The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-08

ELIMINATING the great lINlnS OF SnrlsUSsllty.
This prying into the private affairs OF candidates,
either for the purpose Of abusing or eusogizing
them, is only worthy the mighty energies of such
men as Professor Weir, John A. b. c. Gray and
Lieutenant Governor Raymead.
Southern Agirators-Dfsunion Meeting ut
New Orleans.
We yesterday published arepert of remark
able public meeting held on the 9th ult., in the
city of New Orleans, FOR the ps.rpose Of uphold
ing the caSise of Southern State rights in the
Territory Of Kansas We call it a remarkable
meeting for it rs rot often that we hear such tres-
sonable and fanatical sentiments uttered in tee
South, however familiar they may be to us Gem
ing from Fane1il Hall or the Broadway Taher-
nacle. But when they find expression in taese
forums, it is BOT ON occasions where, as in New
Orleans, the meeting is presided over by the
Mayor of stc city, or where the popular feeling is
represented.
The sentiments of the speakers and of the rcso-
buttons adopted at the gathering to which we re-
fer, would lead one to suppose that we were en-
gagged not IN mere political agitation, or in
struggle as to the peculiar institutions Of q na-
scent State, but in an actual war with our bitter
est enemy. The first speaker for instance, in the
style of Pizarro's address to the Peruvians asks
the Louisianians whether they will be deaf to the
cries and entreaties of their suffering brc-
thren in Kansas, and answers for them
that he knows they will not. He re-
minds them that their State was true TO
herself in lsl4-l5 and that she was first in the
field when the war against Mexico broke out, aa1
declares that she must in this crisis retain her ad-
vanced position. The second speaker boasts that
he fought in defence of his country and calls upon
" the chivalrous young Lousianans present to
take up arms aud follow the example of the men
of lS12.' He tells them that they must resist
force by force, and that he himself was not yet so
old as not TO be able to WELD the sword or shout
der the musket. And TO show his bitter hostility
to the North he rebuked Southerners for going to
spend their money there, and declared, in language
which Captain Rynders would not stoop to use,
that before he would do so he would see them to
HI The third speaker, emulating the style Of
his predecessor would have Kansas /" if it was
not worth q d-n," and regarded the Union rs a
miserable abstraction and anignominous bondage.
One OF the resolutions adopted at this extraoTdi-
nary gathering declares il to be the duty OF the
Legislature of each Southern State to take snch
steps as will divorce the South from the North
"peaeeably if they can, forcibly if they must =
and another calls upon the Governor Of that
State to correspond with the Governors Of all
the Southern States with view of creatinga
concert Of action on the subject.
We have no doubt in our own mind but tina. the
persons who were instrumental in getting up this
meeting, got their cue from Washington. There
il precisely the same idea at the bottom Of it as
was promulgated through the Washington cores
pondence Of a New Orleans journal some days
since. Jefferson Davis, Caleb Cushing, anl
Henry 4. Wise have been the managers behind
the scenes. The actors In it were no. whit
better, less violent, or more discriminating
than Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison,
Theodore Parker and that class of abo-
liticnist fre-eaters who have their head
quarters 1t Boston. and occasionally make pro-
vincial tours for the amusement Of the p,ople Of
New England. These ranting fanatics have
hardly ever been more violent in their deauncia-
ton of the South ard It's institutions than their
eongencrs in New Orleans have been against the
North, H. people and its public sentiment As
we said before one might imagine from peru
sal Of the proceedings Of that assembiage, that
the people Of the South were actually engaged
in an annihilating war with a ruthless enemy.
What windmills these Quixo,ic gentlemen have
been fighting! The quiet. business, common sense
people OF the North, and the same class of PEG.
pie Of the South, who fortunately constitute the
mass Of the population in each section, have
no idea Of engaging In an internecne war.
They recognize how indissolubly their social
and political interests are blended to gcther
They dcprecate, as all good men do,
The disastrous condition Of things in Kansas
But they know that the remedy therefor is not
in following the infatuated counsel Of crazy, hair
Drained fanatics, or ambitious broken down poll
ticians North or South. They know that the
cause o. all the mischief that has been done, AMI
that is yet brewing, has been the corrup. and
imbccile administration Of Mr. Pierce and that
il be had only acted fairly faithfully and
resolutely, the government Of Kansas would
have gone on smoothly. and such fellows a. Lane,
Atchison ard Stringfellow would have had no
field there for the exhibition Of their iolies AMI
wckedncsscs.
Having, then, rccognized-as no man who has
paid the slightest attention to the events Of the
last eighteen months can fail to rccoynze-wherc
the responsibility and blame of all these troubles
rest the remedy il easy. 1t is in the hands Of
the people themselves. 1t does not consist in
placing Bibles, rifles. revolvers and bowie knives
in the hands Of misguided men, and sending
them out TO murder their brother men aad fellow
citizens in Kansas The danger can b. avcrtcd
and the remedy applied without the shedding OF
drop Of blood. Let the sensible people of the
South, slavoholding and nonslavcholding, treat
the incendiary rawlings Of their dcmagoguos In
New Orleans and elsewhere, with the same con-
.empt and Indifference a. the sensible people Of