The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-23

assisted by H. j. TnoxAs g. w RAMsAY wILuAM H. TuoaAB
rHos. N. JAMES c. ~ L. WIsKnAs, L. cmtDs and Dr. WIZ
IRwra. Receipts Of either viii be good
Official returns confirm the announcement already made
in our columns Of the election of Hon Mr. Ward, demo-
erat in the second congressional district Of Texas
THE PRACTICAL OBJECT OF BLACK REPUBLICAN,
ISM CoNstDERED.--MR. sEwARDs SPEECH
The readers of the Union will have observed the i'm
portance which attach the late extraordinary speech
Of sr Seward, made at Albany New York That speech
contains the true platform Of the black republican party
and presents the issues which the great leader and
champion of that party proposes to array the North and
the South against each other ia the presidential contest Of
1856 1t but just them TO Mr. Stewards followers, as
well as to our own readers that we should publish the
whole speech, which have already commented so
fully and on which we expect TO continue comments
We print from the New York Tribune il issue to-
day. and proceed to direct attention of its posi-
tions.
In the attempt of Mr. Seward to excite the preudces Of
the North against the South be has invoked al The
elements and expedents of the class of which he The
gan and the leader His idea is that the institution OF
slavery Ii astocracy, and that the Shareholders arc
privileged class in free country and upon this basis lie
proceeds his argument that unless this ars-
tocracy put down. the constitution itself will be over
thrown Mr. Seward forges however that the real pryi-
legged class this country is that which acts in concert
with the nobility of England. Nothing has been made
apparent by the Of the last few years than the
inct that The movement against the institutions OF the
southern States Of the American Union has its base Of OPP
catons amongst the aristocacy the British capital and
that all those who follow Mr. Stewards lead are more or
less identified with those Engshnen who believe slavery
be the salient point Of our free institutions Hardly had
Louis Napoleon exued what proved mol to be the fail
oebastopo before the London Times in series of abored
editorials threatened assault upon the United States and
from that day TO hiswheher refer to the speech ofthe
French Emperor in London 10 the declaration of Lord
Clarendon, TO the demonstrations of the British press
since real capture of Sebastopowe shall find that the
alliance of France and England has contemplated the in
sttuons of southern States presenting the hest OPP
porunity to overthrow the power and to arrest the pro-
grcss free principles this continent The privileged
class against which the American people should be
utey and Immediately armed, is not therefore, that which
Mr. Seward has drawn from his imagination, but that
which as we have shown is composed of the abolition agi
ators alike in Europe and in this country II in vain
to remind these men of the failure of all British efforts
the emancipation Of negro slaves 1t is in vain to remind
them of the millions Of human beings writhng in worse
than SerVlluuc tune Ot poitCd
on) throughout the Old World 1t is in vain to refer to
the suerngs physical and social of the masses in Europe
While Mr. Seward and his party in this country ready
to furnish material to our foreign eneres and TO show
that the institution Of slavery in this country may be
sailed with fatal effect to the peace and prosperity of our
people all these considerations consistently and care
| fully kept out of sight
But after all, we live in practical age and when Mr.
Seward goes back for the parpose OF asing American
history anterior the revolution by trying to show the
American people that the fathers of our Union and The
fathers of our constitution themselves violently hos
tile the institution Of slavery as it then existed he should
not stop with this period of the past He should ask him
self in the spirit of enlightened craftsmanship how the
negroes tanspanted these shores and found here VIII
our fathers together for the purpose Of establishing
free government would have Jared had they remained in
the chains Of barbarsm and ignorance which st bind
their brothers and their friends in distant Africa? He
should tell the American people how much happier the ne
groes Of the South are at this moment than any similar
body of negroes the face of the globe He should show
to us how much the native African has improved in the
climate and upon the soil which he calls his own and bow
much the blacks of the South have advanced in physical
comfort and in intellectual elevation Here is theory which
he could amply and practically illustrate. If slavery is
what he deciaresit 10 DE, is IL
daily TO witness the advancement Of the which his
confederates would suddenly and at every risk emanc
pae2
He the question however, not as patriot but
partisan-not as American, but the ally of British
interests and the echo of British feelings VIII he frankly
present to us the effect of immediate gradual
emancipation of the blacks Of the South VIII he tell
where the liberated population is to be sent This is the
real moral question: and prove his sincerity
who prays for emancipation and at the time fails to
furnish remedy for the evil consequent upon emancpa
ton Will the free States receive the liberated blacks
Mr. Seward surely will not declare that after be has given
the slaves their liberty he is TO bind them in letters
and to prevent them from going where they please 1t is
notorious that they will refuse return to the climate and
The soil of their ancestors Their adherence to such
exodus has been manifested repeated oecasons and the
colonization movement has been nowhere violently
opposed than by the very whom benevoenty offers
to improve by returning them 10 improve their kindred in
Africa Does be suppose the South would retain three
millions of suddenly Liberated slaves? Win the North
and the West, then, receive them We have
of those States most operated upon by abolition orators
and arguments refusing by large majorues to permit
even free negroes to remain within their borders Tho
very State in which Mr.. Seward resides has affixed
property qualification 10 the right of suffrage of the
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