The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-14

ments In the United States.
From the London Times August 80
is satisfactory to observe, in the intelligence
from America, not only that the fishery dispate 10
fast disappearing in the prelmnares Of he Presi-
DENTAL election, bat that these proceedings them
selves have been subst sntially uninHuencd by the
agitation which sought to make foreign em0roil-
Mens subseryient 10 the purposes OF domestic eabal
No candidate for Office in the United States 10 IN
any degree the fcrwarder for having gratuitously
quarrslled with the measures of Great Britain. On
the contrary, although the approaching struggle
assumes daily more formidable aspect, and
although the Union may be conyulsed from North
TO South, in its political travail, the motives and
objects Of the contest will be exclusively American,
nor does it seem probable that even the crusading
agitation Of Kossuth, or the ready combustiblty Of
the naturalzed Irish, will materially affect the I'M
pending decision In the meantime, however, the
native politics Of the State have undergone por-
tentous developement, and it appears not mproba-
bic that this yourg republic may soon be exposed
in its turn. TO those descriptive storms which have
liberal institutions The general reader may
perhaps require to be reminded that American
wings correspond substantially with English tories
that is to say, they are tine more conservative OF
those two parties into which all free communities
naturally divide themselves. 1t will, of course be
easily understood that the whole stage OF poll
ties 10 considerably more advanced in tho New
World than in the Old, and that the rigid obstrac-
tyeness Of our pure tory element is not 10 be met
with across the Atlantic at all. But, in SO far MS
those two professions exist which are inseparable
from political discussion, it is the school OF con
servatisnl which in America takes the denomination
OF wbig while that Of progress enjoys the style and
title OF democratic. Hitherto, IN Great Britain
audoher constitutional countries, these two parties
have absorbed within themselves and have suiiced
20 press all the natural vsrieties of transat1ntic
opinion, and il s by The reciprocal cheeks OF such
rival organization that tho GOV eminent Of the Union
has been maintained IN haslthy action. Recently
rs we have seem two candidates have been approved
Tor the Presidency, representing, respectively. the
gy,IA0 hn
being the nominee Of the democrats. and Gen Scott
II the wings. To one or other of these competi.
tors he balance Of votes viii incline. and the result
viii determine the whig Democratic policy Of the
American executive for four consecutive yeart
On the present occasion, however, there has been
formed n third party" and though we should have
Mr.. D'Israeli's authority for concluding that
the maintenance of such a faction, in face of its
two opponents, ID an almost Impossible feat OF
political conflict, it is by 10 means clear,
der the remarkable circumstances of this demOnstra
ton, that one or other of the ancient parties
may not be superseded by this new formation. The
constituents of the third party assembled the 18th
instant at Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, in what is
termed convention, that is to say, general meet
ing attended by delegates, to fix by previous vote
upon candidate who should receive the individual
SURFACES Of the entire party throughout the States.
As il was the first creation and appearance OF the
league thus assuming political capacity, the dele.
gates agreed upon what Ameri cans call PLATFORM,
or, in other words, declaration OF principles on
which the new party was to take its stand. This
"platlorm was duly published, aud from its articles
infer without difficulty the tenets and objects
Of the school. These may very briefly character
Use by describing them radical; but, republican
institutions, supported by universal suffrage, do not
furnish any very spacious margin for political reforms
the radicalism Of the United States concerns itself
peculiarly with The promotion of social adj
vancement" In this "third party therefore, are
included the advocates of every possible extravaganza
which, from agrarianism to 'boomerisn, has ever
suggested itself to the would be regenerators Of man.
1nA. INN,
lansterians anabaptists ndlevscrs here
together, the predominant quality Of the amalgam
being intense and extreme democracy-a democra-
ey, in fact which s, to the existing democracy Of
the Union, what NJ. Proudhon's liberalism would
be to Nh. Hume's AS specimen Of it, nature, We
will give one resolution, which no. only accept
ed, but positively embodied in the formal doclara-
ton Of principle set forth and attested. 1t was de-
clared-and use the very words Of the PROPOSE
ton--"that all men have a natural right to d por-
ton of the soil, living and dying, at their birth and
ut their death, ana that those Who opposed this doc
tripe would bottle up Code sunshine for spaeuiA-
tion - Now though this resolution dill indeed ex-
cite a.clamor ard throw the cenvon-oD,h as NO
told, Into great excitement. it wac, neyerthc
less, passed unanimously: and Deliberately recog
nised as completing the platform This, Of
course. is tantpmount to an aces ptanee of NJ,
Poudhons dogma that properly il theft, for,
the Ntio IWk Goa Ter remarks, IF al have natu
1s sa a. naTs an .. aS qn rR ns 91
Dor, he may. and ought to be, dcspoiled OF il 10
will be said, however, that all this is only
the natural development of radcah:m under
republic, tina. extreme party viii! always form l.
self, and til its oacration in America viii differ
very little from its operations elsewhere. Bat this
is not the true state OF the case, The American
formation possesses most extraordinary feature,
and il is to this feature that attention should be
directed. There has long existed in the United
States section Of politicians terming themselves
Freesoilers," whose great and paramount object
has been the absolute extinction OF slavery. Hi
la horn pnfp nyrtit nCyr
cal party Of their own, but have remained indis
criminately in the general ranks Of the wings and
democrats, and principally, indeed, among the for
mer. at length, however, indignant at what they
consider the torgiversation Of their original friends
they have resolved to stand alone, and it was in
their name, as that Of the most numerous body of
malcontents, TINT the convention was opened at
PttsbuIg, to enlist and combine all the disaf-
feetcd elements of the American population 1t
may seem strange to the English reader that
men whose desires had at least a yirtuous origin,
and who otherwise pertained for the most part 70
the conservative school, should thus unrcservedy
league themselves with such n raving crow Of
anarchists and fanatics; but the truth is that
tho free soil movement itseli il SO wholly incompa-
tble with the preservation of the Federal Constitu-
tion and would, if successful be VIGOROUSLY fatal
to the American Union, that these philapthropists
have insen:ibly become little less than organized
destructives Of the worst complexion 1t happens
that all other shades OF root and branch retormers
coincide with more or less zeal in the Tenet OF
the free so;ers, and these bgots therefore, accept
all aid from all sides. unhesitatpgly including in tho
" free soil platform the most monstrous develop
ments Of modern Socialism. In this way PROPOSE
tions which might safely be left to explode of them
selves are now attached in America to doctrines Of
a most righteous character, and supported by the
strenuous and organized energies OF Oh enthusiastic
school. None can deny that slavery is abomi.
nable and that in demanding the freedom of all
Gods creatures the abolisionists take ground
from which it would be hard to drive them.
But, by this new league and covenant, abo-
liton is made to carry thousand follieS
o. its back, aud sects which would otherwise rapid
ly expire. have become engra,ted on party pos
scssed Of sure vitality, prepared to accept any
terms for its own success. To acquire any idea Of
the case, the English reader mus conceive, ii he
can, the five points ofthe charter identified by
means with tho principles Of lelig ious liberty. War
TO the knife. too, has been declared The free soil
party, thus constituted and composed, has bold
~ avowcd that it ''uttoriy repudiatcs aud de-
1ounces" both the other state parties that it will
eight against them to the death and that its pur-
pose is to take possession Of the federal govern