The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-21

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Of our paper, that this project Of Lord Palmer
ston's Is already In serious contemr .lation. and
that Brussels Is spoken of as the probable seat
Of it To give full effect to .ss objects, howe
yer, the Gear must be fist brought to his
senses, and then forced to be q party to it.
Willing or unwilling, !, ne must eventually come
to this. The spirit Of the age and the interests
Of humanity demand that some efectual re-
strsints shall be imposed upon dangerous ambi-
tioDs like his.
The Nebraska Question, and the Campaign
for 1856 Reconst, uction Or Parties.
The Introduction ofthe Kansas Nebraska bill
into the Senate, involving the repeal ofthe Mis-
souri, compromise, is equivalent to breaking
ground for the Presidential campaign of 1856.
1t is rather early thus openly and boldly to
commence operations for the succession; but the
number of ambitious cliques and aspirants for
the control, for the next Presidential term, of
the sixty millions a.year- of the public plumber
admits of no delay.i in arranging the programme
The first effects of this Nebraska bill upon the
old e6ete political parties and factions, are won
derful, and strikingly significant of thorough
reconstruction of the party organizations of the
country for the next general contest. Granted
that the object of Mr.. Douglas in the introduce
ton OF his bill, was to get the inside track in
the South, the efforts of the President, and the
Cabinet, and other democratic contestants es-
pecially Of the North, to keep pace with 1.-THE
Little Giant" are exceedingly amusing. While
there was hope to stave off this repeal of the
unconstitutional Missouri restriction, the spe-
cial organ of the President and Cabinet at
Washington struggled hard to avoid it but
upon discovering that Douglas was resolved
to risk the experiment with the bit in his teeth,
the President, the Cabinet, and their organ,
with a ludicrous display of mock enthusiasm
rush into the arena and proclaim themselves
the godfathers of the bill.
1t is, perhaps, not violent stretch Of fancy
to assume that Gen. Pierce, Mr.. Marcy and
Gen. Cushing, all Northern men, and all tine
tured more or less with the antecedents of
freesoilism and the Buffalo platform, are can
didates for the succession. In other words, if
there should be another Juggling Baltimore
Democratic National Convention, and if such
convention, through some extraordinary pres
sure of party necessities, should ren0minate
Gen. Pierce, or fall back upon Gushing or
Ma cy, we think it highly probable that either
of them may be persuaded to run. But as
there is no probability of the nomination Of
any Northern man by the national democracy
who is not regarded by the South as perfectly
sound upon the negro question, the necessity,
and we may say the duty, Of the administra-
ton candidate to keep at least even with
Douglas in behalf of the constitutional rights
Of the South, is manifest. Hence the amusing
rivalry between the remarkable energy of
Douglas and the sudden mock enthusiasm Of
the Cabint and the Cabinet organ, for repeal
ofthe Missouri compromise as fast as possible.
We are obliged to confess, however, that the |
thus far, have been making
very little Roadway in the confidence of the
South The Scarlet letter" and other free soil
and anti-slavery antecedcnts Of Gen. Pierce, the
extraordinary political gyrations Of Gushing,
the free SOIL soft shell Affiliations of Marcy, and
the free soil spoils system of the cabinet, are
dead against them all. On the other hand, the
late correspondence between Col. Clemens Of
Alabama, and John Van Buren, against the bill
of Douglas, at the split in Tammany Hall on
the soft-very soft--resolutions giving quasi
endorsement to the bill, foreshadow o mis-
chievous rebellion against the administration
from the Van Buren, free soil faction, without
the slightest advantage gained with the infex-
ible hards Of the Stuyvesant Institute. Thus
the administration party in New York is al
ready reduced, upon this Nebraska bill, from
mere faction to a fraction of the Van Buren,
clique, with no assurances and no promises Of
any equivalent gained, or likely to be gained, in
the South.
All this is ominous Of thickening disasters to
the powers that be. In fact. whether the bill
is passed this session or defeated, it is but an
engine of mischief against the administration.
Upon either horn of the dilemma it must
be tossed into the ditch. The noisy advocacy
by the Cabinet organ at Washington, of the
Missouri repeal, will not suffice to restore the
lost confidence of the South but it has done
enough to sacrifice the harmony of the Cabinet
party the North. The Eoeaing Post and the
Albany .4tids, and their satellites control a
detachment Of our free soil democracy suffi-
cient to apply, if required, against Pierce, Mar.
cy or Gushing, the decisive detection of ls48
against Gen. Cass. In this view, the delicate
question presents itself whether the particular
object Of Douglas in this business was to steal
a march upon the Administration, or to en-
ploy his bill as an Internal machine for blowing
the whole establishment into the air. IA
v The only prominent hold-over democratic
candidate for the succession, from the South,
who has taken ground against the proposed re-
peal Of the Missouri restriction is Gen. Houston
of Texas. Having but little Southern political
capital outside Of Texas, he is naturally desi-
rous of substantial foothold in the North; and
while the South may be eventually appeased
on the ground that his opposition to the repeal