The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-21


drought. Indian corn being the great bread
staple Of the South there Is still time for great
crop, with liberal rains through the summer,
which will very likely be the case. With
general prospect, therefore, for good crops and
good markets, we may hopefully look forward
to weather safely through the drawbacks Of Se-
bastopol and the Baltic. Nothing else, how
ever, than abundant rains and plentiful crops
will relieve us Of this still existing pressure,
and the chances Of something worse to come.
Let our farmers and planters throughout the
country exert thepselves for large supply Of
cotton, bresdstuffs and provisions Of all kinds
and we shall be on the safe side, peace or war.
1t is an unhealthy state of things when specu
lators in San Francisco find the expectation Of
-four to New York profitable business.
PRncIPLEs OF THE Know NorHINGs.-We
notice that the administration journals at
Washington and Richmond are working vigor-
ously TO persuade the public that the American
party Of the Nerth is infected with abolitionist
principles This is intended to tell upoa the
pending election in Virginia one OF the most
important which has taken place for years,
and which must not only exercise great in
aueDce OH the Presidential election next year,
but operate powerfully on the political move
ments Of the country during the next few
years.
We need hardly repeat that the assertion is
wholly, impudently untrue The Kaow Notnings
of the great Northern States, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsy lvania, and their neighbors, are
sound on the slavery question; as has bee n
proved BY the published expression Of their
sentiments on several occasions, and especially
by the proceedings Of the late State Convention
at Syracuse. 1t is gratuitous calumny to state
that any integral portion of the American party
in these great States has the least affinity with
or sympathy for the Northern aholitionists.
1t is true that portion Of the party in
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire have been
led astlay by the force Of popular fanaticism,
and allied themselves with the freesoilers Of
New England, But by 80 doing they have sever
ed the bond of union between them and the other
councils of the party, and will be formally
repudiated at the proper time. It must be
remembered, likewise, that all the Know No
things of New England do not belong to the
abolitionist party. Very many, not only in
Massachusetts, but in New Hampshire, are ready
to rally round Governor Gardner, and form the
nucleus OF an American party on . national
basis And the prospect is that, when the
American party has been fully organized in the
great Northern States, and the councils placed
in communication with each other, these ma
tional Know Nothings of New England will
coalesce with their neighbors, and the abolition
lists, isolated and repudiated, will throw off
the disguise they are now fraudulently endea-
voriDg to assume.
OF one thing the South may be sure !: the
American party is the only Northern party
which rests on national principles and consti-
tutional basis; and what the South wants Of
the Union must be expected from it, and from
it alone. Mr.. Pierce has shattered the demo
cratic party into fragments. A like service
has been rendered to the wings by Mr.. Seward.
Neither the one nor the other is in any such
condition or discipline as would enable it to
undertake o campaign in the North with reason
able hopes of success The only reliance Of
the South must be in the great constitutional
American party in the North.