The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-24
The NissiOhgs or CoHgress-rhe Niger Agi-
talon nnd the Public business.

tatiOn ana the Fable business.
The slavery question, at the touch of a North
ern or Southern demagogue, upon the irebrand
OF poor Pierce 5 Message continues to overshadow
all other issues before Congress- and TO supersede
all measures Of practical legislation. IL is graft
flying TO remark, however, that while this niger
agitation is industriously supplied with combusti-
bles by the demagogue niger worshippers OF the
North and the iire-eating niger drivers of the
South, there is, on the other hand, among the
more conservative, practical and sensible mem
bers of the two houses, manifest desire 20 sink
the Niger for season, and to proceed to the
public business of the session. These conserva-
tiyes are impatiently waiting the exhaustioa OF
the gas and fire and fury of Northcrn and South
err niger debaters; and so are We, and 50 are
the whole American people.
Grave questions os public iuterest-great is
sues Of public importance-are also awaiting the
action Of the two houses. While the niger wor-
shipping and niger driving agitators are impu-
DENLY assuming 10 themselves and their paltry
personal quarrels the monopoly Of the time aud
attention Of the House and the Senate, the spoils
men Of the lobby are perfectiDg their schemes for
a combined descent upon the public urea
suTy. tue public domain, and the pockets
of the people. Vast patent companies, by
which millions Of money have beea
secwed through general tax upon the mechani-
cal industry Of the country, are resolved upon
still further millions if The lobby expenditure OF
q bundled thousand or two viii accomplish theif
work Gardner and Giiphin claims. great aud
small. covering several more millions OF plumber,
arc ready for The golden opportunity when they
may be hurried through before FEW sleepy
members, without opposition and without debate.
Above all, the geas Paciuc Railroad conspiracy,
embracing a scheme Of land spoliations 10 the
extent Of from one hund.ed and hfty to tao hun
died millions of acres Of the cream Of the public
lands with privilege. besides Of a long arm in
The public treasury, is worthy of attention.
They are sappipg and mining, while the unsus-
pecting honest members Of both houses are
amused aud diverted with The pallry personal
dodges upon slavery between patriotic Union
0doring Northern niger worshippers and
Southern disunion threatening niger drivers.
We submit that this double dealing game
niger agitation has been tolerated long enougi
Perhaps Mr. Seward may consider it matter #
paramount importance that Southern Senators
should understand exactly what he did say and
what he did not say in the late Presidential can
paign. His impudence, however, in this mater,
u only cqualled by TIE cool assurance Of po
Pierce: for while Seward, after preaching he I
and there n regular crusade against the South I
q sayeboidiDg section. and against the slav ;
holders Of the South as q class, modestly
gets up in the Senate aud proclaims that he
il innocent as a lamb, we sec poor Pierce coolly
throwing the whole burthcn Of his bloody Grim I
and terrorism in Kansas upon the Northern q
societies. Then again, Mr. Wilson may from
day to day protest and reiterate in the Senate
rights of the South: but what will this avail him
with tho facts Of his stumping tour through Penn
sylyania looking him in the face? Next to the
Seward campaign managers of Philadelphia and
New ork, glr. senator Wilson did as much
as aLy other man, Ivy his abolition b
raugucs, to turn the current Of the Union scnti.
meht Of Pennsylvania against Col Fremont. The
least therefore, that is sad by such constitution
al aboliiionsts as Senator'S seward and Wilson,
upon the sectional Niger agitation Of the late
campaign the better.
Looking to the other extreme. one would think
tina, to such Niger arriving disunion agitators as
senators Brown II Mississippi Mason Of Nir.
GINA, aud to such secession members of the
House a. keitt Brooks and Quitman. are we en-
tfCly indebted Tor the salvation OF The Union;
aud that they alone have the right to sit 4,
judgment upon all other politicians %.
al other parties, from every scctio1
oi toe country. These Southern extremisi +
and political, c,nsors have recently received SOM
ytgy excellent hints irom Nheatlani ana if thcy
wuc only little wiser, these Vutg'ying., Official
ufu unofficial ~ ihc conservative iuclinatioRs a.
tho President dcct. would bt sufficient to keep
Mom judciousy quiet, at ieas, for fen weeks
10 come.
- a last resort against Northern Congrcs-
s,oaal Niger worshippcfs and ,oatncrn Niger
drivers and their useless ara wei e than useless
nggec agitation upon poor pierce's Message;
against al sectional di-tmpc o. ne public peace
aud against the land jobbug treasury roDbng.
spoils and plundCr couspifacics u TIE lobby, We
appeal to the honest independent. uubought aud
unsod mtmbeIs OF both houses We appeal 10
them 10 put an end to this spois and ruuder
s,raiagcm Of the slavery controversy, and 10
proceed to The indispensable business measures
Of The session, While yet there i sufficient time
remaining Tor a careful dissection Of every bill.
The plan or the iopby i TO stayc of everything
to the last two On three days and nights Of The
session. and then. in the midst 81 the noise and
ctnlu.ion. to Flip III and slp through their
various schemes Tor The public plumber. lais
nigper agitation serves this purpose of the lobby
must admirably. aud il should h. the fret object
Of The honest members u both houses 20 put it
down atd proceed to tho public business.