The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-07

wil maintain this spirit Of Aaznszy end eesl nd
hg 70 ths a4jouTnment, 10 very doubtful. The I
present calm 10 probably Nero lul, prior 70 arsgng
tempest.
An awful riot took place 1t the election ia ST.
Louis, last Monday. As near - can b ascertain
ed, . few Germans took offence 1t some cause not
stated and fred with guns, from one Of the houses
in the vicinity, upon crowd at one Of the polls.
The latter became infurated, and tore down tho
house. The alarm soon spread, and Q mob was
speedily collected who also fred upon from the
windows Of three or four other houses, which in their
turn were demolished. A large number Of persons
we're either killed or wounded during tho nsles. The
triumph of the wings in the city, combined with
the fact that Kossuth had been among them, and in
famed their minds with his peculiar speeches, pro.
baby caused the few ignorant Germans, who COM
menced the row, TO shoot at those who were of
opposite politics. Fortunately, the larger portion
of the great German population Of st. Louis, arc
intelligent, and generally well educated. They do.
not seem to have mixed in this murderous onslaught
and hence the riot did not become more general.
The telegraph furnishes accounts of very do
structive fires in Paducah, KY, Louisville, SC.
In the former place forty buildings, embracing
nearly the entire town, were burned to the ground
II is estimated that the loss will be in
addition to the insurance. The loss by the con-
fagration at Chillicothe lie supposed 10 be about
s6OO 600.
A whole family were poisoned last Sunday, by
carelessly leaving noxious drugs on an upper Shelf
20 that ii dropped into food below. Two Of the
persons died soon after the discovery
Capt Pittman has been convicted at Boston Of
robbing the wreck Of the bark Missouri, Of New
York, Of $4,000.
Dispatches from Cincinnati and Pittsburg an
nounce the water to be very high and still rising in
the Ohio river and its tributaries. At the former
city an overflow is anticipated
Revival OF che Slavery Agltntion-PoIicy OF
the South.
II has been repeatedly denied that there was any
design or desire among the ant-slavery factions Of
the whig or democratic party Of the North, to re-
open the agitation Of the slavery question: but the
events springing up daily prove the hypocrisy Of all
such protcstations emanating from those quarters.
which have seized the first occasion to vent their
magnity upon the Fugitive Slave law. in terms the
most vindctve, abusive, and offensive.
We have already adverted to the attempts made
at re-opening Of this sectional agitation in the
United States Senate, by W. II. Seward. after seve-
raj months Of comparative silence upon the subject.
Even then he acted under Of the right Of petit
| ton. But the experience of successful dcmagogue
has taught him that smooth faced deception is bet
ter adapted to his position than open and hothead-
ed violence He glides, therefore, like the serpent
| to his object, and bites and steals away. His
agents and organs in the North under less re-
straint and upon the first provocaton they disclose
their true sentiments in their true colors; and now
| the South are fairly adnonished that instead Of
peace there is to be war; and war to the end Nor
is this re-agitation of slavery confined to Seward
and the whig party Of New York. Both parties in
this State, and in New England and the Northwest,
are deeply tinctured with the spirit the abolition
petitions lately presented in the Ssnatehostty ia
the fugitive law, hostility to slavery in the Terrific
ries, in the District Of Columbia, in the States-n.
flexible and incessant hostility to the whole system
the social institutions Of the South Step by STEP
the approaches upon these institutions are to be fol-
lowed up, till the last stronghold Of slavery is in
vested and reduced to surrender the hazards Of
determination. Between absolute emancipation
| and disunion there will be no ultimate choice.
| In another part Of this paper we have given .
variety of extracts in reference to tho late proceed
ings under the law Of 1885, in the arrest trial. and
surrender to his master of the fugitive slave Horace
| Preston. Here we find the Ne,c York 1ribl4,<
| leading whig organ Of this city, and the Epes,ag
Post, leading democratic journal, equally violent
| in their inscriptions denunciatens Of the law and
| the agents Of the law. The Nc,c York Sun, . SER
| Of neutral, in disguise, supposed to be under the
| abolition influences Of the Reverend Henry Ward
Beecher, devout worshipper of Kossuth in all the
late humbugs Of glorfcaton in this city, also gives
| the obnoxious law a stab through its agents, and
laments the injustice Of their proceedings. But
rising above all in the unmeasured malignty Of it,
reprobation, is the Ai6aay Eceaing Journal, the
central mouth-pisce Of the arch-agtator, and, in
the absence Of Thurlow Weed, conducted by son
Of VIM. H. Seward himself, and doubtless rejecting
his opinions to the life The caption Of the article
from that paper is in the best style Of the Boston
| Libnator-'New York market---negroes-- prime
quality, 500 n 81 ,oo0-holders are firm" The tenn
per and drift Of the article are fthe first class Of
pant abolitoniamripe for open treason and FIRE and
sword Indeed, the language of the beautiful phi
lanthrepist, Greeley, and that amiabls Christian
poet, Bryant, are much in the same vein. The
Tribune, after having personally denounced the
agents Of the Law the 'jaekalls and bloodhosnds
Of slavery uses such terms Of Cancellation as these
-"unscrupulous constable" ''lawyer equally I'M
scrupuious,' " commissioner pockets his foe Of
ten dollars" unhappy man is dragged Of
into slavery" " bullied by the counsel, y
I" Busted interrupted the legal by pugilistie
proceedings, "a fugitive slave bill With a
trial. ''what trouble end what disgrace the
country would then have been spared ~ The
Erc,,sag Post vents its wrath in eIpletves Of
equal liberality and moderation. II says that the
Inv "cannot be 30 administered as not to disgrace
our national character and ou1 institutions" and
rnnn1s lis nract cal aricatinr 20 the atrocities Of