The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-16
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has passed away.
1t l. somewhat remarkable that this Southern
convention at New Orleans appears to have
closed it's eyes to the :. fixed facto toas a
great and my ster,ous revelation ia at work all
over this country; a moral ADD political revolu-
ton which is rapidly casting overheard all the
old womens platforms, all the schemes Of
Nottbern philosophers and Southern reiorners,
together with all the rubbish and clap trap Of
Old political fogies, old oaity aucksters, aud all
the rusty and rotten mschinery of old party
juDtas ard BALTIMORE conventions. Strange,
too, that this New Orleans convention, in this
connection, have not discovered the folly of re-
solving that We must have CuDa, whatever OBJ
stacles may interpose.
We say that great revolution is at work,
mysterioasly but potently working out new
order Of things in this country. 1t was com
menced under an eccentric and equivocal
designation, as most great revelations do be
gin; but it is developing q streagth which is
irresistible, and an onward tendency which
cannot be arrested. 1t must supersede for the
time, all purely sectional schemes, political or
commercial; all the old party issues Of the
country ;an wbig and democratic arrangements,
local or general; all Cabinet plotsand intrigues
for the succeseion--for this new rsyolu ion must
go ON till its work. is accomplished. Recogui-
zing it, too, as great spontaneous uprising Of
the people, politicians and reformers Ea,lst SUBJ
init to be carried with the current or to be
driven ashore. "a
It is great conservative revolutionary
movement, comprehensive in its scope, and be-
De6cent in it's tendencies, in the extirpation Of
the rottenness and corruptions which have
caused the old parties of the day to stink in the
nostrils OF the nation; and benefcent, in restor-
ing, upon the basis Of the constitution, the an
cient haImonies Of all sections of the Upios.
To this end the New Orleans convention may
be too fast upon the Cuba question. Mr.. Cal
boun's idea Of a Southern sectional balance Of
power somewhere in the government, is as
nearly attaiped as can be in the Senate, with
out dang erous disturbance OF the existing
general equilibrium. The acquisition of Cuba
as slave State, without some equivalent con-
cession to the North, in this view, it will now
be difficult to achieve; and the British pr ovinces
to the moth of us are not yet ripe for aneexa-
ton.
The truth is, that, judging from this great
national conservative movement Of the Know
Eothipgs, which discouDtenances the revival of
the anti slavery agitation, which aims to restore
harmony between the North and the South,
which holds to the exact doctrine of non-inter-
vension in the domestic affairs of the several
Statee, which appreciates the hazards of at
yet for season, the further acquisi-
ticn of foreign MISUNDERSTANDING, we say,
from these aspects,of this conservative move
ment, we donbt whether, for some years yet to
come, We shall annex Cuba, or Mexico, or the
Sandwich Islands, or any other outside country
whatever. rt.sI s3r
Here, then, is our position. While the old
women of both the Old World and the New are
holding their political, social, religious and
commercial conventions, and while the old
party moksters Of the day, in and out Of the
Cabinet, North and Sonth, are laying their
pipe and shaping their plans for the next
swindling national council at Baltimore, we are
endeavoriDg to open the eyes of all concerned
to the vanity Of their labors, in view of the
great revolution undertaken, and under way,
by the spontaneous action OF the American
people. Clear the track!