The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-10
TX HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1856

ruth, the paramount evil Of the day. II & the
'Imed enemy taking the field to stop the ex-
ension Of the political power o. the sontb and
70 abolish its peculiar and p ace nreservinp in
.titutions, in the face Of ali the perils and dis
asters that may follow II.
The anti slavery nlstform which Senator
Wilson lays dow !. uuoues.ionably The mos.
leaspie ana p ec lical that could be devised for
FASTENING e dissolution of this great republic.
Win aii de zeal OF n fanatic, he combines the
ihe.no and system of the man of action and
puS Iagss. Such q leader Of the anti-slavery
:. 4cieties is positively dangerous; whereas, the
rawlings of such inidel and fanatical ultras as
Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Parker and Mrs.
Rose are harmless, from the excessive impu-
dence, the atrocious absurdity, and disgusting
inooneruities Of their theories, doctrines and
parposes. Wilson proposes to take things as he
finds them, and to get at the citadel of South.
ern slavery, first by carrying its outposts, then
by putting it under Northern blockade, and
by gradually sapping and undermining it, as in
the processes Of regular siege He pro-
poses:-
LIST. To repeal the Fugitive Slave law.
I'd. To abolish slavery in the District of Co
lumbia.
3D.. To organise the North against the admis.
sion Of Kansas into the Union as slave State.
4th. To carry this issue into the approaching
Presidential election.
9th. To repeal the act OF 1907, under which
the slave trade between the States is carried
on.
9th. To abolish all laws making any distinc-
ton among individuals on account of color.
This schedule covers the whole ground. The
first two or three propositions, if carried out,
"peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must"
into separate confederacy.
Taking this speech, therefore, in connection
with the corresponding anti.slavery spirit and
movements now prevailing throughout the
North, we repeat that there is danger and trou-
BILE impending of the most fearful character
trouble between the two sections, which will re-
quire the exercise Of the highest qualities of pa
triotism, courage and prudence to pacify, and
danger Of the direst calamities of disunion. Be-
fore their adjournment, the other day, 1.-THE
members Of the Pennsylvania Legislature
unanimously approved the doings and po-
Icy Of Governor Reeder in Kansas
The democratic administration organs of
the North stand all of them by Reeder, while
the Seward journals here are demanding a de-
tachment of the United States army to aid in
repulsing the Missourians from the Territory
These may be but straws yet they indicate the
drift of the gathering storm. Whether the next
step towards the settlement of this issue of
squatter sovereignty in Kansas is to be war
in the Territory, or an agitation in Congress
leading to its abrupt dissolution, we cannot
divine. Both contingencies are possible. IN
der this miserable, equivocating and shutting
administration, what else can we expect, brought
suddenly up, as it is, to the dreaded alternative
of confessing its treachery to the North or the
South
1t were idle here to discuss the abstract
question of'African slavery. A word or two
win suffice on this general ISSUE Voluntary or
involuntary, it is the inevitable fate--the fixed
law--of the black to be the servant of the white
man, especially where the two races live toge.
ther in the same community. Living thus to-
gether, freedom to the black man is a my tn and
a mockery for the real condition of the lbe-
rated fugitive in New York is generally worse
than that of the recaptured slave returned to
Georgia. Yet George 7. Downing, one Of our
most intelligent "colored Americans" IRE.
nowned for his fine oysters,) bitterly as he COM
plains of his disabilities here, prefers them to
tho pouolitv and f,,ll roaoouro of I;hor+r r,h;oh
await him in Liberia. He can't abide black
President So with the slaves of the South
they are happier under their white masters, and
feel themselves identified with higher rela-
tions of government and society than they would
be under the black despot of Hayti. Doubtless
they would like to be placed on an equality
with the whites, North and South; but under
this arrangement Cuffee would become an in
tractable vagabond and loater, as in Jamaica;
or he would ferociousIy rise for the ascendancy,
as in st. Domingo. All this abolition cant and
rant, therefore, upon human freedom, in con-
nection with the black race of this Union, is
stuff and nonsense. Cuffees destiny with the
white man is servitude, eDslaved or emanci-
pated-apart from the white man it is barba
ism Of the African type.
There are three millions Of slaves IL the
South. ULder our present institutions they
are useful to themselves, their masters, to the
South, to the North, aud TO the world at large,
for they cloihe the world with cotton1 Bat the
usefulness Of this class, and the safety of the
white race with which they are associated, de-
pend upon The relations OF absolute control and |
implicit obedience. To the people Of the Sout6,
therefore, (the people as defnei in the consti-
tuticn,) this question of slavery oonarehends
every thing their property, their houses, their
Individual safety, and the lives of their wives
and children. And what are constitutions aud
unions, or the glory Of common origin aud
rommon destiny IL rnSer them tho citizen is