The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-03

prime and choice lots of wheat were also about 2
cents per bushel higher with fair amount Of sales
Indian corn steady, with moderate transactions
Pork was sitter with fair amount II sales. Sugars
were in moderate request and prices about the
same Coffee was quiet The stock Of all kinds in
this market on the LIST instant was 81 ,l3l packages
Freghts were inactive for English ports, and grain
was taken for Liverpool at rather easier rates
chiefly to fill up. Cotton at ld.; flour at S. Cd
As. asked, and rosin al 49, To the Continent rates
continued firm.
Senator AtchIsOn ON the Kansas Question
Whitfield W.. Reeder.
From the letter which we publish to-day
rom Senator Atchison the vast Importance
which he attaches to the present squatter
struggle in Kansas on the slavery question, is
clearly explained. He believes that if Kansas
is made free State Missouri will cease to
be a slave State, while, on the other hand, if
Kansas is made slave State, Missouri will
continue secure, and New Mexico, and part, if
not the whole, of California will also become
slave States.
For our part, we agree with Mr.. Webster that
the sterility of New Mexico is an insurmounta-
BILE barrier to the establishment of African
slavery there, and that bounty of a hundred
dollars upon each slave introduced into that
desert region would fail to make the expert
ment pay. In regard to California, the people
there, as the State becomes too unwieldy under
one State government, will, no doubt, exercise
their sovereignty in making two States of it.
Even at present this might be done without
much local Inconvenience, considering that
California as it is, stretches from the latitude
of Savannah to the latitude of Boston. But
so far removed as California is from the
slaveholdng States, we suppose that the final
question Of the admission of slavery into the
southern half of that State will depend upon
local circumstances, and the manifest desti-
ny" Of Mexico. Here, however, the vote of
Kansas in the United States Senate, becomes
all-important, and justifies the estimate of
Mr.. Atchison !; for if Kansas be admitted as
free State, the Senatorial "balance of power"
is so far lost to the South that they need not
count upon another Southern State, even from
the territories Of Mexico.
Kansas, then, as Senator Atchison Justly con-
siders it, is the vital issue to the South and
the settlement of the question begins with
Whitfield versus Reeder, as the Territorial dele
gate from Kansas to Congress. This is a test
upon which the Speaker of the House is to be
elected in December; and it is the Malakoff of
the conference.-the key to all the defences Of
the Southern garrison. 1t is not, therefore,
without the most serious apprehensions that
we look to the meeting Of Congress. The
whole dead weight Of the anti-slavery agita-
tons of the last forty years will be concentrat-
! ed upon Whitfield versus Reeder; and while
| the antislavery element Of the North has be-
| come strong and reckless in the House, the
South are becoming the more resolute and des
perate in the defence of their vital institutions
Consequently we contemplate the meeting of
Congress with misgivings of discordant, bel
ligerent and revolutionary scenes, such as we
never yet have experienced; for where all
parties are at sea, with an impotent administra-
ton at the helm, what. at such crisis, can we
| anticipate but discord aud confusion? Such
| are the fulflments of the peace concord and
| fraternity which we were promised from the
| glorious election of Franklin Pierce. Are the
| true men of the Union and the Constitution
| prepared for the struggle?
| CALLING UPoN CAssIUs. philosophers of
| the elder Fourierite free love Seward abolition
| organ call upon those members of the Ame-
riean organization who are really hostile to
the diffusion Of slavery over all that portion of
| our territory not yet formed into States, to act
as becomes rational, rejecting, unfettered, pa
triotic men in the election now before us"
And mark the reasons for this modest appeal
They say: =
1t has been abuudanty demonstrated that nativism
cannot carry the countrycannot form the basis of
flmiaaee and permanent party OF the ten states
which have voted this year it has barely carried Ken
with that of the wings in other days. In the Preden-
tia contest before there be but two subsan
live pares-the regulators Of the Missouri compact
ralyng the national democracy, and the republicans
united to rebuke the Nebraska inquity, secure Kansas
TO freedom, and breakwater against the further
extension Of slavery The former will carry the South
the latter trust the North eiectng President and
Congress who win insist that Territories present and
prospective shall be preserved free soil for free
Between these two hosts II may be possible for the Anne
rican organization to give two free States TO the
We urge then the anti slavery men in the American
organization to their conscthces prompt, to
Freedom.
Power to the side of freedom! y How mo-
dest, but how very remarkable! 1t is said in
various quarters that the straight line wings"
are going over TO the soft shell Van Buren,
ticket, which is almost like the mixing of fire
and water; but this call from Seward organ
to the Know Nothings for help against their
own ticket, caps the climax Of the ridiculous.
Power TO the side of freedom!' Bosh 1t
means power to the side Of Seward and his
spoilsmen and so that they may secure
larger hold upon the plumber, they will
consort with liquor dealers, liquor drinkers
pro-slavery men, Know Nothings, and any
thing else, and be thankful. VIII Mr.. James
W. Barker be good enough to lead of? Shall
the Seward ticket go begging?
The SECRETARY OF WAR AND LIEUTENANT
GENERAL ScorT.-Our readers are aware that
there has been sharp correspondence between