The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-31

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POLITICAL Il 4TrEas.
Our announcement q ia pop ed convention Of
rhs ns onal ~hig' Of h = {. onfTmeL tie
meeting was he'd Albany at y k, al ss.sl :
ton Of tie Iroga m Of utu pea ons sgreei
upop Is .iven I'M sr III pol cal diligence ia To-
day pa re bref n al lie we day Ut
meeting Ar the day Of ue election preclud q he
idea Of IN riga, ED opposition 10 tie Seward can
di0ate ol Governo bu or hel- b. de e,tion
NUT prove buytfu o h nom nee o. III fusioaists.
It sss aar. ID upon 1t tn re ting oil sue an ad-
dress to t. people, re aft min he Palm more resp.
lutions Of 1S52-which IL win be remembered, were
"spit upon and execra. d" by the principal Seward
organ Of this cty-to be circulated, in connection
with tn = suit o tn tic mig II G ion, mme-
diaiel a'er The 7th pro iTno, NJ recommendation
is made Il h. aional wHg vot r, In he pre- ent
cany {, tut i is tvId n tina hose who responded
to tn dsolar.u -. OF TIE convention of 1862 will
take care not TO he ,pnd with the abolition CO
alition Of 1854.
Two political addresses are ub:.hed 10 day. One
emanates ON a comm tee of the Tree democratic
organization, and is written n tn /, ris which usu
ally characterize the era rodu tions Of the
leaders Of that party. TIE otoer purports to give
the reasons TIA caused The X os Nothing, % pre-
sent an independ-nt nomination for State officers.
This later document is written in the " sl,shiux"
style, iD'erspe,sed with quotations from foreign
poeiasters, which are supposed TO go Tar towards
kidding the patriot, spark in the bosoms of voters
George l.. Curry, VIM H. Farrar and BENJAMIN
F. Hardin g. bave been appointed respectively TO the
offices of Governor, Attorney, and Secretary OF the
Territory Of Oregon, by the President.
NIsCELL ANEoUs
The wet and foggy weather which has prevailed
for the past fsv days has nearly put stop to tele
graphic operations. Most of TIE lines Yesterday
were unable to work, and our news, therefore, fro
this source is unusually mes~~ I'm
Xne mcat stt.kiHs even: of yesterday that has
reached us is the tpor, Of the riot a. Worcester
Mass. the heart of the state ard the very core OF
sbolitionism It see ms thai Mr.. Asa 0. Butman, al
officer attached to the department OF the United
States Marshal at Bos on, rendered good service in
carrying out the directions Of his supe
| r;or on the occasion of the arrest Of Sims and
Burns, fugitiyes IRON service. Mr. BQtmsp was,
also, we believe, ole of the officers dsputsd d..
liver Burns to the custody o. his owner, and his
conduct elected The appreciation Of the citizens If
4
The abolitionists were exceedingly wroth a.
all this, and vowed vengeance. On Sunday
| it was discovered that Mr.. Butman wa
stopping at one Of the hotels at Worcester
Having once scented their prey, the aboli'ionist-
assembled in force, ard attempted volsnce upon
the person Of Mr. Butman, who endsavored TO de-
fend himself The courage Of the mob oozed on. at
the sight of weapons, and a warrant was got our
l cbore ~ led
sequenty the leading fanatics succeeding in appeas
| ing the fury of the mob 70, time, and Bu.msn co.
deavored to reach the RAILROAD depot, when he was
set upon by gang of negroes, who pelted him with
! missiles, and kicked and beat him numerically.
| In the case of Besle, he dentist, convicted in
Philadelphia of an outrage upon female, his coun.
eel yesterday comm need an argument on motion
1 for new tria'.
Another murder was comm ted in this city yes
terdsy at a sailor boarding house in James street.
Two seamen had an alteration, and one OF them
plunged his sheath knife into the osher inaicting
wound 80 mortal that he died before reaching the
hospital. An account Of the affair is given else
where
The Duty OF Temperate Men In the Coming
Election.
Whatever reliance the Seward candidates
place on the anti-Nebraska sentiment, it is clear
that their hopes Of success are mainly founded
on their advocacy of Prohibitory Liquor law.
| If Myron FL. Clark had not written the bill We
toed las session, md Henry J. Raymond pro-
missed to give his SUI prt to that bill, their
prospects would Lot compare with those Of
Governor Seymour or Chief Justice Bronson
1t is because large majority of the people Of
this State are in favor Of some steps being ia
ken to repress intemperance, tina, the men who
are identified with the extreme teetotal wing
Of the Temperance army expect to carry the
election.
We question whether the result will justify
such an expectation. The evils Of intemperance
are undoubtedly great; but it is possible to
cure an evil by superposing q still greater one.
The evils of absolute monarchy in France were
cured by the far greater evil of the Reign of
Terror, which not only wrought more in
jury during its brief existence than the
monarchy in centuries, but actually
retarded the progress OF liberty for at
least sixty years. Just SO, to our thinking, it
is now proposed to cure the evil of drunkenness
by law which is itself pregnant with incalcu-
liable present danger, and which is morally Ger
tain to throw the temperance cause back for
years We ask temperate men to weigh the
matter well before voting.
The issue is not whether some good and pro-
per law or measure shall or shall not be adopted
for the suppression of intemperance: but whe-
ther the very identical bill framed by Myron
H. Clark, vetoed last session by Gov. Seymour,
shall or shall not become the law of the land.
There was time when one of the Seward can
ddates-Mr. Rsymond-might have been dis
cussed as standing on the former ground. He
then wanted-as we all do-some plan or mea-
sure not defined to prevent the spread of drunk
enness; and expressed his full satisfaction
| Governor Seymour's veto of Myron Clark g bill