The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-05

deed, according to the testimony of Chevalier
Watson Webb who seems to have devoted
some time and considerable research into the
character of our hero, he is little better thdn
a man whose testimony is coed for nothing. At
all events, this man, while pretending to be
the conductor Of public journal advocating
the rights of the South under the constitutio.,
and fighting the battles of the South against
the abolitionists of the North, is, we say, from
his insidious policy upon the subject of slavery,
still an active enemy CT the South, and tpy
in the enemy IS camp. as
The evidence upon this point is furnished in
almost every number of the Journal Of Com
merce. The clerks desk of that establishment
is the iavorite depository for the relief Of
Southern slaves from the bondage of q master
and labor upon compulsion. From day to day,
the contributions to purchase the freedom Of
the slave Harry" or 'the slave Pompey," or
some other slave, are paraded in the columns At
the paper in question, with calls for further
supplies to complete the manumission, and to
give the pining applicant q taste Of the bless
ings of free negro liberty in the North The
effect OF these publications in the South, among
the blacks, may be readily OWNED They ex-
cite dissatisfaction, the most delusive visions of
Northern negro liberty and Northern gene
rosity, and attempts on the part of delnded
slaves to escape to the underground railroad,
in the hope, at the last extremity, of exciting
the sympathy of the Journal Of Commerce, and
subscription to buy the freedom Of the detect
ed runaway. Thus single number of the
Journal Of Commerce, falling into the hands of
slave who can read, may infect the slaves of
half dozen plantations with it's insidious poi
son. And we doubt not that this is more the
real intent of Master Butler than the liberation
of Harry or Pompey.
Certainly the conservative spirit of the
North, in the present decay of abolitionism,
has thought proper to classify the Journal
Of Commerce with the Tribune and Timss
as papers that may be most readily dis
pensed with under the existing depression.
And the "sober second thought of the people''
is seldom erroneous. The antecedents and
proclivities of the Journal, and the other
anti slavery dailies that have come to cNr-
tailment, are suffering from the same causes,
and can only "expand" when the anti-slavery
agitation shall again revive Meantime, while
Southern men know what the Tribune is, let
them be guarded against the insidious bypb-
crisy of the Journal Of Commerce. 1t has
changed its face to the Southwark, but is still
as warmly abolitionist at the bottom as
when first established by Arthur Tappan.
New STYLE OF BuNcoMBE SPEEcHEs.-The
democratic members of Congress are adopting
a new sty lie of Buncombe speeches-being no
thing more nor less than regular set speeches
against the principles and policy, organization
and discipline of the Know Nothings, Of which
the learned speakers confess they know nothing.
They are sighting shadows-wasting their
strength upon the empty air. It will avail
nothing. The new party will go on, revolu.
tionizing every State important to their pur-
poses, until their work is done. They are in
for a thorough going revolution. But it is q
great mistake to suppose that there is anything
of slavery abolition, or of the alien and sedi-
ton laws In their real designs. Nothing Of the
sort The Know Notbings, in a national view,
are great American popular party, rising up
to abolish the corruptions of the old parties,
and to clean out the filthy political stables at
Washington from stem to stern. 1t is great
Union movement and must finish it's work.
Nothing more is contemplated. Nothing less
will do. Buncombe speeches against the Know
Nothings are like whstliog against the wind.
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