The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-31

Well the great leader Of the blackrepublican
party Of the North, Governor Seward, has Just spo
ken at Rochester, in New York and We desire to
lay before the attention Of the Wing and such mis-
guided southern people as may happen to sympa-
thize with it in the desperate desires and procvites
which it ayows-a view Of the doctrines and de-
signs of that black.republicau party with which the
Wing is anxious to coalesce, announced by their
leader, Mr.. Seward E
We accordingly, publish in another place few
extracts from Mr.. Stewards speech delivered last
Monday night at Rochester. It will be seen that
all the professions by the Tribune of an intention on
the part of the blackrepublicans to modify their
creed are mere feints designed not SO much to de-
ceive southern oppositonists and northern back
sliding democrats, as to furnish both with excuse
and apology for collision with the party Of Messrs
Seward and Greeley. In vain have Judge Douglas
and Mr. Forney written to Mr.. Greeley, as the Tri-
bune declares they have done, imploring him to
modify his creed = in vain docs the Tribune pro-
fess to listen to such entreaties, and call upon its
party to support the southern Americans of easy
virtue, and the disaffected democrats, who vote
with their organization in Congress The abolition
party have no intention, in fact of modifying their
anti slavery programme in the least and whenever
its authoritative leaders, it's men who in
est speak to meetings at home composed of earnest
men, in the republican cause, it is always to an
nounce sentiments and to advocate measures such
as those propounded and urged by Mr.. Seward at
Rochester. ... ...
So far from qualifying his old positions at all Mr..
Seward in this speech advances if possible bow
shot beyond them, declaring that the conflict be-
tween slavery and freedom cannot cease until either
South Carolina and Louisiana are TILED by free la
Dor, or else the soil of New York and Massaohu-
sets shall be cultivated by the slave. The great
question is not of slavery in the Territories but
of slavery in the States.
The popularity of Mr. Stewards oratory is its free
and audacous employment of round assertion. There
is no statement too improbable or monstrous for Mr.
Stewards use, provided only it be needful as sup
port to his ingenious web-work of argument and
sophstry. The speech from which we extract to-
day contains some of the plumpest and coolest as
serons of notorious unruth that even this audacious
orator ever before ventured upon. We can allude to
but few of them.
Our southern communities find themselves sur
rounded by several millions Of African negroes, who
were brought to their shores long years ago by New
England and British slave-traders, who made large
wealth by the traffic and whose trade was protested
against at every step of its progress by the south
ern colonies. The natural Incidence and thrifess.
ness Gf the negro renders it necessary that the
whites of the South should hold them as slaves to
compulsory labor, or else abandon the southern
States altogether to the black race to become anew
Africa or second Hayt Jamaica, or San Domingo.
The principle of sefpreservation, the democfatic
principle of the greatest good to the greatest many
is the one on which the whites of the South hold
their slaves in bondage. Yet Mr.. Seward roundly
asserts that "the principle Of the southern system
of labor u.s. that labor in every society, by whom
soever performed, is necessarily unintelectual,
groveling, and base, and that the laborer [every-
where, of whatever complexion he may be-
equally for his own good and the welfare of the
State, ought to be enslaved.'' That is the round
and false assertion with which Mr.. Seward CON-
mences his address
His next proposition u.s. that it is the object of the
slave aristocracy to push this principle, not only
into the Territories, but into all the free States
though he does not compliment the inteects of his
hearers by particle of evidence of reason in sup
port of his round assertion. slg
Mr. Seward then goes on to say that the great
amelorations in the condition of society in modern
times are due entirely to the abolition of slavery
and makes the preposterous assertion that the supe
riorty () of the social condition of European States
over that of our States is owing to the fact that
in every European State, save Russia and Turkey,
slavery has been abolished. In asserting a higher
social condition for Europe than for this Union he
unconsciously falls into the reductio dd dbsurdm.
Mr.. Seward then coolly informs the southern poll
ticians who would his party into afectionate
coalition that there is necessary antagonism be-
| tween slave and free communities, and that they
never have permanently existed together in or
ganization, and never
But the most striking part of the whole speech
is that in which the orator sets forth in de-
tail the various things which the democratic
party have done for the South and the slave cause.
We present this part of Mr.. Stewards speech in full.
It's author is at least good authority with the men
in the South who profess anxiety to coalesce with
him for the purpose of making war upon the demo-
cratic party and we take peculiar pleasure in using
what he says on this subject means of heapmg
Goals of fire on the heads of his would-be allies at
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