The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-10

political or social reforms, and TO merge all
mon opposed to the extension Of slavery into .
homogeneous organization upon few broad
elementary issues upon which they are all
agreed. Such fusion being formed through
out all the North, the party are thin to rally
upon Seward, Benton, Chase, Hale, Van Buren,,
or any other suitable candidate, disregardful
Of his geographical locality or former partisan
associations, 50 that they are assured be may
be trusted as the tried and approved enemy Of
Southern slavery.
Nor can it appear to any rejecting mind
that the violent and lawless measures of South
ern retaliation recommended by the Richmond
Enquirer viii weaken the existing anti-slavery
excitement in the North, or defeat the great
end proposed, of combined Northern crusade,
in solid phalany, against Southern slavery.
Southern violence will only add fuel to the
flames and cxasperatc the hostile prejudices
between the two sections to the fatal point Of
the supremacy Of mob law in both sections, or
the abrupt secession Of the Southern States
from the Union. We have no party orgaui-
cation in the North capable of successfully re-
sistIng the protested anti-slavery Holy ALI
ance. The mass of the Northern whig party will
join it !; and there can be no reliance placed
upon the Northern democratic party, till puri-
fed Of the free soil materials which have been
fastened upon it by the administration. The de
mocratic administration party in the South is
in the same equivocal position-it has given in
its adhesion TO the official ascendancy ofNorth-
ern free sellers upon the corrupt basis of the
public plumber; and the Richmond Enquirer
and the Charleston Mercury, in this connec-
ton, have been like the traveller in the satyr's
cave-they have been blowing hot and cold
with the same breath Luxuriating in the
spoils, they have been the defenders of the free
soil sPoiIs coalition at Washington, yet none so
sensitive and vigilant against the abolition Gre
brands of the North.
There are yet materials sufficient among the
remains of the democratic party of 1852, Of
which, in conjunction with the national Union
wings Of the South, the nucleus Of great ma
tional Union party may be formed, oil power
full in the South against the excuses of seces-
sionism, and competent in the North to arrest
aud silence. the Northern anti-slavery agitators,
in the utter defeat of their principles, their
candidates, aud their schemes of discord and
disunion. Set the national Union men OF the
South, without distinction as to wings or demo-
Gratis, proceed, then, as speedily rs possible, to
the organization of national Union party,
upon the principles Of the Nebraska bill, the
constitution, and the progressive American
ideas of the age Let them do this, leaving the
administration axt of the question, but looking
to the contest Of 1856, with the single purpose
Of nlainta ming the Union, and of restoring the
ancient harmony between the two seetious,
against al traitors or disorg anizers, North or
south, aud the country will be safe. But with
out some such great national Union orgaaiza-
tion, competent to secure the total rout Of the
anti-savery coalition between this time and
The Presidential election, the elements of sec
tional L:tred and strife will be increased on
both siGes-things will &c on from bad to
worse, until all hope of reconciliation between
he two sections is abandoned.
What we want now, is great national con
stitutional Union party. The impending ante
slavery coalition will yet bring it about; m
tire sooner sonc movement is made to effect
fusion Of the Union sentiment of the -colntry
The Leiter. Is there not a sufficient nuinber o.
patriotic men in Congress. disconnected from
The epoils. 9 to pat che ball in notion by the
call of a national convention? Let us hear