The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-05

sons which have induced them to stand aloof
from this June erection is "the fact
thst Douglas, Toornbs, and the entire party now
in power. had assumed the position that an
enabling act must first be passed by Congress
before the people of a Territory can have the
RIGHT 10 form State constitution" and the free
State party "knowing that Congress had vested
no such right in the Territorial Legislature" the
exercise of this power by the said Legislature
was usurpston which they could not recognize.
This is q Dice point; but we all know that the
fundamental principles Of action concerning Kan
sas or any other Territory, as laid down by Mr..
Douglas or Mr.. ToOmbs, or any other trimming
politician to-day, may be repudiated tomorrow.
Circumstances alter cases. California was sd-
mtted without IAN enabling act" although it IS
worthy of rfmark that Mr.. Douglas at the last
session of the late Congress thought it beet %
pass ssn enabling act" for the benefit Of Mime
sofa. If this may be taken as the precedent
which is to be spilled to Kansas then indeed
have we the prospect before us Of Q splendid
partigan ard sectional electioneering agitation
upon Ksnsas throughout the whole interval to
the next Presidential election 1t is not very
likely, with the rejection of proslavery State
constitution for Kansas by the House, that pro-
slavery Senate at Washington will be in any par
ticular hurry to pass IAN enabling act' which
bers 10 the Senate.
The views Of our Virginia ultra Southern
organ in relation to the manifest destiny Of
Kansas are highly encouraging to the free State
cause. Mr.. Pryor gives 1t up-pleads that
the battle is already lost TO the South, if they
hazard the submission Of their pro-slavery con-
stitution to vote by the people, and he believes
that they will not only consent to do 1t to save
appearances, but that the South will Gem
brace its lew black republican bride with A. pas
sionate JOY rs it accepted the lewd proposal Of
California" Kansas, thus conquered by the
abolitionists, will be but the beginning of the
ending. Missouri will 90 next, and Kentucky
Virginia and Maryland will follow; and thus
Southern slavery will be doomed, Gays Mr.
Pryor "unless the South resolve In season to In
tercept tie catastrophe By some adequate mea-
sure Of protection" We are not enlightened as
to what this "adequate measure" is to be, but
we shrewdly suspect It means secession or O red
hot run mad party hullabaloo of disunlon, like
that of the last summers campaign.
This Southern Bombastes Furioso is evidently
beyond the reach of moral suasion. His mind is
made up, and he is entirely prepared to Harve
the jury into his way Of thinking. Our answer,
therefore, to this his last Kansas jeremiad
will be very brief We place Roger A. Pryor
pro-slayery, ~i.srTs with Horace Greeley, anti
slavery philosopher. The former Is 6re-eating
Southern agtator, and breaches the prophecy,
with peculiar JUNCTION, that Kansas will be free
State the latter, one Of the moss vigilant Of the
anointed apostles Of "bleedlng Kansas" tells his
Disciples that II is all over With them; that the
"e.ave olgarchy" have fastened their poisonous
faugs upon Kansas, and that thy III inevitably
make her slave State, by fsir means or BY foul
Now, who shall decide when two such doctors
dissgrees Is It NOT plain thet Rogcr's sole object
n his Kansas commissions is agitation sectional
aeitation--and thAt sectional agitation as the sum
ard substance Ct Greeley's sdcieks, grosns and
earss The truth b. tina, l-acsas Gas been, Is aud
~ 70 continue 70 he the ms.e football Of cleo
pioneering asitaiODs between Northern and
Southern politicians, great and small They will
keep il going as long a. they can, ard between
Northern and Southern Presidential aspirants
ard demagogues 1t is very likely that Kansas
will be kept in hot water, but out Of the Union,
until after TIE next Presidential election.
TIE Oppression OF our Cornmercis, Ansiss-
The Approaching Crisis.
The depressed condition OF our commercial
affairs and particularly of our shipping interests,
II such ~ TO merit the serious consideration OF
The community. Our wharves are crowded with
ships, many Of them the pride of the ocean, and
II Is supposed that vessels to TIE value Of twenty
FIVE millions Of dollars are lying iG our harbof,
most Of them without employment; AM those
that have found somethlng TO do have accepted
IL at rates ruinously low. We are tod that rain
is being shipped 10 Europe at two pence per
bushei, aud that one lot Of twenty thousand
bushels has been taken free offreigb, merely for
| the purpose Of getting ballast 10 take the ship
abroad 10 some less crowded port. But the same
state of things exists on all sides. Dor Southern
poru do not afford employment for vessels at
rates that viii pay their portage biBs, much less
insurance, interest end wear AMI tear In Eu-
rope, In California and In China Che same thing
exisas Everywhere the merchants complain that
there Ia no margin for the profitable employment
Of capital
This state Of things Is duo 10 natural causes,
and not 10 any extraordinary state Of ara,rs In
trade The period Of imitation aud vast profits,
through which we have been passing for come
lime back has reached lie climax. ard nov the