The Washington union., 1858-03-13

spirit Of union animate our puhRc men What
means tins artay ef the Seetispeg r. war o. one
against the other. Mr. Seward declared NE other
day the Senate il was2 Is il an effort At titles
scramble in jastace's ooutg the conviction on
aoquittai Of criminal "a II the North against the
south Are enly having a vote, by which DIE
mslory Is 70 Distribute the honors and Offices Of the
American Uniong II these questions are idle aud
visionary, what means the organization Of repub-
hcan party confined eclusively 10 half of the States
and addressing itself solely 10 Efforts b create and
operate public sentiment against the other haf2 Do
the republicans believe they are right To admit
they Do, is 70 prove the danger to deny that they
do, is 10 charge and convict them of the blackest
crimes. II they in earnest we have suly 10 live
as political Union, TIL they triumph if they are
moi N earnest they traitors, the proper punish
ment Of whom has not yet been devised
Mr.. Seward, who may now be regarded as the Inn
bediment Of the school of politicians with whom he
acts tells US from his seat il tile Senate that great
struggle Is going between what be terms the free
dem Of the North against the slavery Of the south.
When Mr.. Seward uttered this sentiment he knew
very well that the controversy he alluded to- in
volved, and made by his own and the efforts af
Dis associates 10 involve the existence Of the fed
eral constitution There can be no struggle between
the two sections Of the Unon which is not political
nor there be triumph ON either side which win
weaken the bonds that bind the States tbgether
Mr. Seward Intends 10 use the maiorities Of the North
and the States Of the North to give effect to his hos
ulity to slavery He means this or he ID both a
bypocrite and demagogne. If that is his design
then il is clear that the compact Of Union. il with
him, mere rope of sand He win permit il to pre-
vail I'll he get II out of the way
We have thus endeayored distinctly 10 bring be
fore the country the spirit Of loyalty and patriotism
which animated the Fathers on the one side and the
conduct and character Of the leading republicans"
OF this day, the other The lesson is full of adj
monition and instruction In the midst of boundless
prosperity which has made the nation the stav and
reliance Of the wcrld-the people free educated
prosperous and happy-iher government their own
ra..vnt6ned with crusade of fauaticisn which
promises nothing but evil, and whose power is con
fined 70 single possible result the overthrow Of the
federal Union
Mr.. Seward says Of this controversy that free
labor has at length apPrehended its rights it's inter-
esis ITS peRer and Its destiny and organizing itself
% assume the government Of the republic Its ''tsss
tiny is the uitirnatH emancipation Of all mem Mr.
SewGrd policy is here marked QUIT il All con-
fict sntagonism, warit is political social and in
dustria war--it is alienation, sedfion. and disu-
mon II is war Of the sections Of upinons-a cru
sade IN which religion is adroitIy blended with pol
itics with labor, with The family These are the
contributions which Mr. Seward and his republican
associates bring 10 the government p-tarlfs,ed by
Washington. Jeaersrn, hadison, Adams, and their
illuEttipas compeers.