The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-11-03
Mr., Stewards Speech.


seems to be accepted everywhere as the pro-
nunciameuto ofthe ultra Republican party for
the campaign of 1860. He discards what
he denominates minor, temporary and oelu-
siveS issues, and treats only OF what is hnal
and essential He insists on the natural
and irreconcileable antagonisn of slave and
free labor aud of free and slave institutions.
The conflict between them is inevitable, and
one must triumph and the other yield. The
country must become an obligarchy ofslave
holders, or free labor must expel slaycry.-
1t is evident that Northern Republicanism
is resolved to go into the next Presidential
contest upon the old issue. This avowal
will give confidence and courage to Lecomp-
ton Democracy; there will inevitably be
three parties in the field, and with divided
opposition the Administration party will
have their chances of success multiplied.
We adopt the synopsis Of the speech made
| by the Cincinnati CONNER ciqL as giving
| clear idea Of its sentiments and doctrines:
! The country exhibited two radically diff
!
| slave, the ether upon free labor. The la
| borers enslaved were all negroes, but this
was accidental. The princple of the system
of slave labor was, that labor in every state
of society, by whomsoeyer performed, was
necessarily base, aud that the laborer for his
own good aud that of the State, ought to be
enslaved The white laboring man. wheth-
er native or foreigner, was not enslaved only
because he could not as yet be reduced to
| bondage" Here the Senator dwelt upon
| the distinctive characteristics of the systems
| of labor which arc rivals upon this conti-
nent, and traced the history of the progress
| of slavery among US. Never did human sd
| gacity utter more important truth than did
| Napoleon when he predicted that Europe
would become all Cossack or all Republican.
The two systems of labor were incongruous,
and more than that, were Incompatible
They had never permanently existed to-
gether in one country, and never could.
That the experience Of mankind established.
Free labor had already supplanted slave la
Dor in every State of Europe, except Russia
and Turkey and even those States, de5potic
as they were, are found engaged in the abo-
lition of slavery. Slave and free labor came
in collision in the United States at the close
of the last century, and slavery fell in New
England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
But for a period yet undetermined, slave
labor had triumphed over free labor i'll the
Caroinas Virginia and Georgia. So in
: compatible were the systems of free and
slave labor, that the first political act of a
new State was the choice of one and the re-
, lection of the other, even at the cost of civil
war, if necessary; and in the last Presiden
tial election, the casting of votes for can
: didate, supposed to be favorable to the es
tablishment of the free labor system in new
States, was, without law, forbidden in the
slave States Owing to the increase of pop
ulation, and the intimacies of internal com
merce prompted by railroads and other ave
nues, the antagonStic systems were in thu
United States coming into closer contac
and more constant collision. This collision
was not accidental or unnecessary, or tht
A | work of fanatcal agitators. 1t was an I'M
, pressablc conflict, which would last unit
the United States would become either en-
tirely a Slaveholding or entirely free labo
nation. 1t was a failure to comprehend thi
: truth, that induced so many vain and cphein
2 eral pretended compromises. This saying
was not an original or modern one:
. "Our forefathers knew it to be true, an,
unanimously acted upon it, when they franz
| =
Y They regarded the existence of the scrvil
Z system in so many of the States with sor
: row and shame which they openly con
:. fessed, and they looked upon the collision
. between Them which was then Just reveal
IS ing itself, and which we are now accustomc,
to deplore, with favor and hope. The
!, knew that either the one or the other sys
= tenn must exclusively prevail
Il Tho Senator while CONSTANTLY hnlinvin
y and holding that his country would yet be
e come land of univeral freedom, did nc
. expect it would be made so otherwise tha
through the action of the several States, CO
&C operating with the Federal government, an
C all acting in strict conformity to thei
n several Constitutions. The strife abou
+ slavery which gently disposed persons habit
ually deprecated was 9 nothing more tina
e the ripening of the conflict which the Faith
&c ers themselves not only regarded with ia
a vor, but which they may be said to hav
H. instituted" 1t was not to be denied, how
ever, that thus far the contest had been &C
II cording to their human anticipations an
he wishes. Here the Senator traced the pre-
ee gress of the system of slavery, and sal
E that the fears which were entertained thu
the whole country would become a slave
80 holding country, were only chimerca
lie because the designs of the Shareholder
lie could and must be defeated. The Souther
es sectionaism of the Democratic party, an
. the utterly pro-Slavery record of tn;
~ party, which is so gross that a clumsy han
GU may make it glariug, while even so great a
artist in words rs Seward finds the task
giving the old facts new form, one of diff
n, Guilty.
al lfany member Of the party claimed tn
the authorities, chosen by the suffrages
&C the party, transcended their partizan pla
lie forms, and SO misreprcsented the party
or the various transactions he had recited.
r asked that partizan to ''name one Dem,
cratic statesman or legislator, from Van B
80 rem to Walker, who either timidily or cal
Id tiously, like them, or boldly and defant
"a. like Douglas, ever refused to execute
al hest of the slave holders, and Was not ther
fore, and for no other cause, immediate
W denounced, and deposed from his trust, al
Gu regulated by the Democratic party for tn;
in contumacy."
The Democratic party had no policy, Sta
or Federal, for finance or trade, or mani
;s factures or commerce. or education,o or int
nal Improvements, or for the protection,
ie' even the security of civil or religious libe
N ty. 1t ,ras umcompr0miSjng in the interest
". sLarery-negdtige, compromising, and rasci
II y.