The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-25

GOO boxss. Coffee was sold at full prcss, including
1000 bags OF uarsca;bc. Freights vera heavy,
with little more doing for Euyopesn ports.
A private letter from Cincinnati, dated July 20,
says:--"Yesterdsy Height 70 st. Louis was thirty
cents per hundred. There Is q good supply OF
water here, snd likely 10 continue So"
La.e da.s from Texas mention construed trouble
with the Indians. The crops Of all kids promised
sbundanty. rercontre had occurred st San
Antonio between f. D. Connolly and r. J. Mickey,
in which the formef was shot and killed. Upon
legal investigation OF the circumstances Mickey vas
discharged, having acted in sell. defence.
The Great Issue Before the Country The
Designs OF the Abollti0nhsts.
Chase in Ohio, Seward in New York, Wilson
| in Massacbuset!s--an illustrious trinity-the
nucleus and soul Of the republican party now
| in progress Of organic alton on the distinct
| bases Of abolition occupy most promi-
| nert position before the country. The work OF
| these men is complete in OhiO-the Issue there
! il fully made up. Abolition is backed and
| sustained by the coalition or fusion of all the
extremes OF the past.
| There is not a sign in the political heavens
| that does not portend storm The barometer
Of public sentiment is full Of warning and of
solemn admonition. The ship of State, which
has ridden so far in triumph, and has borne it's
precious cargo in safety, is threatened with mu-
thy by its uDgratefui crew. These are no
mere forms of rhetorio-no words Of idleness;
they are signals raised by the hand Of patriot
ism, prompted by conviction Of impending dan
ger. They have their source in the movement
Of men and Of parties in this country.
Never before has it been deemed possible to
bring on direct issue between the North and
the South. Efforts have not been wanting
within the last fifteen years to precipitate
trial between the great sections Of the Union;
but the existence Of two controlling parties,
sustained respectively by enlarged and states
manlike views, constituted a breakwater capa-
BILE of resisting the angry surgee Of fanaticism-
In the rapid movemen. Of opinions in the United
States it is difficult indeed to keep an account
Of the past. But day has elapsed since
opinions, now sounded in bugle notes Of tri
umph-n0w avowed as q basis of party organi-
zation-now proclaimed as q necessary condi-
tioD Of union between the North and South
were uttered only in secret places, and their
authers screened from the penalties Of treason
only by the utter contempt in which they were
held.
The end proposed now is revolution. It is no
longer disguise; its purposes are distinctly
avowed. It is a fusion Of all the fanatical
elements Of public sentiment in the North into
q great party, with view OF forcing the abo-
lition Of slavery in the District Of Columbia
the prohibition Of the slave trade between the
States-the limitation Of slavery to its present
State boundaries and, finally its total aboli-
ton by Congress.
The machinery which is to effect this end is
in motion. 1t has been operated in Ohio in
the nomination Of Chase, and few weeks will
witness kindred movement in New York,
Ptnnsy lvania, and in the entire North.
It is time that the subject should be under
stood II is plan Of revolution, and it needs
only to perform the first part of its progr ANNE
to assure its success. The integrity of the
republic can be maintained only on the basis
of protection to all its material interests.
That its existence is wholly incompatible with
the existence of two rival parties, embracing
the free and the slave States, ought to be obvi-
| GUS to all. II is not necessary to 60 faIther
than to secure the organization Of these parties
upon such basis, to assure the over throw of
the government. Pretexts will not be wanting
in such decline Of patriotic sentiment under
the influence Of sectional hatred, for n, ve-
ment having in view the dissolution Of the
Union. Indeed, we regard that event as sure
to follow such . division of public sentiment 10
| this country.
| AT precisely this point we view the move
ment of the abolitionists at the present time
They have uttered the war cry on the Kansas
pretext-the repeal Of the socalled Missouri
| compromise. That compromise which never
had the merit of either legality or control ;
which is mere historical record of criminal
| contention between the Norh and the Souih ;
which exercised no earthly influence upon the
| question of slavery, and was adopted only as q
convenient means Of escape to the ators of
1920, is now magnifed in an aggressive assault
| by the South upon the freedom OF the North.
The Missouri compromise was great political
| fraud, and the use now made of its repeal
clearly enough shows that it is still performing
| its legitimate services in the work of mis-
chief.
The object Of the coalition is the subversion
of the government-the overthrow of the con-
stitution That compact is in the way Of their
cherished purposes. They regard it as of less
value than the abolition Of slavery. They pre-
sent the issue Of the government or slavery-not
both. There is but one process of reaching
this result, and it is to this that all efforts are
now drcctei-the organization of two great
| parties on strictly sectional basis. The Mis-
souri, compromise and its repeal are matters Of
no actual moment in themselves. This is seen
in the remedy which the act Of repeal carried
| with 1.-THE highest and most satisfactory re
medy known to free people-the right Of the
Territories, the only point in dispute, to settle