The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-11

We allude, first, to the democratic meetinT in
Hall, appointed to take place the
evening of the 10th instant, in favor of tAe Ne
braska bill, under the pronunciame, .to of
Z he majority of the soft shells of Gid Tam
many; and, secondly, to the public anti-Ne
braska meeting appointed to copie off in the
Park, on the l4th and l5ts, under the auspices
of the anti-Nebra ka soft shells, ire Van Burens,
the Bryants and other no Doubt acting under
the secret instructions or Advices of General
Pierce and his Cabinet, and kitchen cabinet, at
Washington. A third movement, involving
more enlarged action of the Northern democracy
is to come off with tie New Hampshire election
of Tuesday next, tie l4tl instant. These three
days--the 14th, 18th and 16th-may be called
the Ides of March on tie Nebraska question.
The bard shells of the Siuyvesant Institute
were the first to move in behalf of public
democratic expression in support of the Nebras-
ka bill but entertaining serious doubts Of the
good faith Of the administration, they havecon-
Guided to give the soft shells of Old Tammany
the privilege of leading off. And Tammany
having responded, with really surprising mar
jority, in support of the pending repeal Of the
Missouri line, we may safely assume that no
effort will be spared to have a laundering meet
ing in the Old Wigwam on the l6th-a model
democratic demonstration, which will put the
ball in motion for Nebraska and the constitution
throughout New York, throughout New Eng
land, and all the Northern States and which
will carry everything before it, sweeping out
all the unclean materials Of abolition and free
soil from the ranks Of the party, from stem to
stern.
Meantime, the Van Buren, free sellers of ls4s,
received into favor by the administration, and
elevated into the highest Offices and the high
est confidence, have resolved upon bolt,
which shall forestall and destroy the moral
effect Of the Tammany move rent. Hence
we find the call for the popular meetings
in the Park, of the 14th an 18th, in advance of
the Tammany meeting, and very likely the Pre-
sident and his CIbinet have had hand in and a
hearing upon this Van Buren, progr anime, which,
if not silenced in time, mly result in very con-
siderable mischief 1t is very true that the
Washington Union gives out that the President
will require all his Office holders to go for the
Nebraska bill-that the administration advo-
Gates it on the ground that the measure is
founded upon the non-intervention principles
applied to Utah and New Mexico in the acts Of
1850; but all this is for Southern consumption.
AS in former years, General Pierce remains
vacillating and feeble politician. He is not to
he relied upon in a great radical movement,
full of the mighty responsibilities of this Ne
braska question. Let, then, the Union soft
she'll democrats of Tammany Hall take hold of
the-issue simply as great constitutional issue;
let them meet the free sellers face to face, and,
the bull by the horns, lead him
out to the sacrifice upon the altar of the
Union.
The New Hampshire election is befogged by
the oscillations and gyrations Of the admins
tration. Nebraska is the question before
the democracy among the granite hills, and it
is not the question. The President must be set
down for it; but he must not be mixed
up with it. All are good democrats, and vote
the democratic ticket-good administration
democrats, till after the election, any how. Let
that be understood. And yet, the New Hamp-
shire democracy, disregarding the cowardly
trimming and lodging of the administration,
ought to meet the issue like men-yea or nay
instead of being influenced by the miserable and
of Gen. Pierce, Gen. Cush-
ing and Marcy. Let every man in New Hamp.
shire show his hand, yea or nay.
The issues involved in this Nebraska bill must
shape out the reconstruction of all
the parties and factions in this broad country
for the succession and til. uesGlnies, and the
policv of the government and the destiny of
tho Union for the next twenty-five years. The
principles of the bill before the House are vital
and radical They rest upon the plain letter
and spirit Of the supreme law of the land-the
only basis upon which the slavery agitation can
be put to rest and upon which the Union can
alone be preserved. Upon any other basis, the
agitation and evaporation of the South will
continue till the Union is broken to pieces.
The first object is to remove this slavery aoi-
tation out of Congress This the Nebraska bill
proposes to do Under the constitution. Con-
gress has no more right to interfere with the
institution of slavery than with the question of
religion, Oyer religion and over slavery the
supreme jurisdiction is among those powers re-
served to the States and the people. Let this
power over the slavery question be restored,
then, where it belongs, and there let it rest. AS
long as Congress usurps this right of iurisdic-
ton over this subject, so long the unholy alli-
ance between the British aristocracy and our
societies will be supple with capt.
tai for inhaming the North and the South to
the ultimatum OF dissolution. Nothing less than
the violent disruption of the Union and the
destruction of all our hopes of its march to
greatness, grandeur, and glory, is contemplated
by our anti-slavery agitators. Let them be ST.
fenced by the voice of the honest Union-loving
people throughout the land in support of the
bill before the House.
In this view we await the issue of the New