The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-17

TIE PRoGREss OF THE LIQUOR RrYoRxERs.-
Massachusetts,, year or two ago, adopted the
Maine Liquor law; ct this session, among other
things, her Legislature has disgraced itself by
sending acommittee Of scamps and blackguards
to inspect an inohensive female Catholic school,
and her House Of Representatives has followed
it up by two-thirds vote, calling for the re-
moval from Office, by the Governor, of the up
right, honest, and law-abiding Judge Loring,
in the matter Of the fugitive slave Burns. Our
New York legislature il the only one that
can furnish any thing to compare with these
disgraceful and lawless proceedings. We trust
that the Unborn, genuine constitutional Ameri-
can sentiment Of old Massachusetts, will soon
be brought to bear against this spurious mix
ture of abolition, ignorance and bigotry which
has crept into her Legislature; and we think
they may trust the real American sentiment of
New York to rectify the denominations of our
accidentally dominant Seward coalition.
The RACES OF THE UNITED STATEs.-The
Tribune, referring to the recent brawls in Kan
! zas, says -
We are not one people. We two peoples. We are
people for freedom and people for slavery. Between
the two, conflict Ia inevitable. flNt
We quote this as . sample of the honesty and
truthfulness of the abolitionist writer's. The
object is to show that the people Of the North
and South are distinct races. Wherein does
this appear? Do they not spring from the same
fathers, speak the same tongue, profess the same
faith, observe the same customs? Do not they
constantly intermarry together. and have not
both the same indelible characteristics of the
Anglo Saxon race? Are not Northern men con-
stantly travelling South to settle there, and
Southern men constantly coming here to set
tie, and are either ever taken for strangers or
aliens?
That there are two races in this country there
can be no question. No one ever suspected the
Saxon and the African of belonging to the
same race. They are essentially "two peoples"
differing in appearance, in mental and mystical
characteristics, in capacity, in habits, feelings.
and every point whereby race can be distin-
guished. But even between thesei is not true
that conflict is inevitable. Both have their
place allotted to them by nature, and keep it:
the white man as the master, the black man as
the servant. In one State the servitude Of the
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tsry and for time but practically it is always
the same, and there is no prospect or chance
that it will ever be altered. The nature of ne
gro bondage may be modified. From being
hereditary it may become temporary but SER
wants they must be to the end of time. They
and the whites constitute ''two peoples :" but
neither of the two can again be sub-divided.
LIBERTY FOR THE RICH, PROHIBITION FOR THE
PooR.--UDder the new temperance law Of pains
end penalties, the rich man will have no diff
Guilty in storing his pantries and cellars with
the choicest wines and liquors for the private
use OF himself and his friends; but with The poor
man the case is widely different. IT. from his
weeks wages, he can spare but shilling or two
for q little whiskey or lager bier. he is liable to
be arrested and fined, together with the man
who shall sell him the contraband article. There
is nothing in the despotsms of Europe or Asia,
nor even in Cuba, quite equal to this; yet such
s the law, to use the expressive language of
Mr., Wise, Of Virginia, of the '.lousy, Goddess,
Cbristless set" of the Seward majority of our
late Legislature. They have given US their ul-
timatum of wisdom in an act to limit, by faes
imprisonments the privilege of liquor drink
ing to Ibe wealthy classes. Such are the turnkey
morals of Sewardism.
The BEGINNING OF THE END.-We understand