The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-27
The Crsstsnden Kansas BILL Beginning CT the
Break Among the Anta-siAvery Rank ard

J The Cssttendcn Kansas Biil-D Beginning CT the
Break Among the Anta-slavery Rank ard
File.
| We transfer to our columns this morning
| remarkable and omioous j,ronuncontentof from the
| New York Independent, on The Ecrompon Comet
| tatoa for the Stns and rs Ilcruasc" TO which we
would invite the special attention of all tho anti
slavery advocates in Congress of the Ciittenden
amendment
The article in question Is from the trenchsnt
steel pen Of the Rev. George B. Ohcever, @
famous man Of war for shifting the slave OBJ
garcby" hip and thigh, and for piercing all
Northern doughfaces between the joints Of their
harness. The paper from which tho seid article
Is extracted il weekly Journal, largely devoted
to the anti-slavery cause, and among our Puyi-
tanicsl church militant anti slavery people it
Is exceedingly popular, from the terrible style
in which 1t cuts and slafhcs into the slave
power" In fact, for tue last two or three
years the Irdepend1.!, q metropolitan anti
slavery organ, and as a general newspaper, has
been steadily supplsnting that rotten and lobby
! governed concern the New York Weekly In
bu1e until the latter, the organ of all the lsms
and crazy crotchets Of all the fanatics aud loose
lubstics Of the North, has been cut down TO
ebout ope-haIf its maximum circulation Of
year or two ago.
The HrdepenGent, therefore. although not
party organ in any party sensc, may nov be
considered as having a voice among the Elite Of
the anti-slsvery factions OF The North. which
can no logger be disregarded by our anti slavery
politicians 1t is because Of such regular con
tributors a. the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher the
Rev George b. -Cheever. and others Of that
class, that the journal in question has risen to
its present commanding position among our
reading thinking and conscientious anti slavery
circles Hence the opinions OF such paper,
even IN rcfernce to party politics, cannot be
despised and hence, at this particular crisis,
the views of the Independent, a. laid down by DR..
Cheever upon the CritteDden Kansas bill, are
especially entitled to the thoughtful study Of all
the political buoksters Of the Crittenden. Doug
La and Giddings coalition
A few Of the strong expressions Of Or.
Chcever's manifesto on this subject wiz serve
| TO show that the conscientious Northern anti-
slavery rank and file are not prepared to swal-
low the debssiug qualifications Of the black re-
publican leaders Of Congress. The Crittenden bill
is denounced because 1t utterly ignores the
right Of the persons proposed 10 be ens.aved
in kansas voice in this question OF
slavery or DO sory. Tho poor creature TO
be enslsyed poor miserable chattels Of this
| popular soyei MY, conprehcnded in the
damning claus. of the slave aud its increase
have no rigb. TO be respected This Is de
nounccd a. n wanton aud eternal sacrifice o
their rights" and ~ reducing the popular
sovereignty Of the free States 10 the " mere pri
vilegc Of d, terniniag for themselves whether
they will have slavery or not" The central
mighty the most detcstsble iniquity,' thai
atrocious article and element Of slavery thai
"disbolical article Of cruelty and Injustice
enforced by villsny and violence Is the lie
compton declaration, made in tho "most hea
ven defying a;d infamous terms Of " the RICH
of making slaves Of human beings without thei
OVID consent - ana the browning nfamy Of tb'
Cri,tenden amendment Ia the adoption Of th
"atrocious" doctrine OF the invoabie right o
any owner Of slave TO such slave and IL in
crease
/ This looks Ike mischief II hos all the 1uax
: ties o. not Indignation ard scnse OF In
sult, and is omipous Of fierce re
belIon against the black republican sup
poIters and apologists Of the CrittcndeT
bill With such symptoms OF revol
and revelation 70 early in the day, VIC should
hardly be surprised if within few months tho
stultifcd black republican leaders Of Congress
/ uoro N find Themselves and their Marty "a com
petely domoralized and broken TO pieces az thc
dijolDted fragments OF the Northern democracy
II was the interruptions and unprinciplcd hos
tllity Of Gliding, Grow and Company to Mr.
, Duchsban's administration thai pushed them Il
tho desperate trick Of Swallowing the "lnfa
mous' Lecompton slave State constitution for
Ksnes With thu firnsy covering Of "a condition
precedent but the "oondisioD subsequent
! was overlooked by these desperate tricksters-