The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-16

pinis,ra,lon without making themselves ridcu
lous by applying epi,he,s to the President
wL.oh wonl1 hardly be decent or proper if he
were II burglar or a lottery policy Office keeper
awaiting sentence at the hanos of a police ma
cif'la,,. Does Mr. Chandler help his case by
huriil. coarse iuvectives arthe President Does
he prove anything except his own untitness,
perhaps for the station OF United States
Senator?
But he is no exception to the rule of imperti-
neDt folly, and shallOw w-mndedaess
which this Kansas imbroglio has developed al
most throughout the Senate. In the due course
of his turn it fell to the lot of Senator Wade, OF
Ohio, to reply to Senator Hammond, of South
Carolina, on Saturday last. We have already
characterized Governor Hammond's speech as
Irrelevant and ind-creet in the highest degree;
j, seems TO ave had the further fault of being
not only indi-creet i'll ITSELF but of provOking
ipdiscrc,ioa~ in Others. Thus Governor Ham.
mond charged upon the North no end of as
gr esions upon the SOnth and specified the
tai laws, the anti.slavery societies, &c, as in
stances. The Governor would find il hard work
to place his finger upon any specific injury
which the tariffs have done to the South and as
to the anti slavery societies-though they are uu-
dou btedly nuisance-we have not heard that
they have had the effect of depreciating the
value OF slave property as yet
In reply to these charges of Northern sggres-
sions upon the South, Senator Wade is very in
dipnsnt about certain Southern aggressions on
the North. The first of them, according to this
Ohio Senator, was-just conceive Senator
stating such thing-the acquisition of Texas.
This, according to Mr.. Wade. was Southern
aggression on the North! Why, Mr.. Wade, the
acquisition Of Texas with it's results
in the shape of the Mexican war,
and the discovery of gold and an
nexation of California, have more than
doubled the wealth, doubled the means, doubled
bIed the shipping, the ploughs, the banks,
the acres sown, the houses built and the
books printed throughout the Northern
States. There never occurred an event since
the foundation of the confederacy which has
done so much, directly and indirectly, for the
ton Of Texas, which this Ohio Senator denoun-
ces as a Southern aggression. Is it possible they
know so little of history as this in Ohio?
Then Senator Wade denounces the Fugitive
Slave law as Southern aggression. The Fugi-
tive Slave law was mere carrying out of an
emphatic doctrine of the constitution and if
anybody ought to have been grateful for that
measure, it was the North. Slaves who run
away from their masters are criminals, belong
to the same class, have the same instincts and
propensities as the fellows who people QUE North
ern jails and penitentaries. The Fugitive Slave
law had the effect of checking the acceptance,
by bad slaves, of the invitation to run away
which was so freely extended to them by North
ern crazy fanatics. Every slave whom that
Law has kept at home is one less rascal in the
North every violation of the law adds to our
population an individual who is pretty certain
to bring up in some Jail or other some day.
So far from being a Southern aggression
the Fugitive Slave law is the best pro-
lection we have against being overrun by
negro criminals; would to God that we
could have another fugitive law to keep
out all other criminals from abroad
The whole tenor Of the debate was of this
character. Mr.. Wade, We think has made
about the most ridiculous speech on this Kansas
question:; though that is saying good deal.
There were, in the origin of this government,
two political parties-the federalists and the re-
publicans-both of which we're Differed and led
by large minded, great hearted, patriotic men
statesmen in the best sense of the term.
Then, after lapse of time there rose other
parties-the old whig and democratic parties
which. too, were led and marshalled by men of
foe minds aud great capacity. Such men as
Clay, Calhoun and Webster did honor to ma
ton; they could grapple with any question and
never touched without ilumining it. They
were men in whom intellect and reason rose su.
perior to mere party bias Now, alas, we see
nothing at Washington but fanatics miserable,
blind, party fanatics, on both sides; niger dri-
vers and Niger worshippers-they deserve no
other name. Statesman.hip oratory, honor
have fed; the politics of the present day are
tricky mean and shutting, the speeches are
claptrap, the tactics dishonorable, the managers
coarse and brutal. Low language in the Senate
follows fsticufIs In the House, and the sensitive
observer turns for relief from the scenes at the
Capitol at Washington to the less obtrusive and
far LEES offensive scenes which occur at the Five
Points at New York.
FLUSH TIMES IN WALL STREET.-By the re-
cent rise Of stocks in Wall street immense sums
have been made by many Of the brokers, as well
as numerous outsiders from Albany and several
other interior villages IL is stated in certain
circles that the agent for the Rothschilds, who
has recently returned from the Hague has
cleared two hundred thousand dollars by re-
cent stock operations. II is also said that Thur
low Weed has abandoned the lobby at Washing.
ton and Albany for the curbstone Of Wall street,
where, they say, he finds the placers far richer