The New York herald., 1850-12-06

THE COURIER AND ENQUIRER AND THE SLAVERY
AeITATIoN.-The Courier and Enquirer of yester-
day, in long editorial article, headed "The Past
and the Present." innocently asks why is it that
with the same disturbing causes always operating
upon our institutions, the past has been so much
more quiet than the pIesentl 1t then proceeds to
answer the question: and says, in a like innocent
manner, that without doubt, one of the great
causes of the excitement of the day, arises from
demagogues both the North and the South, agita-
ting the question of slavery from selfish and po-
litica considerations This is certainly very can
did on the part of the Courier and Enquirer and
as true as il is candid There is not a particle of
doubt that the present agitation has been produced
by Northern and Southern demsgogues but we
would simply ask our contemporary, if it has not
aided and assisted the demagogues of the North,
in sgitatipg this question, from selfish and political
considerations We have yet to learn that the
Courier and Enquirer has taken any stand against
the Stewards, the Weeds, the Greeleys, and other
demsRogues of this State, in their endesvors to
convert the whig party of New York into an abol-
tion party, and TO WELD and use it for their own
purposes We should also ask our contemporary,
whether Mr.. Raymond, one Of the editors of the
Courier and EnQurr, has not made himself con-
spcuous in tanning the embers Of agitation, ever
since he was sent to the Legislature, and whether
he was not prominent IN forcing through that body
series Of violent abolition resolutions-and
whether he has not been put forward by the Weed
abolition influence, as candidate for the Speaker
of the Assembly of this State, at the session about
10 take place in Albanyl
These are very pertinent inquiries at the present
time, and il they cannot be answered SATISFACTORY.
ly, they show that some new light must have very
recently illuminated the editorial Uranium of the
CCDi1 and Enquirer. Again, we would ask, is
il consistent with love and attachment to the Union
for the Coprlr and Enquirer TO support a man in
his onslaught on the Union, who declares his be-
liefin higher law than the constitution, and who,
II not stopped in the career which he and his asso-
ciates are running, would inevitably bring about, in
time, dissolution of the Union. We allude, of
course, to the demagogue Seward, and his confrtrss
Weed, Greeley S Co. Did the Courier aud En-
gpru at any time in manly, bold and determined
manner, come forth and denounce, IN appropriate
terms that clique Of abolonists and dsorganizers,
aud endeavor TO purge the whg party Of their evil
influence IL did not but by its silence counte.
panced them in tacking abotionsm OF the worst
kind TO the skirt of the whig party in New York.
l. is all very well to speak Of the causes which
have produced this agitation, but they were as eyi.
dent year or two ago as they now are, and the
demsgogues who have made themselves conspicu-
Gus In their assaults on the institutions Of the
Southern Ststes, were busy then as they are now.
Were IL not that the independent press took the
matter in hand, and denounced those disturbers Of
the public peace, before the late election in this
State and since, The power Of those demagogues to
do hahn would not have been so much circum-
scrib,d as 1t has been. Very little credit can be
awarded to the party press in the good work, for
the very organs Of the demagogues whom the
CCpTiu and Enquirer censures, opposed all a..
tsmpts at compromise during the last session, and
Iidiculcd all the movements that have recently
taken place towards main tanning entire the Union
and the constitution.