The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-26
The Preseientt6 Issue-The Two Extremes
md gle MIDDLE Ground.

The Pressdentts4 Issue-The Two Extremes,
ind ele Middle Ground.
The three new political parties which have
risen into existence from the ruins of the old
iefuncs whigsnd democratic parties, are rapidly
abs orting TIE various outside factions and
floating mascrials of the day. In Georgia q
very decided democratic movement, Of the most
Utica prcEavery character, has initiated the
great Soa.hern party for 1856. This is to be
great fusion party, upon the single issue of the
protection and expansion Of the peculiar in.
stitution" Of the South. In reference to this
movement, Mr.. Senator Tcombs, formerly
wing, later an Independent Unionist and at
present Southern fusionist, upon an unmixed
slavery platform, says, in q recent letter, that:
The true policy OF the South is to unite-to lay
Nothngs should come together and combine for their
common safety. II we are wise enough to do thistle
the preservation of their rights the consttu
and the Union, and TO uphold and support that noble
band of patriots at the North who stood for the const
against the tempest of fanaticism
folly treason which assaed themwe shall succeed.
We shall then have conquered psa:e which will be en-
during, and which viii not invite further az
gression.
The exact platform proposed by Mr.. Toombs
is, that the compromise measures of 1850 and
the Nebraska bill OF 1854 shall be actively,
positively and vigorously upheld by the ma
ton" On the other extreme, Mr.. ex-senator
Chase. OF Ohio, in q recent letter to his friends
in the free soil Western Reserve of that State
presents the following PLATFORM
And this reminds me OF the great issue of the day
freedom q slavery-a government Of the people Or
the abolition of freedom in Kansas and Nebraska
forced on the American people All other issues must
opinion be dsresarded for the sake Of agrsemens
and harmony the platform OF slavery out
sss OF slave ssss Upon that Ps;for% all must be
who willing to unite in good faith in defence free
dom and free institutions.
These are the principles of the two extreme
parties-the party of the political niger
drivers Of the South and the party of the
niger worshippers of the North. With the
former, oil other questions, all other issues, all
other principles and measures are TO be sunk
in behalf of the solitary institution OF slavery.
All parties in the South are to be fused into
the common cause, trusting to luck for the
support 'of that noble band of patriots at the
North" who have heretofore stood up for the
constitution and Southern rights. Reduced,
however, to its essence, the programme of Mr..
Toombs simply means great Southern sec
tional party, with sectional ticket for the
succession, expressly adapted to suit the ends
of the scheming political niger drivers look.
ng to the public plumber.
The platform of the Northern niger wor-
shippers as laid down by Mr. Chase, means
just as clearly, the organization OF great
sectional antislavery coalition party, and
sectional ticket, and sectional campaign
against the South. The contest in 1885, from
all present indications and developments, in
both sections, will involve violent conflict
between these two sectional parties; add were
there not third party in the field, scarcely
any thing else than a rapid march to disunion
could be expected from the success Of either
the extreme Southern or the extreme Northern
niger coalition. rf
But there is a third party in the field, occu.
pying the safe middle ground between these
dangerous extremes, aud holding already with
ia its ranks apowerfol and constantly increas.
ing body Of the solid, conservative Union men
of both the North and the South. This party
is the new American or Know Nothing party,
somewhat mixed up during the last six months
or so with anti-slavery affiliations in the
North, and somewhat damaged in consequence
In the South; but these are only temporary
distractions The late Philadelphia Council
has laid down, in its platform of non-iaterven-
ton, the policy upon which the solid and com.
mon sense people of all parties. in all sections,
may and will be rallied in the common cause
of the peace, harmony, progress and prosp arity
of the republic in 1856.
From past experience we are we'll assured
that the solid, reliable American people will re.
pudiate the fanaticism Of the Northern Niger
worshippers, and Ge secession proclivities of
the political niger drivers of the South. To
be sure, from the intense idolatry of the Massa-
chusetts niger loving fanatics, we should not
be surprised were they to set up a statue of the
fugitive Burns in Faneuil Hall, and bow down
ard worship it, as the ancient Israelites, in the
absence of Moses bowed down to Aaroa's
golden calf. Indeed, it is a wonder that the
abolition societies of Boston have neglec sed so
long the qualification Of their peculiar instincts
of niger worship, when they might be so
readily subserved in the erection of fugi-
tive niger colossus on the Common. Ia
the South, ON the other hand, the political
niger drivers are drifting to that ridiculous
ultraism, when nothing but stakeholder will
be considered sound upon Southern rights, aud
when Reputation of all parties in the North
will extend to the distrust and prescription Of
non-slaveholding individuals even in the South
ern States. This state of things will, indeed,
bring about Southern oligarchy, more dan
gerous and ruinous to Southern interests than
all the abolitionist and anti. slavery schemes
the North, and Of England and France com
bined. Yet to this ultimatam The ultra pro
slavery doctrines Of such leaders as Jefferson