The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-03


ty confederacy. From that day to this the
pescemskers Of the Union have been those men,
and only those, who have followed most care
fully in the footsteps of the fathers of the con-
stitution.
There were thirty years Of peace upon slave
| ry from the adoption of the constitution; but
| then, in 1920, upon the question of admitting
Missouri with her slave State constitution, the
Union, pro-slavery and anti-slavery, was shaken
from its centre to its circumference by an agita-
ton which threatened violent disruption But
Henry Clay, Calhoun and their compeers of that
day, came to the reecue. Peace was restored,
moi so much by the Missouri compromise line
as by the admission of Missouri and Maine-a
slave State and free Stste-together. From
this point some thirty years more elapsed with
out any serious sectional quarrel upon slavery.
But in 1850 the territories acquired from Mex-
| CO, the Texas boundary and the fugitive slave
question brought up the slavery agitation in all
its comprehensive bearings. But here again
Henry Clay and his associate peacemakers were
found equal to the necessities of the crisis; and
their several compromise measures acted like
charm in re-establishing the peace of the Union.
That adjustment of 1850 would, perhaps, have
lasted also for thirty years but for the Kansas
Nebraska experiment of Mr.. Douglas and poor
Pierce in 1854 for the presidential succession.
| The ripened fruit of the Kansas-Nebraska bill
is now before Congress, in the shape of the Lee
compton constitution Governor Walker rejects
it, Secretary Stanton denounces it, Governor
W;ca - -. l.-k
it is none the less the legitimate offspring
Of that Kansas-Nebraska bill. The Pres-
dent adheres to the law, the South de-
mands its fulflment; but Northern men, thus
far steadfast and consistent, now finch and fall
back. The law demands the acceptance of this
Lecompton constitution, ard that great principle
of compromise of 1889, 1920 and ls5O-the prn-
ciple Of mutual concessions, North and South
imperatively calls for the admission of Kansas
as slave State. Thus admitted, she will, as
We all know, possess only the abstraction of
slavery but the rejection of this abstr action in
wolves the direct issue of Southern submission
to the anti-savery pressure Of the North, or
distinct political organization Of the South, for
its future safety within OF without the Union.
AuC oSSCptohCc vi tuis LcCOmptOu COustitu-
ton may spoil the calculations of numerous
scheming politicians, aud temporarily modify
the present national organization of the democ-
racy; but these things are triHes compared with
the hazards of that purely sectional organiza-
ton Of parties which will follow the rejection
of the Presidents policy. With the reputation
of this policy the Southern democracy will newt
ably proceed to the organization of an ultra
Southern party. The next result will be
purely sectional organization of parties in the
North, and the next step we may conjecture from
the intense disunion excitement of the South in
the campaign of 1856. In this view it will
hardly avail to call il an idle and foolish re-
mark should any Southern man venture the
prediction that the rejection of the Lecompton
constitution will be followed by deliberate
and formidable Southern movement for sepa-
rate Southern coDfederacy
The Kansas issue to the North is Of no practi-
cal consequence; for, under whatever constitu-
ton admitted, Kansas must be free State. But
even could size be made bona tide slave State,
the two new free States of Oregon and Mime
sofa would render her utterly useless as
Southern balance of power. But to the South,
although this Kanras question L. that Of mere
abstraction, il is an abstraction Of vital impor-
lance. Its solution amounts TO nothing less
than verdict from the Moth ia favor OF peace
with the South, or Judgment demanding her
absolute submission. Regarding the subject in
this light, We care little for the alleged election
frauds Of this precinct that precinct in Kansas
for all such things may be readily rectifed by
The people OF Kansas themselves. But, consi-
dering the case in it, bf ,ader sectional aspects
ard in view of q possible decision by Congress
which may result in leaving to history James
Buchspeh rs the last of the Presidents of the
United Statcs--North ard South--we urge upon
the conservatives of the North IN Congress The
adoption Of the Lecompton constitution. The
social, political and commercial ties which bind
this Union together are worth more to the
North than all our Territories from the Missis-
sippi valley to the Pacific ocean.
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CHEvnIER WEsB FIsHISG FOR CON SNUFF
Box-The Chevalier Webb has come out in his
big blanket sheet in prodigious spurge of
piety and Thanksgiving to all the gods and
goddesses for the preservation Of the life Of the
| Emperor of the French in the present most inn
portant epoch of his history. This is all very
we'll and every man of correct principles will
rejoice at the Illustration Of the Vaccinations of
the cowardly conspirators at the Grand Opera,
as well as for the safety of Napoleon.
| The Chevalier Webb, however, claims
| that he is the exclusive and peculiar
favorite Of the Emperor, and even ignores his
rival, the Chevalier wikof, who has published
more, written more and knows more of Napo-
| leon than any other American. This Is not the
only error of which the Chevalier Webb il
| guilty. He claims that his big blanket was the
only newspaper here which. at the establish
ment Of the Empire, predicted that II would