The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-27

celebrating from day to day, in view Of some de-
finite line Of action which will bring all this
chain Of entangiements to a practical American
solution
What may be the precise recommendations of
the President to Congress in reference to Mexico
Central America, Cuba, or ST. Domingo. we
know not but we apprchend that, whatever
IN the message may be recommended such are
the pressing necessities Of Mexico and Of Central
America for some decisive policy on our part,
that the dficultitr and duties thus indicated are
as likely TO de'olope the absorbing issues Of
1860 as anything else in the whole calendar Of
our foreign and domestic affairs We believe,
TOO, that the President. fully apprecialing the
exisoncics OF the day his responsibilities and
his true policy, will not fail to indicate the
means and the measures best adapted on our
part for the paciiicaiion and reorganization of
Mexico for the settlement Of the Nicaragua i'm
bIoglio, and for the supremacy Of our commerce,
our influence aud our authority in the Gulf and
the Caribbean Sea. and in the matter of those
transits between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
In any event, from the diplomatic and legis
lative work thus foreshadowed, we may reason
ably expect such Developments and practical
issues Of agitation, by the year 1860, as will en-
ti,cly overwhelm our internal slavery agitation
and al the aspirants and demagogucs Of every
party who stand upon the rickety Kansas plat
form of popular sovereignty" OF by the bloody
abolition instructions of the Rochester manifesto
But, again. The late financial revulsion has
tha nrs he ri
the country in condition demanding imperous-
Iy the immediate application of comprehensive
81 stem of relief and reform. The necessities of
the federal treasury are such that neither loans
nor treasury notes will much longer afford even
q temporary remedy. The President will doubt
less appropriate very considerable and impress
siye portion Of his annual message to this i'm
portant subject in all its qualifications Congress
will thus be compelled TO consider the WAYS and
means Of relief for the past and security for the
future and thus, upon the money question and
its APPENDICES of tariffs, banks, corporations,
bankruptcies &C., a new schedule of political
issues will probably be created, upon which we
may have two or three great parties organized in
season for the contest of 1860.
The Kansas agitation has done its work North
and south, and is practically exhausted; popu-
lar sovereignty" in the Territories is humbug;
bred Scott is too much OF an abstraction for
party purposes; the extension Of slavery into the
existing Territories Of the Union ia interdicted by
deserts, barren mountains. climate and produc-
items. The repeal OF the Fugitive Slave Law has
been agitated and abandoned and hence the pro-
camation OF Seward Of an irrcpressibie con-
tic." between the North ard the South, until
slavery shall cease to be even in South Carolina.
1t was a bold and desperate move; but IL has al
ready failed. He mus! stand aside. and Douglas
must be content to await the Developments and
abide by the new questions which will inevitably
superscde the slavery agitation in The interval
to 1850. If Kansas for four years has monopo-
lied our party politics and governments, State
and federal, surely the reconstruction of our
financial aud commercial fabric from the ruins
Of 1857, and our critical and important relations
concerning Mexico, Central America. Cuba and
the Gull, will be sufficient TO supersede the Ro-
chester manifesto and the peculiar Kansas aspi-
rations Of Mr.. Douglas for eight or ten years to
come