Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-13
THE BRUTAL AND BLOODY MANIFESTO OF
SEWARD-THE TRUE ISSUE IN 1860


THE BRUTAL AND BLOODY MANIFESTO OF |
SEWARD-THE TRUE ISSUE IN 1860.
Politicians have been cavilling and cropping about,
and parties quarrelling and breaking up, because
there was no great question before the country
der which to draw the broad and distinct lines of
party organization and upon which the popular YER
dict shall be rendered in 1860
But there is now no more room for cavil. A grave
Senator-one who has had long experience, who
is looked upon by his followers as q calm sedate
and profound thinker who is held to be the Mentor
pies under which that party will 60 into the coming
political conflict and the ends it hopes to attain
In a recent speech which we publish elsewhere Mr.
Seward rallies his political friends and parsans to
go into the conflict and decide whether the cotton
rice and sugar fields of the South shall be ultimate
ly titled by free labor whether the rye and
wheat fields of New York and New England must
be surrendered to slave culture and to the produc-
ton of slaves. The Uuited States says Mr.. Sew
ard, "must and WILL later, become, either
entirely slaveholding nation, entirely free Ia
Dor nation" Such is the brutal and bloody pro-
gramme laid down by Senator Seward as the plat
form of the Republican party, and which that party
accepts. Before such an issue this all other is
sink into significance. The Kansas humbug
the squatter sovereignty facy, the petty quarrels
between the adherents of the Administration and
those of Douglas the cries of protective tariff of
a new naturalization law, and the thousand other
petty party questions of the day. all ephemeral
in their nature and will disappear before the great
social and political. conflict which this programme
inaugurates.
We call it brutal and bloody programme, for it
is nothing more than the announcement of fierce
war that is to be made upon the social and political
organization of the Southern States. The pretend
ed alternative that the North must give up its rye
and wheat fields to slave culture if those of the
South are not g wen up to free negroes, is all hum
bug. Such an alternative can never by any posi-
bility occur We have all the life, all the energy,
and all the intelligence that belong to unmixed
race and homogeneous population. In national
point of view have all the activity, all the trade
all the education, all the wealth, and the greatest
part of rascality of the country The idea, there
FORE of the South forcing its institutions its
nggers upon us is perfectly preposterous
But we can make war upon the South; and if
| the North is united in doing it must succeed
And this is what Mr. Seward wishes to attain. We
must not only retain the ight of selfgovernment
for ourselves but we must insist upon attaining the
right of governing the South according to our IDEAS
and not permitting them to govern themselves
cording to their own At our behest the entire Or
ganizaton of society in the Southern States must be
| changed. 1t must be made homogeneous, like our
own, or like that of Saint Domingo and jamaica
At present they have no defence against forcing
them to effect this if have the will to do So 9TH
er than the Constitution. But the Constitution can
| be changed by two-thrds vote, says Mr.. Seward :;
and if we Northerners do not change it and make
it free Constitution, the South will go annex
ing territory and will eventually make slave Con-
stitution of it. We must therefore make savage
war upon the South and win the victory in 1860.
| Such is the programme of the Republican party !;
and they will endeavor to carry it out
It, therefore, behooves our merchants and our
manufacturers, our farmers and our mechanics our
men of wealth and our laborers to consider well
what would be the result upon themselves and their
own interests if this brutal and bloody programme
should succeed The interests of the North and the
South are bound together by indssoluble ties of
sympathy. What Injuries the one must pernicious-
ly affect the other Our commerce, our manufac-
lures, our railroads and great ways of ntercommu-
nication, depend in large degree upon the untram-
melled markets of supply and consumption in the
South; and upon those depend the value of our Ia
Dor, lands and possessions, all our material in
terests, and the development of our moral powers.
No great injury can be done to the organization OF
duction and consumption. The social organization
of the South may be compared to a piece of cloth
composed of equal parts of linen and cotton Alb
stact reasoners may say that such mixed cloth is
not good as composed entirely of linen, which
| is stronger and more valuable material, and that
should make the texture all linen in order to in
crease its value. But mixture of linen and cotton
is better for certain purposes than all linen would
be. Besides if we draw out or destoy the wool
which is composed of cotton, we leave only tang
again woven into CLOTH So it is with the South
Its social organization of black labor, directed by
white intelligence, is better for the material and
moral interests of itself and the whole world under
its conditions of climate and SOIL than would be
society composed entirely of the white race. AMI
if that organization is once destroyed the whole
web of society there must be reconstructed befor'
it can serve any useful purpose to civilization
Neso York Herald.
JUDGE ELLIS Complimentary Party.-Hon Jno
w. Ellis, Governor elect of North Carolina, AMI
his accomplished lady, were complimented with
party given by citizens Of Charlotte at the Man
sion House, on last Wednesday evening It wa
quite brilliant affair, and every way creditable tt
the managers, and to Mr. Elms of the Mansion
House, who spared no pains to render the occasion
agreeable to all. The tables were bountifully sup
piled with all the delicacies heart could WISH ant
the whole arrangements displayed skilful manage
ment on the part of the landlord and landlady. Or
Thursday the Judge visited the Fair Grounds, wher
many of his old friends and acquaintance had tn
pleasure of shaking his hand and welcoming him il
their midst He has many warm friends in Char
lotte and Mecklenburg county .-ChorLotte Dem.
ARRIVAL OF THE GovERNoR ELEcr-Handsoms
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ellis, the Governor elect, and
his lady, arrived in Newbern by the o'clock train
| on Saturday. Our two military companies, tn,