The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-04
The South and Southern Snfety-A Now
Presidential Programme.

| Presidential Programme.
We are informed from Washington that the
failure of the South to secure law at this $685.
SIGN Of Congress for the better protection and
| security Of Southern Institutions and Southern
society will not be considered as the direct
signal for disunion, but that still another effort
will be made to secure the South, within the
Union, against the abolition incendiaries and
movements Of the North. This effort, it is pre-
dicted, will be something in the shape of Pre-,
sidential ticket or platform, or both, from q
caucus or convention Of Southern members Of
Congress, the authorized and legally constitut
ed representatives Of the Southern people.
In other words, this programme contemplates
the nomination Of Presidential ticket, on the
part of the South, without regard to the
Charleston Convention, or for the purpose of
superseding that gathering Of irresponsible po-
iiical gamblers. Upon this point, the opinions
Of MIR. Calhoun against these national party
conventions, when the democratic was a ma
tional party, are very much to the purpose.
We give his views, therefore, as elaborated by
the Charleston Merc,s,y, in it's article, which We
transfer to these columns. Thus it will be seen
how easy matter it will be for the responsible
representatives of the South in Congress to SUI
persede the Charleston Convention, and to
bring the North, upon new Presidential test
to the nice alternative of Southern safety with
in tho Union, or tho separation of the South
from the Union.
The present grievances of the South, inflicted
upon them by the North, are too serious to ad-
nit Of any further trifing. By twos and
threes, and tens and twenties, the slaves of the
border slave States are spirited away on the
underground railroad" Of which there are
several organized lines from Maryland, vir-
ginia and Kentucky, to the Canadian frontiers
Of itself this system of kidnapping is an in
tolerable nuisance, and source of constant
Losses, alarms and dangers to the border slave
States. Secondly, abolition incendiaries, in
various DISCUSSES, and in various ways, in the
North and in the South, are more active than
ever heretofore in sowing the seeds of servie
stampedes and in insurrectionary conspiracies
The Harper's Ferry raid is suggestive of
another OF dozen other abolition outbreaks
of the same kind, oil along the Northern line
of slave States, at any moment and without
moments warning. And if Northern philan-
thropists and Puritanical preachers of the Cos.
pei are found, with the orators and organs of
the republican party, clarifying Old Brown as
a saint and martyr, is not the danger very much
increased of repetition, from time to time, of
these bloody Harper's Ferry forays:
Above all, with such interpreters of Mr..
Stewards 'irrepressible conflict" as Old Brown,
and Hinton Rowan Helper, who seeks to
instigate the Southern slave States to servile
reVoit, ana thA laboring white class of
the South to an agrarian repoi;e., ia II not
abundantly manifest that this terrible abolition
crusade against the institutions and society of
the South has been pushed to the last extremi-
ty Of forbearance? If there existed political
party in the North to which Southern men
could look with the smallest confidence, the
case would be different. But no such party
exists. The all powerful North, from Maine to
Minnesota, stands in hostile array against
slavery and the "slave oligarchy." Possibly
there may be way whereby the conservative
people Of the central States may be brought to
the rescue of the Union
AT all events, let this Southern Congressional
Presidential movement be tried upon the touch
stone of the Union, and we shall not despair of
retaining such States as New Jersey Penn
sylvania, Indiana and Illinois We say nothing
for the present of New York, because the
Albany Regency and Tammany Hall have so
debauched and divided the democratic party
with the abolition crotchets of the Buffalo
platform that even the hitherto impregnable
national city of New York may go by the
board. 1t is only now through the bold and
decisive action OF the Southern members Of
Congress- acting for the South, that the North
can be brought to realize the perils and the
value Of the Union.