The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-05

and of the pecularites Of slavery to show the truth
Of this position. To have assented to this settle
ment Of the question, however, would have obliged
the sectional aghators to abandon course which
they hope to turn to 90 much advantage In the
Presidential election. 1t was necessary, therefore
for the accomplishment Of their Objects, TO place
the North and the South ia position of antsgo-
nism for the mastery in Kansas: to persuade the
one that its rights and interests were attacked.
that the SoutA was usurping predominant power,
and that Border Ruff anism" was about to
straDgie freedom in it's deadly embrace, and
to induce the other to assume a position OF
defence, under the belief that its institutions
and privileges were menaced with destruction. II
was necessary to make the repeal Of the Missouri
restriction the groundwork Of a widespread Sec
tional agitation; and the best and easiest way of
be made slave State by calling the phalanx Of free
soilers and abolitionsts TO the rescue, and by a
pompous display OF buster and braggadocio, exci.
ing, unhnppily with too much success an active CD.
position on the part OF the South. What did they
care so long as they gained their purpose, if the
strife OF passion which they had engaged should
ssurpass control and plunge the country into the
horrors Of civil war? The more envenomed the dis.
CORD the more abundant the advantages which these
unprincpled scheners hoped to derive All that
ayarce and thirst of power could offer in the shape
OF inducement--eyery advantage that grossly exag-
Rerated rumor and wiiful perversion OF fact could
anord-were skilfu.ly and assdiousiy employed TO
keep live the iufiamed passions Of both parties
and to present Kansas as the where the North
s;ion, and, perhaps, in sanguinary combat. When
they cav that the wise and determined interpo.
stion OF the executive had aysrted civil war.
which at one time seemed inminent--had overawed
the violence of the factionsts in the Territory and
was resolved on the vinoication OF the majesty Of
the law at all hazards-t they adroitly shifted the
scene Of agitation to the ha Is OF Congress- and have
persistenty refused to listen to any proposition,
however conciliatory or equitable which would de-
Priye them OF the power Of keeping, the issue opea
before the people in the Presidential canvass 1t is
impossible for any body not blinded by their So
phsms, to avoid seeing that their purpose is not the
speedy, Just and peaceful adjustment of the Kansas
troubles. but their vigorous maintenance for the
promotion of agitation and discord. From their
first step, in endeavorng to force free soil emgra
ton into the Territory, TO their virtual rejection of
the paeifcatory bill which recently passed the Sc
nate by an overwhelming majority. and the still
more recent act Of busting Gen. Whitfield from his
seat and attempting to foist into his pla:e Mr..
Reeder, the Topeka rebellion Senator in subversion
of the most trite and ordinary principles of Justice
the impartial observer cannot fail to see that their
every movement has tended towards the prolonga-
ton rather than the settlement Of the contest. And
this we honestly believe is what they desire.