The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-23
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
SATURDAY MORNING. sEFTENBEI 8, 1854

The WHO SrArE CoSvrSTIoS OF NEW
YoRx.-The platform adopted by this body
consists Of eleven resolutions. which, with
the exception of one protesting cordial at
tachment to the Union, and another relating
10 the veto Of the River and Harbor Bill re.
fer exclusively to slavery, and take grouno
which will ensure the support OF the enemies
of that institution in N. Y. One OF the resoiu-
lions declares that by the act procuring tne
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the Wings
NJ New York hold themselves forever dis
charged from all obligations to support shy
compromises with slavery, except such ~ are
contained in the constitution of the United
States, 1--WE should be well pleased If they
would support those compromised and most
especially that they are forever released from
all obligations to admit into the Union any
State which sanctions or permits slavery. Re-
ferring to these proceedings, the New York
Herald says: "The formation of great
Northern sectional party, on the basis of op-
position to the institutions of the South, with
Seward at its head, is the programme for
1885,
These resolutions, chockful of treason,
and bearing in them the seeds of the dissoiu'
ton Of the government, are prefaced with q
false and hypocritical profession of "a cor
dial and immovable attachment to the federal
Union and to the Constitution"
We apprehend that the formation of a Nor
thern sectional party, and the preservation
of the federal Union, are two things that are
irreconciIably inconsistent, and that the sue
cess of the one must necessarily prove the
overthrow of the other. To avert from the
country and the world the awful perils with
which it is threatened by sectionalism, pa
triots and conservatives of every sectlon' ana
of every party should unite in one grand and
common effort to save the Constitution and
the Union.
If this is not done, and if the subject of
slavery be not banished from the political
contests of the country, the dissolution of the
Republic is as certain and as inevitable as the
rising of to morrow's sun. Was there ever
such iniustice,-such wickedness as this con-
slant warfare by one section upon the do
nestle institutions of another section, for the
purpose of obtaining political power What
would the North think of it, if the South
should single out the most valuable interest
of the North, and make eternal hostility to
that interest the highest qualification OF eve
nv candidate for office should everlastingly
seek to inflame the public mind from the pull
pit and the press should labor against it /; and
strive with all its zeal to render it not only
worthless but dangerOus-toroba and bankrupt
the men, women and children ofthe North, to
plant torch under every threshold, and mid
night assassin knife at every throat This is
precisely the treatment which the South now
receives from the North. And to add to its
monstrous injus4ee, slavery, the object of this
general crusade, was brought here by North
ern hands and the value received from it is
now in Northern pockets. VIII they give
up the value received? Will they disgorge
the millions which slavery has put in their
pockets, when they bid the South give up the
property for which those millions were paid?
1t gives Us profound pain to see this tri-
umph Of the Vaccinations of Seward, more
dangerous enemy to the Union than Aaron
Burr; worse foe of human liberty than Ben
edict Arnold To what is it that the guilty
ambition of this bad man is tending? What
is the prize he has in view? Not the Presi-
dency of this Union,-not, thank Heaven, to
defle with his serpent slime the eagle eyrie
in which Washington and Jefferson once
rested,-for he knows full well, whatever his
hireling presses at the North may pretend,
that he can never be the President of this
Republic. His object, with love of the Union
on his deceitful lips and in the mouths of bis
drill sergeants, is the dissolution of the present
government, and the establishment of Nor
them Republic, embracing Canada, of which
he, the great head Of the abolitionists, is to
be the first President That, in few words, is
has programme.
The nominees of the Syracuse Convention
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor are
men worthy of the platform. Myron H.
Clark, the nominee for Governor, and men,
Der of the State Senate, is politician of the
Seward school. Henry j. Raymond the NOM
inee for Lieut. Governor, is the editor of the
New York Times, Seward, free-soil, anti
slavery, anti -Southern sheet, which has rem
dered better service to abolition than the
frantic Tribune of Horace Greedy. The New
York Times is an insidious, envious, venom
GUS, malignant and implacsble foe of all
Southern institutions and all Southern men.
Its editor has received his reward. But will
the people of New York give their sanction
to these proceedings? There are multitudes
of noble and loyal spirits there, but if they
do not rouse themselves, and rush in over
whelming force to the rescue of the Consti-
tuition, sectional parties will be built up in
both North and South, and the dissolution of
the Union be the inevitable result.
CROPS IN VERMoNT.-The Secretary of
State of Vermont, in reply to inquiries of the
New York Herald. gives statement of the
prospect of the crops in the principal part
of Vermont. The hay crop is very near an
average; potatoes, quarter less in quantity.
but so much superior in quality that it is be.
lieved they viii perhaps yield quite d manv
bushels OF sound potatoes as of late wears.
nnr,, oror ono fourth less Than m ..-