The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-02
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1855.

Is it not plain that one extreme involves aud
Decessitltes the other? And which, may it
please The Northern antislavery party, ap-
pears the most offensive outrage-aa attack
upon young aud hale Senator with stick,
or an attack upon the ha!lowed memory Of
Washington with brutal epithets by meeting
OF intelligent men, many of them clergymen,
ard others prominent citizens? Would it not
be more sensible, more logical, more feasible
for the Northern followers of Mr.. Seward to
try to put a stop to such disgustiog risaldry as
that We have just quoted than to trouble them
selves about what men do in Columbia or
Charleston?
There are other points in the report which
are well worth notice. The resolution offered
by Mr.. Foster pronounced that every "anti-
slavery party which promises allegiance to
the federal constitution is tainted aud s2uri
ousn There is no doubt great deal Of truth
in this. There lie more lip loyalty than real
meaning in the professions Of these ulsra-aig-
ger drivers and niger worshippers. They are
like the British Minister Who wanted to enlist
men here, but would not for the world break
cur neutrality laws; they are all for secession
on the one side, and disurion 90 the other, blI
their devotion to the constitution is all the
time upcommonly deep aud sincere. The Bos-
ton fanatics hit the nail on the head. Anti
slavery agitation in the North, and loyalty TO
the constitution, are selfevidently irreconcil-
able. The rampant railers against the South
are sw1 dlers when they assume to be true to
the Union.
Whether the meeting-or rather one OF its
leading orators, Mr., Garrison-was or was not
in error in sty ling the religion of this country
"aD inhuman, anti Christian and bloody reli-
giop,' we leave to it's ministers to decide.
But whatever it is, many of its teachers are
fast becoming, 10 some parts of the country,
positive nuisance. 1t is notorious fact that
the niger worshipping party is mainly led, in
the country parts By the Protestant clergy.
1t is they who keep alive the excitement about
slavery. It is they who instil into the minds
OF youth that hatred to the South, that spirit
Of unreasoning faDati,ism which cutminate
in outrages On the name of Washington,
and civil war in the United States Terrific
ries. We make bold to say that the excite
ment about Kansas would not have
been half as violent or as widespread as it il
had it not been for the psrnicious efforts Of the
New England clergy. Sunday after Sunday
we hear of violent party political speeches be-
ing delivered from the pulpit; until it has be-
come matter of doubt with many Of the best
men whether as much injury as benefit may
not result from the habit of going to church.
There are of course excellent men who con-
trast boldly with these fanatics; who are really
ministers OF religion, and not ministers Of par
ty politics; but, we deeply regret to say it,
their number in the Eastern States is becoming
gradually less, and sort of fatality seems to
be driving the whole clerical body to destruc
ton. 1t would be charity to the church, and
kind to the preachers to bring them suddenly
and roughly to sense of the real duties OF
their calling, by depriving them of the means
of prspagating mischief and sedition; but il is
not likely that that course will be adopted
Men Of means and reflection will themselves
withdraw from the church; and that body,
meeting with no open opposition, will ru 81
headlong on with its revolutionary work, IN
til, like the successive schools Of French revo.
luticnaries sixty years ago, it inds itself sval-
lowed up in the vortex, and becomes one of
the first victims of the commoton it has itself
aroused.