Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-12-01
From, the Washington States
The Bloody Flag raised ag nst the South


From the Washington States,
The Bloody Flag raised ag nst the South.
IF anything were necessary TO prove the
truth of our statement. that the battle Of the
Union was being fought in Illinois, we have
that proof now in the manifestoes Just issued
by Senator Seward. There is no controvert.
ing the fact that Seward is the ablest and the
bodest leader of the disruption party OF the
North; and, for our part we are glad that he
has thus early avowed, more distinctly than
heretofore, the Infamous principles OF which
he is the arch.apbstle. He comes forward at
this political juncture to tane the weapon from
the bafted hands Of Lincoln, and brandsh it
with that vigor which mad or bad mental quail
tiles ever inspire into weak frame.
Lincoln fought the battle in Illinois on n dis
tinct issue. He held that the Government
could not endure divided into free States and
slave States. He he'd that the whole Repub.
tic must become one or the other: the North
should overrun the South, or the South sqelsh
the North. He also advocated a crusade
against the Supreme Court of the United
States. He was for the abolition of negro
servitudc on the one hand, or the abolition of
the rights of white men on the other. Any
distinction between black and white was alb.
horrent to him. In his eye they were equal
and as he read the Declaration of Independ
ence, he was forcby struck with its impartial
justice in announcing all men having been Gre
ated equal.
Upon this ground Lincoln has fought the
Black Republican battle in Illinois. Such doc.
trines are subversive Of the whole machinery
OF our Government. They are libel on the
intention of great men who formed it in the
past, and blatant treason against its life al
present. Douglas held exactly the opposite
views--broad, conservative, State-rights, Dem
ocratic views-which we need not now reite.
rate; Suffice it they were exactly and dame'
really the reverse of the Black Republican
faith expounded by Lincoln, and were as good
noble, and Union.oving in the same ratio that
his opponents views were evil, treacherous,
and dlsruptlve. Thus has the battle OF the
Union heen fought in Illinois. Watching the
fight with intense anxiety, Seward and his
friends thought they would take the flag from
Lincoln's hands, lest he might fall as his strug-
gle approached close; and thus we see the
arch Abolitionist Of the North flashing the
bloody flag in New York which Lincoln car.
ried torough Illinois.
Seward like Lincoln, holds that the sys-
TENS pertaining here now are not only incon.
grous, but incompatible, He wants to demol,
ish the South or be demolished himself-mean-
ing the North. He and his party would ex.
tlrpate or enslave the South. He and his par.
ty would rule or ruin the whole country. Like
Lincoln, he would have us all black or all
white; or a brutal pepper-and-salt amalgama.
tion. Lincoln laid down the infamous doc
trine with precision: Seward adds the angry
zeal of the ambitious fanatic to the enuncia-
ton of the internal faith, and will carry it out
with blow and bIoodshed.
He announces that he will not live in the
country TO be governed by any aristocracy,
much less a pack of shareholders. To make
and keen home. he must defeat and DESTROY
the South. Phis is his whole faith; it is the
Black Republican Shibb ,leth for the 1860
fight; hence, to be forewarned is to be fore.
armed,
In few words, Seward proclaims his party
faith to be embraced in the question "whether
the cotton and rice fields OF South Carolina,
and the sugar plantations of Louisiana, shall
ultimately be titled by free labor, and Charles
ton and New Orleans become marts for legiti'
mate merchandise alone, or whether the rye
and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New
York shall be again surrendered by their farm
ers to slave culture, and to the production of
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