The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-12

slavery party, and sees, maginss ne The roll
resrh Of nonex,ension. He sees the y .Ies
Increasing IN number, while the slave rem sl
stationary; ana he natu ally in this . oarity
most unequal battle della tor the ultimate fight with
the abohuoniss. majority Of slave states viii
Keep up inrever a magnanim,us iorbearance toward
species Of property against which ali their mora
hia rehflpns feelings ae enlisted The non exter
SION principle then. Is ultimately as unfayorable
him ~ tbai OF he direct aboliDnst, and q line VIII
= SIMPLY oesavs ioS .De nreseo prepares gradually
spTe} me RfoHhs OF positse INVASION All this ~
spChve however; y VIII take a oag time 70 work
he problem, aBd Tor ire present the saveowner's
peTty Is as safe a. any other. But now our
choy faculty OF foresight in which so often
to injury This distant and future INVASION ii u
because the chance OF tt Is now has a presefa
feet value o slave property falls with the ro
Of Colonel Ffemont's chance Of election Tho co.,
apaogous to the effect which the rise aud q
revolutionary party IN this country would have upon
value OF thes anu church properly. Nobody can aop
that, certain political party in this coantry
gain ground the value OF hes would fall not that u ~
payment would not K, all the for the time Dus
the uniavorsole pr spect would tell upon buyer, and
affect their present value.
This is not perhaps suflcesty understood in tn
country, taken o account 10 estimate OF Amer
can politics and the extraordinary excitement which Al
tends their elections Que IL on the look out fr exp ana
tons OF American oehaN iour In public life, which GER
ts'ny extraordinary phenomenon The attack on Mr..
sumner set us thinking and puzzing out the American
riddle how civilized people could make such an exhib
ton of itself as involved in the general approval o.
outrage in the soaih But without saying that il &C
counts for the whole pbepomtn here y fact which
We instantly See must have 81 ne hing 10 do with IT,
The truth Is, people 90 get very sore where their
IN this country 10 what extent these electoneering
questions in America really at bottom questions Of
the pocket Mr. Preston $ Brooks in his idea,
standing up pro Us q tocis-'hat rs to say, in trans
atlantic inter- rotation foi his pocket be assaulted
Mr.. Sumner He said u hmsef 8 NV property Is worth
30 much less Ia The mars et at this moment these AZ
tacks upon slavery go OIL Mr. Sumner Ia robbng mo-
actually taking the money out of my pocket" The pro-
pery Consequence. which accompanies the slavery ques
ton is, as see from our spondence, not mere
comparatively abstract consequence 10 be felt at
great ant struggle but existing, solid and felt
consequence involving deterioration of property
This property question: neD appears 10 color the whole
field OF American politics and 10 Tx Inc position OF Ameri
can parties. Strange to say IN the United States the
democrat the he acquesces in the whole
existing American system slavery and aii the rest he
swallows waoe; he acquesces In things as they are,
in the existing PROPORTIONS and relative strength Of
both sides Thus he Is eady 10 receive Kansas slave
State and Tor this parpose the Kansas Iegs
atuTe Tue party opposed 70 the democratcal the
other hand, Revolutionary one in sense; That 10
say, II does not acquiesee in America as 1t Ia. This
party wants change section OF would abolish
slavery to morrow, could and so knock on the head
another section, which Colonel Fremont represents,
II would not change thir e. themselves would change
duay leave the slave States stranded and connect all
the new and rising strength OF America with the free
State element The democrat, then, is the American
ron Of property His abolaonist opponent b o
revolutonst az regards property, and sacrifices con-
servatsm to q higher principle "a ne maintains, Of
titled land SO per cent in the market, he only
abolish the abomination Of slavery The Southern
tors have thus lately talked about the chivary" Of Mr.
Preston s. Brooks What they H. that he and they
principle Of property and loyal 10 her old and
BILE institutsrs especially the peculiar domestic nstu
lutonists and fanatics. Such 10 American toryism and
chivary, and mutatis rtasdis, Is not very unlike
what has sometimes gone under these names In this
country not 80 very long since.