The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-31

died acknowledging his guilt and the justice Of his
condemnation--adding that he died with hope in
the Protestant faith, having abjured the Catholic,
| which he formerly professed.
| w. III. Seward and his Anti-Slnvcry League
| Danger To the South.
| The compromise measures Of 1850 are not a
''fnality'' Of the slavery question. The will be
renewed The truce is already broken, and the
South are solemnly warned to prepare for action
In the Senate Of the United States, on Monday
last Mr.. Seward presented petition in favor of the
repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, which he moved to
refer to the Judiciary Committee. This motion was
superseded and the petition laid upon the ia
bic, by vote Of thrty-thrse to eleven. The eleven
members voting against laying the memorial upon the
table were-Mcssrs. Fish and Seward, Of New York;
Davis of Mass; Foot and Upham, Of Vermont, and
Wade, of 0hio--abolition, or free soil wings; and
Chase, of Ohio; Dodge, of Wisconsin; Hale, of
| New Hampshire; Hamn, Of Maine. and Sumner,
of Mass abolition, free soil democrats-six Of
! one party, and five of the other On the same day,
Mr.. Seward presented another memorial, praying
Congress to take for the extinction of sa
very, which was laid upon the table by vote of
| thirty-six to six-the six in the negative being
Messrs. Dodge, of Wisconsin; Foot, Hale, Seward
the repeal of the Fugitive law were also presented
on the day, and laid upon the table.
Now, we apprehend there is some meaning, some
purpose, and matter of ph and substance, in these
proceedings. Our Congressional reports do not give
! the parties or places whence these petitions ema-
mated but upon that point there can be little doubt.
| They were from of the many nti-slavery
lotteries of New York and other States of the various
| shades and striDes az ohoitionicp,
rate free soer to the rampant immediate cmancipa-
tonists Of the school of Lloyd Garrison, Abby Kelly
Foster, and their motley crew ell of whom, through
| the whole sliding scale of abolition philanthropy
recognise W. H. Seward their champion and spe-
cial organ in the Senate, and before the country
They appeal for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave
law and for the adoption of measures for the abso-
Lutte extinction of slavery in the United States root
and branch. Their memorials cover the whole
ground. Their immediate object is agitation and
the motions Of reference on their presentation were
the best that could be made to provoke sectional
quarrel. The readiness with which W. II. Seward
acts as the instrument of these ncendiaries in the
Senate betrays his identity with them in their sem
timents purposes, and ultimate schemes. He has
at least the merit of openly placing himself in the
of the antisavery league of the North--in sea-
son and out of season, the same consistent leader
whether in feastng the volators of the law and SYM
pathizing Boomers at Auburn, or in casting their
frebrands into the faces of Southern Senator's At
home and at Washington he stands the champion of
the higher law" and the leader of the Holy ALI
ance against the institutions of the South.
The anti-slavery petitions presented in Congress-
at this particular crisis warning to the South
that there is to be peace 90 fnality" on the
slavery question, short of abolition or disanion
The war is to be renewed and prosecuted to the end
And they who suppose that the compromise mca-
sures have so cut up, destroyed, and dispersed the
anti-slavery factions Of the North that they are
incapable Of further mischief, under dangerous
deluson. Let such believers in the slavery 6na-
ty" read tho following extract which VIC take from
the twentieth Annual Report of the Massachu-
sets Anti-Slavery Society,"" lately issued by its
Board of Managers
In previous year f1s5ll for many years past has
the society been active carried its operations
England inti-slavery Convention in May last Nearly
one hundred antislavery conventions have been held
the agents OF the society in different parts Of New
evening lectures have been given. In these do not
Include the numerous meetings held by George Thomp-
Esq in this and neighboring States during the
months Of the year We speak of conventions and lee
lures sustained wholly, mainly by the agents Of the
society. We have been enabled to employ larger
Der of these during the past than for many years
previously And report, with the utmost confidence
Of the value and success Of their labors.
In another part Of the pamphlet after boasting Of
what has been accomplished by the anti-slavery
agtators, the report continues:-
Yet this is but the beginning of the end Where in
ten fhort years will be the that lords Of the
strut their little hour upon the STAGE Calhoun
has already had his exit the curtain has fallen upon
him. In ten years, Webster Clay, Benton. Houston
Cass-almost all the prominent men in public life-wi
have passed away in the due of from the
Of affairs though they etiil ,ryinv
veterans upon that of life Who to take their places
God knows But we know that the school in which
trained for the il very different from the
one that formed the passing generation of politicians.
In view of the good time coming" tho report
edifes in the following stran.--
The third stage Of our history-hat Of actonwir
in due time What shape it will take by what machine
the god that Is TO dsentange this knot will upon
the stage remains TO be revealed 1t bust
who but the heralds and harbngers of him
Is to come to rry into the details of his mission Our
duty is. by faithful cooperation make straight his
path. When he will il also hidden from eyes;
but have faith in the signs which tell that he Is
hand. The mighty passions which abroad in tho
land, the desperate struggle between the wealth and
ideas Of the nation the servily sefshncss which
bringing contempt upon Christianity and republican
i'm ell speak Of coming change.
AS our closing extract, we call the attention of
our Southern readers to the following, which nd
mits of no Other Interpretation than civil war;
The abolition IF ssarerv presr; revolution vii
Je Trotion. For ,riH radically orerhrotc
s''uet Tie institutions Of he nation urnp be revolution
fought ont mGrstor Moors Bunker HIS Us rictoiies
Dacy Be he ogomaoc fields Of parliamentary de6re
decided w and not BY opoe and sabre mgpb.
rerotton IKE that chich struck OF the head Of monarchy
oTe y te Hall l649 or il may be oncliie that which
virtually annhlated the House of Lords substantive
Independent branch Of the government, in the adjoining
Parliament House in 1882 But. in what shape 1t
may II will be revolution and II will be brought about
like all other revolutions that the world has known
And how is that Solely By the change which had been
gradually wrought in the feelings the wishes the ideas Of
The nation which at the object and the agent
o. the revolution is the wholesome discontents the
people in the presence Of the abuses by which they find
themselves surrounded that drive 10 embrace the
alternative of revolution.
Thus we that the abolitionists are alive and
active, that they are working as vigorously as ever