The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-28
Another California Herald.

Another California Herald.
We shall publish another CALIFORNIA HERALD In .
few days 1t will contain all the additional intelligen
that may arrive from the Gold Regiou and bs illus.
trated with two or three and valuable maps.
Movements OF the Ultras.-Petticoat PolItl-
cians.-Proposed Dissolution OF the Union.
For the first time In the history of the republic,
slnce the adoption OF the present constitution, and
the organization of the existing form of govern
ment, the ultra factions of both the North and the
South have come openly before the world with
distinct proposition for dissolution of the Unlon
unless their antagonisc and Irreconclleable theo-
ries with regard to the slave population of the
South shall be carried into effect by the legis-
latlon OF Congress. The crisis, therefore, is not
remote when all the moderate people, of every sec
ton of the republic, must, deliberately and calmly,
assume such a determined position and basis of
action as will preserve the union of the States un-
der the existing national constitution, and trans
NIT that invaluable legacy unImpaired to their
children and posterity.
A meeting has recently been held in Washing
ton, composed of members from the Southern
States exclusively, in which preliminary action
has been taken, deliberately looking to the alter
native of dissolution of the Union, or the adms-
sion of slavery into the territories of New Mexico
and California. A convention of an opposite cha
racter has just been held in Philadelphia, at which
the same deliberate announcement was also made,
that unless some mode to abolish slavery in the
Southern States were at once adopted, the other
alternative of peaceabe dissolution of the Union
should be carried into effect Brief reports of the
orl -oEl otb +haa
factlons-the one in Washington, composed OF
members of DO tn houses of Congress, and from
different Southern States, and the other IN Phia-
delphia, composed of popular delegates from va
rlous parts of the Union-wlll be found, to-day, in
another portion OF this sheet.
These, however, are but the beginnings OF the
OPT osite and irreconcileable movements which
have resulted from the recent agitation of the
slavery question, both in the North and the
South Though both these movements spring
from widely different sections of the country, and
from the most antsgonistlc and hostile aims and
views OF policy with regard to the slave population,
yet strange TO say, they both present the singular
conjun ction of the most cordial concurrence in
the same alternatives-either the adoption of their
dlametricaly opposite modes of dlsposing of his
vexed question: or the complete dissolution of this
happy and glorious coufederacy.
The Southern movement appears to be headed
by some of the leading members of Congress-Mr
Calhoun, Mr.. Foote, Mr.. Metcalie, and others, IN
discriminatory taken from both the old party d.
visions into which public opinion IN this country
has been heretofore separated. Mr.. Calhoun and
Mr.. Foote, with all those associated with them
able, eminent, and patriotic men-appear to be en-
deavonpg to organize sectional party to repre-
Sent the interests OF the Southern States excu.
sivey, and for the purpose of efiectng the extern
sion OF slavery into the territories of New
Mexico and California, and its continuance in the
District of Columbia. If they cannot effect this,
they have made up their minds to bring about the
other alternative of the dissolution of the Union
and complete separation In due time from the
Northern free States.
Lucreua Mott and her associates, with the
prominent free sellers and abolitionists, are
the leaders of the other faction. This lady
may have running In her veins some of the
blood of her Roman namesake, though, from
The unseemly, unfeminine and indelicate ex-
hibiuon she has been lately making of herself be-
lore the world on the subject of slavery the rights
of women, and other old maidenish crotchets and
dicsyncrases peculiar to that interesting class of
'ne Huihoh idCc, VIC nave Sicdt uoupto vi TIC Gun
sangulnity. This stump advocate of the rights of
women, however, with her socialist vIolators of
the Christian dignity and position of womankind
and the divney established order of society, throw
down the gauntlet with proper Amazonian spirit to
their male counterparts Of the South and make the
same declaration and adopt the same basis of
action for the dissolution Of the Union, if steps
be not Immediately taken, not only to prevent the
extension Of slavery TO New Mexico and CalIfor-
mia, and TO remove il from the District of Column
bs but for Its total unqualified and instantaneous
abolition from the Southern States. What pity
it is that Lucretia and her body guard had not
another Brutus to avenge the wrongs they now
iufiering from the horrible indignities and restrc
tons Of male monsters, proud Tarquns, and South.
em Shareholders! Miss Lucretia Is great wo-
man, and has raised great dust wherever she has
pursued her peregnDatons, throughout the
country As one OF our classical popular poets
beautifully expresses it
She nebber 60 TO trabbel
But che make a mighty mark
Her footttsp In the gravel.
You might see II in the dark
Unfortunately, however, for Miss Lucy, her
cllents, so far, have had no reason to be proud
Of her advocacy. With the exception Of few fe-
minnie misanthropists and compulsory nuns, the
ladies' OF this country have rePudia,ed all connec-
ton with this modern Peuthesilea and as for the
male brutes, true to their nature, they regard her
and her companions as objects Of uncomfortable
laughter and dentve taunts Ia this state ot things
t.. yaa sc.,-g r. T. ~ 60 De heg,d G,t.