The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-05

the election of republican anti slavery Presi-
deet. And so we think it very probable that the
republican party in 1860 will share the fate of
the old Sewardized wing party of 1852. Seward,
Brown, Helper, Cheever, Beecher and Theo-
dore Parker have hurried up the main question
of Union or disunion, and to save the Union
reserved Northern force of half million of
men, and more, stands ready to join the demo-
cratic party.
The Underground Railroad and Its VIC
tims-The speakership.
There is quite number of moral and re-
spectacle people in this community, and in the
North generally, engaged in the nefarious bust
ness of stealing, or acting receivers of stolen
property for those who practise the stealing, of
negroes in the South, and running them into
Canada.
Those engaged in the operation form two
classes-the rascals who live by it as bust
ness, and the fanatics who pay the contribu-
tions Proclaiming the same principle that
the French socialist does, when he asserts that
whoever holds property is a thief, they insist
that every man has the natural right to steal
niger and run him into Canada and accord
ingly they have arranged the routes and hiding
places of the underground railroad, and strenu-
ously assist in running off slave property,
merely because the law makes it property.
They care nothing for the negro after they
have decoyed him away from his master and his
Southern home, and few Of our readers are
aware of the restitution and misery that
swarm around the Canada terminus of the
underground line. In order to enlighten the
world on this subject, we detailed special
correspondent to visit Canada, and his
truthful report will be found in another column.
From his discoveries it would seem that
our neighbors of the Tribune have established
an opposition line to the old underground rail-
road; that when the funds get low batch of
bogus slaves are picked up in Worth street
and other negro resorts in this city and else
where, and are put through the regular opera
tons as fugitives, to stimulate the slack contri-
buttons of the fanatics in New York, Albany,
Troy, &c.; and that when the Simon Pure runa-
ways get to Canada, certain philanthropic land
spectators in Detroit and across the line rope
them in to buy eligible lots and farms in the
Canadian negrodom. There they soon become
shiftless and worthless occupants of the land,
till they are dispossessed, or die of consump.
ton.
To keep up this infamous business all sorts
of tricks and humanitarian appeals are resorted
to, and as fast as the old fools are disguised
and leave new ones are roped in to supply the
funds. Now and then bright looking negroes
call upon our benevolent citizens with stories
of having mothers, wives and children held in
slavery, whose freedom they wish to purchase,
and for this purpose ten, twenty and sometimes
hundred dollars only are required to COM
plete the purchase money. In nine cases out of
ten these negroes are merely the ticket agents
of the trunk line Of the underground railroad.
The abolition party pure and simple, found
ed by Arthur Tappan and few others to
assist, with the Journal of Commerce as an Or
gan, and now kept up by Wendell Phillips
with the piping of the Tribune, has never cast
over two hundred thousand votes in New
England and the Middle States; yet so
adroitly have the leaders managed their
game that first the democratic party was
brought to bid for them, then their
embrace killed the old whig organization,
and now they have got possession of the black
republicans, body and soul, file and leaders.
VIM. H. Seward switched the party off its track
and on to that leading to abolition, with his
bloody and brutal speech at Rochester, and
Sherman, and his sixtyseven co-endorsers of
the Helper aboliionism, swore that the deed
was good and true. John Brown practised
what Seward preached and Sherman endorsed,
and the result is that two hundred thousand
fanatical abolitionists here at the North have
made the whole country believe that they re-
present the entire Northern sentiment As
natural consequence the South is in arms, vigi-
lance committees take every man that comes
from north of Mason and Dixon's line for an
abolitionist; Northern manufactures are alb
jured; Northern merchants and their agents
are rejected, and the worst financial crisis that
ever swept over any country broods over the
industry of the Northern States.
The popular sentiment in the North is begin
ming to appreciate rightly this fanatical war
fare on the constitutional rights Of property in
the South, for it strikes at the daily labor of
the Northern mechanic, manufacturer and la
borer. The vigilance committees which the
raids Of Northern fanatics have called into being
in the South will, ere long, produce similar
demonstrations on the part Of the conservative
ceiling of the North. 1t will not permit set of
ruthless fanatics and rascals to make the world
believe that the entire North is with them. If
this agitation is continued much longer, the
working men, who lose the market for the pro-
ducts Of their industry, and the conservative
men, who love the constitution, the Union, and