The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-03-10

The Anta-SIavery Tactlcs-A Slave Auction
and Personal Laberty Bill.
As the time Of the Presidential campaign ap.
proaches, the anti-slavery tactics develOpe them
selves, and the Journalists Of the faction resort
to every ingenious device to irritate the South
on one hand and to rouse the abolition senti-
ment of the North on the other, exciting its
hatred against the people Of the Southern States
In order to deepen and widen the line ofdemaEca-
ton between the North and South, so as to prepare
the way for an anti-slavery issue in the conflict
of 1860, and to consummate, the long cherished
designs of William H. Seward. The programme
is to adopt that demagogue as the next Presi-
dental candidate of Northern party, and
either to elect him or sever the Union into two
halves, when it would be an easy matter to elect
him President of the Northern fragment of the
dismembered republic.
AS an instance of this policy we may refer to
an account Of slave auction of 436 negroes
which recently took place at Savannah, Georgia,
published yesterday in an anti-slavery journal Of
this city, occupying whole page of loaded type
with large ad capand,nm headings, and dshed
up in such fashion as to stir from its depths the
enmity of the North against the South, and
to wound the feelings of the latter to the core.
1t is feeble imitation of the style of
''Unclc Toms Cabin" and "Dred Scott"
but is well calculated to exasperatc fanatics and
do general mischief
Human feelings" we are told ''were of no
account" in this sale. "The buyers were gene
rally Of a rough breed, slangy, profane and
bearish, the petty tyrants of the rice fields that
border the great Dismal Swamp" The negroes,
which were the property of Mr.. Pierce Butler, OF
Philadelphia, and sold to pay his debts, were
almost all of original Congo blackness, little
deilled by the admixture of degenerate Anglo
Saxon blood" Such is the language of the
gger-worshipping correspondent Of the New
York journal These negroes +" were sent to the
SHAMELESS" and 81 the blades of grass on ali the
Butler estates are outnumbered by the tears that
are poured out in agony at the wreck that has
been wrought in happy houses, and the crushing
grief that has been laid on loving hearts," Then
again we are told that 'some of them were MANNED
and wounded, some SCARED and gashed by acct
and sorrowful as human hearts can be-" "This
sort of thing" says the writer it is that makes
Northern blood boil and Northern fists clench
1t was almost too much for endurance to stand
and see those brutal slave-drivers pushing the
women about, pulling their lips apart with their
not too Clearly hands, and committing many
another indecent act'
The design Of all this is sufficiently evident
and of the same tendency is the Personal Liberty
bill" recently introduced into our Legislature
Already the law is as strong against slavery as
it can be in this State, and the object of intro
ducing the bill is piece of anti-savery tactics,
particularly as it is in complete antagonism to
the supreme law of the United States.
Thus are the nigger-worshippers of the North
working for the severance of the Union, and the
nigger.drivers and fire eaters of the South are
laboripg to accomplish the same result They
are all alike traitors to the constitution and the
Union, and doing their utmost to destroy this
fair political fabric, raised by the wisdom and
cemented by the blood Of our forefathers.