The Washington union., 1857-05-20
THE TRUE TISSUES.

who would subvert and reconstruct society; hence
they assal with equal yirulence the institutions of
the North and those of the South. Their great po-
litical leader, Seward cold, cunning and learned
he is, has become infected with the prevalent social
hereses of the day. His antirent doctrines assail
the very foundations of the right of property and
his hgher-law doctrine would make each mans con
science the arbiter of right and wrong and in effect
do away with all human government, laws and in
stutons. Greeley, the editorial leader of the party,
has been for many years avowed Fourierite He
would destroy the family it now exists, and
coop men up in phalanxteries, where the very
children are soon to be common property. Al
though his paper has been for many years the
great organ of the isms, and the sedulous assail-
ant Of all existing institutions, of the North as
well of the South its subscription list has gone on
to increase till it is now probably more read than
any paper in America. Gerit Smith, Phillips Good
all, Parker, Garrison, and host of other distin-
guished lights among them, are just as open and
tive in their hostility to Christian marriage and
Christian churches as they now exist to separate
property in lands or they term it, to land monop
oily, as to negro slavery We shall not attempt to
define the sphere of action assigned to each, the
shades of opinion which distinguish them. Suffice
it to say that they equally busy with "assiduous
wedges in the effort to undermine and destroy the
whole fabric of society.
Infdels, agrarians, spiritualrappers womens-rghts
men, free-lovers, Fourierites abotoniss, dsunon-
lists, and socialists Of every hue, are the elements
which compose the blackrepubcan party. They
~ ~ ho lal
by, the North and the South. The Hiss Legislature
of Massachusetts,, so disgraceful to that State
but an epitome of the party. They have borrowed
their opinions from the Jacobns and red republicans
of France and their uncontrolled ascendency would
be destructive to law, order and religion that
of the violent infdel socialists of Paris. Abolition
is but small part of their programme, and probably
the least noxous of their measures for that vainly
attempts to hurl its weapons against distant foe,
whilst their other schemes carried on with bet
ter prospects of success in the bosom of their own
society. We have heard an intelligent gentleman
from State where the isms most abound declare
that he considered abolition agitation safety
valve that kept off ulterior and more dangerous
questions.
Never was there such urgent occasion for cordial
cooperation of conservatives, North and South for
a common enemy assails everything valuable, sa-
cred or honorable in the political social moral or
religious institutions of either section. But cordial
and active cooperation has begun; and conserva-
tism under the banner of democracy, is winning vic
tory after victory in its conflict with the anarchists,
the infdels and agrarans who still rally around the
dark, retreating flag of black republicanism.
A large majority of the people of every section of
the Union are sound and conservative social and
religious, well political, subjects. BY sedulous
y representing the South aggressive, and portray
ing slavery as a cruel and wrongful institution, the
black republicans themselves mere destructives and
anarchists, have succeeded in producing temporary
dclusion and exciting sectional hatred and hostility
in the minds of many who have no natural afhnties
with their schemes OF their doctrines.
Calm investigation is fast dispelling this delusion
thinning the ranks of the destructives restoring
kindly feelings between the North and the South,
and strengthening the already stalwart arm of con-
servative democracy.
We do not employ the term conservatism OPP
posed to progress for true conservatism is progress
sve and it has been the pride and boast of the
democratic party that it readily wisely, and boldly
adapts its action to the exgencies and circumstances
of the occasion.
Socialism is almost universal in Western Europe
and the frequent famine and constant destitution
among the aboring classes go far to account for it
and excuse it; but nothing can palate, excuse, or
Justify it in America, where there few social
evils, no famines, and comparatively little desttu-
ton. Never people 80 prosperous and never
people SO usefully employed, as those of the North
and the South The Giant North already out
strips the world in commerce; whilst she is the
portal through which passes exodus--more nu-
merous than that which Moses led to Palestine
of the poor and oppressed of Europe to regions in
the West far broader and more fertile than the
Promised Land immigration is always attended
with suffering, and sometimes entails suffering on
the native laborers of America by temporary guts of
the labor market; but it is, the whole, salutary
process attended with far more of good than of evil
1t is Americas glorious mission to prepare an asy-
um for the poor and oppressed of Europe, and
most nobly does she fulfil it. She adds empire
after empire to her domains, but she conquers not
by the sword only but by peaceful purchase, and
nexes for the common good of civilized mankind.
Her victories are the victories of humanty-her ac-
quisitons the property of the poor.