The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-27
RE d Co. is a rapid, general, and permanent

RE d Co. is rapid, general, and permanent
disruption.
Political parties, like nations. have their
several stages OF active existence and decay.
They rise, the flourish, they decline, and they
die II is tie universal law of nature, dating
from the disastrous fall of Adam and Eve, and
neither politicians nor political parties, nor
cabinets, nor kitchen cabinets, can expect to es-
cape it. The wing party having fulfilled its
destiny, such as it was has knocked under to
this fundamental law. 1t Is defunct. The old
democratic party, therefore the very life Of
which was active resistance TO the wings, has
turned upon itself, aud mutipy and open rebel
lion have already fatally crippled it, The ap-
preaching Congress will finish it, and SO be it.
Its destiny has also been fulfilled; let it die.
But what comes next? New parties, OF
course, will be organized; and upon the para
mount and vital qua tion of slavery, sectional
or national, to this distinct and living issue we
are rapidly drifting. Let the Union men, who
believe that the compromises Of the constitution
are indispensable to the continued prosperity
and unity Of the.republic, take the initiative in
both Houses of Congress. Let them lay down
their platform for Constitutional Union
party, and bring all hands to the mark
upon some practical issue. 1t will Ill
timatSE be done in the question Of
admitting Cuba as slave State; but the
end may be sooner attained in the divi-
sion Of California. leaving the southern half in
the condition of territory, open to Southerners
with all their property and domestic institu-
tions or in territorial government for Ne
braska, with special clause for the benefit Of
the South or in the admission of new slave
holding State from the present State Of Texas.
according to the compact Of her annexation or
in the purchase Of another slice Of land II ON
Mexico for the extension If tho area OF slave
iahor in the production Of cotton and sugar,
both of which are cash articles among our most
pestilent abolitionists.
Let the friends of the Union and of the rights
of the South under the constitution try the
ground upon some of these questions as soon as
possible after the meeting of Congress. Let
them touch the Cabinet and the Van Buren,
party with this spear Of Ithuriel, that we may
see them in their true shape, and that the Presl-
dent may open his eyes to the dangers ahead.
The issues Of the slavery question, we
repeat. are not settled. There is no
peace upon them. There is but hollow
truce. for the war will soon be renewed. Ne
braska Texas. California, the manifest destiny
of Mexico, and the inevitable annexation of
Cuba will revive, each and all Of them, in their
turn, the war of British and Northern abolition
ism upon the South and against our glorious
Union. And the sooner the friends of the Union,
of both the old effete parties, are prepared for
the struggle, the better. Their best policy is to
act upon the offensive, by proposing some test
which will compel every man in Congress, the
Cabinet, and throughout the country, to show
his hand.
The scrub race Of our State election, If it
does nothing else, will authorize this move
ment. 1t will show that, from their unclean as
sociatons with the treason Of free soil and abo-
litionism, both the wing and the democratic
parties are past praying for-that the time for
the organization Of a new national party, prac
tically hostile to the sedtious spirit of aboli-
tionism in every shape, has come. And for the
sake Of sounding the Cabinet, the Van Buren,
faction and the country, upon this vital ques-
ton, we trust that shortly after the meeting OF
Congress something will be done. There is no
other way now to save the administration from
falling entirely and ruinously under the control
Of Van Burenism than new and practical test
upon the slavery question. Let it be applied.
Start the birds from the ground, so that we
may see which are crows and which are pigeons.
Fire shot or two in the stubble and start them
up.
THE ORGANS OF THE SPou.s CABINET IN New
YoRK.-The newspaper organs of General
Perce's Spells Van Buren, Cabinet in the city
and State of New York are-the leading ones
Of them-as follows -
The New York Evening Post,
The New York Daily Times
The Albany 4ldS
and about twenty acres more like these three.
The Epeniag Posi- is conducted by Bryant and
Bigelow, one poet and the other politician,
but both violent anti-slavery fanatics. 1t has
been the organ Of the Van Buren, family in this
State for many years past The New York
Times was established two or three year. ago
by the money and friends Of VIM. ii. Seward
and is little more Jesuitical in its abolition
instincts than the Post 1t has recently come
out strong for General Pierce's Van Buren, Ca
binet. 1t is weak and slippery. The Albany
.dtlas is strong, violent country paper, and
gives tone to the rest Of the acres Of the
State. 1t is entirely under the Van Buren, and
abolition influence. All these journals have
but small circulation in the city and State,
probably few thousand each. The twenty
country acres have probably from four to six
hundred circulation each in their several vicini-
ties. But altogether they make very strong
and violent team in favor of General Pierce's
free soil Marcy Cabinet in this State. They