The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-16
NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY yuLY Is. 1858.

in 1854. In the Kansas Nebraska bill. they tried
that Last and fatal parcel which breaks the
camel's back.
In aworS, this experiment of Messrs Doug
las and Pierce for Southern Presidential capita
not only broke down the Northern democracy
but brought into the foreground a new and
powerful party, from the ruins of both the old
parties, organized upon the express principles o.
resistance to the further extension of slavery and
against any further "aggressions of the slave
power" This new party, with the settlement
Of the Kansas question have been despoiled Of
their immediate capital stock; but they have,
for all this given US very distinctly to under.
stand that their principles, their purposes ard
their policy will continue to be directed against
the 'usurpstions of the slave oligarchy" and
"the aggres.ions Of the slave power"
We hold that no party possessing apolicy Of
sectional agitation such as this can for any
great length of time maintain its anti slavery
organization without endangering the safety of
the Union. The denominations of the radical
abolitionist are so sbhorrsnt ard disgusting
that they are comparatively powerless to do any
mischief-the great danger is in the more In
sidious and plausible game Of resistance to
the expressions of the slave power" and of
restoring the government to the principles
upon which it was established" None but fools
and fanatics will clap tAeir hands to the cry Of
"Down with the constitution" ''No union with
Shareholders; )" but even sensible and patriotic
men may be misled by the cry of "No more ag-
erosion of the slave power-no more slavery
on free soil-no more slave Territories-no
more slave States"
At all events if we may take the speeches Of
Mr.. Lincoln, of Illinois, first and last, of this
campaign, as foreshadowing correctly the re-
publican Presidential programme for 1860, it
will be that of Northern sectional snti-slavery
party, and its success will speedily be followed
by the crowniDg ultimatum Of Garrison-"No
unien with slaveholders"-fo the Shareholders
will soon have seeded from the Union. But a
sectional anti-slavery party cannot succeed in
1860. By that time there will most probably be
twenty-one free States, including Minnesota,
Kansas, Oregon, Washington and Nebraska,
against fifteen slave States, which will leave moi
the slightest ground for apprehension concerning
any future "aggressions of the slave power"
We presume, however, that Mr.. Lincoln in
Illinois, and the republicans in this State, in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and elsewhere, are merely
working for the present upon the debris of the
Kansas agitation and the 'slave power" for
want of anything better. After the Northern
fall elections for Congress, something better
may be preached, and the general programmed of
the opposition for 1860 may assume a more
tangible shape. They must even now see that
the last necessity and the last excuse for a sec
tional crusade against the "slave power is gone
that the ''slave power" is completely at the
mercy Of the North, and that the only danger is
that it may be driven to the last extremity by
the aggressions Of the anti-slavery power. Kan
sas is used up-"Dred Scott will never fill the
place Of Kansas-the niger, in every shape, is
pretty we'll played out. He may serve Mr.. Lin
coin in Illinois, and Mr.. Seward in New York
and Pennsylvania in our fall elections, or be
may fail TO meet their calculations. Certainly
beyond November the niger will cease to
answer the purpose of any plausible electloneer.
ing in the North, and it will be useless for any
party any longer to follow in the wake of Gar
rison. Let us wait and watch the shiftings Of
the tides, currents and undercurrents that sur
round us.