and may probably hereafter unite or
coalesce, so as to produce dangerous influence,
| even upon the congressional elections which will
take place next autumn The old aboliuonists,
composed of the original Birney men, strengthened
| by the assimilated elements of barnburners and