The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-26
Moyements of. the AboIitlonists.

Movements Of the AbOIitlonists.
I We publish this morning the proceedings OF
the Anti-Slavery party of Ohio, held at Column
bus on the 18th 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 Il long
leader in the New York Herald, touching the
anti-slavery element, and its influence in the
coming campaign.
! Regarding this movement as 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-
velopment in the national Slavery conven-
ton at Pittsburg, in June next, its probable in
tuences 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 deusion. Wings and Demo-
Gratis of the North have been flirting and coquet-
ting with the various tag-rags and flag ends of
abolition and freesoil; but it will be to little pur-
pose, unless some concessions are made TO
Northern negro philanthropy by the Philadel.
phia and Baltimore conventions.
the Presidential elections of 1874 and lS4S
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
that principle of fanaticism, which has eaten 80
deeply into the vitals af the North, can be cured
by poultice of the public plumber. The fug-
tive slave law is still denounced DIS an outrage
by the Anti, Slavery factions--the existence Of
slavery in the District of Columbia is still to
them a grievous eye-sore-the South is sus.
pected of an intense longing for the island of
Cuba; and the border troubles on the Rio
Grande, in connection with the distracted and
Stacking condition of Mexico, are omnous of
continued annexations TO the area of slavery In
fact we have greater reason to fear the re.or-
ganzation of the Anti Slavery party, upon an
extended and permanent scale, than we have
cause to hope for its dissolution 1t is founded
upon sectional issues as old rs the Constitu-
ton; its hostility embraces the Constitution /; its
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"
awe have shown that the ntislavery senli-
ment in the United States is as old as the gov
eminent; that it has grown with its growth,
and strengthened with its strength; !" that it has
decided, already, two Presidential elections
that Of 1874, in favor of the Democracy, and
that Of l84s, in favor Of the Wings and it is
manifest, from those results, that this outside
/ l.
| er in New York, in Ohio, and also in Pennsyl
yania, and other Northern and Western States.
| in n close election. IL is not TO be supposed
that party based upon hostility TO Southern
sTsvery, ana having for It's object the uissou tion
of this Union, is supposed, or can be, with one
defeat, or dozen defeats, of its schemes This
ant-slayery movement in Ohio may well be re-
garded, therefore, as one of the highest import.
ance, in connection with the November election.
"Much will depend upon the policy which may
be adopted by the Wings at Philadelphia, and
| the Democrats at their Baltimore convention, in
reference 10 slavery, intervention, and the Cuba
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 n correct judgment The State elections Of
| 1889 were rather Democratic than otherwise :
but Harrison swept the country like an ava
larche, in 1910. II was so in lS47-4s. In
fact, from all the indications around us, there il
reason to anticipate close contest in the coming
struggle for the spoils (6fly millions a year,
sufficiently close to enable the Anti.Savery party
to decide the issue one way or the other, as in
"a and '4S. This thing Of intervention, itself,
may prove a formidable question. The peace
Of Europe is still uncertain; and state Of war
on the continent would Immediately rally, per.
haps 100000 votes in the North and West, on
the side OF active Intervention.
"Now, let the politicians, the scene shifters, and
the wire workers, Of both the great political par
ties, tell w how they are 10 conciate the South
and the Abolitionists at the same time! The
Anti Slavery ticket decided the elections Of 1884,
and '4S. Let the Wings or the Democrats tel
vs. how that ticket can be prevented from set
Ting the question in 1882! Let them study In,
+, platform OF this Ohio Anti-Slayery convention
let them look 10 the paste the strength Of th,
abolition soc;eties--to the open questions o.
!. agitation-to the new ones likely TO come up
. 10 the abolition movements in conjunction viii
Kossuth, Kinkel and intervention, and then an
:, swer IL the game OF the Presidency is not in tn,
= hands Of the Anti Slavery party OF the North
" Let them answer. il they can. How will tn,
= South act in such conflict! What can th,
South dot" ....