The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-21

cisely the morality of party and faction, whe-
ther it is North or South. We do not except
either Of the two old partes-the democrats or
the wings. the free sellers or the nationalist.
Mere politicians are all alike-all rogues and
rascals, alike The great mass of the people OF
the South are honest, intelligent, unfinching in
the performance of their constitutional duties,
when they apprehend and see properly the ques-
tion that is placed before them. The great mass
of the people at the North are equally patriotic
and correct in the application Of morals to poll
tics, as we'll as to private life. But the politi
clans of both sections, and of all parties, are full
of impudent tricks and onesided morality, such
as we find in the extract from the journal pub
lshed in this city by the two politicians in ques-
ton. We have about as much confidence in the
morality of many of the Southern editors And
journalists such as the Richmond Enquirer
and the Charleston Mercury, under the present
regime, as we have in the morality OF the New
York Erpyess, the Albany Atlas, or any OF the
leading organs Of party in this region. The
Richmond Enquirer. during the last lew weeks
and the Charleston Mercury, following IN the
same wake, have given us specimens OF the prln'
ciples on which they are conducted, and of the
regard they have to the great constitutional
doctrines of the Compromise. We see these
journals-heretofore rampant and riotous IN ia
vor of the peculiar rights Of the South, and hos
tile to the abolitionists of the North-now ac-
tually taking sides with the Van Buren, free
sellers of New York in the recent struggle, and
endeavoring by every means in their power to
aid and assist the spoils-cabinet at Washington
in restoring the Van Buren, dynasty in the
North-the same dynasty which almost created
the dissolution Of the Union during the Compro-
mise difficulties of 1850. Yet we know that the
great mass of the Southern men and Southern
people are right, and that the masses OF the
North are equally right on the same question.
The Fugitive Slave law may be used by the
politicians Of the Brooks school as indicated
in the paragraph we give, but the public
mind Of the North is right and strong on con-
stitutional questions, and will aid and assist in
the execution of the Fugitive Slave law, with
out reference to the miserable political leaders
of the day.
the New York Express, the Richmond En-
guirer, and the Charleston Mercury-who talk
about the principles and the mercenary charac.
ter of the Independent press Of this country,
which has been growing for the last ten years
into an intellectual institution in this great
land. All these partizans, be they wing or
democrat, will find that the era of emancipa-
ton of the human mind and human intellect,
from party journalism and party politics, has at
last risen up among u.s. The movement in the
next session of Congress will develope the
growth of independence in party and journal
ism to much greater extent than the polti-
clans Of the Cabinet or their supporters may
imagine.
HOMICIDE AND ITS CHANCE PENALTIEs-The
painful scenes of real life which have been en-
acted during the present session Of the Court
of Oyer and Terminer, shadow forth an awful
picture of passion, immortality and sanguinary
crime, appalling to humanity and disgraceful
to community protesting to be Influenced by
the laws of civilized government The verri-
est hotbed of crime in Ireland. in days gone
by-the yefugum peccatorum-where murder
stalked abroad in the MONDAY, and blood was
familiar to every family-never furnished for
one calendar more criminals than have been
arraigned at the present term before the bar of
the New York Court of Oyer and Termincr.
The majority of those twelve persons arraigned
for murder are foreigners, and four of the ho-
micides were from the exciting cause of jealousy,
and nearly all were perpetrated under the infu-
ence of
That liquid fire which steeis the conscience
And duls the moral senses, while it rouses
The desperate energies the powers and passions of man.
OF the five cases already tried, three Of the
accused have been acquitted on the ground
of insanity-one declared not guilty and the
charge against the other pronounced justifablc
homicide. Of the other two cases of murder in
which the parties have been found gull
ty-onc Of manslaughter in the third
degree, the other of murder--we have
something to say. They were somewhat
alike in their character, yet very dissimilar il
their result before the court and jury. Louis
De Corn, Frenchman, in respectable standing
in New York as merchant, was charged with
the murder of Eugene Melville, also native Of
France, under the following circumstances
Melville, (who had been long known to and
patronized by De Corn,) married young wo-
man, De Corn and his partner being witnesses
Of the nuptial ceremony. 1t appears that Mel
vile had been at one period Of his life confined
in lunatic asylum in his native country, and
was always considered of irrascible temper, and
subject to alterations of mind. He left this
city subsequent to his marriage, in pursuit Of
a legacy which had been left his wife. la his
absence Mrs Melville removed from her home
took lodgings at the Franklin House, under the
assumed name of Stanley. where according to
the evidence, she was visited by De Corn, and
where De Corn was found secreted in bed
some hours after the homicide. The husband
returns to town-fnds his wife has fled, and he
goes to De Corn's store; De Corn is not in; he
waits for him, and manfests great excitement