The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-11-11

Ne utmost. n p-olrr. discoyd between different
sections the country-has always opposed any
compromise of the great question which has dis
turbed and sgitated the nation so long; and when,
At length, il was adjusted, through the instru-
mentality and patriotism of such men as Clay,
Cass, Webster, Foote, Dickinson, and others, he
attempted, in his seat in the Senate of the United
States, to reopen the controversy, and call into
renewed action the bitter feelings which, il was
ardently hoped, were quoted and paci6ed. This
is matter of history, and to deny it, and assert
that he and his associates have not sought to re-
open the slavery agitation, is to deny what can be
incontestibly proved, and what is known to every
man, woman, and even child, in the country. We
need only point to his movement in the Senate, in
regard to slavery in the District of Columbia,
after the passage OF the compromise measures
What was his object in acting thus +? Was it not
TO throw out the signal of renewed agitation the
subject Of siavery9 If not, what else was it, when
he knew in his soul that the only effect il could
have would be to excite and exasperate the South,
and TO convince them that Northern desire and
Northern sentiment were opposed to cessation of
hostities against the South
Look, too, at the whiq abolition State Conven-
ton, which was packed through the management
of Thurow Weed, and his fellow disorgsnizer in
this city-Horace Greeley, of the Iribune-with
delegates who approved of his course in Congress
on the slavery question, and who passed resolu-
tons to that effect, while they took no notice of
the patriotic members of Congress who brought
about the compromise which Seward opposed to
the last moment. That the Syracuse Convention
was packed for the purpose of sustaining Seward,
and for perpetuating, if possible, his influence in
the State Of New York, we think there can be
little doubt. We have attentively watched the
career of Weed for quarter of q century past,
and we know the tactics which he uses to accom-
plsh his ends. One of them is packing conventions
in the manner We have indicated, and another,
manufacturing public opinion TO suit his Purposes
Were not these attempts to renew the slavery ag-
,a,ion If they were not, we should like TO know
what meaning can be attached TO them. Did not
VIM. II. Stewards organ-the albany E0ening
Jogmai-oppose the Compromise measures, and
has he not denounced the Fugitive Slave bill, and
threatened to agtate its repeal? Did not Weed
make the question Of slavery issue in the late
election, and has he not pronounced the result a
victory on the side Of freedom? If the vision
of the Courier and Ehqsirer is obscured
by the private friendship existing between its
tClluT ana w IMAM IL otWhfu, AS 10 prevent
it from seeing all this, cannot help it. Il
il his misfortune, and as far as he is concerned,
he is perfectly welcome 10 enjoy the halucina'ion
The public, however. take different view of the
matter. The ten thousand merchants, bankers
professional men, and mechanics, of this city, who
signed the call for the Union and Constitution
me ing are not of that MAD On the contrary,
they considered William III. Seward dangerous
man; and the object of the movement Was TO ST.
lence hm-to put stop to hisagitation, and TO pu-
rify he whic party of him and his associate dis
organizers, Weed & Greeley, who have acted as if
they imagined the party their private property,
to he welded and moulded, used and abused, to
suit their own purposes.
Who, then, are the agatorsl We have agitated
TO put down the ng tators. In that sense con-
iess we agtatOrs. We glory Ia such agitation.
We have endeAvored 20 awaken the people of this
city and Of the whole North TO a of the peril
imFendsg over eur prosperity, and to the impor
lance ofthe crisis into which the republic has been
brought by disorganzers and demagogues. Aud
we are pleased TO see that the efforts Of the iade
pendent press have not been in vain. II the uuvc-
mcni which originated az Castle Garden be fol-
lowed up throughout the North fanatical agitation
viii be put down by patriotic agitation, and quie-
tus put 10 such dema2ogues as Seward. weed, N
CO. who are the real aeitsors, the real disorgani-
zers the real distuTbers Of the public tranquility.