The New York herald., 1851-10-29
The Union safety Committee-The State
Elec ton and the Preside tIal q ne. ton.

Elec tion and the Presidential q Que-tion.
The Union Safety Committee! There is solid
comfort in tie very name It eslipses all the other
institutions Of Wall street, in its comprehensive ob-
jec,s Il Is net only Union Insurance Company,
but a society for the punishment Of Northern sgi
tators ior the rs gulaton Of the electi,ns the ma
nagtmtn NJ Of the Presidential question, and the sesu
rity Of The cotton trade. Those are great objects
they cover 3 wide field Of aetion-thsy ought 10 Be
poplar. Cod knows we have laborsd hard enough
20 establish Cn,cn princpl and yet, we haze to
sonfess i, our Union SAFETY Committee hrs gra-
dually dwindcd down into the snail dimensions o!
Wal street political hunbug.
u vas az the Syracuse conventions that tais
Safety Committee collapsed. They handld n q
resolution 70 each convention, asserting, a. tssir
,.li=laftn, practical declaration in behalf Of the
Fsgiti,c Slave law. Nothing less would iarurs The
sapg5rt of this committee. The democrats looked
a. he -csoluiion; but i was not a. al pAlata-
be 10 John Van Buren and Mr. Cagger, it ras
laid amorg The waste paper under the table. The
vhigs sccue cd he thing a5 a morstFosity not 20 b.
entertained Cor a moment. II high dudgeon, the
special ambassador of the Union safety Com
mittse returned 70 Wall street, and rendered in
bis report With b cir tttunrun reflscd by both
partief, al Syracuse, the committee resolved 10 a,t
independently Tie resolution rledgng their sup
pert only = such Candidates in the coming election
should be plain and above board 10 faver Of the
Fugitive Slave law, and gaInst its agitation was
published in the Jovrai # CoHmacs, with several
thousand signatures attached. We hailed this
proceeding, ct the time, as good omen; bat there
hss been sn awful letting down Rejected by both
Tarties, and rot satisfied with either this formidable
comm ttee compound q ticket Of half and half Of
each, and, with sasnrg address proclaim IL TO the
world as the only solitary remaining chance Of
saving TIE Union The list Of signer1 te the fugi-
tive slave resolution thus turns out to have been
nothing more and nothing less than an advertise
meL, for the southern m arket, vhile the compound
ticket they have adopted proves that all their
proceedings amounted to nothing. IL the Union
ticket is elected, it settles nothing better for the
Union than either Of the others but We suspect
that most Of the committee will give 1t the 20 By,
and vote throughout or the other Of the tickets
set NJ At Syracuse. With regard TO the slavery
question, 4 makes no material difference whether a
whole ticket or the mixed ticket is elected. They
are al pretty well mixed -ith free sci Let us
watch the result.
We regard the proceedings md the ticket Of the
Union Committee a. a political farce Nor do se
suppose that the decayed politicians and anxious
merchants Of this Union preserving party intended
their proceedings as anything more than joint
stock SPECULATION The only real issue stween the
two regular parties in this canvass, is tLs canal
d.scirles Of Seward Van Buren, and the higssrlas,
on rational ifsues; and the Union Sasly Commit
zee takes half and half Of eseh-op the principle,