The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-26

not improving What thinks the organ OF II
Movements Of the AboIitlenists.
. We publish this morning the proceedings Of
, the Anti. Slavery party of Ohio held at Colum
, bus on the 1 lth inst-the first State movement
: Of that party looking towards the National Con.
vention to be held in June.
AS an evidence of the Importance attached to
such movements at the North, by impartial OBJ
servers, we quote a few paragraphs from long
leader in the New York Herald, touching the
anti. slavery element, and its influence in the
coming campaign.
Regarding this movement AZ only prelimi-
nary step to the reorganization OF the Anti
Slavery party throughout the Northern section OF
the United States, and looking for its full de-
veopment in the national Anti-Savery cOnven-
ton at Pittsburg, in June next its probable in
huences and effects upon the Presidential can
vass become matter Of grave and deliberate
reflection The idea that the Anti Slavery party
of the North was in process Of absorption by
the Wing and Democratic parties, and that no
trouble was again to be apprehended from an
other Buffalo platform, thus promises to turn
out melancholy delusion. Wings and Demo
Gratis of the North have been flirting and coquet-
ting with the various tng-rags and flag ends OF
abolition and freesoil but it will be to little pnr-
pose, unless some concessions are made to
Northern negro philanthropy by the Philadel-
phia and Baltimore conventions.
"The Presidential elections of l844Sn l848
were decided by the Anti Slavery balance of
power This power may be rallied again, and
again decide the issue. Nor is it to be presumed
I.I. e ali hooa
deeply into the yitals af the North, can be cured
by poultice Of the public plumber. The fugi-
tive slave law is still denounced as an outrage
by the Anti. Slavery factions-the existence of
slavery in the District Of Columbia is still to
them grievous eye-sore--the South is sus'
pected of an intense longing for the island Of
J Cuba; and the border troubles on the Rio
Grande, in connection with the distracted and
, Stacking condition of Mexico, are 'ominous of
J continued annexatons to the area of slavery. In
fact, we have greater reason to fear the reor-
ganization of the Anti Slavery party, upon an
extended and permanent scale, than We have
cause to hope for it's dissolution 1t is founded
upon Atonal issues as old az tho Constitu-
ton; its hostility embraces the Constitution it's
ultimate object openly declared by many OF
them, is simply the destruction of the Constitu.
ton and the Union The rivalry of the anti
slavery agitation may therefore be expected TO
become formidable element in the Presidential
campaign"
ave have shown that the anti-savery senti
ment in the United States is as old rs the gov
ernment; that it has " grown with its growth
and strengthened with its strength" that it has
} decided, already, two Presidential elections
that of 1884, in favor of the Democracy, and
that Of l848, in favor of the Wings and it is
8 manifest, from those results, that this outside
9 party can at least command the balance of pow.
t or in New York, in Ohio, and also in Pennsyl
] vania and other Northern and Western States
D in close election. 1t is not to be supposed
that party based upon hostility to Southern
slavery, and having for it's object the dissolution
y of this Union, is supposed, or can be, with ont
J defeat, or dozen defeats, of its schemes Th
i antslavery movement in Ohio may well be re
8 garded, therefore, as one of the highest import
9 ance, in connection with the November election
/ "Much will depend upon the policy which ma,
q be adopted by the Wings at Philadelphia, ant
4 the Democrats at their Baltimore convention, il
q reference to slavery, intervention, and the CUB
n question. The Democrats appear to be san
guine of success, from the results of the cleo
tons Of the last year. But they are no STANDARD
for correct Judgment. The State elections 0
but Harrison swept the country like an ava
> anche in 1910. 1t was so in lsl7-4s. Ii
fact, from all the indications around us, there il
reason to anticipated close contest in the coming
struggle for the spoils fifty millions a year,
sufficiently close to enable the Anti Slavery part,
o to decide the issue one way. or the other, as il
: IA and '4S. This thing of Intervention, Itself
3 may prove formidable question. The peac
r. of Europe is still uncertain; and a state of wa
, on the continent would Immediately rally, per
II haps 100000 votes in the North and West, o.
the side of active Intervention
3 "Now let the politicians, the scene shifters, an
e the wire workers, Of both the great political pal
. ties, tell us how they are to conciliate the Sout
and the Abolitionists ut the same time? Th
Anti Slavery ticket decided the elections of 1874
I and '4S. Let the Wings or the Democrats te
= us how that ticket can be prevented from Sc,
il Ting the question in 1852? Let them study til
:, platform of this Ohio Anti Savery convention
. let them look to the pastto the strength of tn
abolition societies--to the open questions @
l. agtation-to the new ones likely to come up
70 to the abolition movements in conjunction wit
! Kossuth, Kinkel, and interveption, and then ar
swer if the game of the Presidency is not in til
u hands of the Anti Slavery party of the North
}" Let them answer. if they can. How will tn
: South act in such conflict? What can tn
South do?"
The Legislature of Alabama adjourned o
- Tuesday last. The Montgomery Journal,
l. noticing the doings of the Legislature, say
= Politically, the session has been humbug."
! "Though coming with at least forty Unic
~ or compromise majority, the whole tendency
re matters has been averse to the decision of tn
10 people last August, owing either to the wretcht
r.. bad management of the Union majority, or
. the treason of some of its members.
10 "Our gallant Union senator has been sacrifice
Or, and as far us we can learn, by the treason
va professed friends from his own section Sou
| Alabama stood mn tn the Last For this who