The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-03

WAsnINaros, June 30, 1s4s


The Campaign-TA Missouri Compromise.
We all in the fog. Every attempt to ascertain
our bearings is obscurnm per obseurius. Gentlemen
may cry peace, peace but there is such thing as
peace.n We have a sort of a peace with Mexico suf-
fcent for the purpose but what sort Of peace this
have at home The signs of the times full of
omens and prognostics dire. TIE great struggle is
being precipitated upon The simple, naked start
ling, portentous spectre, looming up in the oing like
the Fata Morgana is the spectre of dsunion Nothing
but the Missouri compromise re-enacted and extend
ed, can the confederation. The cry of wolf,
often repeated, when there wolf we scarce
ly realize a warning when the wolf Is at the very
cheraur de fi1ze of the kraalwhen his howliugs, re-
echoed from the hills calling the whole troop
of the starving CANNES to the onslaught We stand
aghast-the aspects the rerospecs the campaign
dark, gloomy and savage. The South must resist
sure nder-the South must compromise or fight out
the issue The spirit of compromise is crushed amid
the wild factious rawlings of the Northa surrender by
the South is out of the question "Men and brethren
what shall we do to be saved! Answer you love
us--apswer us in the name Of God. Who's afraid!
The Senate not afraid The North are not afraid
And here lies the danger The Senate say if you
not let our negroes alone, let us separatethe North
say, have humored you long enough so long, that
what we conceded for peace, you demand now your
reserved rights. We are out of patience with you
You must stop this negro business You have gone too
far already Where is the hope of compromise in such
rupture in the family! Who cannot foresee that we
are in the midst of the maelstrohm!
What is to come of this Utica nomination. What is
the modern Cato going to do for Rome What of the
dssenters of Worcester? What of the Buffalo Con-
vention Where Is General Cass F.? Where is Gene
raj Taylor He has heard from Philadelphia, but
response comes up from Baton Rouge That is the
difficulty The proviso-the proviso. Ever ready for
the Mexicans he shrinks before the proyiso. And
General Dodge, who never lodged an Indian, lodges
the proviso Even the frank and manly Dodge is trans
formed into the artful dodger His letter of deciua-
ton reminds of the epitaph to another Dodge
fortunate memory, more unfortunate than the Gene
raj.
'Hcre lies Dodge, who lodged all good
And lodged deal of evil,
Butafter lodging all he could.
He couldn't dodge the deviln
But our Dodge has lodged him and Father Richie
says well done, good and faithful dodger thou hast
ever lodged the Little Magician and Prince John who
is the Prince of Darkness and the Barnburners who
the spawn Of the old democracy Dodge is good
Indian fighter, thy style and title shall be General
Dodger: Perpend what will Mrs Grundy say, if Ge-
neral Taylor says nothing? NUNS the word The
freedom of speech has become dangerous faculty No
man dare open his mouth who attempts to both
sides of Mason and Dixon. No Kane letter will meet
the proviso No beating around the bush will satisfy
| the devotees of the white mans resolution or
the black mans master. Dough faces are in
| row-the wing platform is too broad, and too
| full of loose planks The Utica platform is single
board, e.sawing between rank abotionisma nd the
| proviso. The abolition symbol is iirebrand and q
stletto in the wastband. Their watchword Is insur-
recton, and their appointed time dark and stormy
night when the master and his family asleep and
| the raging Of the elements will drown the signal of
alarm to his neighbors. They dream of that fearful
slgnal OF tner own, tncsc brave pnanthrOpStS OF
| the North. rocket or gun. when, simultaneously
the dark hills and the dark valleys of the South shall
be lit up at midnight with the fires of instruction,
and when obedient servants, transformed into infu
rate enGs shall slaughter the Of their protectors
at the threshold. Has San Domingo faded from
recolections Is Yucatan warning, In
dia revey, in its recent horrd butchcries Are tho
scenes of the French islands thanking the Caribbean
example not of the blessings of abolition too
hastily adopted? Do like causes produce like effects
is the Southern slave turned loose with knife in
his hand likely to be inoensive than the late
passive and tractable Congoese in the isle of Domi-
Mica?
All these questons-a these forebodingsal all these
elements of political disruption and social disorgani-
cation are nexplicably intermixed in this contest
Yet there is strong confdinP, paramount and all
powerful good sense in the North and in the South,
which may be brought to an agreement and we sec
in the dim and misty atmosphere around other
ground of settlement, permanent, conclusive and
abiding than the Missouri compromise stretching from
the act of 1920 to the shores Of the Pacific.
THE DOCTOR