The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-28
The Southern Manifesto-TerrlbIe Times
for the Old Fogies.

Among our special dispatches from Washington
will be found one Of fatal signifcancy to the abol
tonized, bed-ridden old whig party of the North
that which positively announces the completion of
the draft OF Southern Wing Manifesto, declaring
to the whole country the causes of the Southern
secession from the late Congressional wing caucus,
and the late national wing party. We are informed
that this document is bold manly, and independents
that it takes no half way ground between base
surrender and honorable population Of old party
ties; that the matter and the argument Will cover
the respectable margin of six newspaper columns:
and that we may expect to find it paper which
will create sensation. make deep impression
and produce some most startling, novel, and unex.
lectcd movements of parties in the Presidential
election.
This looks wen. II is an augury of cool hings
set to come from the South ard the North, in the
formation of n new and mighty national party.
which viii take its stand Upon the threshold, terror
ard warning to Seward and his clique, as was the
argel with his flaming sword to Baaam and his ass
There were some symptoms afoat that the Southe
wings would be choked of till the meeting of the
wing cony enton at Baltimore, ard that there they
would be sutfe Gated in close room by the fumes
Of charcoal, some other deadly gas; that they
would forever after hold their peace. There We're
reasons to apprehend, frem the foul and corruping
atmosphere Of Washington, that this manifesto
would never the light But now that II is ready
for the printer confidently expect it to eprompt-
" published When it does appear, MIR. Mangum
will probably the whig caucus to take into
very serious consideration in green spectacles the
crippled condition Of the wing party, and the bad
prospects of Gen. Scott, as gunpowder candidate,
upon Stewards platform Of dead silence on the negro
question. Possibly they may change the convention
to some place north Of Baltimore, as having no fur
thcr business and prospects, south of Mason and
Dixons line: because are to have that manifesto
What, then, are the prospects of the Wing Con-
venton at Baltimore Nothing more nor less than
the nomination of Scott, with his mouth sealed up
tight as bottle Of root beer on the question of
the Fugitive Slave law There will be no more
letter writng-no more 'hasty plates of soup'-no
more firing in the rear''-no continuous cores
pondence, to the disgust of the public.' He will
write nothing confess nothing, endorse nothing, say
nothing, of the Fugitive Slave law; and if people
| don't like him on such terms, they may lump him,
! or dump him. just as they choose. He has pledged
himself to Seward, and that's enough. He can't do
without Seward, and Seward can't do without him
and both are absolutely indispensable to give to
the wings Of the North a chance-and where else can
they look for even a chance-of success! There's
the whole matter in nut shell. is bad, but it is
true.
The late Union Convention of the State of Georgia
at Mledgeviilc, have prepared the way for an et-
fective movement upon a Southern Congressional
Wing Manifesto. They will have Georgia, and per-
hars Alabama, and Mississippi, and perhaps the
/ uI, ,l 1arg a,3v IN, bo Nortb
star, upon. They will have them to star; upon, if
| they start with regular coup daof, kicking down
the ricketty platforms Of both the old parties and
setting up the Union the constitution, the country,
the rights Of the North and the rights of the South
and firm bold policy, conservative, yet up to the
] wants OF the country and the age.
Anticipating satisfactory action on the Fugi-
tive law by the whig convention, and none by the
democratic, Mr.. Senator Dawson proposes TO the
| Georgia Union to lead of in National Con-
vention, to be held at Washington by the great
Union party Of the whole republic. The South must
| either come to that-the Union men Of the whole
Union must come TO that prepare for the election
OF General Scott, and the election of House of Re-
presentatives from the wing and abolition coalition
| Of the North to enter into power at the same
time, foreswon to the repeal Of the Fugitive Slave
| law. hat done. the work will 20 ON rapidly til
| tic South itself is made too hot for slaves and
Shareholders to occupy the same soil. IL the South
en- Wigs foresce this thing, as they must, they
| sll act accordingly. II they dread the fire. will
| they oItn thor doors to The iuccndiaryl Let III
mark tLcir movements, Tor they seem to have m
] ,yc ii Oh lie plumber.
| Let liz, thcn, have tle mani. .. lid " ndrd
abo'n D9l,fc. 81 Tie north arc gathering