The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-01-30

The Southern mNnlfesto-Ecx-Gov. Sew ards
Speech at CleyeIa nd Danger to tho Union.

New York, Tuesday, January 30 ls4e.
The Southern nnanifssto-Ex-Gov. Stewards
Speech at CIeveIa nd Danger to tho Union.
We publish In our columns to-day, the famous
Southern manifesto prepared by Mr.. Calhoun, OF
South Carolina, (the separate paper of Mr. Berrien
Is almost identlcal) and issued under the appre.
baton of large portion of tn. Southern members
of the present Congress, sitting at Washington.
We also publish, IN the same connection, and as a
fit accompaniment, very curious and remarkable
speech delivered by Ex-Governor Seward, OF this
State, at Cleveland, In Ohio, In the month of Oc-
tober last.
MIR. Calhoun's manifesto on the aggresslons made
by the North on Southern Institutions, and Mr.
Stewards speech and decarauons declaring the
purposes and principles of the party with which he
is connected at the North, will thus be to be
part and parcel Of the same movement, the same
agitation, ind the same disturbing controversy,
which, for the first time since the revolution, now
seriously menaces the permanence of this COME
deracy. We desire our readers to peruse both with
care and attention.
This manifesto, written by Mr.. Calhoun, has
beenvery much commented upon by the newspaper
press. Since the Southern members held their first
meeting in Washington, for the purpose of matur.
States, Mr.. Calhoun placed himself at once In the
front rank, as a champion Lof Southern lnstitu-
tions. This would of course excite the jealousy of
many OF his colleagues who would on that account
naturally endeavor to misrepresent and msstate
the positions assumed by the writer, and the prin-
clples which he declares. before their coming to
light. Northern newspapers, it appears, have been
full of such misstatements, and Mr.. Calhoun and
his hay hes acrused If enfe rial ming
deliberately, the purpose of dlssolving the Union.
without any Justifable cause-being merely urged
to such purpose by his own exaggerations Of
Northern movements. h:snow evident, however,
from the facts they appear in both of the docu-
ments which we now publish that OF Mr.. Calhoun,
and that OF Ex-Governor Seward-that the allega-
tons made by MIR. Calhoun, in his manifesto
against the aggressions OF the North are correct in
every particular. Read carefully the speech de-
ivered by Mr.. Seward, at Cleveland, In the month
of October last, and there will be found calm and
deliberate purpose announced, under the pretence
OF humanity, to interfere with those Southern
interests which have been guaranteed solemnly
by the constitution, and which have been pro-
tected under it for the last half century The
allegations made by Mr.. Calhoun, that North
ern legislation has violated the federal compact, is
CoHiPicOiy LsoO out W tuC ucCidIdeoHo anu
avowed purposes of Ex-Governor Seward. In the
city of Cleveland, in Ohio, Mr.. Seward made
those declarations and avowed those purposes
which, if carried out to the extent so broadly
marked, would at once violate, still further, the
constitution Of the United States, and above al
things, bring about an early and sudden disruption
between the North and the South. The advice
which he gives to the local Leg stature of Ohio re-
lat,y t,o,t IL
tcally be- if earned out, an infraction of the con-
stitution as II now exists, between the North and
the South. The general avowal also made, of ele-
waiting the colored race to perfect equality with
the whites, over the whole of this confederacy, is
the particular feature which distinguishes this re-
markable speech Of Mr.. Seward.
Now, with these remark able and striking docu-
ments before US, it is perfectly clear that Mr. Cal
houn and the other Southern members of Con-
gress who have issued the Southern manifesto,
are perfectly justified under the constitution, IN
making the declarations which they have made,
and in pointing cut the aggressions which have
been attempted by Northern fanatics on Southern
rights, in violation OF the constitution We do
not wish to enter into any discussion on the alb.
stract question of slavery, applied to the African
race. As long the Union of these States re-
uHucI Tie present constitution, such
question in relation to the colored population of
The South ID not open for public discussion The
Nortern States, In becoming members of the con-
federacy, and parties to that instrument, pledged
their faith and their honor to certain conditions IN
reference to particular class of the population of
the Southern States AS long as that constitution
exists, those pledges must be adhered to by all
public men, In the North as we'll as the South
bn l. L
and open attempt to counsel otherwise, as Mr.. Sc.
ward did at Cleveland and elsewhere, last summer,
must be characterized and set down either as dou-
be-faced demagogues OF the worst shape, or as de-
termned and resolute In the purpose of bring ng
about speedy and early disruption Of the Union
between the Northern and Southern States There
Is no escape from such an alternative
Such Is the present condition OF this very critl
cal and very important question between Northern |
and Southern interests, as well as Northern and |
Southern feelings. 1t Is the first time in the his
tory of this republic, that such crisis has been
produced by the agitation of questions In both
sections, that can only lead to violation of the |
constitution on the one hand, and complete dis.
Iuption Of the confederacy on the other
What, then, Is to be done! Have Mr.. Calhoun |
and his associates overestlmated the importance |
OF the crIsis9 Certainly not The course Of Mr.. |
Seward and the faction of aboiionsts attached |
to his fortunes in this and other States will slowly
but surely bring about that catastrophe which all |
would deplore If the sober, sensible, and practical
people Of the North do not at once arouse and |
act, and put down all those who would counsel |
and advise, as Mr.. Seward has done, a gross and
violent lntractIon OF the constitution Of the United
States. The progress and triumph of such a double
laced demagogue Mr.. Seward has always
shown himself to be, during his whole career,
would certainly and surely bnng about consum-
nation that would be disastrous to the rapidly
growing glory and magnlfcence of this republic.
[n every nhase of his career MI Seward haa