Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1858-11-17
THE BRUTAL AND BLOODY MANIFESTO OF
SEWARD-THE TRUE ISSUE IN 1860.

Politicians have been cavlng and cropping about,
and parties quarrelling and breaking up, because
there was no great question before the country un-
der which to draw the broad and distinct lines of
party organization, and upon which the popular YER
dict shall be rendered in 1860.
But there is now no more room for cavil A grave
Senator-one who has had a long experience who
is looked upon by his followers as calm, sedate
and profound thinker, who is held to be the Mentor
of the Republican party-has announced the princi-
pies under which that party will go into the coming
political conflict and the ends it hopes to attain
In recent speech, which We publish elsewhere Mr..
Seward rallies his political friends and partisans to
60 into the conflict and decide whether the cotton
rice and sugar fields of the South shall be ultimate
ly titled by free labor, or whether the rye and
wheat fields of New York and New England must
be surrendered to slave culture and to the produc-
ton of slaves. The Uuted States, says Mr. Sew
ard, must and will, sooner or later, become, either
entirely slaveholdng nation, entirely free la
Dor nation" Such is the brutal and bloody pro-
gramme laid down by Senator Seward as the plat
form of the Republican party, and which that party
accepts. Before such issue this all other is
sues sink into significance. The Kansas humbug,
the squatter sovereignty faacy the petty quarrels
between the adherents of the Administration and
those of Douglas, the cries of protective tariff of
a new naturalization law, and the thousand other
petty party questions of the day. are all ephemeral
in their nature and will disappear before the great
social and political conflict which this programme
inaugurates.
We-call it brutal and bloody programme, for it
is nothing more than the announcement of fierce
that is to be made upon the social and political
organization of the Southern States. The pretend
ed alternative that the North must give up its rye
and wheat fields to slave culture If those of the
South not given up to free negroes, is all hum
bug Such an alternative can never by any posi-
bility occur. We have all the life, all the energy,
and all the intelligence that belong to unmixed
race and homogeneous population: In national
r. n A. L
all the education, all the wealth, and the greatest
part of rascality of the country. The idea there
FORE of the South forcing its institutions its
niggers upon us is perfectly preposterous.
But we can make war upon the South; and if
the North is united in so doing it must succeed
And this is what Mr.. Seward wishes to attain We
must not only retain the right of selfgovernment
for ourselves, but must insist upon attaining the
right of governing the South according to our ideas,
and not permitting them to govern themselves ac-
cording to their own. At our behest the entire Or
ganzat0n of society in the Southern States must be
changedS:,N must be made homogeneous, like our
own or like that of Saint Domingo and jamaica
At present they have defence against our forcing
them to effect this if We have the will to do So 9TH
er than the Constitution But the Constitution
be changed by two-thirds vote, says Mr. Seward !;
and if we Northerners do not change it and make
it free Constitution, the South will go annex
ing territory, and will eventually make slave Con-
stitution of it. We must, therefore make a savage
war upon the South, and win the victory in 1860
Such is the programme of the Republican party !;
and they will endeavor to carry it out.
| It, therefore, behooves our merchants and our
manufacturers, our farmers and our mechanics, our
men of wealth and our laborers, to consider well
what would be the result upon themselves and their
own interests if this brutal and bloody programme
should succeed The interests of the North and the
South are bound together by indissouble ties of
sympathy. What Injuries the one must pernicious-
ly affect the other. Our commerce, our manufac-
lures, our railroads and great ways of intercommu-
nication depend in large degree upon the untram-
melled markets of supply and consumption in the
South; and upon those depend the value of our la
Dor, lands and possessions all our material in
terests and the development of our moral powers
No great injury be done to the organization of
society without destroying its power both of pro-
duction and consumption. The social organization
Of the South may b compared to pises Of doth