The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-15

Dis0rganizers-Union or Disunion.
The ferocious philanthropists Of our elder
Seward organ, whose political platform has
been whitfield down to universal niggerdom,
are perfectly rabid at our suggestion that tie
State, may comprehend the ultimate iss,Ie of
union or disunion. Consulting that balance Of
power between the two sections, so essential to
the security Of the South in these letter days,
we have said that the South have the right to
ask that Kansas shall be admitted into the
Union as Southern State. Now mark the
implacable wrath Of our Seward egroloving
brethren. They say that :" If a more inso-
lently audacious proposition than this on the
part Of the oligarchy can be framed or sug-
gested, it is one past our powers OF conception.
And if Their is lower deep of meanness, ser
Witty and poltroonery into which their North
ern servitors can descend than to back such
proposition, that also is also fathomless for our
penetration" And they further say that, if
the people of the free States are capable Of
listening for an instant to the humiliating
threat, they deserve the eternal brand of cow
ard and slavery"
All this may be very fine as violent out
burst of abolition Indignation; but it does not
touch the merits Of the question. The issue is,
shall Kansas be admitted into the Union or re-
jected, if her application is based upoa consti-
tuition recognizing the existence and providing
for the protection of the Southern in
stitution of slavery within her borders
We believe that the Southern squatters
now hold the ascendancy in the Territory;
that they will continue to hold it !; that they
will give shape to the ultimate institutions of
Kansas, and that she will be admitted into the
Union as slaveholding State, notwithstan1-
ing this prevailing anti.slavery turore through
out the North. With view to the restoration
of that equilibrium Of power which they have
heretofore held in the federal Senate, we have
said that the South have the right to demand
the concession of Kansas to them, aud tn vt the
good sense Of the country will, in good time,
appreciate the justice and sound policy of this
concession.
For this we are told that "the open audacity
of the [Southern] oligarchy, and their North
ern tools, is only equallsd by their iniquity
and violence" But it SO happens that instead
of being the tool" Of the "oligarchy" we are
opposed to any oligarchy, and have never been
the "tool" of any, whether United States
Bank oligarchy, spoils administration oil
garchy or seditious sectional Seward oil
garchy. Our platform has been, is, and will
be, the Constitution and the Union, against all
conspiracies and all oligarchies. But we are
no negro worshippers; nor do we believe that
universal negro emancipation would usher In
the millennium. We believe in the lights Of
revelation and the tests and proofs of history
and experience. We believe that the blacks of
the South are doing very we'll as they are;
disastrous to the white race. We know that
the whites of the South believe that their
security from the bloody scenes of st. Domin-
go depends upon this institution of slavery;
and we know that they will secede from the
Union rather than consent to open the door to
the abolitionists and the hazards of servile
insurrection. Hence the vital importance Of
this Kansas Territory to the South. 1t is the
issue to them Of positive safety or positive dau-
ger, while to the North, upon the subject of
slavery, it is at best but a question of mock
philanthropy and false pretences.
We must adhere to the spirit of the original
compact of the constitution, or this Union can
not last. 1t was established only after certain
concessions to the South were givea-a taree-
fiiths representation Of their slaves in the fed
eral enumeration for Congress, continuation
of the African slave trade to the year 1903,
and q positive binding obligation for the return
of fugitive slaves to their masters, being con-
spicuous among these concessions. From 1889
to 1872 the slavery question was quietly man
aged; for most of the Northern States were
directly interested in slavery to later day
and in the African slave traffic down to the
year of its constitutional expiration Mean
time questions of fcauce and foreign policy
were predominant. But in 1872, when the fed
eralists of New England received their death
blow in the success of the war policy OF the re-
publican party, the former in the Hartford Con-
vention, as last expedient for political CAPT
tai in the North, opened this Pandoras box OF
the slavery agitation, and scattered abroad
those seeds of mischief, to the bitter fruits OF
which there seems to be no end.
The first crop Of these seeds OF discord add
confusion ripened into the Missouri agitation
Of 1920. And the compromise which Was
then agreed upon was not constitutional one.
but an extra constitutional truce upon the
spells of the Presidency. Messrs. Clay, Calhouo.
Crawford and Jacks N, four aspiriog SoItuern
candidates for NoTthern votes were in the field
Hence the Missouri compromise-tha tempo.
rary armistice which could not stand, bee llse
it was a violation OF the constitution, and of
no binding force to either party A temporary
peace, however, did follow, which was not ma
teiially disturbed until the annexation Of Texas,
VIII, n. upon the same false basis Of geogi aphical
limo anotber temnorary pacifcet ion sncoaadad