The New York herald., 1850-03-13
New York, "wednesday. March 10. 1880.
Senator Seward on the Slavery Agitation-
The New York Niggers In the Field.

William ii. Seward, of New York. has spoken
At last, in the Senate, and the colored people of
his city have already endorsed his views. If his
words should have.nluence on the North, COM
mensurate with his vanity and expectations, there
will be end to this agitation, until the direst
results, not only to the Union, but to the Anglo
Saxon race, are produced. Senator Seward is
against all compromse--so are the negroes OF New
York-(see the report of their meeting last night)
He wishes the agitation to go on, the excitement
TO increase, the alienation between the North and
the South TO spread about, let the consequences to
trade commerce, the Union, our nationality, or
any other great purpose, be what they may-so do
the negro voters of this metropolis. The destiny
of the Anglo-Saxon race is to be mixed and
blended with that of the African-,he monkey of
the tropical forest Is to be hale fellow met with
the noble hon and the leopard.
Mr.. Seward declares himself IN favor of the ad-
mission of California, but against all settlement of
the slavery question, and everything like compro-
mise on the differences between the North and
the South-so said the colored gemmen last night
in Marion street church. These and all the rest
of his views are not addressed to the intellect OF
the statesman the thought Of the patriot. They
are mere stimuants TO the vulgar, narrow, lgno-
rant, and silly prejudices of the day. His views
hostile TO his own race, to his own color, and
TO the destiny of this country. He declares him.
sef in favor of the extreme measures of the abo-
ptonIsts, running not only to the utter extlrpation
OF slavery in the South, but to the ultimate ANAL
gamatcn of the two races, and the deterioration
of the white race. see it illustrated in the
mixed blood and deplorabe civilization of Mexico
He avows and repeats, in most comprehensive
manner, all those extreme opinions, and all those
absurd views, which he declared in his harangue
in Ohio and elsewhere, the year before the last
pre- sdentIal elecuon-and for such he eulogized
and endorsed by the negro meeting last night
Well, be il so. Such extreme views and demo.
ralizirg prospects had better be discussed at this
crisis than at any other period. The noble and
patriotic stand assumed by Mr.. Webster, by Mr.
Clay, and by many other statesmen and patriots,
IN both heusos, North ord Sanfi, will rsccve ann
port and reward from the intelligence and intellect
of the country, and not from its prejudice, its fanati
csm, It's ultraisnf, or Its negroes. The battle be-
tween the patriotic principles advocated by those
statesmen, on the one side, and the shocking pas
sion and fanaticism on the other, must go on in
the North until the atmosphere is purified and the
heavens made clear The struggle has already
begun. The press Of Boston and other towns in
New England have already indicated some oil
those extreme views in relation to the patriotic
stand taken by Mr.. Webster. The press Of this
city and State must also assume one side or the
ether of this great and terrible controversy.
The views Of Mr. Seward are those Of the ex
ireme fanatics Of the North, looking forward to
the utter destruction Of the institutions Of the
South-the emancipation of the black race from
sevI,ude in that region, and their final inccrPora-
ton and amslgamation with the white or Anglo
Saxon race on this continent, from which will re.
suit a civilization and a state of society which We
see IN South America and Mexico. The coniro-
versy is begun-the agitation will be increased
the South will get more and more violent, as the
North gets more and more fanatcal and intole-
rantl Matters begin TO look gloomy again in
Washington, and fore bode some terrible storm
ahead-so look out