The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-28

Earrings win confirm both in their position ofan
tagonism; peace is impossible short OF tho
rough exclusion OF the topic from the legisls-
sition Of territory will arouse the quarrel anew.
Should an opportunity Of annexing Cuba, or
part Of Mexico, or Canada, or any other terri
tory occur, the old slavery battle win have to
be fought over again, and as the dangers OF.
these battles increase in proportion to their
frequency they might not unreasonably come
to be deemed grave if not fatal objections TO
any new acquisitions of territory at all. Thus
this slavery controversy-h we allow it to ex-
list any longer-may prove ct last an insupsra-
BILE barrier to the due extension Of the re-
public and the natural fulilmcnt of our mani
fest destiny.
These considerations bid us rejoice that, at
this early stage of our national career, when no
distracting causes can operate to divert mems
minds from the principle at issue, and no
foreign or domestic embarrassments complicate
the dif6culty-the question whether or no Con-
gress shall have any voice in prescribing the
institutions of new States or Territories, should
have arisen fairly, frankly, and plainly. We
are glad that it should have come up in such
shape that men can vote upon it understand
ingly, without misapprehension, fear, or favor.
- as we care not rush for the private mo-
nQ1s which may have been instrumental in the
introduction of the measure, so we are utterly
Indifferent to its effects on individual politi-
clans, and look only to the beneficial results
which will flow from the final decision of the
people on question fraught with infinite i'm
portance to the country at large.
That decision may possibly be adverse to the
views this journal has uniformly advocated. 1t
may, in the opinion of those who coincide with
us, involve tacit breach or an open violation
Of the constitution under which we live. Ifso,
the triumph Of the anti-slavery party will not
rest here. If the fanatics, among whose lead
ers Garrison, Seward, Giddings and Gerrit
| Smith stand conspicuous, succeed in drawing
away from the side Of constitutional loyalty
sufficient proportion Of the people To defeat the
repeal of the Missouri compromise, they will
certainly not be content with that victory. The
advantage they will have gained will be merely
as stepping stone to other more signal
attempts on the rights Of their fellow citi-
zens. Having excluded slavery from new
Territories they will next assail it in the old
States. Men who upheld the unconditional
Missouri compromise will not scruple to
trample the constitution itself under foot. If,
by exaggerated pictures of the horrors of slave
~. they can persuade majority in the North
to sustain them in the present controversy,
they will next ask Of that majority to send an
abolition President to Congress, and amend the
constitution SO as to insist on the abolition of
slavery in the South. The men Of the North,
thus appealed to, will then find themselves in an
awkward dilemma. They will either be CON-
PEELED to retrace their footsteps and abandon
their leaders, most unlikely and distasteful
proceeding-or they will see the necessity Of
exerting the power they now possess to elect
such man as Seward or Garrison to the Presi-
dency, and assail slavery in its stronghold.
This is where the arguments Of the anti-Ne-
braska advocates necessarily lead. This is the
contamination which the opponents of the
measure are confidently expecting A con
summation so disastrous that the most vivid
fancy cannot presume toportray its horrors. Dis
union and war, at the outset. The total ami
hilation of all our projects of national great
ness A relapse from the condition of one OF
the greatest Powers on the earth into that of
two and perhaps more petty, shattered, dislo-
Gated States, possibly crippled by intestine
feuds, and animated-not by our present ex-
banded generous spirit OF enterprise-but by
petty provincial jealousy one of each other.
The destruction of oil the manufactu and
all the foreign trade Of the North. A ire
mendous decline in real estate and other repre-
sentatives of value. A prostration of our
foreign credit An irreparable fall in our home
finances our banking institutions, our stocks
The obliteration, forever, Of the glorious
names of American citizen and United States
Such is the future the opponents of the Ne
braska bill are preparing for us
Our FOREIGN Policy ON COSTUME -FLAGRANr
VIOLATION OF INsTRUcroNs,CThe confidential
disclosures from the State Department, touch
ing the difficulties experienced by some of our
diplomats in enforcing the Franklin-Marcy
costume upon the courts of Europe, and the
interruptions violation of their instructions by
others Of our diplomatic corps, were very as
tonishing to everybody. But the Premier
omitted the case OF Edwin De Leon our new
Consul-General to Egypt whose case, as ia
grant violation, outand-out, of the letter and
spirit Of Marcy's circulars Of June last, is the
most astounding case of all.
In Sundays HERALD, in q letter from cor
respondent "up the Nile" we published des-
cription OF MIR. De Icons official reception by
the Viceroy OF Egypt He was dressed in
state-he rode to the viceroy's palace in q state
carriage, he was received in the most perfect
style Of oriental magnifcence he returned to
his hotel in style SO stately and royal as to sur
prise the Egyptians-he kept up the pageant
in corresponding style for several days; and the
only plea put in for his justification is, that all