The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-23

it now appears, fatty repudiates not only
Seward, Brown and Helper, but the republican
platform of 1885, concerning the removal Of
those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and
slavery"
| The cali in question invites the co-opera-
tion Of all who are opposed to the policy of
| the present Administrations federal corrup-
| tion and usurpation-to the extension of slavery
into the Territories-to the new and dangerous
political doctrine that the constitution, Of its
own force, carries slavery into all the Terrific
ries Of the United States-to the reopening Of
the African slave trade, and to any inequality
of rights among citizens" Such are the
negative principles Of the republican party
as now officially proclaimed to the world
The intelligent reader will perceive that
they embody a good share of clap
trap for buncombe, the old obsolete idea
OF the Wilmot Proviso, and hostility to the
bred Scott decision. The African slave trade
| dodge was expected; but we apprehend that
very little party capital can be made out of it,
from the fact that the movements for the revival
Of this unlawful traffic are limited to few
reckless Southern fre-eaters and few North
ern spectators of the philanthropic school.
In regard to the equal rights of our citizens,
we are somewhat in doubt whether this "cal"
is particularly intended to denounce the late
invidious Massachusetts naturalization law
against foreign born white citizens, or the laws
against those free negro Northern citizens
who, as employ Is on board ship, may visit the
ports of South Carolina The visiter to the
menagerie, who inquired which is the rhino.
ceros and which the hippopotamus, was
answered that having paid his money he could
take his choice; and we dare say that in this
matter of the equal rights of orr citizens, the
republican committee allows everybody the
same privilege.
The new affirmative principles of the re-
publican party, in this connection, call for the
cooperation of all "who are in favor of the
immediate admission of Kansas of 'restoring
the federal administration to a rigid system of
economy, and to the principles of Washington
and Jefferson; of maintaining inviolate the
rights Of the States, and defending the soil Of
ece'y State and Territory from la,cless inua-
sion, and of preserving the integrity of the
Union, and the supremacy of the constitution
and laws passed in pursuance thereof, against
the conspiracy of the leaders of sectional
party, to resist the majority principle as estab
lished by this government"
Here we have the pith of the whole matter
Here we find that Seward, Brown and Helper
have been somewhat too fast, and that they are
unceremoniously kicked out of the republican
camp; that we are not to have an '.irrepressible
conflict with slavery, until all the States shall
have become free States or slave States nor
anything Of the sort. And to this "call' thus
softening down the republican party creed to
mixture of milk and water, we find the names
of such endorsers of the Helper handbook Of
abolition treason as Edwin D. Morgan, of New
York, and Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky
What does all this mean? Is it hypocrisy
or is it repentance? The managers of the
republican camp are evidently frightened;
they have suddenly changed from the most
rampant of antislavery crusaders to the il, st
plausible of Northern doughfaces. Placed
litionists and the conservative masses "c the
North-Seward's followers arc called Jon to
take the back track, and we shall await with
great interest the general result. 1t will either
be holder anti-slavery front at Chicago or
the loss Of those progressive abolition elements
without which the republican camp is broken
up. In either event the party will be shorn
down to a mere faction and destroyed, with
anything like an active movement in the or
ganization of a new and national conservative
party, upon the platform embodied in the name
of General Scott.
JOURNALISM IN THR OLD FoGY SrYLE.-The
two papers in this city which made the greatest
noise about the late Union meeting at the
Academy Of Music, the Express and the Jour
nal Of Commerce, got up the whole affair be-
tween them, selected the speakers and made
all the arrangements, took as much pains as
possible to keep everything connected with it
secret, and render it as cliqueish as they could.
The way they treated the transaction as jour-
nalists is peculiar and deserves exposure.
They got the speeches Of the orators printed be-
forehand, with all the CHEERS, applause and
notes of admiration neatly inserted, and sent
around slips to the other journals before the
speeches were made at all.
Our mode of treating that meeting as jour
nalists was different. We allowed the mer-
chants to get up the meeting in their own way:
we allowed the speakers to prepare their
speeches week in advance, if they had a mind
to, and study their delivery in the highest dra-
matte fashion, if it suited them; but when the
meeting came off we sent ten reporters there
to take down the speeches exactly as they
were delivered, not as they had been printed
in advance, and describe every incident exact
ly as it occurred. Our report is the only true
and correct one. The speeches printed in the