Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-05
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FRIDAY MORNING. NOvEMBER 5, Is5s.


struggle for the control and administration Of the
government there viii be but two paries-ihe party
which followed the lead Of FRBMoEr in 1856, known
as the Black Republicans or Ab5liiiOnists, and the
party which followed the lead Of JAMES BUCHANAN,
known as Democrats. The KnOE-NOthng faction,
which supported the third candidate, Mr.. FILLMORE,
will have entirely disappeared distinct political
organisation. Where those composing it will have
gone to. time and circumstances viii determine.
What will be the purposes Of this "Republioan"
partyi is pertinent enquiry. And yet We would
hardly suppose that any knowing the history Of
the rise and progress Of abOitOnism would have
any doubt on the subject. Il has protested,
90 far, to have had but single purpOse-War upon
the rights and interests Of the South, and to put
down her influence and power in the government
They have never prOfessed unity upon any other
question Bank and anti Bank, Protection and Free
Trade men Of all shades Of politics in other par
tieulars, constitute that party Every cause, even
religion itself, hss been made subordinate to the
one que -tion-tbe 6nal breaking down Of what they
term the sssave power" ia the eOnfedeTaoy That
they are still pursuing it with the same singeness
Of purpose, no one can question who reads their
journals, their popular harangues, the proceed
ings OF their public meetings We have en- taunt-
ingly told BY their leaders in the Federal Congress-
that in the next Presidential contest host Of 'gal
liant men," like CAssIUs NJ. CLAY, will rise up in The
South TO aid them in their struggle That patriotic
conservative men, such as Messrs. CRITTEEDEE and
BELL, 'Who have heretofore moderated ig favor Of
slavery, WH hereafter moderate against slavery" We
have been told time and again. when expressing the
hope that an end would be put TO the agitation of
this question that there will be end $50 long IS
there is foot of slave territory in all the land"
The same men that have said these things in times
past, are the leaders of the Black Republican party
now; and that their purposes are unchanged, We
have only to read their papers and their speeches to
see and understand.
But it is not our purpose to argue this subject now
but merely to make record of one of thepassiDg in
cideuts Of the day. Senator SEWARD has been busy
in the recent elections at the North. The same in
telgenoe that has cheered the hearts of the Sou h.
ern Opposition has warmed his also. Our New York
exchanges furnish US with g report Of recent
speech delivered by him at Rochester, n Y, in
which he declared, az though speaking the words of
prophecy that 'this country must be wholly free or
altogether slave territory" We are further told
that he srraigned the Democratic party the great
ally Of the slave PoWer-that Democratic admins
trations merely record its behests."
The report continues: "Senstor S finally spoke
of the policy Of the republican party OOntras ed
with that of the democratic, and alluded to the
cent successes of the former in Pennsy lvanis and the
West His concluding remarks were as follows:
The secret Of its assumed success lies in that very
characteristic which, in the mouths of scoers con-
situes il great and lasting imbeciity andreprosch'
It lies in the fact that it is party Of idea, but
that idea is a noble one-an idea that fills and
pands all generous souls the idea of equslity-ths
equality Of all men before human tribunals and human
Iasgs as they all are equal before The dUiHe tribunal and
diUias lal0s know, aud you know, that revolu>
ton has begun. 1 know, and all the world knows
that revolutions HsUsr go 5GekVard Twenty Senators
and hundred Representatives proclaim boldly in
Congress to-day sentiments and opinions and prin-
ciples of freedom which not so many men even in
this free State dared 10 utter in their own homes
twenty years ago. while the government of the United
States under the conduct of the democratic party,
has been all that time surreDderiDg one plain snG
castle after another to slavery. The people Of the
United States have been no less steadily and perse-
Veringly gathering together the forces with which
to recover back gain all the fields and all the castles
which have been lost and to conOund and over throw
BY one decisive blow he betrsyers of the constitution
and Of freedom forever"
These are emphatic words Of deep significance.
They come from no common source, but from the
great head and front of the Black Republican party.
They read as one speaking, by authority Words
not lightly considered, but maturely weighed.
We are told that this party, which is TO make the
fight with the Democracy for supremacy in the next
Presidential contest, is lr'y Of "ODe idea, and
that idea the equality of all men, black and white
that q revolution has begun-that this country
must be "whOlly free or altogether slave that
"tWenty Senators and a hundred Representatives
proclaim boldly in Congress te-day sentiments which
not 90 many men in this free State New York dared
to utter in their own homes twenty years ago and
that revolutions never go backwards. We beg
that these things be not passed lightly by Let the
honest men consider then, that they may understand
what it is that will be forced upon them as the real
issue in the next great struggle for the adminisra-
ton of the government