The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-24

believe that W. II. Seward will be net aside by
the republican party in 1860, or that the party
ifself will be sgnally defeated should he be no
mineted % its candidate.
On the ether hand, we have no doubt
that the "slaye power Of the South as applied
to The three hundred and fifty Thousand slave
holders Of the South, constitutes body Of men
Of the constitution and the Union, as can be found
in the Union, not even excepting the great
mercantile interest of our Northern seaboard
cities. Senator Hammond, Of South Carolina,
we think, in his political views, may be taken as
O fair average specimen OF those Southern slave
holders who are the largest possessors of slaves
And what are his views concerning his vital
Southern institution of slavery? He gives it up
that there is no margin left to slavery in Our eX
isting Territories; that Mexico is forbidden
question 4; that even Cuba would, perhaps, rather
weaken than strengthen the South; that the re-
vival of the African slave trade would be dsas-
trous if rot ruinous to Southern slavery; and
yet he maintains that it is the true policy of the
South to adhere to the Unisa.
That these sentiments, more or less, prevail
among the Southern Shareholders of all parties
we have no doubt. II is to the vagabond poll
ticians, spoilsmen and place hunters of the Sosth
that We must look for all these African slave
trade, 6libustering and secession movements
Our fellow citizens Of This metropolis will not
dispute the fact that the friends of law and order
among us are competent to take our Corporation
affairs into their own hands, II they will, aud yet
we continue to be, as we have been for many
years, the victims Of the rufIians. rowdies and
sPoilsmen who control our local elections. So
with our national affairs. The sensible masses
OF the people, North and South, are victmizcd
py our restless, reckless agitating, scheming
ara plotting politicians who make the business
OF parties, elections and spols their special trade
Thus, mere handful of these scheming mana
gers Of parties and platforms dictate or over
rice the public sentiment of the North and the
South. The only remedy is ia the Independent
action Of the people. In the interval, the coun-
try will be safe under the guardianship of Mr.
: Buchanan's administration; but it is still the
duty Of the people to provide for the suppress
sion, in 1860 of pestilent sectional agitators
Contemplate as they are they may still be
powerful enough, unchecked by public opinion,
to drive the country headlong to ruin with their
paltry distractions upon niggers and slavery.
Tho FiIsbusters Again Under Weights the
War uf the Conn .Us1Or~s H,s. .,v~auasa1
We received yesterday the Intelligence that
General William Walker, with three hundred
men, had arrived at Acapulco from San Francis
co, on board the steamship Orizaba What his
designs We're is unknown, but report states that
his expedition is INTENDED for Southern Mexico
1t may be that the whole report is unfounded :.
but even if it is so, there is something in the
wind that merits The early attention Of the gov
eminent.
Giving the report all the credit it is entitled to,
we still do not believe that Walker has any idea
Of landing in any part of Mexico. His intimate,
Colonel Bruno Won Natzmer, appeared some if
teen days since on the lsthmus Of Tehuantepec
and then disappeared. No one seems to know
where he went to. A weeks later advices from
Vera Cruz show that he is not there, and fort
night later from Tehuantepec makes no mention
of him. We feel pretty certain that there are
parties in this city who know where Natzmer
went TO, and where Walker intends to 20. lust
Omoa expedition. But on that occasion they
revealed their knowledge little too soon, and
experience leads them not to make the same
mistake this time. Now let us take common
sense view of the premises and probabilities OF
the case in this new movement Of the flibusters.
II is well known that Walker is one of those
men whose excessive tenacity of purpose be-
comes more firm under disaster. and only bends
before the opening vista of rising fortunes. He
himself is welded to Nicaragua, and confidently
believes that bis fortunes and his destiny lie
there. He comprehends that persistence in that
idea makes him, even under adversely, hero;
while IN abandoning it he becomes nothing more
than desperate adventurer For this reason
when Henningsen went to Monterey to endeayor
to make come arrangement with Vidaurri, ana
Natzmer went thrice to Vera Cruz on a similar
errand to Zamora and La Lave, be unhesitasing-
" disapprOved Of both plans, and refused to
have any thing to do with them OF to countenance
them. He has constantly announced his iuten-
ton of returning to Nicaragua and the wreck
Of the Susan with the advance guard of an ex-
petition from Mobile, though it defeated for q
while, only partially revealed his plans Since
then he has been constantly bat silent
~ at work. His intimate friends seek no
other career than that of following his for
tunes, though frequent opportunities have been
presented to them. Suddenly, some month since,
the Chief and several Of his principal con6dants
left the Atlantic States aud went to California.
Within few weeks we see one of them in our
streets-calm, cool aud confident; then we hear
Of another crossing the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec,
and now the chief himself turns up, at the head
OF three hundred men, with fine steamship