The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-13

sone sales Tor export Wheat was again higher,
with tales Of come $4,000 bushels n prices gwen
In another place Corn somewhs. less baoyant and
active, while were quotations given in another
Column The sales Of sugars embraced 200 hhds
rates given elsewhere Coffee quiet while holders
firm Ano Gales were unimporant Freight engage.
meDs moderate. Some -four taken for Liver
pool Is, and some for London private terms For
corn and wheat to the former port 6d in bulk and Cd
ia ships bags we're demanded.
The Conservative Reaction In tho North.
wesi-AnOther Lesson for che Cha
TON Convention.
The returns of the judiciary election in Wis.
consiD show manifest breaking away in the
Northwest of the dark clouds of political and
abolition faDaticism that have 80 long been
gathering over the country; and as in the ply
steal, so in the political horizon this is the GER
tain harbinger of fair weather and clear sky
in the meridian.
A conservative reaction against the revola
ioDary and destructive tendencies of the black
republican party has taken place there bearing
a remarkable resemblance to that which has
shown itself in Connecticut aud Rhode Island
and proving that everywhere the same conser-
vative sentiment is rife among the people. The
facts of the case are full of meaning, and We
will therefore recite them. Some six or seven
years since an abolitioAist was tried before the
United States Court of Wisconsin for violation
rescue fugitive slave from the United
States Marshal. He was convicted and
sentenced by the federal Court, but the Sa-
preme Court of Wisconsin took him by
writ of habeas corpus from the federal authori.
ty, and liberated him, on the ground that the
Fugitive Slave law was unconstitutional. The
federal government carried the case to the
Supreme Court at Washington, aud this tri-
bunal reversed the decision of the Wisconsin
State Court In January last the case was
brought before Judge Dixon, Of the Supreme
Court of Wisconsin, and the point raised that
the Supreme Court of the United States had
not appellate jurisdiction from the State courts
in cases arising under the laws of the United
States Judge Dixon gave an opinion at once,
that the United States Supreme Court has such
jurisdiction under the Judiciary act of 1887,
in some cases, if not in all-from which
opinion, however, Justice Cole dissented, and
no formal or valid decision was made
This opinion of Judge Dixon threw the
whole black republican camp into an uproar,
and it was determined to eject him from the
bench. The black Republican State Conven-
ton met in February, and nominated Hon. A.
Scott Sloan tor his place, when Judge Dixon
came forward as an Independent conservative
candidate. The result is that in the State of
Wisconsin, where Fremont obtained a MAORI.
~ of 1921 votes over Buchanan, Judge Dixon
is elected by majority of more than six thou.
sand votes, showing a total change of nearly
twenty thousand in State which cast $4,000
votes last year. This is practical and
direct popular comment on Stewards infamous
threat, uttered on the floor of the Senate. Eve
will reorganise your federal courts;D it is a
hearty and uKequivocal rejection of the black
republican creed, in its very essence and life,
by the rural population, whose support of
black republicsnism in all its abhorent de-
structiveness has been go much Wanted by its
demagogues and mad orators. And what is
more, it is a thorough rejection Of ultraism of
all kinds.
In order to show more clearly the flow and
ebb of the tide Of popular opinion in Wiscon.
sin, we compile the following table of MAORI
tee in thirty.fve counties, from which the
Madison Patriot of last date publishes returns,
compared with the majorities in the same coun-
ties in 1856 and 1867
1s56- Buchanan. ,6s2-Fremont 1924
Is59-Hobart (dem) 10 2Z- Randall (rep...... 1882
ls6C-pixon icon 10 ,l50-Soap (rep) ,637
democratic majorities lost 461, while the black
republican gaioed 1853; but since then the
tide has turned, aud the black republican ma.
joiities have lost ], us, while the conservative
has gained on the previous democratic vote
5929, making total change of 1914 votes.
This enormous increase on the democratic vote
iu Wisconsin is due to the coming out of the
conservative classes there, just as they did ia
the recent elections in Connecticut and Rhode
Island, and just as they are going to do all
over the country in the coming political cam.
paign. This fact is admitted by the press of
both parties in Wisconsin. One journal (de-
mocratic) ssys:-"Wesdo not claim this exclu-
sively az a democratic victory, though it is y
victory for the principle of law and order that
the democracy have been contending for,
against the combined hosts of tanatcism, for
several years." Another journal, of the same
school, says:-"Judge Dixon was brought out
as an independent candidate. and by the votes
Of democrats and the conservative portion of
the republican party embracing the larger
portion Of old line whigs);' while black re-
publican organ confesses that the result
will prove that there is q healthy backbone
TO our people when pressed too far by ex-
IRENE politicians of either the democratic or
the republican school,