The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-21

breakers against the frail bulwarks Of the South.
Look as the facts OF our political history for the
last three or four years. national convention
of the democratic party, protesting the largest
devotion TO the constitution and the rights OF
the South, driven to the last extremity from the
wrapglings among the spoilsmen, pitches upon
a Presidential candidate who, upon cross-ex-
animation is proved to be an ally of Martin Van
Duren and his partisans in all their anti-slavery
movements from 1913 to lS5l-a candidate
who is pre- committed to the New York free
sellers and cannot escape. We have made our
specifications, and they are facts which cannot
be denied. On the other hand the wings place
their nominee upon substantially the same con-
sttutonal platform as the other side; but his
more active Northern organs ride over his plat
form, "spit upon it and execrate it," The
Union sentiment of the country comes to the
rescue, and the democratic candidate triumphs
upon the principles of which he is held to be
the reliable champion. But our late disclosures
show that the democratic Baltimore eoayen-
ton perpetrated fraud upon the country in
the nomination of General Pierce, and that in
bis election. as one of their secret partsans, the
free soil Van Buren, dynasty has been restored
to power
This outrage, this fraud upon public opinion,
was first betrayed in the composition OF the pre-
sent Cabinet, was more fully disclosed in the sub
sequent distribution of the spoils and the i'm
proved construction of the Baltimore platform
by the Cabinet organ, and has been at length
completely established in the discovery OF the
free soil correspondence of General Pierce.
running back to the Buffalo platform OF 1913.
With such antecedents the Cabinet spoils coali-
ton of free soilers and secessionists, and the
spoils alliance OF the Cabinet, Congress and the
lobby, cease to be mystery. They are the
consistent results of pre-existing causes and OBJ
legations from which there was no safe method
of escape.
Events go on. Time stops for nothing. Mani
fest destiny shapes out its DEGREES, rain or
shine. revolution takes place. The domi-
nant party in New York breaks into pieces
Seward slips in between the fragments and re-
gains his ascendancy in the State He rises
upon the free soil basis of the administration.
The old line democrats of the national Union
stamp are set aside. They go to Washington
they are struck down as traitors to the COM
mon cause of the spoilsmen. The leading
Southern democrats of the House, and the
leading democratic organs Of the South, from
the once conservative Richmond Enquirer
to the late central organ OF red hot Sc
cessionists-the Charleston .Nercury-are all
of the same mind. The true platform OF the
party is the administration, the Cabinet coal-
ton, and the House and the lobby coalition for
the spoils What care the modern journals
and the modern statesmen ofthe South for aboli-
ton agitators, or the slavery question, with
five hundred millions of the spoils in the oppo-
site scale! Shoot the deserters, whip in the
refractory there must be harmony over the
plumber.
We are still drifting onward. The laxity. the
foggy looseness and confusion of affairs at Wash
ington, on all questions except the spoils, fore
shadow nothing but evil The fraud of the late
Presidential election is producing its legitimate
fruits. We have shown that the monstrous ANAL
gamaton Of cliques and parties under this admi-
nstrstion the painfully ludicrous division of
the Offices the rapacious conspiracy for the five
hundred millions Of the public plumber. are the
results of good and sufficient causes. The mis-.
chief thckens. There is storm brewing. 1t
is inevitable A foul atmosphere can only be
cleansed by thunder and lightning. The spoil,
politicians of the South may echo the taunts
Of Gerrit Smith in the House against the
national Union men Of the body-the Ca
binet organs of the South may cry out
. peace peace-but there is no peace.' The
anti-slavery factions OF the North will seize the
golden opportunity for renewed action-the
Northern Union men who have resisted them
thus far with success, being trampled down by
the South will leave the field open to the enemy.
All parties in the North will shape themselves,
more or less, 20 the anti-slavery platform and
our Southern friends will only wake up from
their dreams of the spoils to meet com
bined assault upon the institution of slavery
which may drive them to the fearful hazards of
secession and revolution.
Such is the drift of the wind and the tide.
Corruption and confusion are tho natural conse-
quences of attempting to establish fraud upon
the country in the election of General Pierce
a free soiler, for President. But the work
will go on to the end This Congress will
do nothing but wrangle for the spois. while
all parties, oil factions in the North are pre-
pairing to rush into anti-slavery and convul-
sion. The sweeping corruptions involved in
the five hundred millions of the public plum
der will swallow up everything. Resistance
will be useless till the spoils are secured But
the reaction when it comes, will be terrible
Hurrying as we are, to life or death struggle
upon the slavery question, we can already rea-
lie the full import of Mr. Calhouns prophetic
declaration that corruption and the spoils
will be the ruin OF the country" What con.
trast between this picture and the public ex-
pectations of year ago The resolution Of
80 has proved an abortion, and there must be
another reyolution be the consaouan,os ,,,Lo.