Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-25

will be sure to create"
SEwARD's SPEECH IN THE Sou1H.-The Louis.
vile Journal. undoubtedly the ablest paper in
Kentucky, for years the staunch defender of Hen.
ry Clay, declares Mr.. Stewards Rochester speech
to be one of the ablest and most graceful ever
delivered on the American stump. 1t says:
The doctrine of tho incompatibility of the sys'
TENS Of Slavery and Free Labor is obviously JUS,
a. present a favurite CROCHET with the Republi
cans. 1t is a crotchct, but nothing more. Never,
theless, it is a horrid bugbear to not a few South.
ern Democrats. Mr.. Seward. in the course Of his
speech at Rochester, expressed it as follows:
at was the antagonistic political tendencies Of
the two systems which the first Napoleon was con.
templating when he predicted that Europe would
ultimately be either all Cossack or all Re publican.
Never did human sagacity utter a more pregnant
ruth. The two systems are at once perceived to
be incongruous. But they are more than incon.
gruous they are Incompatible. They never have
permanently existed together in one country, and
they never can. 1t would be easy to demonstrate
this impossibility, from the irreconcilable contrast
between their great principles and characteristics.
But the ex~ Experience of mankind has conclusiYely
established it.
"This language which Southern Democrats, who
cape and stare at Mr.. Seward as the Prince Of all
the COLLINS, have understood, or pretended to un.
derstand, as a declaration on behalf Of the Re.
publicans OF q settled resolution to xterminat
Slavery in the States. 1t is an annunciation which
the organs Of Southern Democratic opinion are
holding up and furnishing as the avowal of a dis.
tinct DESIGN on the mari of flo Rapuh1i,ops 30
wage fierce and unrelenting and bloody war upon
Slavery wherever it exists. Surely the men who
perpetrate or circulate this pitiful misconstruction
must know better. The whole import of Mr..
Stewards proposition, as expressed above, is clear.
1t is unmistakable. But, if it isn't, unque.tion.
ably the following precautionary paragraph rem.
6ers it SO:
"'lt remains to sly on this point only one word,
to guard against misapprehension. If these
States are to again become universally slavehol.
ding, l do not pretend to say with what violations
CT the Constitution that end shall be accomplished.
On tbs other hand. while l do confidently believe
and hope that my country will yet become a land
of universal Freedom, / do not expect thaU it will
be made SO otherwise than through the action OF
the several States cooperating with the Federal
Government. and all acting in strict conformity
with their respective Constitutions
Thus the terrible hobgoblin vanishes before
the first beam of candor. The proposition is per-
:ectly innocent. l. is, in fact. but the reproduc'
ton, in somewhat sharper form, of a pet opinion
of Mr.. Clay's. Nothing could be further from
the narrowing import with which ~distempered OF
designing fancies have invested it. The notion
belongs wholly to the realm of ideas. 1t does no,
contemplate a plan Of action, but merely a SCENE
of natural development. 1t is a speculation, not
a project--tbe outline of a conviction, not Of a
campaign. 1t is a mere forecast of events. 1t is
Mr.. Stewards theory of our national progression.
1t is his judgement as to what will happen, in the
ordinary courseo Of things"