The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-13


loAs sls rs sls was asked. The sales Of sagan
embraced about 700 500 nhds., including $50 hhds-
Of Trinidad for refining, with small lots OF Porto Rico
and 500 boxes at prices named n another column
Coffee was quiet. Freights to English ports were
frmer. To Liverpool, grain was taken at SGD. s4d
a lOd. in bulk and bags, and aoar at "a. Sd. "a.
I'D, and 1000 5000 bales Of cotton At 5-32d.
3-l6d.
southern Democratic Views or the Prcsaden-
ual EIectisn-The Union Safe, but only for
Four Years.
Our readers viii find in another part Of this
paper several interesting extracts from our
Southern exchanges, on the results Of the late
election and the prospect Of the future. First
among these extracts is leading article from
he Petersburg (Va) South Side Democrat, ION
the great disunion vote at the North" in which
it is confessed that the election of Mr. Buchanan
is not a conclusive democratic victory, but mar
row escape from crushing defeat not positive
aviation of the Union under the programme Of
the Southern nullifers, but simple truce Of
four years"-"a lease of protection from inva-
sion for four years"-and that the political 20
diac indicates that four years hence we are to
have presented to us (the South) the solemn qucs-
ton of degradation or revolution"
On the other hand, the Richmond Enquirer (the
leading Virginia notification colaborer Of this
Sorah SIDE oracle) says /" that all danger Of dis
solution of the Union is over" that slavery will
hereafter be, as it always should have been, the
strongest bond and cement of the Union;'' that
"nego slavery is becoming popular as it becomes
known" &C., and that the African slave trade
will have to be restored. Now, all this niger
philosophy may be very nice, but resting
as it does, upon false premises concerning
the election Of Buchanan, it must fall
to the ground. The Augusta (Ga.) Fill
more organ places the boot upon the right
leg. 1t was Fillmore, and not slavery, nor the
Atchison and Pierce policy Of the extension of
slavery, nor the African slave trade, that elected
Buchanan. Had Fillmore withdrawn from the
fight with the nomination of Fremont, every
Northern State would have been carried by the
latter, including, beyond a doubt, the State Of
Pennsylvania, by handsome mjority. dis
passionate analysis of the late Northern elections
State and national, clearly shows the democratic
party and their Cincinnati platform to be in a
minority in every State of the North. Perhaps
sylvania voted the democratic State ticket in
October and it was thus elected upon the narrow
margin of less than three thousand majority.
Let it suffice, however, that Mr.. Buchanan is
elected, and that, according to our Augusta (Ga-)
contemporary, the democratic "disunionists are
hiatt ~ hosI
their means; that they have, in reality, bullied
the North out of the support of Fremont" and
have thus elected Buchanan, what follows, What
is Mr.. Buchanan to do? According to the Rich
mond Enquirer his course is plainly chalked out
before him, in the new Southern programme Of
the extension of slavery; and, under this policy,
all danger to the Union is over" But &C
cording to the Charleston Mercury, hence
forward there can be no peace, for
that this Presidential election has shown
most enphatically that the North are one
distinct people and the South another; and even
according to Governor Wise and jefferson Davis
and their organs, Mr.. Buchanan's accidental mi
nority election is at best but doubtful arms
tce to the Southern ultras, OF four,years' limita
ton.
-Four years, Only four years! We are star
tied at the thought But what if it should be
lesss Ayel what il this armistice with our
Southern nullifers should be Of less than four
years duration? What If it should be broken by
the admission of Kansas as free State under an
honest enforcement of the Kansas-Nebraska law
of popular sovereignty What II 1t should be
ruptured in the appointment Of Mr.. Buchanan's
Cabinet and in his division of the spoilsi These
are ominous questions, for there is something in
them. Mr.. Buchanan has but two alternatives
before him. The first is to repudiate this whole
brood of Southern nulliicB and to re-organizc
bis party upon conservative and national basis;
and the second In to permit these Southern disor-
ganizing traitors to saddle and bride him az
they did poor Pierce, and to ride him, booted
and spurred, as they have ridden poor Pierce,
full gallop on the downhll road to destruction
We perceive that several Of our Fremont
contemporaries Of this city adhere to the theory
Of the Southern nullifiers the Cincinnati platform
and the Ostend manifesto, az the inevitable
policy of Mr.. Buchanan. We think they are
mistaken. We predict wholly different policy
on the part Of the President elect from that of
the extension Of slavery into Northern latitudes
by border rufianism, and that of the acquisition
Of Cuba by an authorized Lopez expedition
under Gen. Walker. We are aware that the
foreign and domestic programme laid down for
Mr.. Buchanan IL magnificent and attractive; bat
Il is surrounded with too many dangers to be
either sulendid or fascinating IN Mr pnrbanon
Mr.. Davis proposes to hurry Kansas into the
Union as slave State, in virtue Of the coercive
processes under which the work has thus far
been accomplished. This act, he knows, will
revive tenfold the antislavery agitation of the
North; but he has discovered an ingenious yet
very simple CONTEMPLATION, whereby the Mig
ger agitation will be swallowed up in the nai-
versal patriotism Of the American people, Ssrth
and South.