The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-13
w. II. Seward and his PrOJccts-Plan Of a
Overwhelming Anti-Slavery Party.


The present ominous agitation of the Nebras
ka question has developed to the world in va
rous ways the plans and projects of W. II. Sew
ard and his organs and satellites in reference to
their future political operations. His recent
speeches and letters touching the slavery ques-
ton and the feelers thrown out from time to
time by the leading journals in his interest, fur
nish a perfect key to his views, the principles
of his party, its organization, and its active po-
Icy hereafter.
1t has for sometime been suspected in Wall
street, and is at length admitted by several
prominent wing journals, that their late national
organization, first set on foot under the combined
influences of Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Calhoun against
Gen. jackson. has lived out its day, and is
really defunct-dead and done for, past all re-
demption. Starting from this point, W. III
Seward and his followers propose to erect upon
the ruins, and from the loose materials of the
late wing party of the North, new political
platform and new party, upon the basis of
eternal hostility to the Southern institution of
negro slavery. The ground has been DELHI
erately taken and the declaration clearly
made, that henceforth the combined Sew
ard organization Of the North will occupy
platform Of anti-slavcry and sectional princi-
pies and measures the best calculated to hasten
final separation of the North from the South,
and the establishment of an anti.slavery North
ern confederacy in conjunction with the Canadas
and the neighboring British provinces.
The late speech Of Seward in the Senate upon
the Nebraska bill was not the speech of states
man whose heart. and sympathies and purposes,
are with the constitution and the institutions of
the United States. which he has sworn to sup
port. His speech to the Senate was, on the
other hand, the crafty special pleading of a
dexterous agitator, whose respect for the Union
and whose faith in the constitution are swal-
lowed up in the inordinate ambition of the
anonted apostle of the conspirators of "the
higher law" For twenty odd years, beginning
upon the small capital of Morgan the Mason
Seward has been perseveringly Juggling with
all the outside denominations Of the day, until
at length. with the aid Of the present admins
tration, his name, his pretensions, and his par
tisans standing predominant in New York, his
organs are boldly disclosing the ultimate pro-
| gromme of their master.
The startling progress of this Nebraska agita-
ton hasrevealed, through the more rabid Seward
organs, the still more startling fact that, from
the debris Of the late Northern wing party,
and from conjunction of these fragments
with all our outside fanatical factions intent
upon mischief, great Northern sectional party
is TO be formed, united upon the single cohesive
principle of an active crusade against Southern
slavery, expressly for the purpose of exasperat-
ing the two sections into revolutionary dis
solution of the Union. The Seward journals in
this latitude to this end are speaking out
with an emphasis which cannot be mistaken
And while the plans Of their coalition are thus
foreshadowed, they are busily supplying the
requisite fuel to abolition fanaticism in the