The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-09

msntary business Of the csmpaiga Of '4s, st
Washington, in behalf Of Old Zack-his inffu-
ence Yves tremendous in the distribution Of the
spei3s Of Old lacks administration, and though
he lost caste under the new arrangements Of
Mr. Fillmore, the nomination of General Scott,
in '62, brought Mr.. Smith again to the position
of the practical head Of the whig party. Now
look at him-side by side, cheek by owl, with
Francis p. Blair, in political philanthropic
society, outside Of any healthy political organi-
cation, and limited t, colonization crusade
against Southern slavery! Neither Marcy and
Cushing, nor ] q. Davis and M'Cl Hand, nor
Campbell and Dobbin, form a more interesting
coupling of hostile antec dents than Francis P.
Blair and Truman Smith in the same political
board of directors. Truly, we live in an age of
astonishing events
The object of this Congressional free soil as
ISOLATION is to aid in colonizing Kansas and
Nebraska-but especially Kansas-with good
stiff abolitionists and reliable free sellers, SO
that in every issue before the people there sia-
very may be excluded from the Territory. A
number of similar societies have been formed
and are in process Of formation, in Mas.achn.
sets, New York and other Northern States
But in the meantime the slaveho' ders of West
ern Missouri have not been idle. Kansas win
become, as free State, o dangerous neighbor
to Missouri. The owners OF slave property
in Missouri have discovered the fact, and are
acting accordingly. They are moving over
n .-A Al.
ceedings of the Salt Creek Squatter Associa
ton show that the free soil coalition are not
going to possess themselves Of Kansas without
sharp struggle for the supremacy The Salt
Creek squatters throw down the glove to til
abolitionis.s, declare that slavery already ex-
lists in Kansas, and very plainly intimate that
there it shall be established at the risk Of some
guerrilla lighting, if necessary
Thus the campaign, consequent upon the re-
peal Of the Missouri compromise, commences.
1t is manifest, from the number of squatter
emigrants pouring into Kansas, and stalking out
repeal of the Missouri compromise will be a
useless expedient. Squatter sovereignty will
supersede the slow and doubtful process Of
Congressional agitation. Before the question
can be reached nCongress, squatter sovereignty
in the exclusion or recognition of Southern
slavery, will have settled it. Hence, instead of
building up great Northern organization for
the repeal Of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, or q
Southern organization to resist it, the true po
icy of all parties concerned is to take an ac-
tive hand in the colonization Of Kansas, cither
against the South or for the South. Superior
numbers, not in the Northern States, but in
Kansas will decide the issue.
In this connection we admonish the South to
beware Of the administration. The Van Buren,
Buffalo free soil faction forms the right wing Of
the administration party, in the Cabinet, in
Congress, aud in the country; and while those
Buffalo partizans "hold the President in their
arms" they repudiate the Nebraska bill, and
spit upon the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise as q test OF democracy. Benjamin F.
Butler mas openly declared that he would sooner
vote for Seward Tor the Presidency than for
Judge Douglas, and the editor Of the Ereaag
Post is one OF the General Committee which
has called for q State convention Of ID
AntiSlavery Holy Alliance, on the 10Th of Au
gust, at Saratoga In word, the Buffalo FREE
sellers repudiate the Nebraska test, unite witt
the abolitiouists against it, and still retain
their confidence in and the confidence OF the
administration. The South, therefore, have
nothing to expect from the administration.
neither in the settlement of Kansas nor aga. pst
the combined movement for the repeal of the
law. The free soil affiliations of the admins
tration will probably result in leaving it with
out a solitary member from the North in the
next Congress, or solitary advocate Of South
ern equality under the Constitution.
What, then, is the plain policy Of the demo
cracy of the South? 1t is to cut adrift from
the administration and proceed to the organiza.
ton Of great constitutional Union party,
without regard to old parsy lines but in refer
ence to the next Congress and the next Pres-
dency. Kansas may, in the end, apply for ad-
mission into the Union as a slave holding
State; Cuba may be gained or may be lost,
according to the course Of action Of the South;
but while the Northern organs Of the admins
tration and Of Tammany Hall are in league
with W II. Seward Benjamin f. Butler, Fran
els 7. Blair, Truman Smith and the abolition
ists against the extension of Southern slavery
the administration itself affords no security
neither for the South nor for the Union.
THE BENCH AND THE BAR--Jupes BErrs AND
Mr.. CHARLES O'CoNoR-The case of Horace
III. Day against the New England Car Spring
Compapv which has lately heen on trial In tho