The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-24

"sS -Ahe o*Ao Anu-Siuverf senven.
tton.
The anti.slarery party Of the North arc again
preparing to take the field. For the ediGcation os
our readers, Of all parties, and a solem warning
to- the wire.workers and scepe-shifxrs OF the two
great political parties Of the country, we publish
IN this mornings HERALD the proce edings, IN
e1tnso. OF the recent State convention Of the anti
slavery party Of Ohio, held at Columbus on the
18th instant. This is the FIRST State movement of
the party in preparation for the national oonven-
ton TO be held D. Pittsourg, in June
Regarding this movement as only prelimi.
nary step to the re.o organization Of the anti.
slavery party throughout the Northern section OF
the United States and looking for its full develope-
mert in the National Anti Slavery Convention at
Pitsturg, in June next, its probable influences and
effects upon the Presidential canvass become q
matter Of grave and deliberate reflection. The
i!ea that the anti slavery party of the North was
in process Of absorption by the whig and demo-
cratic PARTIES and that no trouble was again to be
apprehended from another Buffalo platform, thus
promises to turn out melancholy deusion. Wings
aud democrats of the North have been flirting and
coquetlirg with tho various tag rags and flag ends
OF abolition and free soil but il viii be to littlo
purpose, unless fome concessions are made to
Northern negro philanthropy by the Philadelphia
and Baltimore conventions. The Presidential cleo
tions OF 1914 and 1913 were decided by the anti
slavery balance Of power. This power may DO
rallied again, and again decide the issue.
Nor is il to be presumed that princi-
pie of fansticism, which ha' eaten so Deep
ly into the vitals Of the North, can be cured
by poultice Of the public plumber. The Fugitive
va Law IL ef; dan Nvkro lvt IL
anti slavery factions the existence Of slavery in
the District Of Columbia is still to them grievous
eyesorc-the South il suspected Of an intense long
ing for the Island of Cuba and the border troubles
the Rio Grande in connection with the distract
ed and Stacking condition OF Mexico, are ominous
of continued snnexetions to the area Of slavery
In fact, we have greater reason to fear the reor-
ganiza.ion Of the anti slavery party, upon an ex-
tended and permanent scale, than we have cause to
hope for its dissolution 1t is founded upon section.
81 issues as old the Constitution; its hostility
embraces the Constitution; its ultimate object,
openly declared by many of them is simply the des-
truction Of tho Constitution aud tho Union. The
revival Of the antslavery agitation may therefore
be expected to become formidable element in the
Presidential campaign.
The rise and progress Of this Northern sympathy
for Southern slaves, and malicious hatred of South.
ern Shareholders, ID curious and interesting II
may be traced far back as the last century, di.
rectly to the Jealousy Of the British East India
Company against the West India Islands To this
cause may DO buted the beginning of the agisa
tion Of the abolition Of slavery in those islands.
Wilberforce became q very hero of philanthropy,
and the horrors of black slavery caused even the
starving paupers Of England to shudder in their
dens of straw. The thirteen colonies Of North
America were not afflicted with this dreadful
conviction; for, before the revolution of l776,
slavery existed in them all, from Massachusetts
to Georgia. Bat the movement in England
in due season found its way across the Atlantic.
With the meeting Of the convention elected to
draft the federal constitution, hostility to slavery
developed itself, not only as question Of morality
and religion, but as political principle. The
commercial advantages Of Q union with the South,
however, obtained from tho North certain well de-
fined concessions in behalf Of Southern slavery.
The most remarkable Of these concessions was that
by which, at the demand Of South Car Dina and
Georgia. the introduction of slaves from Africa was
permitted till the year 1905 On the other hand,
the antisavery zeal Of Mr.. Jefferson, Of Virginia,
was equally remarkable. Through his efforts, the
federal ordinance Of 1857, prohibiting slavery in all
the Northwest territory. was adopted After the
adoption Of the constitution the Northern States,
impressed with the wickedness of slavery, snd fnd.
ing it improbable, gradually abolished it, after
having been the most active importing agents in
introducing it into the South.
From the establishment Of the government under
Washington, in 1850, till the acquisition Of Florida,
in lSl92l, no general disturbance on account OF
the slavery question interrupted tho harmony be-
tween the North and the South. Tho Louisiana
question-the war with England, Of lSl2-the pub.
lie dcbt-the bank question: and the tariff question,
sufficiently occupied The public mind, the agitators,
and tho politicians. But the question of admitting
Missouri into the Union, excited, in 1920, tho first
deep, and deadly, and wide.sprea hostility to
Southern slavery, and to any further enlargement
Of its boundaries. The Missouri difficulty, after
shaking the Union to its 70 undatora was at length
compromised by the line Of Sc 30, and harmony
was, for season, restored. 20 little, for time,
was the South disturbed by fears Of Northern abo-
litoniss, that, in 1880, State convsnton was held
in Virginia, principal feature of whish was the
discussion of the policy Of providing for the gradual
extinction of slavery in that State. But all move
ments of his kind, in the South speedily sup
pressed BY the malicious sud impadent informed
ding OF Northern abolition societies.
In the year 1873 the frst anti.slavery society
was organized, aud the Journal of Commerce was
established as the FIRST organ, at this point, Of
tho Northern abolition movement, AMI Of tina.
sosiosy-,he came Journal which has since become
the special mouth piece Of the Union Safety Com
mittec. The seed had been sown broadcast il 1920
the rank weeds Of abolition aedition began again
to spring up; and after the settlement OF the tariff
compromise OF 1929 the slavery question again
entered into national politics 80 a leading ele-
Eent OF agitation. The British act or the emanci.
patton Of slavery in the West Indies, Of 1884, ga7e
q flesh impulse &c the abolition movement bore,
hoasea by Arthur Tappan, Lloyd Garrison and Co.
Congress ~as flooded with abolition petitions for
the abolition ofslava-y ia the District o. Columbia
counterasitation IN the HoUss or Represe natives
resulted IN the Suspension CT the 2lst rule under
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