The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-08

American people with the great sectional peace
compact of 1850. This should have taught the
democracy their line Of policy and safety. But
there were Presidential aspirants in the camp too
eager for the Southern pro slavery vote at Gin
cinnah to heed this instructive lesson The re-
peal in 1854 of the Missouri Compromise was the
consequence, and the reopening Of the slavery
agitation in all its length and breadth was thus
sounded from Maine to Texas, and from Boston
to San Francisco.
But the Cincinnati Convention discovered that
this Southern ultra slavery movement of the
party had been carried too far, and the nomina-
ton and election of Mr.. Buchanan clearly sug
gested more conservative line of policy. This
line of policy the President adopted in bis inau-
gural and in the appointment of his Cabinet but,
singularly enough from this point the treacherles,
distinctions, conspiracies and rebelions in the
camp. against him and his administration, com.
menced. We find these disafiections first break
ing ont in the South upon the Kansas issue, and
then in the North upon the same thing; and next,
with the passage of the English Conference bill,
an extended rebellion in the North, followed by
the most extraordinary party excuses 10 the
South upon the African slave trade question, the
flbuster question, and other trumpcd up issues
of an intensely sectional character.
With the PRONUNCIATION of the Presidents Mes
sage of December last, we find these Southern
distinctions extending to every leading recon-
incubation of the Executive, including his Cuba
policy, his Pacific Railroad arguments and
views, his Mexican and Central American policy
and bis recommendations concerning the tariff
and general bankrupt law. Most remarkable
of all, these regulations of the policy of the ad
ministration are most conspicuously set forth in
the leading organ of the Virginia democracy and
of Governor Wise; for here they amount to the
total reputation of the administration by the
man and the State most instrumental in Mr. Blu
chaDan's nomination. And why? Were not the
views of Mr.. Buchanan upon all these great issues
as well known in 1856 as they are in 1858? They
Were; but there is all the difference In the world
between the imperative necessities of the party
in 1856 and the demoralizations and Presidential
cliques of the party of 1853.
And thus il is that the administration has been
left to take care Of itself by most of the Presi-
dental leaders of the party; and thus the party
has been torn to pieces. Where is it and
what are its principles? No man can
tel. God only knows. But there yet
remains to us, solid and strong, the administra-
ton, with it's well defined domestic and foreign
policy. Amidst the present discords and chaos
of all parties, it is our only remaining ark of
safety. It commands the confidence of the coun-
try aud the respect of foreign nations Between
this, that and the other factious or rebellious
leader of the party, and the little sectional or
local clique at his back, we can make no choice.
We must repudiate them all.
AT this crisis considering the necessities of the
government, and the judicious policy of the
President for replenishing the treasury, we must
especially denounce these sectional mock re-
trenchment and free trade movements of the
Southern leaders Of the democracy in Congress.
We must denounce them, because their apparent
aim and certain tendencies are directed to the
prejudice vf the administrator, tile uIsgruUe OF
the government, and to sectional contest or
scrub race in 1860 which may be the ruin Of tho
Union.