The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-22

To Liverpool bushels of corn In bags were engaged
al 4d There was good demand for deal charters for
the south Of Europe, &C., aud several taken Up At
rates given in another column.
Our Views or the Slavery Question--An Igno-
rant Accuser.
In the Charleston Mercury of Monday last we
find leading editorial "On the NEw York
HERALD and the Missouri Compromise" In which
n former charge of an unconstitutional" policy
against this journal is attempted TO be sustained
by the following specifications The Mercury
says;-
We have no file Of the HERALD before us but we think
our memory does not fail US, when suppose opposed
the repeal BY Congress Of the Missouri compromise The
Missouri compromise according TO the decision the bred
Scott case, unconstitutional.
The HnluD advocated the restoration Of the Missouri
compromise According TO the decision Of the bred Scott
case, such q measure Is Unconstitutional.
The HNsAiD advocated the exclusion OF slavery by an
act Of Consress, om Kansas, and upon this ground sup
ported Col Fremont for the Presidency According " the
bred Scot: case, such act is unconstitutional
The HkaMD broadly affirmed that Congress had the
power and oughs :" exercise IT, Of excluding slavery
bred Scott case, Congress has such power and would
commit an usurpalon by using IL.
Now, with regard to this first cloudy speci6ca-
ton, or supposlion rather, Of our Charleston CO.
temporary we have to say that the New YORK
HERALD, so far from opposing the repeal of the
Missouri compromise, advocated 1t from the in
PRODUCTION of the proposition into the Senate
from the Committee on Territories all the way
through. Over and over again, during the dis
cussion Of the subject in Congress, and since the
passage of the act, have we pleaded and argued
at length the unconstitutionality of the Missouri
compromise; and over and over again have we
declared that compromise as nothing better than
a temporary armistice among aspiring politicians,
North and South, In reference to the Presidency
and the public plumber"
Secondly. We have no recollection OF ever
having advocated, in any way or for any purpose
the restoration Of the Missouri compromise, since
the day of its repeal. On the contrary, we can
assure our Charleston contemporary that we have
repeatedly pronounced and argued to prove this
proposition of a restoration, when prominently
advanced by any Of our Northern cotemporaries,
as chimerical, foolish and delusive.
Thirdly. The HERALD has never advocated the
exclusion Of slavery from Kansas by act of Con-
gress On the contrary, at the outset of the late
campaign, for the sake Of peace, we boldly advo-
Gated the admission of Kansas as a slave State.
After the report Of the Congressional Kansas In
vestigating Committee, we were convinced that
from the perfdious conduct Of poor Pierce, the
admission of Kansas as q slave State, except upon
n more honest and satisfactory trial of the doc
trine Of popular sovereignty than had been
given, would bring no peace to the country. We
contended that, instead Of being an advantage to
the South, or a measure Of peace, the hurried ad-
mission of Kansas as a slave State, not through
the law, but by brute force, would be the ruin of
the South, the North. and the Union. This is the
ground upon which We supported Fremont for
the PresidcDcy-the ground Of return 70 the
constitution and the organic territorial law
slavery or no slavery. This. too, is the exact
ground OF our confidence In Mr.. Buchanan's ad-
ministration since his election, and especially
since the proclamation of his inaugural
The fourth accusation Of our Charleston CO.
temporary, though not wider Of the mark, Ii the
bfoadest of all We have "never broadly az
fnmed that Congress bad the power-and ought
to exerciseit-o of excluding slavery from our Ter
ritories," nor anything like it On the contrary,
we have fought and secuted this wIlmot Proviso
in every shape in which 1t has appeared since its
first introduction into Congress We have advo-
Gated the policy OF maintaining to the South an
equilibrium or balance of power in the federal
Senate by the admission henceforward on all
occasions Of slave State and free State to-
gctber. AT the present day this policy seems 10
be impracticablc, and we must, therefore, accept
or reject the individual application Of this Terri
tory or that, North or South, for admission as
State into the Union as ii may be presented.
We have taken the trouble thus specially to
enlighten our Charleston contemporary upon the
several issues We have met We have heretofore
expressed on more than one occasion, our approval
of the fairness and candor Of the Mercury in its
political discussions, however wild, visionary,
delusivc and revolutionary its peculiar views
and aspirations. We must now confess that the
ou,spokcn ignorance OF the writer OF the afore-
said accusations or suppositions concerning the
course of this journal on the great national Is
sues Of slavery indicated, passes our comprehcn-
zion. IL must be ignorance-it cannot be wilful
misrepresentation, nor reckless conjecture that
has led the Awwry int these extraordinary
bunders Perhaps some new editor Of that jour
nal or some amateur assistant, more conversant
with politicians, party spirit and party organs,
than with the independent popular newspaper
press of the country, has undertaken this ludi-
crous task of proving the NEw YonK HERALD
guilty Of supporting unconstitutional mea-
surcs." Bat with the assurance that the wrong
will be righted, we recommit The constitutional
ty Of our antecedents 70 the careful rcconsidera-
ton Of our Charleston contemporary. Any intel
ligent reader Of the HERALD through the last
five, ten, fifteen or twenty years, win answcr as
a witness.
DASnI. Srcuks SPEAKING Orr,--We find the
following Geographic despatch in corner Of one
of the city nrwsnaners which are black rennhli-