The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-14

ing OF the cOn0ltlOn OF t06 0Iltl6n 6uDJect:-
"A man can dc, we should be sorry to say, here,
many things he could not do fifty years ago."
Now, let ne recur to the United States in
America. It is time to come home-to look
after American affairs The greatest difficulty
we have to contend against is the non-appreci-
alton of our own position. We secured Florida,
Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and California
in spite of ourselves There were many who
deprecated these additions to our territory
who vainly sought to limit our action to the
original sphere of the federal Union; and there
are many now who inwardly groan when a
new State, carved out Of the wilderness by an
industry which has no example, is added to
the federal constellation. 1t is strange that
where there is SO much light there should be
those who will not see. That constellation
has already obscured those pale, Pickering
Orbs, Cuba, Mexico and the exotics of Central
America, and the time is coming when they will
be renovated by the Anglo-Saxon race, and be
industry and arts. This may be termed by our
British contemporaries idle gasconade, but it is
no more so than would be the history of our
people. 1t is prophecy-a prophecy based
upon the condition Of the American people
upon their railroads, their shipping, ther ma
nufactures, their telegraphs, their free press,
their lands, their government, their literature,
and above all, their capital and enterprise
1t is prophecy grounded upon necessity, upon
good to the human family, upon morality,
upon religion, upon life of every grade, and
above all, upon freedom.
The cause Of religion-we mean practical
religion-the good of the Catholic, the Metho-
dist, the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the Episco-
palian Church, demands it. Those Asiatic
counterfeits of religion-those political snobs
who pursue their avocations for living
and make their creeds at party brawls and per-
form their services at elections-they are not
Americans, and it is right that they should op-
pose Americans. The cause Of the AngloSax-
on race is their bane--that cause is practical
and looks to benefits to be secured to the HI:
man family, and not to abolitionism.
The election of 1856 is to be \ filterer by
which the wheat is to be separated from the
chaff, Of whatever party. Measures cannot be
executed without men-but there are true pro-
gressive men enough in all parties to give
scope to the Union and the constitution, to
secure peace and prosperity to the people
against abolition, niggers, political agitation,
instructions, civil war, corruption and disso-
luton. Their signal triumph will open the
eyes of our countrymen to the high destiny
that awaits them under the influence of the
great causes now operating to promote the
common veal. Sectional chickering's and agi-
tations are the weapons used by the enemies
ofprogress- United we are strong and resist
less--driven into local quarrels and made
to struggle about the fruits of our national ad-
vancement, we are weak and decrepid. Our
advancement towards Mexico and Cuba is i'm.
peded solely by the insane divisions of our
people upon the question of slavery. 1t is the
duty of the country in the election of 1856 to
put this issue directly to the people, and there
ought to be patriotism enough among all par
ties to see the necessity of SO uniting as to put
down at once and forever the agitators Of the
question of slavery.
That is the great point in the coming can
vass. 1t is the point of vital interest to the
race-and it involves the question whether
we prefer to adhere to mere local strifes
rather than promote the higher and nobler in
terests of humanity and our own national fame.
The LATE STORM-DIsAsTERs AT SEA.-We
publish to-day some interesting statements
with respect to the recent casualties along our
coasts, more particularly in reference to the
ffa,sr &c 1,o% IL
coast pilots. Within the memory of man, per-
haps, there has never been spell of weather 80
severe and calamitous in its effects as that
which set in with the storm of the 9Th of
January. The Oldest sailors with whom we
have conversed do not recollect anything like
it. Our pilots have encountered terrible suf
feriDgs in the discharge of their arduous du-
ties, and three Of them, we regret to say, have
persisted. From fifty to hundred persons
must have been lost in the different vessels
that were wrecked on the night of the 9th
on the coasts IN o~s immediate neighborhood.
In the pilot beet q. X. Collins, which was
run aground on Fire Island, six persons were
frozen to death, and the pilot Mitchell was
drowned in attempting to escape to the shore
OF the crew Of the Pacific, which went
ashore at Little Egg Harbor, consisting of six
persons only one, the mate, was saved OF The
bark and brig which were wrecked at Barne
gat, all hands were lost Besides these casu-
altiea, numbers of vessels went ashore at Beau
fort, N. c., Currituck beach, Cape Henlo-
pen, Lynn Haven bay and other places, but
most Of them fortunately without loss of life
Altogether, the last week has been signalized
by more disasters than any period within our
remembrance. One popularity of the weather
that has prevailed is its universally. From
North, South, East and West we have accounts
of its unusually severe characterize novel
diversion Of sleighing being even enjoyed in
Richmond and others of our Southern cities
Nor is its severity confined to our own iati-