The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-14

charged with smuggling aom seven to ten thousand
dollars worth Of watches and jewelry by the steam
ship Canada on her recent voyage from Liverpool.
The great race at Petersburg, Va, on Friday, re-
suited in Fanny Fern beating all comprehension
mile heats time 3:46 and 3:43-the quickest ever
made in Virginia.
The Meeting In the Park Last gight-yvi
up OF the Agitatiop-rhe Capitol not to be
Burnt yet.
Anniversary week is over, and New York is
quiet again. 1t closed, most appropriately, with
a meeting of anti-slavery agitators in the Park
After the spirited addresses we have had during
the week from Theodore Parker, Wendell Phil
lips, William Lloyd Garrison and others, it
must be confessed that the speeches delivered
last evening were chiefly remarkable for their
tameness. We are really at a loss to discover
any individual sentiment or any particular
speech which merits special comment. The
whole performance from beginning to end, so far
as the speaking was concerned, was mere rehash
of the anti-slavery doctrines which were bugled
forth during the winter evenings to a dreary
audience at the Tabernacle. The respectable
men who had signed the requisition were not
to be seen at the meeting they had perhaps
grown weary Of the part of dupes, and having
given the sanction of their names to the move
ment left the part of action to those who had
really something to make by fomenting sedi-
ton 1t would be erroneous to say that the
meeting was failure. On the contrary, as
gathering Of disunonists, we regard it as emf
nently successful. There were fully one thou
sand people present, which is rather more than
half as many as assembled to clear away the
mud from the streets Of New York. One
thousand traitors, ready to advocate the disso-
luton of the Union, and the destruction of the
Capitol 10y fire. are quite as many the most
sanguine Sewardite could have expected to find
in city Of six hundred thousand inhabitants
We hope Mr.. Seward is satisfied with the aus
pices under which he is presented to the people
of the Union. Supported on the one side by
the American Anti-Slavery society, which pro-
claims disunion and infdelity to be the true
platform for rational men to occupy on the
other by the Hon. Horace Greedy who de.
mands that the Capitol be burnt and the mem
bcrs of Congress murdered in a body chape-
roncd in his canddateship by such well known
patriots as Wendell Phillips and Theodore
Parker, and such estimable citizens as Mrs.
Abby Kelly Foster and Lucretia Mott we re-
gard Mr. Stewards chances Of succeeding Frank
lin Pierce as remarkably promising They
would have been brighter, perhaps, had NJ.
Grecley's suggestion been openly adopted at
the meeting last evening, and committee
Of incendiaries directed to proceed to Wash
ineton to burn the Capitol butt after
all, the discretion which his party has deter
mined to preserve may not prove the worst
policy in the end. When the telegraph an
nounccs to an astonished North that the anti
Nebraska party, led by Mr.. Sumner with the
Tribune in his hand, have burnt that bull ing
and caused the death of their leading adverse
ries in the flames, Mr.. Stewards position may
possibly be as good as if the nefarious desi.l
had been openly blazoned forth in the Park
We are rot in the confidence of the Nebraska
leaders. We believe that more than one of those
who originated the scheme. did so from base
designs of personal ambition: and we have
never doubted that the support which the Pre-
sident has pretended to give to the measure
has arisen from dishonest desire to cloak
the evidences of his former freesoil procl-
vitics. For all this, we have given our approval
TO the bill, because it seemed to US to be
in conformity with the constitution, and in per-
feet accordance with the only principles on
which the government of the Union could be
stable and strong. section of the North has
opposed it. We have read their arguments
with attention, and respect. We have yet to
see the first point made to shake our conviction
What they have said has merely amounted to
diluted version of the reasoning of Theodore
Parker and William Lloyd Garrison. They
hate slavery, and wouldNiolate all laws to pre-
vent the possibility of its extension on
this continent. We, holding that the
duty of standing by the constitution is
paramount to all considerations of inli-
vidual predictions, have denounced this posi-
ton of theirs; and the Congress at Washing.
ton has taken the same view. Here
upon certain cliques at the Capitol and here
have overiiowcd with insane rage. The ba-
siEess of legislation has been interrupted aaJ
for thrty.liye hours. our rcpresen atives have
gone through the ridiculous farce OF making
senselets motions against time. \ genera
madness seems to have afflicted the anti
slavery leaders. One wants to fight, VITA
fists, on the floor of the Chamber; anoth In
sists on q olshing the Bible third votes III
Union down, aud in his pigmy Arrogance
assumes TO insult tie acm ry Of cur fore
fathers fourth calls for ire to burn tie
Capitol, and crush our rep. cntaliycs beneath
t-e falling ruins; a 0fth rcves the very pal.
pts from which the aati.Ne,rasSa party have
received the only respectable support voucl
saied 70 them. In reply % sgch ragia.s
t}c'e. what can sensible men venture 10 ay
\ straight acket would be a better answer
than any logic. Ice 10 Tie head low Diet, sas
a gentle course Of purgatiyos Is the lcst-t.e