Washington sentinel., 1856-07-31

even now, beneath his apparently indignant
denunciations of sectionalsm, there may, per-
haps, be mingled much of personal vexation
because he has been outstripped by Fremont
and his adherents, in the race for its favor in
the leading States of the North.
A LooLing-glass Tor Bennett OF the New
York Herald.
From the New York Herald, Nov "a, 1855
The same thing will occur on grander
scale should Mr.. Seward ever succeed in be-
coming President or placing creature Of his
own in the Presidential chair. Disunion would
Of course follow, and the South would at once
require, for its own safety and the preservation
OF its property, to make war upon the North.
Slave property would not be worth holding on
the northern frontier of the Southern republic
without some provision for the re-capture of
runaway slaves, which the South could not
extort from the North except at the close of a
successful war. But, besides the South, the
West would in all probability fall away.
Divergent and hostile interests would spring
up between Wisconsin and New York. Ohio
would refuse to be governed by Massachusetts,
and would in virtue of its superior population
insist upon claiming preponderance in the
councils of the Northern Republic, which the
smaller States would refuse to concede.
From the New York Herald Dec. ~, 1856
BENEFITS Picture 0f the Success OF Free
mont.
If the last two years have not been enough
to show how demoralizing and paralytic are the
results Of domestic agitations on the subject of
slavery-if they have not served to exhibit how,
by their influence, the government has been
weakehed-how it has been disgraced-how it
has been made the plaything offoreign dipo
macy-how it has alike distracted our councils
of legislation, weakened the executive arm,
introduced into our entire political system the
elements of anarchy-how it has arrayed sec-
ton against section, impaired the public conf.
dence, and caused distrust and suspicion
by one department against another-if these
fruits are not enough to teach the people thefoly
and madness of further agitatons, and of the
great necessity of returning to the Federal
Constitution as the guide of our actions, then
experience is thrown away and natipf,i
morality and wisdom are utterly dethron,d
From the New York Herald, Nv. IS, 1855
BENNETT Rebuking and ImpaIing Bennett.
The SEWARD PoLIoy-It MAKES Two PAR
TIES AND Two CONFERENCE.-The distinctive
Seward Abolition party is essential disunion.
1t is based only on principles whose tendency
is and whose effect must be, the destruction Of
the Government and all its interests-its COM
merce, its railroads. its manufactures, its me-
chanic arts, its teleeraphs, its moral 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 the Uto-
plan policy of Mr.. Seward-to his mad crusade
against the Constitution, with view of effect
ing his anti-slavery purposes.
The question comes home to existing party
Subdivisions with peculiar force: Can citizen
Of the United Sdtes-m American-occupy
any other ground than that of hostility TO the
SetDard Increment and do his duty 10 has coun-
try? That movement looks to dissolution Of
the Union. Those, then, who regard facts and
not forms, must see that in reality there can be
but two parties in this country-those who sup
port the Government, and those who seek it's
overthrow. The Black Republicans occupy
one OF these extremes the Hards, the Softs,
the Americans, the Wings, in truth, occupy the
other. If they do motif individuals Of either
party make the Republican tenets an article
of their creed, they, in fact, are Abolitionists.
There are, in fact, but two parties-those
who, with the Black Republicans, attack d.
rectly or indirectly, on the question Of slavery,
the federal constitution, and those who sus
tain that compact. All intermediate ground
is compromise between right and wrong-a
compromise which cannot be maintained, and
which must be surrendered as the contest ad-
vances. The constitution is the only basis
the terminus Of all ethical and all Just polti-
cal deductions from the premises.
We have come to that point in our domestic
affairs when it is necessary, and absolutely ne
cessary to know alike our friends and our enc
mics. Parties are to be known by these desig-
ch in, IF In ha
side ofthe government is enlisted the represen-
tatives of all our material wealth and all our
productive industry, whose tenures are found
in order, and the faithful discharge Of public
duties. We have also enlisted against the agi-
tators the patriotism Of the country-a patriot
ism that achieved its Independence, and that
now as vigilently guards its honor as in the days
Of the Revolution.
If ever the Harrisburg Stars and Stripes
has felt an emotion Of shame,--if ever it has
felt a sensation Of humiliation, n,-will it not
feel it now, when it sees its own opinions, like
Actean's dogs, tearing It to pieces, and rend-
ing it away from the only part Of its expe-
rience which preserved it from universal de-
testation and scornf
From the New York Herald, February s,
l850.--Bennett assails Seward and Lloyd Gar.
rison, at present associated with him on FIRE.
mont:
The Ma..achusetts Anti-slsvcry Society
-Twenty-fhird Annual Meeting.
We publish this morning, at length, the ofi-
cial report of the proceedings Of the twenty.
third annual meeting of the Massachusetts,
Anti Slavery Society at Boston.
women's rights and African equality are, Of
course maintained by the society, Mrs. Maria
Weston Chapman, Abby Kelly Foster and
other white women, meet upon the same com.
mon platform Of Abolition philanthropy and
amalgamation with Box Brown, the eloquent
humbugging fugitive, Miss Frances Il. Wat
kins, young colored woman Of Baltimore"
and those hoary old in6del sinners, Lloyd Gar
rison and Wendell Phillips. "Minge-mingle
-minglelr What sweet and attractive
batch Of social and political saints is this
And yet, between the defiant, open mouthed
treason Of this Lloyd Garrison asylum and the
e,oooth &, cad bvnocritical pretences Of Seward