Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-06
Seward on the Democratic Parry.


for the expression of their opinions. Such
position does VIM. H. Seward hold in the
Republican party. He is the Goliath, 60
ing forth to do battle with the Philistines of
slavery. Mighty blows he deals and if his
predictions be true, they must tell some of
these days. In his speech at Rochester on
the 25th ult., the Hon. Senator brings some
grave charges against the Democratic party,
but we believe some of them are true. A
few extracts we will rehearse for the bene-
fit Of our readers, especially for those who
believe the Democratic party is not sound
on the slave question. In our next issue
we hope to publish it in full. Hear him on
the manifest destiny Of the nation
''Shall tell you what this collision
means /? They who think that it is acciden-
tai, unnecessary, the work Of interested or
fanatical agitators, and therefore epheme-
raj, mistake the case altogether. It is an
irrepressible conflict between opposing and
enduring forces, and it means that the
United States mast and aoiW, sooner or later
become emtirelya lSlavelolding nation, or
entirely Free-labor nation"
We must then, be all slave or all free
territory. Hear then, southerners, and
take heed Let the South but lose her 50 .
premacy and Seward be President. then we
shall be all free States. But we pass to
to the next.
''The plan Of operation is this: By con-
tinued appliances of patronage, and threats
Of disunion, they will keep majority favora-
BILE to these designs in the Senate, where
each State has an equal representation. -
Through that majority they will defeat as
they best can, the admission Of Free States.
and secure the admission of Slave States -
Under the protection Of the Judiciary they
will, on the principle of the bred Scott case,
carry Slavery into all the Territories of the
United States now existing and hereafter to
be organized. By the action Of the Presi
dent and the Senate, using the treaty-mak-
ing power, they will annex foreign slave
no lding State. In favorable conjuncture
they will induce Congress to repeal the Act
Of 1908, which prohibits the foreign Slave
trade, and so they will import from Africa,
at the cost of only twenty dollars head,
slaves enough to fill up the interior of the
continent. Thus relatively increasing the
number Of Slave States, they will allow no
amendment to the Constitution prejudicial
to their interest, and SO, having permanent
ly established their power, they expect the
Federal judiciary to nullify all State laws
which shall interfere with internal or foreign
commerce in Slaves"
And again:
"You will tell me that these fears are
extravagant and chimerical. I answer,
they are so, but thev are SO only because
the designs of the Shareholders must and
can be defeated by activity. There is no
escape from them compatible with non-resis-
lance. How, then, and in what way, shall
the necessary resistance be made? There
is only one way. The Democratic party
must be permanently dislodged from the
Government, The reason is, that the
Democratic party as inertricaMy committed
to the designs Of the Shareholders, Which
H0Ce OeScTIOeO.
Here the Senator charges the bred Scott
decision to the Democratic party and pre-
diets from it, unless this party be expelled
from office, an almost limitless extension of
slavery. He says the democratic party is
''inextricably committed to the designs of
Shareholders. T" This however, is stretching
the truth while the party, both north and
sonth, declare its constitutionallty, it is by
no means committed to it, only SO far as the
constitution endorses it. These few ex-
tracts show the general tenor of his re-
marks sufficiently for us to see the light in
which we are held by the Black Republic
cans. It but adds strength to our already
strong conviction, that the Democratic is
the only party to which the South can look
for protection; and on the other hand that
the sole aim and object of the Republican
is to overthrow the institutions of the South.
These leaders are to be the allies of the op-
position in this State in 1860. The Rich
mond Wing, the organ Of whiggery and know
nothingism in this State is willing to unite
with these, to 60 hand and glove with them
in their fendish doings. The Spectator is
willing to let "by-gones be by-gones, bury
the Ratchet Of war, and welcome these trail
tors to their camp. Shame on you ye blind
teachers Of the people.