The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-17

hensiye Statement Relative to Building Associa-
tione; Foreign and Local Theatrcals; Common
Council and Court Proceedings; the Artillery Corps;
numerous items of general intelligence, and great
quantity of advertisements
The Southern States and the Next Presidency.
The Southern journals and Southern politicians |
seem to be in great quandsry respecting the best |
policy that the South should pursue in the two ap-
preaching national conventions, for the nomination |
Of Presidential candidates. in Philadelphia and Bal
timore, by the two old parties. The same uncer-
tainty and doubt also hang the proceedings Of
the Southern conventions, the declarations made
by their various assembages, in the same region Of
the Union. \
The recent agitation in Congress, and the final
settlement Of the compromise question, intending
the Fugitive Slave law, have produced all these
connections in the Southern States, and these dis
sessions among Southern journals and Southern
politicians The domestic institutions Of the South,
which its existence, it's prosperity its integrity,
its allin-al, depend, have been menaced by popular
movements and party assembages at the North, for
nearly twenty-five years past. These menaces, pro-
ceeding from the antisavery factions in the North,
very naturally create . corresponding element
throughout the South, and dispose all the organs Of
popular opinion in that region, to adopt such q
course OF policy rs will protect them from the
preachers Of sedition, nsurection, and revolt in the
Nothern States. These dangers, stimulated by
such agitation rise above the party tactics Of
the day-tactics which have reference more to tho
corrupt distribution Of the spoils of public Office,
than the preservation Of social institutions, or the
quiet Of particular races Of the people.
1t is very natural, therefore, that the South, in
the face Of these dangers, should be very socitous
to the shaping Of its conduct in the approaching
wing and democratic conventions to be held for the
nomination Of Presidential candidates These party
arrangements and party movements form species
Of break keeping at distance from the South
all the inHammable materials Of agitation that are
constantly boiling and bubbling up in New England
and New York, through abolition conventions and
abolition assemblages.
What course Of conduct, therefore, win it be pro-
per for any party, and each party, in the South, to
pursue, finding themselves sitting side by side
| with the Northern delegates in the Philadelphia
| Wing Convention, or those in the Baltimore Demo
| cratic Convention!
| certain portion Of the organs and journals Of
both parties in the North, deprecate to tho deepest
extent, any introduction in either Of those conven
tons Of resolutions having reference to the recent
compromise. or to any opinion the Importance and
inality Of the Fugitive Slave law The constant and
nvariabe tone of the abolition EUening Post, one of
the organs of the antsavery faction attached to the
democratic party at the North, and the same appre
hension expressed by the Now York Tribune,
also IN abolition organ attached to the whig
Seward party, indicate the purposes and pros
poets, and fears Of these factions at the North,
in reference to the Southern delegations in either
of the two conventions about to meet in June. The
antslavery elements in the North, belonging to all
parties wish Presidential candidate to be put for
ward without principles platform in reference TO
these measures, in which the South has the deepest
interest, and these projects, in which the revou-
tionary factions at the North are the most danger
Gus and most mcnacing. These anti-savery fac
tions afraid that the Southern delegates should
call the Northern delegates to declare their opin-
| ions the compromise and fugitive slave law, be-
fore they go into any arrangements for the nomina-
| tons the spoils.
| In such dilemma, would it be good policy for
tic South to remain silen in these conventions and
| allow the nominations and elections TO be made to
| the high Office Of President-with the power to di-
vide all the spoils contingent Misrepresentation
reference to those national measures and national
| principles guaranteed by the constitution, under
which the local institutions in the South are pre-
served from the nvasions of the sgtators and revo
lutionary committees at the North We think
not As matter Of policy, the South cannot fail to
clearly and distinctly that it would be danger
Gus and fatal to their local institutions, and to
their position in the Union, to abandon these deca-
rations which the North, under the constitution are
bound to give, and bound to act according to the
principles there developed. If the Baltimore con-
/ III \ -
mtied by the Southern delegates, by either Of these
bodies, to put forward candidate, without reference
! to the compromise measures or the fugitive slave
law. such a fact would only give encouragement to
further agitation on these questions at the North,
leave the door open for additional disturbance in
this region Of the country-a state Of things which
will grow by thus being left opea-and in process Of
time bring forth that terrible state of collision
between the North and South which every
u the future, and every one is in dread Of
even at this early day
The original abolition party in the North have
been over twenty years in active existence and
ganzation They ayow their purposes boldly and
decidedly; and that purpose is, the revolution Of tho
goyernmenttbe destruction the social institutions
ofthe South all hazards at the hazard ofcivl
war and dsuuion. Tbelc ayowals are made in their
more recent reports and pronancianHntos, issuing
from Boston. They expect blood war. battles, con-
fusion revolution, revolt, TO spring from the prnci
pie on which they arc acting This is the original
and ultra party, which is the Of all the disur
bance that has assaled the two old parties and has
heretoforc--up TO this momcnt-diyided the North
and South various questions involving the slave
institutions Of the South. But between that ultra
revolutionary faction, and tho neutral tint abolition
Ereaing Post-bclonging to both the old PARTIES
there are various shades and various classes all
comninglng more or less together, ard all wishing
10 possess themselves Of the spos Of the general
government by dcccving the Southern States and
IL,