Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-05

ests of the Union, and SO fully fraught with
evil and nothing but evil. But since such
men are to be found, we are right glad they
so unreservedly avow their sentiments and
define their policy. We feel confident that
large majority of the Northern people, even
of those who have supported the republican
party, will repudiate Mr.. SEWARD in his ex-
treme positions. We are of opinion that the
disinterested and sincere masses of the North
are tired of this senseless crusade against the
South and her institutions; and that such
speeches as those of Mr.. SEWARD will have
the effect to make them pause and reflect
The people are beginning to feel and know
that they have interests superior to those in
volved in those of the slavery question:; that
the government has some higher aims, and
Congress higher duties than to wrangle and
quarrel about matters in which the body OF
the people North have really very little IN
terest. 1t has served the purposes of politi-
clans, and brought discord among a people
that would be fraternal. and distraction into
councils that would be harmonious Sooner
masses will inquire "What is Mr.. SEWARD to
US. or we to him? In ignoring all other ones
tons save that of slavery, he is ignoring us
and all our interests. If Mr.. SEWARD must
have a party let him go with BIRNEY, and
HALE. GARRISON and PHILIPS. We must
have servants who will devote their attention
to the great economies of government, who
will deal justly by us and our interests and
those of all the Union. under a just ard equal
constitution; and those who do not thus we
will dismiss-cast overheard Let the peo-
pie of the North argue and act thus. defying
the mere politicians, and we may expect the
return of vigorous and patriotic nationality
and the revival of questions and issues of
higher concern.
The republican press receives Mr.. SEwARD's
speeches with evident misgiving. The n. Y.
Courier is aboring to make it appear that Mr..
SEWARD has not gone beyond the Fremont
platform of I656-while the Philadelphia
North american freely deprecates the matter
and line OF argument chosen by him. As an
indication of this feeling, we present the fol-
lowing extract from the latter paper of the
30th ult., in reference to the Rochester
speech, remarking that the North American
widely msapprehends the feeling of the
Southern people, when it assumes that ma
jority of the people admit that ''slave labor
is a gigantic incubus on every one of the
States north of the Gulf, at least:"
at is unfortunate that his audience
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of public concern than antagonism
to an aristocracy of slaveholdrrs-unfor-
tunate. first because there is no such aristOc-
racy. and next because there are many other
great objects of public concern. There are
Shareholders who are bad enough, the Lord
knows and certain set of them are as crazy
as looms. But this set is foisted into import
ance by the corrupt trucking of the demo-
cratic party. Anxious to attain power through
their aid, democratic President seizes on the
most noisy and extreme ranters among them
to make heroes and high-place men Of The
worst men among them are not only pettod
and courtrd, but they are also stimulated to
greater and greater extravaganza of language
and of deeds, and so the evil has grown TO
gigantic proportions, and simple men at the
north think the slaveholding States mere dens
of such fanatics as Keitt. Pryor. and the late
writer who deliberately argued that the north
holding.
Our first objection to this line of exclusive
politics is that it ignores the great necessities
of craftsmanship on other questions. While
extremists fight over it, such atrocities as
those of the last three years in Kansas will
be constantly perpetrated by the corrupt and
senseless party in power, and to repel and
counteract them will require constant excite
ment, and constant exertion on the part of
Al
so nothing else can be fairly considered,
whether the country goes in debt fifty millions
a year, or the furnaces and mills all become
silent and ruin follows. The next great OBJ
lection is that no such special antagonism to
the south is called for at all. They have a
most unfortunate and most injurious system
fastened upon them, and they find its removal
or ameloraton a difficult and painful pro-
blem with which the wisest must very care
ully deal. Slave labor is gigantic incubus
upon every one of the States north of the
Gulf at least, and majority of the people,
in their secret hearts, if not openly, know
and admit it. The scourge of the country is
not more the natural abuses of slavery ITSELF
as an industrial and social system than the
recent perversion OF parties to make it
element of political power. Counting it as
an agent of political advancement. is the sure
course to beget the preposterous demands
many years past; and to make slavery the
great antagonistic element to northern poiti-
cal action. as Mr.. Seward does, tends equally
to bring keitts and Pryors on the stage. AS
is so well stated by Mr.. Rayner in his admir-
able letter. which we published yesterday, the
south would never have come to this unfor-
tunate position, but for the intrigues of worth
less men in a worthless party.
1t is astonishing that Mr. Seward sees no
other question than the slavery question. 1t
s surprising that so calm man at Washing
ton becomes so much excited at Rochester. 1t
is strange that man so we'll informed has
not heard of the prOstration of business, in
this State, among the iron and coal men and
agriculturists; that he has not heard of the
decline of prices for the products of central
New York, and how this decline presses upon
the prosperity of Rochester city. The ill.,
creasing indebtedness of the government has
also an ugly look, and its rapidly increasing
millions of deficit should be known TO the
people of the great State of New York, on
the eve of an els ction to a Congress which is
to care for these very things.