The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-14


Mobile do. al &c., and New Orleans do. at 9Bc. EST
mates Of the amount of the crop grown the present
year are premature, and opinions widely differ While
some suppose that it may reach 100000 bales,
others think that it will not exceed 100000 o
100000. The latter contend that the planters
have grown more grain this year than last and that
less land has been planted with cotton Time alone
can prove who is the nearest right. Flour was
| firm, without change in prices, while sales were
more freely made. There was rather more doing in
wheat, and with more stability in prices. Southern
red brought 50 50 05; fair to prime white, 50 Is
81 rs, and Western red, 81 80 81 90. Pork
was firm at 1923 so q s24, and lard at llsc. o l2c
| Freights were in better demand and rates closed
with better feeling. Several charters were made,
| including two or three for Marscilles.
The Great Struggle of 1ss6-The Federal
Constitution Put Upon Trial.
| The Presidential election Of 1856 will be the
| first direct issue of the constitution upon the
slavery question. II is vain for politicians and
political managers longer to blink the subject
or to seek its avoidance. 1t is neither possible
or desirable to put off the trial. Within a short
six months an effective fusion Of all the anti
slavery elements has been successfully BE-
cured, and grand abolition party has been
organized. That party is based upon senti-
ments utterly antagonistic to the principles
upon which the government of the United
States was formed. By its avowed maxims
and its declared purposes, by its articles of
faith and its rituals of service, by the known
character Of it's members, the declarations of
its leaders and by the unity and strength of its
movements, we are forced to the conc fusion
that the coming Presidential election will be
the first and probably the last, great struggle
between the constitution of 1887 and the anti
| slavery and abolition fanaticism of the North,
stimulated by all the effort, means and infu-
ence of the governing classes in Western Eu-
rope. Such is already the issue forced upon
the American people by the recent organiza-
ton Of the abolition party Of the North. All
other questions have been thrust aside for that
one great struggle, involving the present Union
and the whole government founded by Wash
ington.
1t affects every interest of the republic.
The financial, political, manufacturing, COM
mercial, agricultural-our great railroad tho
roughfares, our marts of trade, the vast ex-
penditures of years to adapt ourselves to
the present condition Of things-are more
or less put to hazard by that election.
it will surpass in deep Importance that
which resulted in the triumph Of Jefferson
in 1900, and of Jackson in 1928, as much as
the union and progress of the whole republic
does that of the mere petty questions Of Office
and policy. All Europe will watch the strug-
gle-the monarchists and arstocrats hoping
abolition; scarcely greater is the hope that
the Allied Powers may be successful in the
East than that the demons Of disuuion may
win their victories over the American const-
tuition. AS formidable as is the Russian en-
pire, a. steadily as that government interposes
q check to the schemes Of universal dominion
concocted by the Western Alliance, the Ameri.
and more effective instrument for sub
verting the plans of France and England
than even that absolute Power. Russia
exercises negative influence upon the govern
ments of Western Europe. They contend with
her now for the purpose of disabling her--to
cripple her energies-to render her harmless
antagonist at some future day, when otherwise
she might become capable Of Independent and
triumphant action. The aggressive power of
Russia is in her army and her nayy--the az
gressive power of the United States is in the
example of their free government, in the uni
versal education of their people, in ideas diff
fused amongst all classes and amongst all
men.
Let us regard for a moment the interest
which the monarchical aud aristocratic classes
in Western Europe have in the triumph of the
abolitionists in this country. They feel the
effect of the union of even the democracy of
the Old World, where it has not voice to
utter its grievances, not a drum to beat to
quarters, not house for council, not gun
for defence--where it is poor hunted cabal
driven to acts Of desperation, and often
dsgraced, by tho fierce prosecutions of the
governing classes In 1S4S, when monarchy
was resting upon the solid triumphs of the
Napoleonic wars-upon the statutes of VII
emma in lsl5-the spirit of liberty suddenly
rose, like giant refreshed from sleep, and in
q moment there was not a throne upon the
Continent, save that Of Russia, that did not
either crumble into dust or totter and shake to
its very centre. Such a mountain of injustice,
extortion and suffering had been heaped up
that in heaving the huge mass from its centre
it tore up the very foundations Of society. In
its reconstruction the old governing classes
were able again to become rulers This refer
ence to the past eight years is enough to show
that even the democracy of Europe is threat
cning and dangerous element in their govern
ment
No sooner had the new order of things been
established than the Cabinets Of Paris and
London turned their attention to the United
States. They had an adjourned difficulty with
Russia, but it was not then supposed possible
that Il cnnld result In war They snnf nrsr 4,