Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-11-03
Seward on the Stump.

Senator Seward has taken the stump in favor
of the Black Republicans He addressed a
mass meeting at Albany lately, for more than
two hours, and was greeted with repeated
applause.
He alluded first to the foundation principle of gov
ernlent-the equality of all and then to the exs-
tence OF privileged class that threatened degrade their
fepuDic 10 an afistocracy The privileged Glass; he SAID,
was the shareholders established upon special foundation,
MIN sec guarantees, and growing stronger continually
The President he styled the deputy of this class He
.re te OF the slave and the continued
concessions OF the North the growing acshe fugitive
slave bill and the Kansas act. lie concluded bg denou-
cling the american party pyoscriptiue anil opposed
to the principle Of unioersa equality. The softs and
Hards he gave passing notice. and declared the WING
party thing of the past and that the Republican party
established upon the valuable permanent elements of the
other parties
OF course no man, pretending to the smallest
modicum of intelligence, ever imagined for a
moment that William II. Setcard would not take
the stump, or mount any rostrum or do any
thing in his power to arrest the onward march
of Americanism-the only organization he fears,
and which he hates while he fears, on the
Western continent! He must break that or
ganization down, or else he knows that the
darling object of his ambition, about which he
has day dreams and night dreams for the last
fifth Of a century-the grand and glorious prize
of the Presidency-will pass from his hands
for ever. Hence the mighty efforts himself and
organs have put forth to stay the surging tide
of American patriotism. In some instances
they have succeeded, but it was by treason, or
by piling extraneous questions and side issues
upon the leading principle until its warmest
admirer could hardly discover it, thereby pre-
venting it from having anything like q fair
show.
No wonder, then, Senator Seward denounces
the American party as proscriptiue There is
not the slightest question it is proscrptive, -
and it proscribes, ignores, repudiates, and OPP
poses Mr.. Seward and his doctrines, the Adolf
tionsts and their fanaticism, gives the cold
shoulder to sectionalism, stands by the constitu-
ton and the rights Of the States, and is deter
mined upon the maintenance of the Union &C.
cording to the views and under the guarantees
of its illustrious founders!
There are strange conjunctions in the poll
teal world. In New York, Senator Seward
without whom there would be no Abolition
party in the North-denounces the American
party in terms of unmeasured severity:
In the Empire State of the South-Georgia-
Alexander II. Stephens, by far the ablest and
most influential man in that State, assaled the
Americans with bitterness unequalled in the
annals of partisan warfare! But for him, we
would have carried the State triumphantly, as
we miU, despite his power, at the next Presi-
Dental election.
But, what a conjunction of the s. S's-sew-
ard, of New York, trying to beat down the
Americans, and Stephens, of Georgia, doing his
best to crush the Americans! To us the
affinity is incomprehensible, but it is, never
theless, SO ~ o. Crescent.