The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-06-01
General Taylor and His Cabinet are Be
ginning 10 Show Their Hands.

On the subject of slavery and the new territories,
the cabinet is exhibiting their policy in such way
as will make the present Presidency memorable in
the history of the country. The national popularity
of General Taylor, and the reckless ambition of
hH cabinet, blended and mixed together, are about
laying the foundation of a deep rooted and perma-
Aent change in the policy Of this repubic-a change
that must pave the way TO general revolution, if
not disunion, al no distant day.
For twenty years past, the ant-slavsry fanatics
and socialists of the North had been endeavoring,
with little success 10 excite the anti-slavery feel
ngs Of the free States against the social institu-
lions and constitutional rights Of the South The
introduction of the Wilmot proviso party mea-
sure, springing out of the annexation of New
Mexico and California, interfered at once with the
system of government and the policy produced by
the action Of two parties in Congress and among
the people. For the last two or three years, the
discussion sprnging out of this proyiso has agated
the country TO an extreme length, and TO threaten
hg result. Nothing, however, has been seriously
apprehended from this isolated movement Of the
Northern factions, until, during the present adj
Ainstration, We see the cabinet installed in power
nnder the popularity of General Taylor, rapidly
stunning the anti-savery ground, and making it con-
stitute one Of the FIRST principles Of their future
course and policy.
General Taylor has been in power more than a
year that year. however, has only been series Of
experiments devised by his cabinet, in order TO
reach some platform where they could act upon
fhese anti slavery feelings and tendencies, with
force and efficiency. The recent changes in the
cabinet newspapers at Washington, and the like
tone Of various journals in thGir interest through
out the country, indicate that, under the popularity
Of the Hero of Buena Vista, the cabinet are now
rapidly assuming their mediated ground and de-
yised policy, founded the anii-slavery sent-
.ents of the country, and in direct hostility to the
interests and rights of the Southern States. The
opposition which the Compromise Of Mr.. Clay be-
gins receive from the cabinet and its organs,
CURES a tenfold force from the popularity Of the
President and his acquiescence in such course by
his cabinet. The Wilmot proviso policy, in prac-
tice-not in name--will be more than realized in
the course taken by the cabinet and its organs !;
and there seems to be no probability of any other
adjustment Of the question, than the natural and
inevitable application Of that provso to California
and all the rest Of the new territories.
We are prepared to see General Tayor's admin
istrstion, ON these new and terrible elements
among the people Of the free States, ride over all
attempts to pass an adjustment in Congress-over-
Wntiul MI Nlay ana All VI Noii-
pronise-and bring into the action Of the general
government new principles and a new policy, that
will crush the Southern States in all their interest,
IN all their feelings, in due process of time We
were the first journal in the North who brought
forward the name Of General Taylor; the South
backed the movement with their whole force and
strength What terrible mistake has been made,
not 90 much in the election OF an amiable and pa
Hioiie man, as in that combination of obs;inacy and
pnacquainiance with public affairs, which sustain
an unplnciplcd cabinet, that, 10 hide ts corrupons
and punderings Of the treasury, Is calling into
power and existence the frightful fanaiicism which
has been slumbering in the North for half a ccn-
tsry. and which, installed IN the government "a a
leading light and principle OF policy, will, sooner
or later, his conicderacy into fragments, and
destroy the hopes Of expecting world and future
ages