The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-08
The Great Free Soil Movement-Scott, Sew
ard, md the Union Wings.

bubbie-Ie sceEt OF the soup IL oVerpoWerlng--h nu
the most astounding ingredients rising to the
surface The various outside movew ents upon the
Presidential issue, give, already, a smattcring Of
spice and variety of salt and pepper, to the con,ro
versy but the great free soil omnium gItherta
movement of the North is of the highest possible i'm
portance ard is the most intensely interesting, be-
cause it involves the balance Of power in the cleo
ton.
The game is in the hands of this free soil party
they entering into the arena with startling energy
and enthusasm-there is no longer doubt that
they will make tremendous and decisive impress
sion in oil the great Northern States, one way
another. Nor is this all, This third party is in
evitably destined in this campaign, to reopen the
! agitation Of slavery at every assaable point-to
swallow up either the wing or democratic party Of
| the North-apd thus result in the organization
of a Northern Union party and Northern abolition
and moDgrel party, absorbing between them all
the other parties and factions of the day. The tide
is setting strongly in this direction All around
| we hear The signals of preparation for terrible
ray of third great army upon the battle ground of
next November, which is sure to drive one or the
other Of the two old parties, in ignominious and r
retrievabe defeat, from the field
/ The Worcester Free Soil Convention gives us
foretaste Of the platform of the great Pittsburg
onnium goitoum of the 18th of August. The reso-
buttons of Hon. Henry Wilson embody the follow
| ing sweeping, progressive, and comprehensive
| principles, to wit The right Of all men to liberty
and equality before the laws; reputation of both
the whig and democratic parties the doctrines that
slavery is sin against God and a crime against
man, that the American slave trade, and slavery in
| the District Of Columbia, ought to be abolished,
and positively excluded from the territories; that
the Fugitive Slave law is unconstitutional, and
ought to be repealed that there shall be
more slave States, and more territories for
slavery, admitted into the Union; that the
Sub-Treasury is good thing; tina. hostages
ought to be reduced; that all executive Of
fcers az far as is possible, ought to be elected by
the people; that rivers and harbors ought to be
improved by federal appropriations; that the public
lands should be ceded away in free farms to actual
settlers; that the government should adopt the lately
imported doctrine of foreign intervention; that the
slavery administration Of President Fillmore,
and the treachery of Daniel Webster to freedom,
deserve the public condemnation and that the
Worcester gathering goes in heart and SOUL for the
| Pttsburg Convention
Here we have pretty broad platform, of which
Intervention, free farms, rivers and harbors, cheap
postage, and the sub treasury, conspicuous pill
lars but Of which abolition is the stone and
1 the roofing. There some recent discoveries in
moral and political science which have been omit.
| ted-such az woman's rights, which involve the
wearing Of boots and breeches and the reputation
Of the Bible, and malgamation, white, black and
Yellow and such Fouricrism, antirentism, spirit
ual manifestations, and the Rochester knockngs;
but doubtless these will be supplied in the Pitts
burg platform, together with the rights of labor
and the rights Of idle, blatherng, crazy fanatics
and demagogues to live without labor. The fisher
men Of the large rivers Of Chesapeake Bay some.
times use seines nearly mile long, and when they
make haul they bring everything to the shore
within their sweep-shad, behring's, bass, sturgeon,
perch cells, catfish crabs and turtles and everything
else: and just such a haul Of odd fish we may look
for with the prodgious seine of the Pittsburg Con-
yeption
AT the election Of 1913, upon much mar
rover schedule the Buffalo ticket numbered nearly
three rdred thousand votes. In November next
the Pittsburg ticket, tits by some expected, will
muster, from Massachusetts, to Wisconsin, as many
as FIVE hundred thousand; but even three hundred
thousand, or one hundred thousand, or fifty
thousand, votes will be equally decisive. Less
than six thousand more votes would have elected
Henry Clay, in 1914; and at the same time
there probably not less than ten thousand
wings Of the fifteen thousand free soers who voted
in this State the abolition ticket, and thus
turned the State to James X. Polk.
We have, then, in this free soil movement, opened
with such ominous enthusiasm at Worcester, the
turning point Of the battle. The native American
movement at Trenton, and the Southern whig
mi nj Wpshinpfnn
the political armament but this free soil on,nium
gstheum movement looms up heavy, overshadow-
ing cloud ali along the Northern horizon surcharged
with thunder and lightning, gas, hailstones, and
all the dust and rubbish Of a mighty whirlwind.
In full view of this impending calamity what is to
be done The whig party of the North is immi-
nently threatened with the brunt of the storm. 1t
is already in state of rapid transition from
nationality TO sectionalism. Seward has linked
his fortunes with General Scott and the one is dos
tined to sink or swim with the other. II is unfor-
tunate that the old soldier should have fallen into
the hands Of n friend and adviser 10 danger
GUS and unprincipled, SO utterly the selfish dema-
goguc, as w. II. Seward. But 30 il is. Hence
the Southern wing manifesto. Hence the dis
content in the ranks of the Northern whg union
conservatives, with the nomination Of Gen. Scott.
II is not because he is held unworthy his positions
but il is because, in eevating him. Seward is ele-
waited, and gains another step forward towards the
formation Of great Northern wing free soil party,
with himself their candidate, in open defiance Of
the combined power Of the South Exocrating and
splitting upon the whg platform, as the Seward fac
ton are there can be no mistake in their ardor for
the election Of Cen Scott If he is elected, his adj
ministration is 20 be victimized to the ambitious
and treacbcrous dsunion designs Of Seward and his
gang In this light we see no cause of immediate
alarm in the Pittsburg movement for a separate
free soil ticket. But what say the Union whigsl
Are they for the permanent maintenance Of good