The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-15

lodna rates Nearly ell the American vessels have
| LIFT In ballast"
Tia ass of cotton yesterday footed up about 100 bales,
mar, ,d In s afternoon and including portion IN tran
NM closing on the basis Of middling Uplsnds ct about
1870 For movements In cotton VIC refer 10 another 90
I hmm. -Four was heavy, especially fos common and
| mesiurn grades Of 6t,e ard Western, wiiOa do
I ctiuod sbou &C. q l0c. per barrel Wheat was
| lnm acHyc and buoyant Common Southern white
| gch al 81 70 81 IT, and Western red epsing n
n 90, Corn was better, with sales Of prime
southern yellow ct sss white do ae &C.. and West
9u mixed at Sc Pork frra, With sales OF mcss
| at ees eS a s2s rs Sugars firm, but sales wore
probably less Than they would have been had the da been
ana Ths transactions Included about 100 800 bids.
Crta muscovsdo closing ct an advance II about Nc No
sioye tbe lowest previous quotations. for the week And
800 bags Pesnamhuco sold al Ice per h. fer 70 IN
ing Cbeee was s,esiy and quiet Freighs continued
hsayy and Inactive Shippers seemed disposed 70 wait the
xcsp4 Of later foreign news due at this pot.
Tho south--The Unlon--Ths Danger and the
Remedy.
From two newspaper extracts of the ultra
Southcrn type which we transfer to this paper,
our readers will perceive that the secession poll
tlrians are much embarrassed in regard to the flu
ture safety Of the South, and are more and more
strongly impressed with the-conviction that their
only course benceforward Is the organization Of
purely Southern sectional party. The reason.
ing of the Charleston Mercury upon this point Is
earnest and emphatic, but very peculiar and
really inconsistent with ITSELF as very brief ex
hikit will show.
First, we are told that the government of the
Union is passing away from the South, and will
soon be in the possession of the North next, that
the democratic party is inadequate TO the protec
ton Of the South that that party is now in
power yet we (the south) enjoy neither peace nor
safety" that the democratic party " has al times,
| evaded principle and exposed the South in order
to secure success )" that 1t cannot enforce the
Laws passed for the South, and that, In brief,
"he democracy cannot save u.s. What then
| Why our Charleston contemporary says that our
security must be in the organization of the govern
| ment that VIC must be safe and free whether
| Buchanan or Fremont Is President )" and
then, strangely enough, it falls back upon
the 3emocrato party; but the South must
'endeavor to sit and purify It, end strengthen it
! upon the precise point Of Southern Hghts." Tito
! climax Of this singular argument Is that "wbeu
we have secured the South the Union viii take
care of iteelf." And this Is but the echo Of the
more definite idea of the New Orleans Delta, that
the only safe policy Of the South Ia the ofganiza
ton Of Southern party, for that "the South
cen only be saved BY the South"
We are perplexed TO discover In these extrsor
binary incongruities of our Charleston eotempo
rary what be Il driving at 1t does not appear To
be secession, as ufual, and this is very remarkar
bic feature in tie case; 1t can't be limiting at Mr.
| Rhetts fundamental idea Of a new constitution
for the United States, and it L. very clearly any
| thing but TN encouragement ia the way of eeces-
tionist support to Mr. Buchanan's administration.
We have no doubt that one great object Of the
Charleston Mercury sndAhs other ultra organs of
Southern democracy, is to keep the rod held in
tsroreu over the bead Of Mr. buchanan; but
that the main object Is united and intensely
sectional Southern party, with view 10 the ab-
solute control of the national democratic party.
at the i'----A ~ 10 total do..---''on s""u'd "
refuse to obey.
Now what are the results most likely to follow
an ultra Southern organization Of this kipds The
very consequences which these ultra Southern
philosophers seem to regard with the greatest
alarm the union o. the North az inst the South
and the occupation and control Of every depart
ment of the federal government by the North
So sharply Southern sectional ves The democrats
party 10 the isss Presidential election, that 1
wss nothing but the nomination OF "Penusylva
MAS fayorite son" that saved the party from
absolute s1nihilstion in the North. With Pierce
Douglas or Jefftrson Davis, or any other cant
date Of thcr ultra Niger driviog school, ant
With Fillmore 10 help him In tho North, the cleo
to,al vote OF tho democracy would most probably
have been limited 70 tho Southern States.
And vha. aye the chances for 1907 Mr.. Blu
chanan viii DO Acknowledgements will b.
at sea; and the anti-s'avery element Of the Nortl
will, from present APPEARANCES, be arongcl
everywhere than in the last election. Mr. So
word and biz party staff arc working ipdustricusly
20 secure to HIN thu Northern republican noni
nation upon his own platform. Let the Soul
fly OF, into a purely southern orgsnlzation, ant
tho reaction upon the North may result in th,
nomination and election Of Seward ny the Ncrtt
as against the South. But there Is q middle
ground Of safety 10 both sectiols-the conserys
tive ground occupied by Fremont and the gres
mass Of his supporters lie Is Southern
man Wy birth, education and association. and q
Northern man BY adoption, and q Union man in
every ding. With Fillmore out Of he way, eyco
against Mr.. Buchanan 10 his own STATE, IL |.
highly probable that Fremont would have carried
tho last elections II Scwerd IL not Ia the way
Fremont unGuesiouably has the fsircs. proepe,,
OF carrying tac next But siyo w q purely Sc
honal Southern psrty and az ultra Southern
candidate, and the North may perhaps be driven
back upon Seward, and then the dreaded issue To
the South Of subiugation or accession will be
made up.