Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-11-27
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of perception which warns men OF strong
ccmu:on sense when to pause. We have seer
this exenpiifed repeatedly in the course OF
our experience. HESRy Clay ruined ms
prospects in lo4t by his Texas letter, which
vas most unfortunate: and his Alabama letter.
III seeking to explain the former. completed
the work Of mischief Gen. S1orr in 1852
alieDat-d thousands Of Wings by his fu'some
aslula,ion Of the "sweet Irish brog'e" and
" fine German a~ccent.n OLD ZAcK vas kept
with j very tight rein. He wrote but one
letter, and that nearly lost New York
Mess;s. Polk, PIERCE and b CHASAs were
wiser ia their day and generation. They
PERMITTED their friends to speak and write
iorthen1, and remembering lat though speech
is silver. silence is golden, Renamed mute
during their respective canp aigns-and snc-
ceeded! Politicians should learn wisdom
from the past, but most ni them seem incapa-
bic OF r%roftine by these lessons,
Wa. II. SEWARD is a prominent example
of the suicidal propensity so prevalent among
ambitions statesmen. He is afflicted with an
| intense rearning for the Presidential no'nina.
ton Of the Black Republicans in 1860. To
place himself foremost in the field and dis
tance al competitors, he betak es himself to
Rochester during the height of the late can
vass in New York. and then pronounces an
Elaborate discourse in which he surpasses by
o,,r.t io-. -I-+. -, ~ i...t,ol ,,o,,, r. |
the most rabid anti-slavery ~zealots. Like
many other ~dernagogues, he mlstook the tenn
per OF the people, His aim was to conce''-
trate exclusively around him the Black Re-
pubjicaaisa1 Of the entire North and West.
instead Of which he inspired considerable
alarm among the masses of his party, induced
thousands OF them to desert the ticket, djmIn
ished, as is now admitted, the Republican
majority in New York, and most essentially
damaged his own prospects. Whom We first
read the Rochester speech Of this arch dena-
gogue, We considered it a truly trishtfu' doco~
ment, ami were really apprehens!ve that it
might stnbody the deliberate opinions Of the
free S.ates. We have almost learned to lis
u,iss this fear. North, East and West the
Black Republican journals are refusing to in
dorse Mr.. SEwARD;s ultra notions. In his
OWN State TIE leading organs dissent from
him. Papers such SIS the New York CONNER
nal -7dpe' User. which sustained the F1eesu,l
ticket at the election on the 81 instant, now
reruliale SEw.ED's doctrines, and deuounce
aim as an lucendiary and an AboIttionist.
Of the Rochester speech, and it is
)aIpabIe that that too presumptoas effort has
INJURED Instead of benefsing its author. !
In the Vast, where there are no personal :
Considerations to mitigate the tone Of the =
,ress, Mr.. S+wARp's h%arargue has been re- =
with universal Interpretation. The 4
Cincinnati Commerce.! - undoubtedly the =
best exponent Of Black Rr,'ubiicanisrn in
i,at sec slnn-i ,ins issue ~fercely with s. WARD:
eciase> that his opinions are those Of a con- I
empttble minority Of rampent Aboi'tionists. n
I'd not Of the Republican party; tn t his
ntire speech is based upon ahst lutte and de- -.
1onsirable la|lacies; that it is unworthy OF RI
great statesman; that such sentiments put ii
leir authbr beyond the pale Of candidates J.
IT the Republican nomination; and that The :,
arty will have to seek elsewhere for a wor- d
~ exponent Of its principles. In short, the n
'om,nzrciai, and a lost OF othe, sheets, ~evince r
n unqualified aataeonism towards the New
ork Senator and his political creed, and e
rove incontrovcrtibly that if the North gives OF
i'm the cold shldder, the Westturnsi $ broad V,
ack upon him with distlain r
The truta is, Senator SEWARD overshot the m
ark. He conceived he was torestailing all IN
.1tasorists in his lid Tor the anti-slavery -,
Die but like many shallow, though cunning ii
ind+, he omitted from his calculation a very tn
apogtant element. Black Renubl,sanisrn in 70
udes sundry phases 81 anti-slayery; from
e violent and unconprom:sing AboIitionist til
he d-nounces the Constitution Tor tolerating, 81
ID the Bible for sauctioning slavery, to the ="
,kly sentamentaiist whose opposition is a CO
ere pulling, abstract dislike to the ~institu. I
m, and who supports that party simply be- Gu
use, as a Northerner. be takes the side Of w.
S North as against the South. The latter W
institute a material portion Of Black Rep,b- W
an strength, and consequently include a
eat conservatism which will at al! times VI
use ere it proceeds to extremities. Now de
is usually passive and quiescent feeling is bo
t what Senator SEWARD has contrivrd to STA
'use by his Rochester speech. TAousan ds
/ tens Of thousands of his party who are NJ
posed 10 side with him in all ordinary We
ues, shrink aghast from a prospective war r.,
uninter:mltting aggression upon the South. la,