The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-26


August. If that convection IN respectable exn'-
Bit Of strength and materials snail second sbe az
ton &C the Georgia Union party, then We may rely
mon il Mr. Webster viii speak cUt, snd in . man
NJ which will astonrh the blind instruments Of
gunpow der availability. We rather think il there
i any sincerity in Wall street, and among the cod
fish aristocracy OF this city, they nov no longer
hesitate to ast. Mr.. Webster throws himself
into their hands-he stands aloof from the
wing nomination, because his friends have
desired It, He has compromised himself as
. party man for their sake, and it would,
therefore, be the basost treaehery now 70 desert
him. If their professions Of attachment to him are
anything better than moonshine and deception, let
them sct, ane act like honest and earnest men IL
good cause.
The time IL prcptious. This Goldfish question 10
grave and mornentous question M. Webster's Pc
stion is a noble position We shall want him to dc
the work Of maintaining rights, and Of preserv-
ing peace at the same time Let him be encouraged
let him be put np for the Presidency-let his
friends everywhere got mp delegates to Philadel-
phia and let us have fair trial, before the people,
the relative popularity of gnnpowder and states.
manship We are ready-the people are ready
Mr.. Webster is ready. WHIST say the Goldfish aris-
tocracy Of New York
The ExtraditIsn Case aud the Demagogues.
This morning, the case of Thomas kaine comes
up, . second habeas corpus, before Judge Bos-
worth, of the Supreme Court, who has ordered that
he man be brought before him-an order which,
VIC trust, shall be put in force We perceive from
the proceedings before Judge BoswOrth, on Thurs-
dag last, that the bnited States Marshal declined
10 produce the prisoner in court under the appre-
hension Of threatened rescue. This idea Judge
Bosworth very properly sconted and it is utterly
unworthy Of any officer of the law, in free country,
in which the laws respected, and every citizen
feels the pressure of the obligation to lend his as
sistsnce to carry them into execution. We venture
to say that we win find thousands of men in this
city, any one Of whom will bring the prisoner from
the Tombs to court, anywhere else, without the
slightest danger of rescue All that is necessary,
is for any resolute man TO arm himself with brace
of pistols, and, we pledge ourselves, he will be al
lowed to discharge the duty without moestation.
Officer Bowyer, of the Chiefs staff, would very
soon do it, or, in fact, any good officer for the
policeman who could not bring Kaine from prison
to court, is unfit for his place.
There is not one of these flaming patrots--not one
OF those braggadocios or demagogues-who would
sacrifice his life, or even his little finger to save
Kane from the gallows; least Of all would they do
it when they knew that if they were to die by
thousands they could not accomplish their purpose
and that the whole military force Of the country,
state and federal, would be called out, if necessary
to put down seiiton, and maintain law and order in
the city.
We trust, therefore, that the empty menaces Of
rescue, used for the purpose Of intimidating the
courts more than anything else, will be despsed,
and treated with the scorn they deserve, and that
the United States Marshal will not show the white
feather in the discharge of the duty that devolves
upon him. If he feels he is not able to do it with
the aid of his deputy marshals, let even one COM
pany Of the National Guard be summoned to his
aid, and there will be DO trouble. But to say that
the law cannot be enforced in the chief city
of the United States, and that prisoner, and
be foreigner too, charged with attempt to
commit murder, cannot be conducted from prison to
court without rescue, is about the silliest thing
ever heard, and, if it were true, would reflect the
deepest disgrace upon our institutions.
1t is only justice to the prisoner to bring him into
court-his counsel demands 1.-THE law requires it.
Let him have fair play, and let no peg be left for
the demagogucs to hang excuse for agitation
upon. The case has already been decided by the
SoHInisefuueI, cUuuIHcu Ny uuuSc VI Ine OHteu
States Circuit Court, and warrant has been issued
by the Secretary Of State to deliver up the prisoner
to the British authorities.
The present appeal to State court, like the fugi
tive slave cases, only to gain time, to keep up the
excitement, and to give the demagogues an oppor.
tunity Of figuring before the public, and creating
Slievegammon fund, of the disposal Of which the
contributors will know little the subscribers Of
$4,000 to the fund of the Irish rebellion Of 1913
now do. The Presidential election is at hand and
the politicians of both parties are veing with each
other in the manufacture Of capital for that event.
1t is very important to secure the Irish vote, and
the wire pulers would I" compass and land to
make one proselyte." The same agitators who
labored hard to turn to account the Irish rsvolu-
tionary movement of 1913, and the Hungarian and
kossuth excitement since, are the most conspicuous
actors in the present farce. The farce would be all
very well in its way, and only a matter of every
day occurrence were it not for it's tendency, in this
case, to lead to a tragedy sedtious eme,ae, and
loss Of life in the streets.
After the solemn decisions of the courts, a meet
ing is held at Tammany Hall, and Greeley, backed
by Messrs. Brady, Blatherskyte, Buster, Brawler,
Buncombe & Co. rushes into the arena con-
secrated to democracy-forbidden ground for whig
feet. Impatient TO show his zeal for a poor
Irish prisoner, he makes speech, in which he justi
ies murder by appeal to al higher law " than
the laws of Great Britain, the laws Of the United
States, the Holy Bible itself, which says, "Whoso
sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be
she'd" In the report Of his speech, in his own
paper, he says -" He tkaine) is not an ordinary
criminal but man impelled to violence by
sense Of wrong-not Of individual hardship merely,
but of political injustice. His is one act in long
drama of violence, having its origin in the conquest
Of Ireland and the conscation Of It's soil to the
Of the conquerors Admitting that Kaine is guilty
Of the act charged, his is not purelya moral offence,
bu. partakes Of the nature Of political one"
According to this precious doctrine every man
who fees himself impeled to violence bya sense Of