The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-15

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power, he "~ould rather vote for the blacklist
Of the black republicans for Speaker than for
any Democrat whatever" Now, to read the
article which we copy from the Wtig Of Saturday
last, is to be convinced that this project Of
coalition between the republican party and tho
Southern opposition members of the new Con.
| gress has been Knocked In the head by "Otd
John Brown" There will be no such coalition.
| The Southern opposition members dare not now
venture upon an experiment so dangerous to
themselves as this. "Old Brown has drawn
the line beyond which they cannot pass. lie
has rekindled the late waning fires of the
slavery agitation, and every responsible South
ern man will be required, first and last, nov
and hcnceforward, to stand by the South as
against the ruthless abolition crusaders of the
North.
We presume, however, that the republicans
Of the House lacking only six members of at
absolute majority-will be able to pick them
up from such anti-Lecompton democratic re-
pnblicans as Reynolds, Clarke and Haskin, Of
New York; Adrain and Riggs, Of New Jersey;
Hickman and Schwartz, Of Pennsylvania, aud
Davis, of Indiana, to say nothing of the Illinois
Douglas members. We may thus anticipate
such an organization Of the House, and such a
course of proceedings by the controlling party
of that body, as will be best calculated not to
close up, but to widen, the breach between the
North and the South upon the Presidential is
, sue, so as to narrow down the contest to two
parties-the Northern republicans and the
Southern democracy.
In the meantime, from all the political
events, movements and Developments of the
/, day. We can discover nothing, North or
South, bat the evidences and signs of
general sectional revival of the slavery
| agitation, which will overshadow and super
sede In 1860 all other issues, however practical,
| or important or useful, CIR essential to the ma
terial interests Of the country, or to the peace
and prosperity of the Union. In the North,
| cold Ossawatomie Brown" is in fair way to
| be canouized as martyr in "the cause Of hu
man freedom" Republican poets are chaunt
| ing his achievements and his praises, and our
republican organs, far and near, speak SYM
| pathizingly of the old cutthroat, and lament
his raid into Virginia as mistake, instead Of
denouncing it as the blacklist aud bloodiest Of
crimes. All this indicates the thorough diffu-
sion through the Northern mind of that leaven
of abolitionism which such artiul demagogues
as Seward, and such canting parsons as Beecher,
and such ferocious negro worshiPpers as CARR
son, have been preaching from the FORUM the
pulpit and the press for the last thirty years.
~ A. E~IA 1,ck
even the most conservative of the organs OF the
opposition party of that section has been
brought at last to the belief that the ''South-
ern States will not submit to the inauguration
of Seward as President of the United States"
that they will not submit, In fact, ito the inau
whatever" but that, in any such event, ''all
the Gulf States, with one accord, and at the
same moment, will 60 out Of the Union, and set
up for themselves and that the other Southern
States, Virginia included, will ultimately, if not
Immediately, take precisely the same STEP"
What then, is the proper course to be pur-
sued by the friends Of the Union, anxious to
prevent this sectional conflict in 1860, which,
unless arrested will inevitably drive the ex-
treme South to this last extremity Of secessions
The first effort, wo think should be made with
the democratic party in the new Congress; and
this effort should be directed to bring the demo-
cratic members of both houses into "a happy
accord" with the wise and conservative policy
and measures of Mr.. Buchanan's administration.
Let this be done, and the next important
step--a conservative national ticket and plat
form from the Charleston Convention-cOm-
petent to save the country, will be, compare
lively, on easy task. But, in default of demo-
cratic harmony in Congress, it will require
no prophet to predict the most disastrous dis
cords to the democracy, and black republi-
can victory in the Presidential election.
Let the democracy come in to the safe
anchorage Of the administration. 1t is their
only hope, and they have no time to lose. The
administration can get on without the party,
as we know from the experience Of the last
Congress; but the party will be swamped with
out the administration, as we may see from the
opposition majority in the new Congress.
TIE Next STATE LEGIsLATURE.--The State
Legislature will meet in the beginning of
the new year, and, judging from the greater
part Of the recently elected members, it
will be the most rascally and corrupt that
ever congregated at Albany. Owing to the