The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-02-13

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The Uwio~-7Hs Negro Qsestio~-A Gf'mmsT'"s
Light Through the Fog-Neso York Cavea ,"'
The negro question is still involved In chaos'
Like General Cass. at Buffalo, there Is 30 mucn
ssnoise and confusion" on the subject tna' we
cannot get the drift Of 1t. II Is sn OF the darkest
compile xion-black as the blacklist Congo digging
sugar trenches on the bayou Atchafalaya-black
as thunder, and gloomy as the grumblings OF an
earthquake. No man processes to believe that the
Union is TO be, or can be, dissolved no man de-
MES that il is in danger. EVERYBODY believes there
is to be compromise, but not living soul can
tell what it is to be. Mr.. Clays compromise won't
do; 1t was condemned ON the spot. The plan of
old lack won't do; it is the do nothing plan, and
something must be DONE Old lack has done the
best he could and that is to do nothing; because,
If he does anything, he is " used up man." North
or South. IL he takes either end of the see-saw,
he goes down therefore, that is 10 say, he prefers
to sit still In the middle, and let the concern work
itself. He is just where the wings placed hun,
and there he must remain.
And yet, between old Jack and Mr.. Clay and
Mr.. Cass, something has been done. The Cali
fornia message set the wings of the House, north
of Mason and Dixon, to thinking but the COM
promise of Mr. Clay put them into regular
stampede: The State Of New York, the head and
front of the proviso panc-the supreme director OF
free soil, caved IN, like embankment uRder-
mined, and she presents now nothing but a chasm
nothing but hole, IN which free soil has been
swallowed up.
Downing, OF Broadway, the colored dispenser of
free soil and fresh oysters must be disguised at the
New York Legislature and the New York ''dough-
faces III Congress After all the fire, faggots and
fury OF tht last summer turning the State upside
down, ard sweeping everything off the track not
thoroughly sworn Ia the proviso, that the represent
tatlves OF the Empire Slate, on Roofs resolution,
should dodge or run, or surrender the first fire,
is glon0usly ridiculous No wonder 1t puzzles
Horace Greeley 10 cipher IL out. Ii passes the
mysteries OF mesmerlsm and the awful knockings
al Rochester
WHY have the Represe nistives from New York
caved M Why has the Legislature sugared over
the provIsol What DOES II meant IL lis an attempt
10 save The wing party and thus wing admnistra-
ton from a Calamity which their New York leaders
have brought almost 10 a coDsunmatlon the Ca
laml,y OF rupture in The cabinet, and split in the
ranks, North and South. II Is au attempt, at this
late hour, of the judicous wings of New YORK,
in Congress-, To avert, If possible, the disas
trous conse qurnces n the party OF the stupid and
suicidal policy of Seward, Greeley, Weed and
company.
one good effect will probably result from this
bloodloss surrender at lhe New Workers IN the
House, and this awful lodging of Roots esola-
tion-I will assist 10 working out compromise,
anu IN saving the Union: bur the cabinet aud the
national wing parry hardly re-unlte again, upon
any az the oid Stacking wing platforms OF 40, ~
and as Whatever may br done, the whlg party In
New York must undergo revolution; and In lis
rt.org HIzatoD, the seward clique of leaders will
be repudisted. TIE reaction Ia the ranks ot New
YORK must areaoy br significant oi revolt Tue
reaction here is still gong on, and We look TO a
cUmpiOmlsr ON the slavery question, chiefly from
the moral effect of the downfall Of free soil In New
Noik.
Durlpg the present week, we anticipate still fur
ther approaches to n COMPROMISE by the New y ork.
ere; hu,, although they may effect settlement o
the slavery dispute and save the Union, there Is
nothing when they Can do-there IL no course q
action which they can ADOPT, TO save this WING adj
mpisiIanon aud thl- wing party. II they staad
still, they 20 down; il The. move 10 the right or left
they dissolved; II they take a middle course
they are deserted; and IN any case they are broker
up
But free sod IN New York has caved in. W.
shall have a compromise now, W rhaps, on slavery
Al al events. the surrender If New York, on tn
fret mr.. good omen. The Empire State IA
played the fool to periecton but II is never too lat
10 confess II