The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-09
THE ISSUE FOR 1860 FRAMED AND RENDERED
BY THE REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATE FOR THE
PRESIDENCY

No one can now doubt who is to be the republi-
can standard-bcsrer in 1860. Gov. Seward is, be-
You'd all question the man. Neither of the twenty
Fremons who ran enc man in 1856 is now
thought of. The very name is almost forgotten and
is entirely unchcrshed. When there is any hope of
success. Seward win not permit any one TO stand
between him and the object of his ambition Chase,
of Ohio is jostIed out of the way. not sufficiently
lavish with spoila from the treasury. Wade is
known to DO too ignorant to command and too stub
born and self conceited TO be used by the wirepul-
lers with and at pleasure. Hale, of New
Hampshire is too great bunderer, and often cracks
his jokes at the wrong time and place. and by some,
probably enormously, is supposed to have practsed
it long as to almost believe in his own demagog
usm Gov. Banks is too recent a convert pro-
fesses too many faiths and talks too much of having
been democrat to suit; and then he is 80 slippery
and foxy that his good faith in anything except what
may benefit himself, is largely questioned Sumner
is too much of believer in the earlier forms of their
creed to adopt with sufficient readiness the changes
which the necessities of the party may require.
Every aspirant is summarily killed off, with pointed
and unanswerable objections none of which apply
to Gov. Seward He and his friends consider him as
good actually nominated. He claims to have dis
banded the old whig party and absorbed it in the
republican, swapping his fingers at the few who
fused to follow him as leader and adopt the newly
protested faith His friends boast that he pros
hased the Americans, and that all Of that party
who are worth having have enlisted under his ban
ner, and are followers in his camp.
BY single speech he sponged up aud wholly alb
sorbcd nearly every aboltionst proper, leaving Ger
rit Smith scarcely corporals guard, the reward
at his sincere but mistaken exertions. Having
blown to the winds all organizations other than his
and that of the democracy, he boldly tenders an
issue with the latter for 1860. All collateral ques-
ticns ignored by him productive Of embarrass
ment and everything is staked upon one question
TO w.t. the overthrow and final destruction of State
rights and consequently ofour Union and our liberties
through the fundamentally Of sectional agitation and
action. He expects, by warning upon the southern
States concerning their own domestic institutions
which wcro cherished and sustained by Washington,
Jefferson, Madison Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, Polk,
and Taylor to combine the entire northern and west
States and to force the former to conform to the
bidding of his party, or to break up the confedera-
(Which he caresnot so that his aspirations and tho
desires of his friends for Office and public plumber
are grah6ed. Personally, he cares nothing for
the slave on about slavery. He thinks and we hear
has said, that the democratic party only be
thrown by resorting to this sectional aggression
He contrives theory which no thinks adapted to
and likely tc accomplish his objects. Referring to
the local institutions of the South recent speech
at Rochester, New York, he said
- Thus, these antagonstc systems are continually
coming into closer contact and collision results Shall
tell you what this collision means They who think
that It accidental unnecessary tho work of interest
ed or natica astators and therefore ephemeral mis-
take the case altogether II rrepressbe conflict
between opposing aud enduring forces, and it means
that ne Oaasd Suites must and uiH or iaer, be-
come entirely sIauetoilmg nation aardy ree-labor
nation Either the cotton and rice fields of South
Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana will
ultimately be titled by free labor, and Charleston and
New Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise
onc else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachu-
sets and New York must again be surrendered by their
farmers to slave culture, and to the production Of slaves
mud Bo~ton and New York become once more a market
for trade in the bodies and souls of 1t is the fail
ue to appehend this great truth that induces SO many
unsuccessful attempts at final compromise between the
slave and free States and it is the existence of this fact
that renders a suc. pretended compromise, whn made
and ephemsra.
However expressed, the Idea here is that he is
WtciiclihS Win rights OF tne states and
polling them to change their ancient domestic inst
buttons. State rights to be battered down, be
the consequences what they may. The northern
and western States will not re-establsh slavery be-
no desires it there, and such measure is
not proposed in one of them. AS that cannot and
will not take place. it is clear under this annunca
ton, that he goes for frcbly annulling slavery in
tho Southern States. The exact means to which he
proposes to resort for this purpose not pointed
out though they must be violent. He dare not spec-
fly them because that would lead to canvassig their
merits. He wishes to avoid all really practical
questions, about some of which his expected follow
crs might be wise and patriotic enough to Disagree
He prefers single issue, and TO leave his disciples to
draw upon their own Imagination for such means as it
may suggest. He says to himself, IL know that
every voter in the free States is opposed to es-
Publishing slavery therein. / believe each would
prefer that il should not exist in any State in the
Union. If avoid specifying any mode by which it
can be abolished, cannot be charged with propo-
sing one that is harsh or unconstitutional which all
just would oppose. But by avoiding all ques
tons to mode and keeping generally wisbed-for
result prominently before the voters in the free
States, they will look only to the object and