The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-19
The CaratulafIun Of tho Seward Whlgs-
TriuAph OF Garrison and Fred. Douglass.
The Boston republican, convention thus

Resolved, That the time has fully for the people
o. TO act in concert with the friends Of
,rceV throughout the Union with view Of restrain
ing the alarming encroachments slavery.
1t is no more than was said at Portland, ct
Washington, Columbus, in New York and Penn
men. II is the capitulation and surrender
of the wings and the democratic free sellers
to them. 1t il the union OF Seward, Garrison,
Fred. Douglass, the black man; Downing, the
oysterman; Van Buren,, the Arnold of Ameri-
can politics; Hale, the mountebank; Wilson,
the trader; Butler, the evangelist; Chase, the
Rev. Antoinette Brown, ct IL oane, &c., into one
grand phalanx of negro worshippers 1t is
the triumph Of Garrison and Fred. Douglass
the black man. The surrender is made to
them, and it is unconditional, absolute.
The old temples Of Clay and Jackson have
been demolished, their altars defaced their
worshippers transferred, body and breeches, to
the mosques Of these Arabs Of modern poll
tics. 1.-THE alarming encroachments of sla-
very" which hasn't moved a peg since the
Texas annexation, have frightened this de-
lectable band Of patriots to abandon their old
fields, and take to the brush of negroism.
In the Portland meeting, freedom was para
mount to all political questions;" and every
man in that body knew that by uniting with
the abolitionists he put to hazard the noblest
achievement Of freedom ever effected by man.
"The Union was not worth the sacrifice of its
first principle" and its "first principle was
sacrificed, in the view Of the meeting, by the
existence Of slavery in the States. The Union
is valuable; but it would be more SO if it had
the power to eject from its bosom the whole
Arab crew of republicans and negro wor-
shippers who malign its character, and fatten
on its blessings. Congress is false to itself
unless it abolshes slavery in the District of
Columbia, repeats the Fugitive Slave law, the
Kansas act, and restores the Missouri compro-
mise" and thus makes slavery sectional, and
freedom national" These are the terms of
the capitulation--the conditions upon which
Garrison, and Douglass, and Downing, the oys-
terman, will consent to receive into their ranks
Seward, Van Buren,, Chase, Wilson, Hale
Greeley, Butler and the Rev. Antoinette
Brown. 1t is the Holy Alliance of American
politics-the omnipotent Latter Day Saints,
who are to think speak and act for the Ame-
rican people. 1.-THE sacrifice of the first prin-
ciple of freedom" will be found in the fulfil
ment Of the first obligation of the constitu-
ton. It is moral treason to be faithful to the
covenants of union-slavery and the consti-
tuition are incompatible the one or the other
has been regarded as supreme; but now, "po-
ltical questions'-the opinions and caprices
Of the coalition, for instance--are paramount
to it. 1t has sunken down below the moral
standard Of the "Holy Alliance" and the go
vernment, therefore, in the language of the Port
land fusion, must "ge to pieces" The patriots
Of the Revolution were not good enough to be
favored with an association with Seward Fred
Douglass, the black man, Garrison and Van
Buren,, Of the Holy Alliance Of negro worship
pers in 1855. Times have changed as we'll as
moons. There was period when treason to
the government consisted in efforts to over
throw it; when men were jealous of its honor
and States were scrupulous in the discharge of
all the duties imposed upon them by the cove
nants Of union. There was a time when the
white man was superior to the black man. 1t
is not SO now. Treason to the constitution is
the normal condition of American politics
Everybody is collating the evils of union
everybody is complaining. All is contention,
and chickering's and strife. We no longer hear
Of the blessings Of the constitution, but its
curses, its inequalities, its immoralities. 1t has
become a weak, in suficient, immoral compact:
it recognizes the institution of slavery and that
is enough to set against it the Holy Alliance
OF negro worshippers: class of men who would
reign in hell, but will never serve in heaven. No
blessing can be conferred upon such people,
except the glorious privilege Of disturbing the
public peace, securing anarchy and its fruits
and the curses Of civil war. The happiness which
comes to others through peace and charity,
with them is submission to a grinding tyranny
"a hateful "oligarchy Of slave drivers" The
government of the United States is league
of man hunters and slave brecders-a dcep
grinding despotism, which sinks freedom into
a local dependence and slavery into nation
atty. 1t is great sink Of moral niquity. to
be party to which is to assent to robbery.
violation of the rights Of man, Kidnapping.
ana great many other very wicked things.
The constitution is the warrant of the Devils
right and claim to the exclusive management
Of American affairs, until the saints of the
Holy Alliance shall bring about the millennium
Of negro ascendency and white dependency.
Slavery is sectional and freedom is national"
an assertion, unlike most others of the bowling
pack, which is half true. Let us look for in
stance to this matter for moment
We receive and recognize the constitution
Of the United States as the bases of our politi-
cal existence. We know nothing Of slavery or
anti-slavery any more than We know of the
domestic arrangements Of our neighbours house.
We care not for the mere opinions of men up
on the subject who have no power to control
It. What we want is obedience to the general
agreement by which we exist as nation. We