The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-11-03
From The SOUiLcin Guardian
The Progress Of Anti-Slavery

Senator Seward made speech to a
large meeting of The Republican party, AT
Rochester, New York, paragraph or
two Of which, as reported IN the New York
T'mcs, We will notice. lie proceeded to
show what were the intentions of the fra
merS Of the Constitution, and, second,
what has been the tendency Of the Gov.
ernmcnt under tie control OF the asistoc.
racy of Slavery. This country, he said,
must eventually be wholly free, or alto d.
gethcr slave territory. He arraignea4hS
Democratic parry as the great ally Of lke
slave powe..'
Senator Seward is an experienced po
htlcian ana mHu who has uncrupu!ously
used the anti slavery agitation for his own
advancement but the above assertion
that this country must be eventually Who'll.
ly free or altogether slave territory does
not strike us As the prediction Of states
man. lie knows very well that the gran
lie hills OF " ermont, the soil which pro.
duces wooden nu'megs,or indeed any por.
ton oi New England could become slave
territory. We set this down therefore
as a mere piece OF claptrap.
The argument that he brings forward
L
flied to believe has some foundation in
truth, yet it is worth while to enquire
from what party the growing Republican
party gathers its recruits. They are not
all origionaI aboIilionists, The majority of
Them still! cling TO another faction of the
great ant! slavery party the old Wing
party is divided between the American
and Silver-gray organizations, the crea,
b nix Of free holders, therefore are obtair
cd from the ranks of the Northern Dem
ocracy.
let is the Democratic party ihe or, at
ally Of slavery. It is so of necessity. |,
was origionaIly formed on principle de
claring adherence to the Constitution, and
on that 'ccount it may he rcgarde AS an
ally, for the slave States ask uothin.r hut
their rights ander the ,uL.titu. ~. 40.
there is ANOTHER more potent reason why
this party should be called an 'aIIy.' The
whole South is Democratic in principIc,
ard her people have no other organization
presented to them that they could affili.
ate or act with. Without the South the
Democratic party could not exist for n
year.
But there is another point to which we
desire to call attention. In speaking OF
the Republican victories in Pennsylvania
and the West he says:
81 know, and You know, that a revolu
ton has begun. | know, and aI the
world knows, that revolutions never 90
backwards. Twenty Senator'S and hun
dred Representatives proclaim boldly in
Congress to day sentiments and opinions
and principles Of Freedom, which not so
many men even in this free State Jared
to utter in their own homes twenty wears
ago. While the Government of the Unl
tel States, under the conduct Of the Dem
ocrat party, has been all that time surren-
derIng one plain and castle after another
to Slavery, the people OF the Urited
States have been no less steadily and per,
seyeringIy gathering together the forces
with which 10 recover back again all the
ylie'ds and al! the castles which have been
lost, and to confound and overthrow, by
one decisive blow. the betrayers of the
Constitution and of freedom forever"
That one decisive blow may be struck
at the next Presidential election, "Revo.
!ullops never so backwards" and Sena.
tor Seward has very good reason TO be
!lcve that this one will not. We are not
old and yet we remember the condition
OF things to which the Senator alIudes.-
We have been in position to watch and
49,; i!ia onward progress tho anti.sia
very sentiments OF the North, and there
- nothing in events now transpirinn that
could lead Us TO believe that progress will
l." stayed. The last Prudential election
showci = political strength in Anti Sla.
Tarr, that few persons were then prepar.
od 10 witness and the prediction of which
twenty years ago wouIl have consigned
the prophet to unstic Asylum. Year
after year has seen the South, ia her 20.
Iitical rights and her dearest interests
more and more encroached upon; f; her
friends at the North gradually deserving
hef, or, as Che late elections clearly show,
being laid on the shelf This is too pain
fully true and we submit, that while the
hosts OF Black Repubicanism are gather
ing their hosts for the onset, the people
OF the South ought TO make some prepa
rations to meet the shock. The motto Of
all true Southern men should be "the
Union Of the South for the sake Of tho
South"