The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-01

interfered somewhat with TRANSACTIONS IN DrealstaNs
Flour unchanged, while sales moderate and
chiefly to the home trade. Wheat quiet, sales being
limited to prime white Southern 81 As a 81 SO, and
white Kentucky do at 81 so Corn heavy; the sale,
embraced about IS 900 bushels at &C Csc and 6ec the
latter figure for small lots OF choice. Pork heavy
and prices irregular sales Of made al SIC Il
and s16 So and primo at s3 so sl3 IS for ami old
Sugars firm, and closed a, NC advance The stock
Of hogsheads only about 25 Sl6 of which 432
afterwards sold, leaving stock hand of only "A 3sl
hogsheads Coffee firm, but quiet. Freight engage
| ment. moderate, and rates unchanged
The Election To-morrow-Are the People
Prepared 10 Vote for a Bloody Civil War:
The political issue which is to be submitted to
| the people of this State tomorrow has been
boldly and brutally stated by William II. Sew
ard to be, whether the cotton and rice fields Of
South Carolina and the sugar plantations OF
Louisiana shall ultimately be titled by free labor
and Charleston and New Orleans become marts
for legitimate merchandise alone. or whether the
rye and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New
York shall be again surrendered by their farmers
to slave culture and to the production of slaves,
and Boston and New York become once more
markets for trade in the bodies and souls of
men,
1t was for the purpose of springing this insane
issue upon the people Of New York that Thur
low Weed refused. at Syracuse, to take seat
in the back car of the opposition train, and that
the true features of the canvass in favor Of Nor
gan for Governor were kept back until the
speech of Seward, at Rochester. a few days
since. The issue is artfully stated in the quo
tation we have given above, so as to make it
appear that a great contest is going on be-
tween the social institutions Of the North
and the South in which one must eventually
triumph to the utter destruction Of the other.
This assumption. so far as regards any effort on
the part of the South to take possession of the
rye and wheat fields of New England and this
State. and Of the markets of Boston and New
York. and fill them with slaves, is pure nonsense
and folly. No man knows this better than Vim.
II. Seward. No man knows better than he that
the most active scene Of life and expansion in
this country is in the Northern States. Besides
the evidences which are everywhere exhibited in
the North Of material prosperity and increase Of
population and social power il il the North that
harbors the aggressive spirit which characterizes
the country. II was the North that was ready
to fight for Aroostook and the Northeastern
boundary that endeavored TO stir up the Cana
dian rebellion and steal those provinces from the
British crown that has extended its grasp over
threefourths of the productive land Of the Terri
tories; that run six fighting men into Kansas to
one from the South that sent its Ely Thayers
into Virginia to drive the niggers southwark
and il il the North which now wishes TO get up
this razzia on the South, and Vim. IL. Seward
who wishes to lead IT,
The true issue, then. which be presents to the
voters Of New York. and in favor of which every
vote cast tomorrow for Morgan will be claimed,
is involved in the first part Of bis proposition.
Will New York proclaim that "the cotton and
rice fields Of South Carolina and the sugar plan.
tations of Louisiana shall be titled by free labor
alone?" This is the issue, as Mr.. Seward puts II:
and It carries a brutal and bloody meaning. II
involves total destruction Of all existing things
In the Southern States. The bonds Of society
must be swept away. An inferior and brutal
race must be admitted to social and political
equality with the superior race, or IL must be
driven out. The cotton, tobacco, sugar and rice,
that now form so large portion Of our CONNER
cial exchanges, must cease TO be produced. The
scenes that have marked the same policy in
IIayti, Jamaica, and many portions of Spanish
America must be reproduced in the Southern
portions Of this Union. The fields must he turned
into barren wastes. or allowed to be overr,in by
the forest, the springs of commerce dried up. in
dustry everywhere destroyed, education neglect
cd churches and schools allowed to fall into decay
the rite of marriage and the observance of family
ties abandoned, and savage barbarism installed
where peace order and social progress now rule.
This is no imaginary picture Its reality may
be seen in every one of the Intercepted coun-
tries Of America where the inferior race has
been released from the control and guidance Of
the superior The islands of the West Indies
and the shores Of Mexico and the Spanish Main
present a reality far more terrible than the
picture We have drawn. An occasional island
| like Bsrbadoes crowded with negroes to starva.
| ton point who hold each other in check under
| white organization and rule is no logical excep.
ton And how is this brutal programme TO be
! carried out when the Constitution guarantees