The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-05

'Ae iaiBest IOWA n the lerftory, It's popuaton
being over -four THOUSAND" The usual vote of
thanks for the address was adopted on motion OF
Mr.. Augustus Schen, and copy requested for pub
LEGATION.
The steam sloop-ofwar Brooklyn, Captain d. G.
Farragut, hauled out in the stream on Thursday,
February 2, and yesterday steamed down to her
ancaoiase of Quarantine, going ten knots with
ca. Sc WAS much admired by the crowds who
W er lass down the river She carries eighteen
o 4 e Dahlgren heavy shell guns and draws six
teen ieet of water. She sails to-day for the West
In lies, 10 Join the Gulf fest
In the absence OF later foreign yesterday, the
oostn market unsettled, while the sales reached
about 500 bales, closing at about &c for middhng
u'snds. Ecu exhibited more frmness for common
gra he, w'i'e medium brands dull ana extras
changed sales of all kinds moderate Wheat less
buoyaat, ut rather doing Western white sold at
81 90, red do at 81 49, and white Kentucky at 81 70
81 IS, apd Milwaukee club at 81 221s. Corn firm,
with sales OF Jersey and Southern yellow at SOC slc.,
New jersey white at roc S0c and old mixed at SIC
PORK wss actve but closed with less buoyancy at
$lS 40 SIS so for old do at $8 and prime at
Sc 10 S13 62X Beef steady and in good dcmanj
Lard firm and active both the spot and arrive,
at full prizes. Sugars firm, and the stiffness Of
holders checked sales which limited, but at full
prices Rice active, with sales of about 200 casks
chiefly at 3sc. 4i4c. Coffee was firm The chief sale
consisted of 800 bags Of Rio at nc 1sc, with small
OTIS OF Jamaica and Java at noticed in another place
Freshts were unchanged and engagements limited.
Tie Sectional Parties of the Dny-A Fair
Opening for an Independent Union Move
ment.
1t must be now abundantly manifest to the
most superficial observer of political events, that
from the movements of the leading politicians
and managers Of the Southern democratic camp,
and of the Northern republican camp the para
mount purpose, on both sides, is sharply de-
lned sectional contest upon the slavery question
for the next Presidency.
Among the Congressional leaders of the South
ern democracy every hope and every desire of
conciliatng the North appear to have been
abandoned. The settlement Of the Kansas quar-
rel is thus regarded by these Southern leaders as
no settlement, but as only the entering wedge to
further and more dangerous "Northenn aggres-
sions." Accordingly, we find that every politi-
cal issue which can be distorted by Southern
body into sectional controversy has been
seized upon ard appropriated to keep up the
fires of the slavery agitation. Thus, upon Cen
iral American affairs and the Walker lilibusters
slave trade and upon the tariff question, it has
| been made to appear, by Southern flre-eat in
Congress and out of Congress, from Washington
TO Mobile, that the wrongs and outrages inflicted
upon the South and her peculiar institutions"
have been pushed to the last extremity of
endurance. And what else? Why, that
the safety of the South now demands that
her politicians and her people shall at once take
bold and positive stand in defence of slavery,
including the African slave trade, and upon this
platform leave the alternative to the North of o
continuance Of the Union, or separate Southern
confederacy.
In behalf of this shaping of the policy of the
| Northern democracy, their sectional leaders of
this Congress have been laboring with the earn
estness of revolutionary conspiracy. From
their factious hostility to almost every promi-
nent measure of the administration, at the last
session and at the present, it is apparent that
they are resolved, if possible, to crush OUT
even the conservative policy of President of
their own choosing, because it stands in their
way. What prospect is there, then, Of a nation
al reorganization of the democracy, with the
party already reduced substantially to the limits
of the Southern States, and with such leaders
and managers as these we have described con-
trolling this party? We must give it up and
make up our minds to the conclusion that the
Presidential ticket and platform in 1860 of the
Charleston Convention will be limited in their
m fha ell ~
States.
The designs and tendencies of the leaders and
managers of the Northern republican party are
equally indicative of purely sectional organ-
cation for 1860. While prominent republican
members of Congress have been re-afirming the
programme of that 'irrepressible conflict with
the slave power" as laid down in Mr.. Stewards
Rochester manifesto, it appears that either he or
bis agents in Washington have BEEN and still
are, industriously employed in sowing that mani
festo broadcast over the North. The object is to
prepare the minds of the rank and file of the re-
publican camp for the nomination of Seward as
their pre- ordained candidate for the succession.
Thus, looming up 10 bold relief in the fore
ground, we recognise the unmistakable outlines
of two formidable sectional parties for the next
Presidency, upon the broad and general issue of
slavery-the one party purely Southern
organization in behalf Of the maintenance, pro-
pagation and expansion of slavery, and the other
purely Northern organization acting upon the
comprehensive programme Of the exclusion of
slavery from every Territory, and its extinction
in every State Of the Union. If, therefore, the
contest for the succession is to be limited to
these two sectional parties, the results will be:
first, The election of an administration pledged to
the subugation and suppression of "the slave
oligarchy;' and, secondly, no doubt, the revolu-
tionary experiment of a Southern confederacy.
But, between these extremes there is the
| middle prounl III the constitution ond ,ho