The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-04
| The Northern Pcttifbggers OF the Senate and
the Southern Pcttifogger Of the White
Reuse on the slavery Question.

two worthy of special notice. Mr.. Hale was
undoubtedly right in denying the imputation Of
a seditious and aggressive spirit cast through the
Presidents Message upon that mighty phalanx
of the American people who supported Fremont
in the late election. With few exceptions, the
supporters of Fremont were honest, Union loving,
conservative and law-abiding men. In this light,
the thanks extended by Mr.. Brown, of Mississippi,
to poor Pierce, "for his fidelity in sounding the
voice of warning against sectional strife, and Mr..
Browns sweeping allegation that ''the supporters
of Fremont are driving at the abolition of slavery
everywhere" were not only superfuous and gra-
tutous, but contemplate and ridiculous. As
Mr.. Brown, however, is devoted follower of
Jefferson Davis and his programme of Southern
secession and q Southern confederacy, his thanks
to poor Pierce may be excused.
Tue peculiar views of Mr.. Mason, Of Virginia,
on the same subject may also be passed over,
inasmuch as Mr.. Mason is particularly ambitious
to be among The rulers of a Southern confedera-
cy, rather than among the public servants of the
whole Union. In the latter position he is some
what overshadowed and obscured; in the former
he might, perhaps, become conspicuous leader,
asd one OF the shining lights of the great South
ern federation projected by Gen. William Walker,
upon military principles"
But there were two Northern men participating
in This Senate debate Of Tuesday on the Message,
who cannot be passed over in silence-Mr. Sc
ward, Of New York, and General Wilson, Of
Massachusetts, former a thoroughly trained
sectional demagogue, the latter bold and fiery
anti-slavery fanatic. The illusions of Mr.. Brown
to the abolition lectures Of those two sectional
DISCLAIMERS were substantially correct. There is
not so much Of method in the madness of Wilson,
but bis speeches during the late campaign were
more or less tinged and tinctured with that leaven
of aboltionism which has for its ulimatum no
union with Shareholders" As for Seward, he
was not very jealous or active Fremont stumper
in the late campaign; but in what ne did, he
betrayed the same instincts at the bottom,
which are always, with Lloyd Garrison. at the
top. Mr.. Seward, during the late canvass, made
a campaigning speech at Albany, another at Buff
falo. another at Detroit, and another az Auburn,
and in each Of these speeches, more or less, the
peryading idea is this-that Southern slavery is
an excrescence, disease demanding radical re-
medy, and that we should labor, in season and
out OF season, to get rid Of the evil, and at all
hazards. In harping upon the South as the
slave power" and the "slayeholding oligarchy,n
and upon the shareholders as a class which it is
the duty of the North to put down, Mr. Seward
had made himself the proper subject for every
word OF reproof uttered against him by Mr
Brown.
We take II for granted that in none Of the
heavy volume Of heavy public speeches deliver
ed by Mr.. Seward has he ever directly recon-
mended, like Garrison, the abolition OF slavery in
tie Southern States, constitution or no constitu-
ton, Union or no Union. Mr.. Seward is dema-
gogue, peitifogger and trickster too cunning
for this. lie il not the man to expose himself,
Ike Garrison, by an attempt to storm the citadel
his policy is that OF regular approaches, and
mining and starving out. But he is only playing
the by pocrite In pleading his attachment and con-
sstency to the letter Of the constitution and its
compromises OF Union, while laboring, rs be has
labored, in violation of the spirit of the constitu
ton. to array the North against the South. as
against a domineering section, and against the
shareholders OF the South a. the despotic go
verning class Of the country. This course Of
campaigning on the part of Mr. Seward did much
to place Fremont ia false position In the CEN
trail States, and much to damage his cause among
their conservative people, who love the wAols
Union. and who know what the constitution re-
quires Of all good citizens. Had w. ii. Seward
and bis little clique gone off with Martin Van Blu
rem in support of Mr.. Buchanan az the true anti
slavery extension candidate, we might have had
q different result in the election.
We know not which IL most conspicuous--the
self complacent innocence Of Wilson and Seward
ia the Senate debate Of Tuesday. or the cool i'm
pudencc Of poor Pierce in his Message. The in
iurod dignity Of Seward il amusing; bat the IN
blushng cffrontery OF Pierce is magnificent. San
ia Anna has not los, his good opinion Of his own
greatness and achievements in bis return
to his exile at Carthagena but Pierce
Will return to Concord under the delu-
sion tina. be has saved the Union and elected Blu
cbanan, IL We may believe him. We have, how
ever no reason aud no right to believe him lie
entered upon his office with trcachery upon his
lips and he will 60 out OF il consistent only TO
bis ialse pretences. lie pledged us, in his inau-
gural, to avoid the slavery agitation, and TO
promote the legitimate ends Of internal harmony
and external peace. lie has embroled v at
home in the bitterest sectional, religious and
party excitemenis and has exhausted all the
mean devices Of craven spirit to secure the
paltry mockery of snubbing, as far as possible,
the naval powers Of Europe, without risking the
hazards OF q collision.
or all things, upon this Kansas issue, has this
poor man Pierce played the huckster, the libel
Ter, the traitor and the sneak He has played
the huckster in the most desperate and reckless