The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-12


Barren and VIM. II. Seward.
Did you ever see whale Did you ever see .
mighty whale struggling in the turbulent ocean :
Did you ever see two very mighty whales, or other
monster Of the deep, in the terrible current of the
boundlcss ocean, that hurryng everything
above and beneath it, onward and onward, in its
tremendous career, to some final but awful catas-
troIhe! In the midst of the current, in such
scene you might the sks, covered with canvass,
endea, oring to stem the tide unavailingly; while,
at the same time, the very monsters of the deep
would be struggling against the current, to
avoid, if possible the awful fate which seemed to
be impending them, and every living
thing that, peradventure, got into this current roll
ing on and rolling on boisterous, furious, and boil
ing, to an awful but unknown eternity.
Such scene, with such an awful beginning and
such an awful termination in prospective, resembles
in degree, the present condition of this mighty
repubEc--a termination which we have been APP
preaching for twenty years past. This fair repub-
lie has been launched on current, which is now
rolling us on, with its dark and hideous waves, to
some frightful destiny-to some terrible precipce,
dangerous than the Falls of Niagara, in
the yernal Of the year, to the ncautious
traveller. Throughout the North and the South,
the great current political excitement seems to be
rushing and Fastening to one result
the ultimate dissolution and destruction of
this great Union, the prostration of this fair
republic, and to the commencement Of scenes
of a revolutionary character that be pa
ralleled only in South America within the last
thirty years. We are truly in the commencement
of political crisis, and the taking place in
Boston, and in other parts Of the Union, South
Carolina especially-and all originating from the
same cause, indicate nothing but tendency to the
same result viz the utter and final destruction of
this great and prosperous country as it has existed
for more than half a century We are in the com
mencement of a Presidential election, but the
piring personages for the honors of the White
House, seem to be floating, recklessly and care
essly on the great current of abolition excitement
without rejecting, and without regarding for
instant, that they, and the country, are rapidly
being hurried towards the great gulf of dissolution
and beyond the confines of any visible boundary.
Even the very agitators who have caused this
mighty current and ground swell of political ex-
element, which is far more important in its charac-
ter than any contest for the Presidency could be
even these agtators, seem to be perfectly ignorant
and unaware Of the tendency Of their own conduct,
or the certain results Of their own action. Read
the revolutionary letters, recently and so thought
lessly, and so reckessly, written by William Ii.
Seward, and John Van Buren,, OF this State and
addressed to the abolition and revolutionary con-
vention in Boston, within a few days past. These
reasonable and revolutionary documents will be
found in full in another part of this days
paper. We call particular attention to them;
for they contain sentiments which orginated
in the brains of ma Omen, which are the cause
of AL the difficulty which We now witness in
both the South and the North, and which
have been thoughtlessly and foolishly carried out
by the political asprants Of the day, for the pur-
pose of acquiring local triumph, Or local advan-
tage over each other These dangerous and reckless
agtators Of all ranks and sizes, and connected with
the ultras of both the old parties at the North are
increasing the great currentthe great ground swell
Of abolition excitement, Of fanatcal feeling which
is hurrying everything and everybody connected
with public life and public action, to that bourne
from whence no traveller returns-to the tomb Of
dissolution, civil war, and endless conflict. among
the dis United States Of the American coniederacy.
The political leaders of both parties-even the
administration in the White House, and in the de-
partments in Washington, seem to be all infected
with the spirit Of false security, and are gliding
on, oHWdfu the surface OF TINS
gerous current with the vain hope of seeing tcease
some day, and afterwards Of enjoying all the
Injuries that political power and political victory
can bestow on Office holders, and the privilege Of
distributing the spoils Of Office. The admnis,ra-
ton at Washington is itself the verge of DISCO
luton, in consequence of a rivalry among its menu
bers respecting the next Presidency, at time when
the current Of political action is hurryng the coun-
try North and South, towards that terrible catas-
trophe which the abolition agtators, Of both par
ties, seem determined to hasten. The politicians
out Of the line Of the cabinet, both military and
civil, from General Scott down to William II.
Seward, deceiving themselves and deceiying the
country, by looking forward to vain and empty
triumph Of day, and seem to apprehend no hing
from the spirit of abolition agitation which is
spreading in every direction in the North, in oppo-
siton to the provisions Of the constitution, which
can end in nothing but a serious collision between
II and the South. What faulty what culpable
faulty!
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