The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-23

coiuIlnb OF the HERALD, WITHIN the last lew
months, that the stupendous uprising against
rebellion of the Northern States will prove the
harbinger of an equally salutary awakening in
relation to local politics, and that such a tot
tering and downfall of the systems of treachery,
violence, and barbarism, which have prevailed,
to greater or less extent, for over thirty
years, have commenced, as must bury in ruins
all who have co-operated to sustain them.
Nowhere, more signally than in the State of
New York, have methodized proAigacy, and
an adherence to old platforms, been shattered
into fragments. There is not single school of
past politics which retains a trace of vitality.
They are themselves conscious of their power
lessness, and emulate one another in bowling
down in worship before the great ror
pop'di which is regenerating the nation.
The Republican Convention, at Syracuse,
crouched before the Peoples Conven-
ton, and, with one exception, adopted
the whole Union ticket. Even Cagger and
Richmond sought to bespangle their selfishness
with bogus Union stars, and to give their dis
guised secession proclivities popular gloss
Poor dismantled, disgraced, abandoned Tam
many, has been seeking to squirm itself over to
an endorsement of the administration war pro-
gramme, ever since the odious ninth resolution
was sustained by its delegates to the Democratic
State Convention. There is not shade of po-
litcal opinion, even in city intrigues for the
county and charter elections, in November and
December, which has not sought to identify it
al u,;th fbo
them all, however, arises the awakened intelli-
gence of citizens everywhere, who not only
comprehend the gravity of the crisis through
which the republic is passing, but have mani
tested the firm resolve that they will shake off
forever the iron yoke that has been imposed
upon them, and which their own culpable
apathy has caused them to submit to, hitherto.
The political heresies of the past resolve
themselves, mainly, into the insurrectionary Sc
cessiOn school Of flre-eaters and demagOgues at
the South, and the sect Of fanatcal mscreants at
the North, who, paid by enemies of free institu-
tons in England, have labOred on from year to
year, since 1880, until they have made aboli-
tionism dangerous ut the North. Few in num-
bers, but restless in activity, the anti-slavery
faction imagine, at this hour, that they will sue
coed in forcing the government to make the
present war, between the States, an issue which
shall result in the overthrow of the constitution,
and the abrogation of those guarantees by which
property, in descendants from the African race,
is held in bondage. The elections that are
about to take place, within the next few months,
will be the test of popular sentiment with TO
spect to each of these two pernicious classes of
that the people abhor them alike. Niger
drivers and niger worshppers, will be equally
condemned, and, it will be found that of the
three millions Of voters north Of the Potomac,
not three hundred thousand are prepared
to sanction the wild aspirations of such
disunionists as Wendell Phillips, Garrison,
Greeley, Gerrit Smith and Raymond, while the
partisans of Davis, Slidell, Toombs and Floyd
will not venture to appear at the polls at all.
The peoples ticket in New York, will proba-
bly, be elected by three hundred thousand mao
rity. The popular fat went forth at the Union
Convention, at Syracuse, in opposition, on the
one hand, to secession and disunion, whether in
the shape OF active rebellion, or its more ins-
dious ally, advocacy to an nglorious and dis
honorable peace, and also, on the other, to
everything that savors Of abolition, or tends to-
wards q violation of the guarantees provided by
the constitution for the preservation of the
rights CT slave property. The patriotic dele
gates, who put Daniel S. Dickinson and his as
sociates in nomination, have commended them
selves by their action, to the patriotism and
common sense of every thinking individual
The position they assumed is beyond all praise
and the campaign that has begun is but the be-
ginning of Il revolution that will clear the politi-
cal atmosphere of the noisome vapors that have
filed it for so long period
VIGOROUS SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE Trade
Specializing in the slave trade is becoming I'M
profitable work. 1t is only few weeks since
the bark Sarah was coniiscated to the govern
ment, and now the bark Augusta has met a
similar fate for engaging, or being about to en-
gage, in the obnoxious traffic. Such examples
as these will go fur to convince those who ina
gined they could violate the law with impunity
that they were mistaken and have strong
c!ieCt Ill otlclS iIo fortune
in the infamous venture. We do not propose
entering into q detail of the circumstances
under which the forfeiture of the vessel last
named took place. We will, however, remark
that at the time of her seizure she was being
fitted out at Greenport, l.. l., ostensibly for a
fifteen months whaling cruise. But apart from
the fact of the depressed condition of the
whaling trade, which makes it profitable only
| to those familiar with it--whereas> the owners
in the present instance knew nothing
about 1.-THE large size of the vessel
was suspicious. as also the short time
| named for her cruise. The crew required
to navigate such vessel so employed would
have been too large to have made the enter.
! prise at all profitable, even under the most
favorable circumstances, and, moreover, a crew
or officers, some portion of whom were not en-
tire strangers to whaling, would have been in