The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-16
periments of intangible Southern distractions

periments of intangible Southern distractions
has passed away.
It l. somewhat remarkable that this Southern
convention at New Orleans appears To have
CLOSED its eyes TO the :. fixed iacs' toas a
great and mysterious revelation ia at work all
over this country; moral and political revou-
ton which is rapidly casting overheard all the
old women's platforms, All the schemes OF
NottbeIn philosophers and Southern reformers,
together with all the rubbish and clap trap Of
Old political togies, old party aucksters aud all
the rusty and rotten mschinery of old party
juntas 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 Cupa, 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 uader an eccentric and equivocal
designation, as most great revelations do be.
gin; but it is developing streagth which is
irresistible, and an onward tendency which
cannot be arrested. 1t must supersede for the
time, all purely sectional schemes, political or
,oosnmercial; oil the old party issues Of the
country all wbig and deaocratio arran gements,
local or general; all Cabinet plotsand intrigues
for the succeseion-for this new rsyolu ion must
go on till its work. is accomplished. Recogni-
zing it, too, as a great spontaneous uprising of
the people, politicians and reformers nust sub.
INIT to he carried with the current or to be
driven ashore. s-d --.3-
It is q great conservative revolutionary
movement, comprehensive In it's scope, and be-
De6cent in it's tendencies, in the extirpation Of
the rotteaness 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 haIMoDies Of all sections Of the Union.
To this end the New Orleans convention may
be too fast upon the Cuba question. Mr. Cal
boun's idea of O Southern sectional balance OF
power somewhere in the government, is as
nearly attained as can be in the Senate with
out dangerous 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 north of us are not yet ripe for annexa-
tiOn.
The truth is, that, Judging from this great
national conservative movement of the Know
Eothipgs, which discountenances 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-nter-
vensio1 in the domestic affairs Of the several
Statee, which appreciates the hazards of at
tempting, 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. y, ,s1r, as rg'f
Here, then, is our position. While the old
women ofiboth the Old World and the New are
holding their political, social, religious and
commercial conventions, and while the old
party hncksters Of the day, in and out Of the
Cabinet, North and South, are laying their
pipe and shaping their plans for the next
swindling national council at Baltimore, we are
enoeavoring 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!