The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-02

prices. Flour was sc. l0c. per barrel nlgnef,
especially for good common and medium grades.
Wheat was in fair demand without important
change in prices. Corn was in moderate supply,
and prices steady, with moderate sales. Rye was
heavy. Pork closed at $40 25 $40 37a. for mess.
Lard continued firm. Sugars and coffee were quiet,
without change Of moment in quotations. Fre,ghts
firm for breadstufs to British ports; and to Liver
pool about so 900 bushels wheat were engaged In
bulk and bags at Cd. a Old, and a few thousand
bbls. -four at 2s 7ld. Is. cd. They were also drm
for London and for Glasgow. To Havre and other
continental ports there was no change Of iIpor-
lance to notice.
MI. Fierce, Mr.. Douglas, the Nebraska Bill
ard the SOuth-A short Sighted Caleula- ;
ton.
The idea of Mr.. Pierce, Mr. Douglas, and other
democratic SPECTATORS, when they took up the
repeal of the Missouri compromise, was that it
would forever settle the slavery question, and
that they would be the FIRST to profit from the
happy experiment. What deluson! Instead
of settling the slavery agitation, the Nebraska
bill has only re-opened it, and in its most virl
lent form. Instead Of resulting in the exaltation
of it's Northern authors, this bill has recoiled
upon them, and We need only to refer to the Gin
cinnati Convention. Instead Of giving the de-
mocracy an indefinite tenure Of power, the bill
has raised up a revolutionary movement which
has been pulverising, and is destined utterly to
destroy, this once proud democratic party. Mr..
Buchanan was nominated at Cincinnati, because
he could prove satisfactory dlbi The South
itself recoled from Messrs. Pierce and Douglas.
But Mr. Buchanan was out of the country-he
had protested from the other side of the Atlantic
against this Kansas-Nebraska bill-he had no
hand in its passage-he was innocent; but he
accepts the Cincinnati platform, the Nebraska
BILL border ruilians, filibusters and ALL and must
sink OF swim with the sectionalzed nigger-driv-
ing democracy. The choice of candidate upon
an abb, was killing rebuke to Messrs Pierce
and Douglas; but the oli5i as far az Mr.. Bu-
chanan is concerned, is wholly neutralized by his
Cincinnati platform.
The Kansas Nebraska bill was a sad mistake
TO the South. Heretofore that section has con-
trived TO manage our national politics, our ma
tional elections and our national government by
a silent concentration OF its strength upon one
common point. and in one common direction. In
this manner from the time Of Jefferson, the South
has quietly had its own way, securing from time
10 time new States and new Territories to its
cause, Of imperial dimensions and Of fabu-
lous riches. But by this Nebraska bill
they have killed the goose which laid their
golden eggs. The anti-slavery sentiment,
which was the controlling idea in politics
of but an insignificant Northern faction, has be-
come the Shibholeth Of great Northern party.
Nor is this the worst Of il. II il only the begin
ming This anti-slavery reaction in the North
will henceforh continue the vexed question be-
tween the two sections for generations yet to
come. Settle the immediate quarrel now in the
admission Of Kan-as and it will be revived again
with Nebraska and so ON to the end of the chap
ter. Men may cry peace, peace, but there is no
peace" and there can be no peace, henceforth,
upon this subject. The South has lot its prestige
and its power, by betraying the secret Of its
strength. That secret was the silent embodiment
of its vote, its influence and IL coun-els in be-
half Of it, peculiar institution and thus, in
stead Of frightening the North, the effective sup
port Of the North was secured. Now this IL all
gone and gone. perhaps, forever.
Such short-sightcd political gamblers as Pierce
and Douglas-whose scope Of vision extended
only 10 the horizon at Cincinnati-it was not to
be expected could see this comprehensive solu-
ton to their desperate game. But We foresaw il.
Reasoning coolly from experience, and from cause
TO effect. il was easy TO foresee il. Yet we ap-
proved the repeal of the Missouri compromise first
a. the repeal Of an extra constitutional act and
secondly, because this repeal was the very thing
TO break 10 pieces this old rotten democratic
party. and IT. complicated machinery Of corrup-
ton decentralization, vice and crime. Mr. Dixon,
Of Kentucky. was light. II was the box Of Pan
dora which be gave TO Mr.. Douglas. in that sug-
gestion that he bad better rub out that Missouri
line
And what are these old political hacks doing
now at Washnetons Busy with their patch
work ard plestering schemes for the purpose Of
an armistice this Kansas difficulty But the
tail which they have set in motion has received
Momentum which our peddling politicians can
lot understand; and Seward ard Chase are as
much befogged by this revolutionary commotion
as Pierce and Douglas. No matter whether
Fremont lie elected or defeated. this popular
movement for political revolution will 20 on
a broad and general revolution ard a general
sweeping out Of all the old political party ofal
the country. If Col Fremont does not conduct
bis case better than did Gen. Scott We shall soon
hip him on. Let him shut the door against all
offcious busybcdies and Jeremy bidders and
keep quiet and his speed and bottom over
The Presidential track may astonish even Mr.
Fillmore.
Mr.. Buchanan, surrounded ny the pcaceahe
ard suls;antisl yeomanry u old Lancaster county,
Pcnnsyi' ania, consoles himself. a. he serencly
tmokes his afternoon segar in his bachelors hall
at Whcatland, that all this trouble about Kansas
and tie slavery question will be settled In six
weeks. Short-sighted philosopher! This present
agitation i good for sixty. nay, TX hundred years
III suniharn slavery and this federal I-ninn shall