The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-07

O The constitutional rights Of the South Busy mischief
up formed sooses thrust on the
public atten Hon. subscribed agitation funds perverted L.
gsOo On The several ssasss and usurpod Is fer as they
might the voice OF Congress- In order possible, to i'm
pose their opinions ard their inrudsd suaority tho
sister States aboring TO destroy their ooery and 70
cludo them from their share OF the inheritance
and Of the public rights Of the Union These acts OF az
greeson the part Of some Northern States against
thoee of the South have been perpetrated under the
shelter OF our common government, when they would
have been Just cause Of war as between foreign 60
vernmenn; and occasionally reach suoh pon that
OF their blind ZEAL apply TO their fellow cuizens Of the
South, language Of political and personal denQncsion 81
only for the Of deudsd national enemies. And thsu
goaded BY the sense Of wroag State or Statesman
Of the South 70 defensive acts WORDS there is
another cutlery Of the slave power Meantime, ell these
tnually old, In order repel the aggressors and
brow the domination OF the slave power
Docs the South dominate over the Unonf That 10 the
suggestion II lis matter, In which myself, man Of
the NORTH have, for one reason or another felt little
interested. and which, matter Of philosophical study
Of green trees and with the melodies Of the many voiced
sea 70 lul mo into the mood of tranquil contemplation
have undertaken 70 invs'agsse.
first instance. therefore, In refectrg the present
View Of my Own s r.Ssr seemed
70 me on looking back, that Massachusetts, hsA he'd
Vice place on The 81 bs s
preme Court for sixty SIX ont Of years Of the
federal government seat in the Cabinet for sixty seven
War, Of Navy, Of Justice most Of them again and again
and one or another almost always Embassies without
thai Of b. james and potential voice swsys IN the
councils Of the government and Of the peoplsa voice,
which, when II did not rule By the authority OF Office,
Or Of elOqusDcs, and which never spoke but to psne-
kate, ~ with IN electric dash, TO the uttermost
s4o the S al, ". IN xa.% nS ss
Quincy Adams Webster, Everett, Choate, Gid not
live to maintain By voice and pen By opinion and act the
public affairs Of the United Sates9 When there q
day that Massachusetts, did not from the exuberance OF
her Ss u5psn King Marcy BAN
State Of New York And yet in the face OF all this and
with some personal "reminiscences Of my own to aid me
will not say dsmneerng, but dominant enough, either
In Congress or In the cabinet, am 70 be told that
the Empire State OF the Union what ia her testimony 10
this present issue OF the alleged domination OF the South
the North Were the Hsmlsons, the jays the Living
stons the Burs aud the Kings OF the early days Of the
republic without wills Of their ownS We're tue Gin
TONS the Tompkins the Van Burens, the Wrghis and the
.chooboy Of the fist form Is there go gnorant as no, to
have beard cot only that these men Of New York ruled in
their time and turn IN the high places Of the Union, and
ruled by the intellectual right divine stamped their i'm
mortal brows, and ruled Of the Moth, In their
proper persons--not only THIS, but that history
pre- occupied with the question whether they did not also
In fact rule when the tusr places Of power held by
The South dominate over the North, with New Yxk in
power the hegemony of the North! New York, VINO
in the scroll of her that she is 50 be
uppermoet just Charles OF Spain inscribed "Furiher
preposterous, most ridiculous Of al the foolish iusgnsons
which ever entered into the head Of Maynard man Why,
the South like the North struggles and struggles In vain
TO escape from the authority aud TO shake of the ascend
ancy Of New York.
power was no deliberate calculation Of relso Is aud
consequences which brought hitter the men of the
United Provinces the pioneers OF civil and religious
liberty, and Of public Law ana right In moderl timer, to
found this great State the Island OF Manhattan ana
along the banks OF the Hudson Il deliberate cacu
charter OF the Duke Of York north westward
the great akes was no deliberate ejaculation, say oil
relations and which oroasht the aSlander
and the North rivers meet the ocean, to invite the naves
OF the world TO enter and TO harbor here In the State Of
New York where alone along the whole line OF tbs coast
the Aeghapes cloven down TO their base and there
10 natural channel from beyond the mountains 10 the
sea- here where the great ye extends FOR hundreds Of
strucon OF canals and railways here where the YATES Of
Ontario and Erie, they lave your Shores ASSURE TO you
equal command the inland and the outland Of
country OF the East and OF the Vest that earth aud
ocean alike serve 70 seat you forever On the commercial
throne o. Amcrics Al. y, tS.a ! say, was the work Q.
OF the North or men OF the South.
Nobiy, most nobiy, however, has man seconded tais
the work OF God. member that wards the close
Of his life Washington occupied with thought OF the
future Of the and emporium or the Uoed States
nesrpess 10 The great Interior world Of the West His
thought reasonable one But he recxoned without
the STATE OF New Yorx go, also, wss when later
DAY, schemes OF ietsrnA improvement by toe federal
government, based on the same thought, had the
poin, Of departure; and then up the Of New
York WITH De witt Cloton at their head, aud while IN
gre debated ;hcJ constructed the Erie caaA and there
was imaapston OF the supre macy OF tue
Of the Chesapeake And WITH al the wealth Of America
ceneripg herewith this forest OF mass all arocns
with whole naves OF steamships 10 connect the Un,ed
States with ether nations through tins FORTHWITH the nut
those pAlstia magazine,-w,h al clmes aud regions
cisat sntic and transatlantic, oriental aud occiSen
,sepSlS1' R,Sx ss@'esss their riches
York, win you continue 70 tell me ,hs, the
South domineers over New York and the North
thing In this CRY Of slave powers Is mere faction and
fAsehcod rom beginning 10 eadr thins II IL utterly
destitute OF any foundation 10 fact, had long aud dl
gently sought In tho proper quarters FOR its pretended
ioupdation, aud but recently that bsvo discovered
II In much spplsuded speech OF one Of the 5enators
any one may be presumed 70 undcrstanf the subject
and be explains the nystery Ct inquiiy appears
that .nsn the Constitution ". .ae sd and ,,r some
Union al the rect we're slave labor satce And 80 the
slave power got the upper nand. and has held 'amsst
changes the relative number OF the free and
labor states That In, Nov York and Ponnsy vana hav
Ing been s the slave holding States their power
state Of things New York Gill continue TO govern herself
In all tenderness AID mercy and will moreover nsvea
especially for Massachusetts who, the only original
saveholding state, beiplessly dependent on the
"save power" and It's Representative, New York
Ny friends pray you not laugh at these faacies,
ludcrous they are with which aspiring seek -
insurccouze tue whole North by scous appeals to the
falsely imputed domination Of the SDath Uoion
Tor the avowed object OF such appeals 10 prejudice
and passion Is sufficiently seriors II 10 DO, merely 10
change the admin straors Of the government OF the
country, but ALSO 10 change that policy Of democratic
tonsity which has prevs led In the nation for many
years, ane has been the Ell acous nsramen, Of the sup
port and elevation Of the Union.
God forbid that this should be The constitution was
naugursted BY the who had made the Rev ,ution.
SO long their great leader In peace and var tue tpcL
Of the Revolution, Washington. lived party divisions
we're OF secondary account IN the government OF the
United States. when he dcd-rhen the work Of
uuctipg and setting In motion the machinery OF the
Union had been done-tben the people OF the United
states began 70 discuss and 10 divide upon theories OF
Administrative policy Ia other words, 10 form into poll
teal parties and the history Of tine couotry exhibits the
memorable fact that from that day this with brief,
and apparently bat casual interruption. grand party
has controlled the administration OF the government
hal NJ that tnfffa