The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-03

on the general committees. Great was the excite
ment inside; it will be far greater OUTSIDE, among
the rank and file, when they come to know what
was done in their name, and particularly when re-
solution passed to smother the proceedings, and
keep the whg party ignorant o the doings of their
political representatives.
We perceive that the Democratic Southern Rights
Convention of Georgia, adjourned on Thursday, af
ter endorsing the Baltimore platform Of "A and
4s and appointing forty delegates to the National
Convention The latter were not instructed; but it
is understood that majority Of them favor the |
claims Of Mr.. Buchanan
AT meeting Of the temperance democrats Of
New Havca last evening, they resolved to support
the whis candidates who are pledged to the Maine
law, in preference to the candidates of their own
party, who cannot swallow that decidedly dry
measure.
Kossuth made one Of his great speeches to the
people of New Orleans on Tuesday, in which he de-
MED that he ever spoke disrespcctfuy of Mr.. Clay,
which is said to have perfectly satisfied the friends
of the Kentucky statesman on that score. If the
Magyar should succeed in overcoming the antipa-
thics of the Southern people, what will his abolition
| friends and admirers in the North sayl
| One third of the town Of Chillicothe, Ohio, is
said to have been destroyed by FIRE last Thursday
| morning.
The brothers Skupinski were yesterday sentenced
to be hung, in Philadelphia, for the murder Ct
young Lehman, the pedlar. Matthias, the elder,
acknowledges that he concerned in the horrible
transaction, but denies that his brother knew any
thing about it at the time.
The case of Horace Preston, the alleged fugitive
slave, now pending before Mr.. Commissioner Nor
ton, elected striking instance of 'higher law
l -, NJ.
Buseed the counsel for the claimant, and Mr.. John
Jay, Jr., the abolitonist lawyer. 1t appears that
Mr.. Busteed, attorney in the cause pes
sessed power Of attorney from Mr. Rcss,
the owner, and upon that and other know
ledge obtained by him, made the usual
affidavit necessary to obtain the warrant for the APP
prehensiou Of the alleged fugitive. Mr.. Bustsod
was called to the stand by Mr.. Jay, and examined.
Certain questions he refused answer irrelevant
and impairment to the issue. The Commissioner
declined to compel the witness to respond, and
Mr.. Jay, in the warmth Of his philanthropy,
designated the affidavit as crank perjury" where
upon Mr.. Busteed descended from the stand, and
dealt Mr.. Jay :" higher law method Of retaliation
he gave him a blow in the face. The Commits
sioner invoked the aid Of the Hon. Judge Belts who
was in chambers and that learned functionary came
into court and told tho gentlemen what they had to
expect from him. Apologies made, ample and
frank, on both sides, and SO the matter rests.
By reference to Maritime Intelligence, it will
be that another large fleet Of vessels got up
the city yesterday. They comprise vessels Of every
{ class, and from nearly every part of the world
They number II ships, ii barks, % briggs and l6
misunderstanding total of 81.
The Baltic will bring us the next news from Eu-
rope. She will be due tonight, with four days
later intelligence.
The Presidential ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of
the Anti-Slavery Agitation.
The selection Of Presidential candidates by the
various parties, which has been discussed in
tons, in the newspapers, and in Congress, for
veral months past, has disclosed variety of fea-
lures, some of luderous and others Of grave
pect; but one of the most serious and alarming
phases of this controversy has recently sprung up
within the ranks of the wing party, in regard to the
selection of their candidate at the approaching con-
vention, to be held in Philadelphia This alarming
feature is neither less than the re-openng
of the anti-savery question new and fresh, and
more comprehensive basis of action than has yet
characterized any similar election in this country.
limitations of this purpose have been given out by
various ntisavery journals in the North, during the
last few months. 1t reserved, however, for the
present week to witness the spectacle, in Wash
ngton, Of grave and formal re-opening, in the
Senate Of the United States, of the whole question
ofantisavery under the auspices Of its leader and
reprcsentative-Wiam H. Seward--aided and as
t sisted by several colleagues from the Northern
States, both of the wing and democratic Sides
Heretofore, the Southern wings, in various public
ways have indicated their preference either for Mr.
Fillmore the present incumbent of the White House,
or Mr.. Webster, az Presidential candidate at the
ensuing election. William II. Seward and the anti
slavery elements, of various shades, in the North
have pitched upon General Scott the most eligible
candidate, and are determined either to have that
parsonage nominated, with the concurrence of the
Southern wings, or, failing in that object, to re-
open and re-agitate the repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave law and the ultimate extinction Of slavery
and the slave institutions Of the South, soon as
possible, and without delay.
This is the perilous and alarming position in which
the Presidential election shows ITSELF in con-
nection with whig candidates and the wing canvass
As parties in the same game, and following up the
same dangerous plan Of operations, we give else
whore in our columns to-day, several very curious
articles and statements, all concurring in the same
plan of operations which have been commenced in
Congress by Ar. Seward, on this important and OK
citing subject One Of these articles is the project
ola law now pending in the Legislature of Massa-
chusets, for the purpose of multiplying the Fugitive
Slave law Of Congress- and of rendering it entirely
imperative in that State Another indication of the
same character is an article from the New York
Tribune, dsnouncing the Fugitive Slave law as ian
infamous statute and holding up the legal in,ti-
tutons established by Congress for carrying il into
execution equally infamous and atrocious, aad
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and violate the laws in process Of execution in
Of our courts justice in this city Another Of
these articles is the " manifesto" of VIM. II. Seward
and the ant-slavery wings, written at Washington,
and published in their penny organ in this city,
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