The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-12

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The Seward organs arc under the deluston
that the Nebraska bill, from the uprising In |
consequence Of the ant-sIavery sentiment |
of the North, is the secret of the late &C. |
neral reaction among the people against the |
administration. Under this idea, the greater |
Seward organ of thiscity says that
The opposition 10 the existing dynasty is ab.sdanty
strong united. TO oyer weelm that dynasty IN utter
the great prncpe upon which 1t has achieved its sts
brilliant vcssies win share the fate Of al divided
forces since the fountaton Of the world. The demo-
crscc party win agatr rise TO power in the country,
the shattoed remains OF the strongest oppositsn 1t
NON ksdfaa me mprrgnaSle position Of hostility to
Sarery extension.
Now, whatare the facts in reference TO this
"gress principle" Of hostility to slavery ex-
tension?" Bas the anti-siavery excitement
upon the Nebraska bill effected the wonderful
achievements which the Seward organs claim
for it go lrstily7 Let US see. From careful
/ examination of the elections to the new Con-
gress, we find that there have been
Anti Nebraska men nominated and .reiecteds ...28
AntiNebrsska nominated and re elected .......35
Eebrask@ nominated and rejected rs
Nebraska nominated and re electod. .........N
With these results, excepting Missouri and
Arkansas, the South have had nothing to do
The proofs, therefore, are against this anti
Nebraska agitation. 1t has substantially ac-
complished little or nothing; for nearly as ma
ny antiNebraska candidates for Congress have
been rejected as have been elected, and there's
every reason to believe that there will be a re-
spectacle majority in the new House of Repre-
sentatives against any repeal of the Nebraska
bill.
1t is perfectly absurd, then, to suppose that
the position Of " hostility to Southern slavery"
is 'impre gnable," end the only safe position of
the opposition forces against the administra-
ton. On the contrary, it is position of GER
tain defeat to the party which adopts it. The
mere suspicion, in 1882 that Gen. Scott was
nominated under the anti slavery auspices of
W. Fl. Seward, asd that the brave old soldier
would, il elected, be under the control of Sew
ard influences, resulted in the overwhelming
election of Gen. Pierce. 1t was not the want
of popularity ON the part Of Gen. Scott that
defeated him; for, resting upon his own merits,
he was man ofvery great popularity. 1t
was not the superior popularity of Pierce that
gave him his tremendous majority, for per Sc,
he was comparatively an obscure and unknown
second or third rate candidate, nominated at a
venture. and elected at venture, with the be-
lief that neither abolitionism, nor free soilism,
nor free soilers, Eor secessionists, would meet
with any favor under his administration. It
was the fear of the antislavery influences and
seditious designs of Seward that defeated Scott,
end the belief that his adversary would be free
FRI nd oh ~ s,Nx 80
the Union and constitution loving people of all
parties to the support of Pierce
The country and the people have been de-
ceived, betrayed and disappointed. They have
accordingly revolted against this Pierce adj
miDistrati0n, its spoilsmen, its spoils policy.
It's Foreign policy, and It's supporters. Hence
the terrible work that has been made of them
in the late elections. The strength Of the op.
position forces has thus been abundantly man.
ifested in the 'impregnable position" Of hos
tility to the administration, as the results will
show. From the twenty one States which have
elected their members to the next Congress,
there was in the last Congress an administra.
ton majority Of fifty one-for the coming Con-
gross there is an opposition majority of ninety
nine, equal to dead loss to the administration
Of one hundred and fifty members. Hostility
to this Pierce administration, then, and de-
mand for new and different administration, is
the true policy for the united forces of the op-
position in 1856. The great revolution of
1910, when the corrupt and imbecile admins
tration of Van Buren, was swept away as by
tornado, was accomplished upon this ''impreg-
nable position" thro wing all minor and Sec
tional issues out OF the controversy.
In word, should the opposition forces fall
back upon the anti slavery platform of Sew
ard and his organs, they will be reduced to a
contemplate sectional faction but upon the
main question of roofing out this Pierce ad-
mnistration and substituting new one, upon
new and sound constitutional and progressive
platform, we shall have again the over whelm-
ing popular reaction of 1910. This is the posi-
ton which is believed to be "impregnable"
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