The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-11

wing Of the party are resolved upon vigorous
rebellion. OF course we may thus safely pre-
Judge the State as lost to the democracy in No
vember, by an increased republican majority,
and two democratic delegations at Charleston
from the Empire State, which will make the
"noise and confusion of the rational party con.
ventiOn worse confounded than ever before.
Thus, the glory of Old Tammany and the i'm
perial rule of the Albany variety shop ure fading
away
Grand Display OF Southern Flreworhs-Bai-
destiash Of the Demagoxues.
Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, and
Mr.. r. Barnwell Rbett, of South Carolina, have
been entertaining their respective constituents
with grand displays Of rhetorical fireworks,
which throw into the shade all the achievements
of the fire kings north of Mason and Dixons line.
The occasion Of Mr.. Stephens display was
his surreDdering into the hands Of bis constitu-
ents the trusts so long reposed in him, and so
ably and faithfully discharged by him as their
representative in Congress. That OF Mr.. Rhett's
was the delivery of q Fourth Of July grafton be-
fore the assembled ohivalry and beauty Of Ora
hamville, in the Palmetto State. Both speeches
We transfer to our columns to-day.
Mr. Stephens has always had the reputation of
being one Of the most advanced of Southern fire
caters; but his last effort in that line is tame,
spiritless and insignificant, before the mighty
rush of Rhetts pyrotechnic eloquence. Mr..
Stephens tells his constituents what he did for
the slavery cause in Congress, and what great
progress the prO-slavery sentiment has made
since he first opened his lips in the House Of
Representatives. He tells them that he now
leaves that arena because the fight is over and
the battle won by the South, and because he
finds, as his great namesake of Macedon did be-
fore, that there are no more worlds to conquer
In other words, all the great questions in
which the South was interested are now,
be says settled, and that settlement is
affirmed by the judiciary as well as by the exc
cutiye. But the South Carolina fire. eater is Of q
different opinion. According to him the equality
of State and section, for which Calhoun and
McDuffie and IIayne and the other Southern
champions of the past contended, and which
they disdained to surrender, had, in the hands OF
their unworthy descendants, practically fallen to
the earth. The daughters of Zion could not have
sung more melancholy chant by the waters Of
Babylon than poor Rhett recites TO the sSmpa.
thiziDg bosoms of the people of Grahamville over
the decay and fallen condition of the South
''The fire bell" be says. sis ringing
and will ring on till it tolls the death
kuell Of the Union Aud then, in his
desperation against those VINO have been pro-
ducing such catastrophe, he calls the people Of
the North all sorts of hard names, stignatizing
them, rather inconsistency, as proud robbers"
and in the next breath as ga vulgar crew of
plunderers and fanatics" And then, in an out
burst OF indignant patriotism he asks the South
when will she "cast off the incubus of igno-
rance and error and fear which now like a foul
toad sits upon her bosom, TO rise up and COM
mand the liberation and independence of the
South?' We, think really, that after such mani
festation Mr.. Rhett's friends should be called
upon to take care of him.
The Georgian fire-eater is as cool as cucum-
Der beside him Of South Carolina Mr.. Stephens
tells his constituents quietly and calmly what he
thinks He tells them, for instance that there is no
prospect of any more slave States besides those to
be carved out Of Texas unless the stock of slaves
be increased. The policy of that is matter
which he does not discuss. He leaves it an open
question. He thinks, however, that the country
is too small in extent and he is therefore in favor
Of acquiring Cuba and absorbing Sonora Chi
buahua and other territory lying around loose"
He would not consent, however, to give more
than q million or two for Cuba; and if Spain did
not like to accept that he would simply repeal the
neutrality laws and let us help ourselves.
Mr.. Rhett here, too, far transcends Mr. Stephens
in the scope of his ideas. In his eyes q" the
broad expanse Of the tropics on this continent
lies stretching for thirty degrees on both sides OF
the equator for our civil conquest and posses
sion;'' and then he asks, :" Shall we not occupy
it? Shall not Japhet and Ham Che Southern
planter and his slave) go out together and take
their portion Of the inheritance of the earth ~
Oh! Oy all means. Let them 60. There are
quite a number Of enterprising Japhets OF Mr.
Rhett's stripe whom the South could very well
afford to see departing on this mission, and the
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couraged in his conquering and possessory ideas,
and we may all have the sweet satisfaction of
knowing that the South has got rid Of number
Of It's balderdash demagogues, bound to the
tropics on both sides Of the equator, there to
conquer and possess that portion of their inheri
lance. All aboard for the tropics
THE WEST WASHINGTON MARKET PROPERTY
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