The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-31
W. II. Seward ON his Travels-Alarm I'm the
Republican Camp.

Republican Camp.
Some of our black republican organs, alarmed
at the effect upon the public mind which has
been produced by the late startling revolution
airy manifesto of W. II. Seward, at Rochester, are
endeavoring to soften this popular indignation
by constitutional qualifications. We are thus
told that Mr.. Seward "does not expect to &C
complish the abolition of slavery in the Southern
States in any other than strictly constitutional
that, give Mr.. Seward and his peculiar partisans
the power in the federal government to carry out
their designs, and they will not hesitate to twist
the federal constitution into convenient aboli-
ton machine.
Thus, he may find il constitutional duty to
uphold the freedom of speech" in the South
with federal bayonets, whatever insurrectionary
mischiefs may arise from the freedom thus Sc
cured to abolition emissaries; and thus ander the
power to regulate commerce." Seward Con-
gress, with Seward as their executive chief, may
undertake to regulate the commerce in slaves
among the several slave States But who does
not perceive that proceedings such as these,
under the cover of constitutional authority, would
be as fatal to the Union and the peace Of the two
sections, as a deliberate act of Congress cutting
off the slave States and casting them out of the
Union?
Meantime we perceive that Mr.. Seward has
been making another speech in behalf of the
republican cause. at Rome, in which he tells us
that the way of the battle has entirely
changed:" that heretofore the battle had been
with the shareholders of the South hon, silly con-
tending for rights which they deemed essential to
their interests. and the extension of which they
believed to be practicable;' but that ''they have
now given over the contest as hopeless,'' aud
that accordingly the battle is now limited to
their retainers' democrats ofthe NORTH
who will not give up the contest ''for fear of con-
fiscation and punishment 1T is they, and not
the Shareholders that now continue the contest"
Now. as we understand this presentation of the
subject, ii means that the last remaining bulwark
of the institution of the South against the abolition
movements of the North is that balance of power
which the South retains in the Northern demo-
cracy, and that with this balance Of power ex-
tinguished there will be no other alternative
remaining to the South than absolute submission
TO the consolidated and overwhelming anti
slavery sentiment and power of the North. Mr.
Seward next assures us that these Northern demo
cratic 'retainers" of the Shareholders are ''insig-
nificant in numbers and will speedily be arrest
ed" What then? Why, then we shall have the
fulhlment of his ambition in the solid organza-
tion of the North against the South and in view
of the active extinguishment of slavery from
Delaware to Texas.
That a Presidential campaign thus organized
and successful in 1850, will be the end Of the
federal Union in 1861. there is every reason most
seriously to believe; for there is faction Of reck
less and active conspirators in the South whose
desire, above all things. is plausible pretext
for the spohs and plumber Of dissolution, revolu-
ton, and Southern confcderacy. To this end
this Southern faction beguiled to its destruction
the administration Of poor Pierce: and to
this end. failing to rule it, this same fac
ton has basey betrayed, and is meanly conspiring
10 destroy, the administration Of Mr.. Buchanan.
A solid foothold then. among the conservative
masses of the North, is the only security for the
conservative Union policy of Mr.. Buchanan
against the imperial anti-slavery programme of
Seward and his partizans on the one hand and
the treaoLerous dsunion fre-eaters Of the South
on the other.
In this view these late significant DEGREES of
Seward from Rochester and Rome give an en-
tirely new aspect TO our gubernatorial election,
for Morgan is thus made the test question Of the
projected Northern crusade against slavery in
the slave States. Thus il is that at the eleventh
hour Of the day. every man In this State who
believes that the Union IL the basis of our gene
raj and individual prosperity, happiness and
safety. and that non-interierence In the domestic
institutions Of our slaveholding brethren Of the
South is indispensable to the peace and the very
existence Of the Union, is called upon to reject
Morgan on account Of the traitorous and incendi-
AIRY principles and designs Of his master.
IfScward has dismountcd the worn out hobby
of bleeding Kansas" and has lifted up the black
flag Of total abolitionsm In order to steal away
the abolition vote Of Gerrit Smith, so be IL: but
let Seward and bis Morgan State ticket be re-
pudiated accordingly by every honest voter in
the State who regards with horror and disgust
the bloody instructions of that Rochester mani
festo. Men Of New York, LET this be remembered
on Tuesday. in reference to the test question of
Governor, whatever may be your opinions or divi-
sions upon minor issues. Men may cry peace,
peace;" but henceforward we shall have no
peace until this agent Of discord, revolution and
terror, this INSCRIPTIONS disorganizer, Seward,
shall have been silenced and put down.