The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-24

the North II was the slavery question which stirred
up the fracas.
yhe Next sresidepcy-Principles and Mea-
snres Involved In the Next Contest.
While politicians arc laying adrot plans and
arranging trimming the ship
and setting the sails to meet the popular cur
Ients-the people of the United States are
quietly settling upon great principles and
measures by which they will be guided in the
next contest for the Presidency.
First--The Union against agitators and abo-
Second--The progress Of the country by the
annexation of Cuba, Mexico and Central Ame-
RIGA.
Thrd--The building up Of great naval and
commercial power
Fourth--The restoration of constitutional,
uniform currency.
Fifth-The reorganization OF the tariff, so as
to give permanency to foreign trade and home
manufactures.
sixth--The final overthrow of every species
of faction, and the enforcement of the consti
tuition, as the only chart of our existence as a
nation.
If the last two years have not been enough
to show how utterly demoralizing and paraly-
tic are the results OF domestic agitations on the
subject of slavery-ifthey have not served to ex-
hibit how, by their influence, the government
has been weakened--how it has been disgraced
how it has been made the play thing of foreign
diplomacy-how it has alike distracted our
councils of legislation, weakened the executive
arm, introduced into our entire political sys-
tenn the elements of anarchy-how it has ar
rayed section against section, impaired the pub
lie confidence, and caused distrust and suspicion
by one department against another-if these
fruits are not enough to teach the people
the folly and madness OF further agitations,
and of the great necessity of returning to the
Federal Constitution as the guide of our ac-
tons, then experience is thrown away and
national morality and wisdom are utterly de-
throned.
Under the impetus given to anarchy in 1854
by the aboltionists, effected on account of the
repeal of the Missouri compromise and the pas
sage of the Territorial laws, the present lead
ers of faction were enabled to gain Congress.
siopal control over thirteen States of the
Union-States having one hundred and thirty
three members of Congress- decided MAORI
ty Of the popular branch of the national legis-
lature. Since that time the excitements grow
ing out of the Kansas measures having sub
sided, the popular verdicts of the following
States have been set aside, and not only new
trials granted but total renewal Of Judgment
awarded New York, Pennsylvania, Maine,
New Jersey, Indiana and Wisconsin, having
eighty-tbree representatives in Congress.
These States deducted from the one hundred
and thirty three-the aggregate force from the
States carried by the abolitionists in 1854
leaves them just about the number that voted
for Campbell on the opening of the present
Congress.
Here, then, is the rise and fall of abolition
ism, or rather its spasmodic existence as q par
ty for little over single year. It's fruits--its
effects upon our domestic peace-upon our le-
gislative councils-upon our government at
home and abroad-upon the North and the
South, as great opposing interests in the federal
Union, are distinctly visible. That it must be
put down, II we would keep up the compact Of
the States, is obvious. There is but one bond
that can bind free people together, and that
is of friendship, of kindness, of concession, and
above all, of justice and faith. These are
thrust aside by the agitators, and in their place
are ordinations, bitter assaults, jesuit denun-
Citations, an assumption of higher morality,
purer politics, greater intelligence.
The first condition of union, then is that
the abolitionists shall be put down. They are
the curse Of cur systematic miasma Of our
political atmosphere
Having driven out the agitators, the country
is left free toperform its great work of legal an
nexation in Cuba Mexico and Central America.
Those countries have already been conquered,
subdued and put under practical subsection to
our industry and enterprise it now remains
only to bring them into political union and
equality with the free mind of the Union. The
movements of COL Walker and Col. Kinney,
whatever may be the immediate effect OF their
efforts TO introduce our ideas into San Juan and
Nicaragua, will serve to hasten on the great
issue whether the United States is destined to
rule supreme north Of the 1sthmus, or not
That issue s submitted to the British and
French governments for their decision !; mean
while the progress Of this country in the last
ten years has decided the matter in fact, and
there is not statesman in the world that does
not know il. 1t was decided not by our arms
IN Mexico, not by the acknowledged prowess of
our people and their resistless force on this
continent, but by the great army Of our indus.
try-an army saving more lives in comparison
with other systems than are lost by the fierce
wars Of oil the great governments OF Europe,
many as they may be-
The conquest of Cuba or rather the anncxa-
ton of that island, is foregone conclusion.
Strife and contention with the States OF En-
rope will effect it sooner than peace The
power and the disposition to have 1t are uu-
questionable. II is ours by contiguity
by its postion-by its possible occupation by