The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-05
The Deinas az the Fanatics 81 tine United
Stafss--The Compromise EsensurSs.

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The Do,nss az the Fanatics 81 tne United
statss-The Compromise Measures.
kfcN the LONDON Times. Oct 3.
Among the various rocks aneadin The great Asls-
ricsn repsplic, rot DO lesst is the fundameptal
difference of poisSy between the slave 2ad she free
States That rriF TeEoe hiss been tstcy rGdaosl To-.
z ecmqrolte. s,-a TIA most psoln.nsis FEATURE Of
hat CON nons.-c Is gs provision By which the fec
Sates aI9 bound e. rive al tGair sssstanes towards
the apprehension u fugitive faves, their surrender
into the hands 81 tho saYsowneF. and their extra.
Gtion to the s,ave 5 ate from which they nave ss'
capped Such is The eSsiins 90 nprcaaiso, and there
were those Who thought thss il really settled the
question for ever and Gs aye These peop OF course
think that compeo uase IS nGoEprosnise, a0d that
if il be once swallowed il vii, COON become part Of
the system. But compromise, 20 be really
compromise, should 10 something The difficulties Of
which time should not only smooth, bit effaco.
1t should have such foundation in nature
soon to become unnoticed, untelt and iorgottca.
That is far from being the case with the tugit'vs
Slave law; and how any Legislators could expect IL
to last long in force, to reconcile the states 10
one an other we cannot gas. Ii is calculated IN
its very nature to keep the open ny continual
succession of egalzed outrages. Every slave hunted
down in free State, and reclaimed by the process OF
Of this law, reyiyes the agitation; and there Will
generally be circumstance of aggravasion IN the
capture such that the alleged slave has quietly
resided for years ut the place Of his capture, or
that he has his family about him, and had fed tor
the express purpose Of enjoying their society Thus
ever and anon there viii be some incident similar to
those which overthrow tho existing constitutions OF
Rome, by happening to embody political grievance
in dramatic and personal form. No law can DO
considered secure which thus breeds an agitauon
against itsef and compromise which does thus can
only reopen the controversy.
MEANWHILE the duration and the final issue Of the
controversy between the slaveowner and the aboli-
tionist, well as its immediate effects, depend ON
the style and tactics Of the dsputants and they are
81 sant,, no% Fault ~
future. On the ono hand, the grotesque and semi-
barbarous character Of the unfortunate race which
forms the subject Of the quarrel, imparts touch OF
the ludicrous to their usOest claims and Their sad:
their advocates, and alenates from them that large
part Of mankind that tears neither bullets nor
swords, but quails before jest. On the other
band, real cause like that Of the slavss-a cause
founded in nature, In justice, and in religions
cause embracing moro than three millions Of souls
is sure to find sympathy among people singularly
ardent. theoretical philanthropic and, above all,
trained to independence and agitation as the great
tradition Of the Union, and the means OF every
ones own private advancement. In such country
kindred agitations will flock together for aid, and,
with emancipation" for their common war cry,
the most reasonable compliments will be glad to
make common cause with the most fanatical and
the most Ridiculous At present the deeply-injured
children Of Ham are fighting for liberty and politi-
cal existence with the widest fanatics on one
side, and " Women's Rights women" on the other.
Misery making strange bedfellows Tilted maidens ILL
used wives and every other class Of female discon
tent appeal in their extremity to the swarthy Atrl-
can slave, and each rejoices to think that 1t has
found another class, like ITSELF possessing quarrel
against the whole race Of man. The ambitious and
disappointed ladies whose annual convention We de-
scibed the other day, for want Of other protectors
and helpmates, are going hand in hand with the
negro. both advancing &C lain to brotherhood which
the citizens of the Union seem little disposed to adj
NIT. Whether union in this case will be force or
weakness hardly venture to predict, but there
osx ols~h In on
that because negroes ought to be free and indepen
dent citizens, therefore women ought ALSO or rsce
rGsa. .
AS to the question whether three millions Of hui
main beings, in Christian aud civilized country,
will Ultimately be free, we cannot permit our
selves to doubt that they will but the az
count of the g Fugitive Slave Rescue Anniver-
sary Meeting at Syracuse which we recently
quoted from the New York HERALD, -compels
us to doubt whether these injured people are
Fastening their own deliverance. Syracuse must be
occurrence, meetings any one Of which would con-
fer immortality any English tewn. The assem-
bled abotionists began with all the solemnity due
mo ne as the claims Of God 70 BE-
reated From this awful beginning the proceed
rigs passed, with the usual American bathos,
trough an Introductory Grafton. selections from
he bible, payer, poem on "the rescue OF Jerry,
an opinion by Senator Chase that the Fugitive
Slave act was 10 law and the escape Of every slave
was a constitutional triumph. A Mr.. Drayton tes-
titled that he had been IN prisons Oft, and also
long, viz, five years at Washington, :" at the COM
mand of the slave power" and that " he had once
made SO great an agitation in Congress that they
had to adjourn for three days to cool" Mr.. Ray-
mond taunted Mr.. Webster with the nonfulfl-
ment Of his prophecies, and added that he was
now lying at Marshfeld--" o stranded whale"
After graphic description Of the great event
COMMUNICATED, "the rescue OF jerry, and suita-
BILE resolutions, it was time to remind the meeting
Of its religious character, and Miss Lucy Stone
praised the Syracusan women who had "paid the
modern Judas thi ty pieces OF silver, rather
questionable compliment, considering the paymas-
tiers in the transaction alluded to- Frederick Doug
lass the great advocate Of his race, with that vivid
Of perception, and tina, freedom OF speech which
are among its principal characteristics, saw :" the
record OF mans right to liberty written on Gods
heart" and proclaimed that 1t could not be erased
here till it was also erased there" So closed the
mornings sitting. The evening was principally
taken up with scripturai illusions and bold express
sions such as the above, tho climax being tina. the
Fugitive Slave law was ''the cup of daElnation,'
which Mr. Garrison declined to drink from the hands
Of Congress, for the convenience OF any political
party. Miss Lueretia Mott followed with defence
Of woman's right to speak here, and with truly
feminine view Of the semi passive, semi astivc re-
sstance which she thought alo waolc TO the Fugitive
Slave law, she called q former speaker to account
for forgetting the resistance principle in urg-
ing bloody resistance to the rccapture Of slaves.
She had no objection to holding the claimant back,
and hurting him al. little unintentionay, but would
Rescue Fund, closed the day.
What should we think Of such q meeting in Ex-
eter Hall, with ahotionat baronet in the chair,
and q bshop. to read prayers We can only say
that they do things differently in America. Per-
baps on that coil this may be the best way Of adj.
vancipg interests &c momentous us the claims of
God" and truths " written on Gods heart." Per-
haps three millions of slaves are to be not only
emancipated, but prepared for emancipation, by
such talk and such persons. If it be so, we can
only conclude that the British race, British insi-
tutions, and British sentiment, have undergone
very great change by crossing the Atlantic, and
that the slaves are to be brought to an equality
with their masters by a process which apparently
brings the masters down to a level with their
slaves. But We canrot suppress conviction tnas
the American abolitionsts, whose extrdyagRucis5
are here described, very much undcrrate the real I.
difficulties Of tho question. There arc two things
10 he Annn--tnn sfers nf COMMUNICATION md No IN.