The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-05-26

for the applicant, minus the portion dae 10 the cab-
net for discussing the weather in good HUNDRED
way. This process is so simple, so unlike the old
mode of travelling through the departments at
Washington, that people should hurry forward with
their claims. Ii is an excellent chance. We have
four or five millions of dollars in the sub-treasury,
and Mr. Secretary Meredith has loan of sixteen
millions TO fall back upon, if the claims should be
heavy; and it is highly liberal, and quite on the
socialist plan, in "good humored" way, to dis
tribute it as possible Hurry up your claims.
SOUTHERN OPINION UPON THE CONTROVERSIAL
public meeting has been held at Charleston, s. c..
at which resolutions passed and speeches
made, denouncing, in extreme terms, the compro-
mise of Mr. Clay as destructive and injurious to
the rights and institutions of the Southern States.
If this is the reception which the effort of Mr..
Clay has expect from the South, generally there
is an end TO any further hope that Congress can
bring about settlement of the anti slavery agi-
ia ton, during the present session. popular
meeting has, also, been held in the interior of this
State, denouncDg, with equal severity, the COM
promise of Mr.. Clay, because it invades and gives
up the rights of the Northern States and, we
hear, similar meetings have been held in some
of the States of New England, denounciug the
compromise, from exactly opposite reasons to the
denunciaons poured upon it by the South.
There can, therefore, be probability of the
passing Of Mr. Clay's bill, if both North and South
pour out in this manner, their maledictions against
it. In such dilemma, what is the prospect of the
settlement of this knouy question! How can any
committee, or any member of Congress, or any
majority, satisfy the opposing demands, both of
North and South, at the same timel There are
of compromise, mechanically drawn out and
extended from the western borders of Mis-
sour to the Pacific Ocean, would be perrna-
nent and equitable settlement of this contro-
versy. Probably this might satisfy a portion
of the South-(we do not know how many
but how could it be carried in the Northern and
free States, under the present agitation, which is
dashed up to its highest pitch by the policy of the
cabinet at Washington, by the incendiary speeches
of Seward and his clique, and the violent move
ments of the anti-savery fanatics all over the
country?
We now despair of any action from the present
Congress, or of the admission of California,
or of the settlement of any other of the questions
connected with this question. All these matters,
it would seem, are to be left at loose ends; and
probably one of the principal reasons bringing
about such deplorabe results, is to be found in the
ineflicient-the foolish-the deceitful and wicked
policy of the cabinet, during the whole session Of
Congress, upon this subject. We cannot, indeed,
expect anything else but extreme views from the
South, or from the North: but the cabinet of a
President of the United States ought to consist of
men of the highest order of integence--of the
purest brand of patriotism. If these men had been
such men-if they had taken proper stand from
the first, and advised a proper course, all would
have been settled before now. AS matters at
present stand, we hope for nothing during this
Congress. The question is turned over for future
agitations, and for continued distractions Pro-
badly the South will gain more while the question
is thus left open While it remains unsettled, they
will be able TO carry their negroes into the terri
tories, and into California, and slavery may be-
come permanently established there, in spite of all
the clamor of all the fanatics of the North.