The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-18
The Seward POlAcy-It AalDes Two Parties
md Two Governments.

The distinctive Seward abolition party is es-
sential dsunion. 1t is based only on principles
whose tendency is and whose effect must be, the
destruction of the government and all its inte-
rests its commerce, its railroads, its manufac-
lures, its mechanic arts, its telegraphs, its mo-
raj power, and, above all, its position before
the world as the representative of liberal ideas
and popular rights. These are the sacrifices
required of the American people to give effect
to Inc Ethiopian policy of Mr.. Seward-to his
mad crusade against the constitution, with
view Of eflectiDg his anti-slavery purposes.
The question comes home to existing party
subdivisions with peculiar force: Can a citizen
OF the United StaLes-an American--occupy
any other ground than that Of hostility to The
Seward movement and DO his duty to his coun-
Try? That movement looks to u dissolution Of
the Union. Those, then, who regard facts aud
not forms, must see that Ill reality there
can be but two parties III this couatry-those
who support the government, and chose who
seek its overthrow. The black republicans &C.
cupy one Of these extremes the hards, tue
soits, the Americans, The wings, in truth, occu-
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of either party make the republican tenets
an article OF their creed, they, i'll fact are abo-
ltionists.
IL is manifest indeed, that the public mind
is gradually, but certainly. approaching this
one great issue. 1T is natural and, indeed, in
cvitable, that it should be so; because il in
wolves all the highest interests OF the people,
ana in every sense must be regarded as the
superior question of The day. In reaching ii
Individuals are required to pass the severe or
deal OF putting their prejadces in subjec-
lion to their reason and their patriotism
Those who, without exactly knowing why,
have come TO regard the institution OF slavery
as a hateful sacrifice Of the rights of man, those
who have been taught to believe that in the
organization of the government the slave
holders have secured undue advantagcs--in
short those who have stood upon the extreme
North, and have listened only TO partisan ap-
peals and Misrepresentation in regard TO
affairs in the South have imbibed strong pre-
JUDGES against the men and the local nsitu-
lions Of that section Of our common Uaioa. At
the first blush when leading men Of their own
portion Of the country proposed to organize
party upon strictly sectional grounds, and with
view Of eDlistiug in its support The class OF
Northern minds to which we have referred, it
was natural enough TO expect that there would
be found a very large number TO sympatnlse
with tie movement. There we're many who
did at first thus fan into the black repubi-
can abolition organization !; but there were also
large class who exercised by a severe hosti-
lily against slavery, were still unwilling to be
ranked as its political enemies--a position OF
evident hostility to the federal Union which
was formed on the basis of that relation. Hence
the apparent diversity of opinion as mani
tested by The recent clections-hence the sub
division OF the people into three or four dis
| tinct parties representing if We may so speak,
| the various shades Of belief between the two
radical extremes ot union and deunion.
| Now IL is apparentas obvious as anything
| Of the future can be-that there is going on ia
| lie public miad rapid approach to these two
| extremes. Indeed, it is inevitable that they
must absorb every other organization. There
is moth ing now in mere names il is the facts TO
which the public is directed. The black re-
publicans have planted themselves upon the
distinct ground of hostility to slavcry--sheir
success would be the overthrow Of the Union.
Patriotism comes to the rescue, and it will re-
quire but little time to drive from thousands
Of our people the morbid prejudices which
years of careful teachings, on the part of the
Seward demagogues, have instilled into their
minds The effect OF the issue forced upon
the country by the negro men, may be illus
trated by referring to foreign invasion, with
view Of subverting our government mea-
sure which would be resisted from one end Of
the republic to the other. 1t would call iuto
action-just as any serious menace to the
Union would--tho most viz orous and decided
patriotism -itwould sink at once all mere peace
pTcjudices against slavery--all cavllings AT the
slave powcr'--ali denunciatlon and ali Sec
| tional luminosity, and unite the whole country
as one man in defence Of our federal institu-
| tons.
Patriotism in the United States is the supe
rior sentiment Of the mind it is viglant and
jealous, aud may be reused at q moment 5 notice.
Ii is a practical idea--it looks to ends, and it
viii as soon resist an enemy sprnging up with
in our own borders as one pounced upon u
from abroad. 1t sees no difference between the
overthrow of the Union by the force Of mo-
narcby and the force of abolitonism- dnc-
renee in an enemy led by Louis Napoleon aud
an enemy led by William H. Seward.
There are, in fact, but two parties Those
who, with the black republicans attack direct.
~ or indirectly, on the question OF slavery,
the federal constitution, and those who sus-
tain that compact. All intermedilt tie ground is
q compromise between right and wroag-a
compromise which cannot be maintained, and
which must be surrendered rs the contest ad.
vances. The constitution is the only bases
the terminus of all ethical and all Just po-
litical deductions from the premises. II is
well for the quasi-soits and the seeding
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