The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-18
WASHINGTON CITY.
THURsDAY, KovEMBER IS. 1855.
MIR SCENARIOS BLOODY PROGRAMME HE MADE
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.

Mr. Stewards Rochester manifesto the bloody pro-
gramme Of the great republican party. TWAS precise
y the language required to describe the character of
the effort and the purposes of the organization it
was intended to sustain and uphold. A party
fined strictly to the free States and claiming exelu
siye control of all the public Terriores-not under
the laws of population not by the free action of
igrants but by the force of congressional interyen-
ton and political, hostile and offensive combina-
tions-could well afford to make public declaration
of war against the institutions of half the members
of the confsderacy and declare that il shall be pros
ecutod till those members shall surrender to the in
yaders. party that could SO far forget all the
common courteses of life and haughtly ayow pur-
pose to prohibit the admission of any more slave
States into the Union no matter what might be the
wishes of the people of the place might well be ex
pected to take the next step and open its batteries
upon the institution of slavery in the States.
This is Mr. Stewards last bloody programme. Has
it been rejected by his republican associates Has
no been denounced bold, reckless innovator
Who has forgotten that only few years ago he adj
dressed the Senate pronouncng the dissolution of the
wing party, dsavowng it, conforming it as pro-
slavery, and forswearing all further allegiance to
its creed aud it's service There those who
then regarded Mr.. Seward a wild adventurer, so
reckless in the utterance of opinions to be harm
less and powerless. They administered to him
mild rebuke. They wanted his services and were
willing to recognise him as an auxiliary, never
dreaming apparently that the day coming
when he would be able to make them his subjects
and give laws to them all. That day has arrived,
and the mild terms of rebuke which he then admin
istered to those who had power in the old wing
party are now changed to naughty command that
they shall array themselves in perpetual against
half the States of the American Union. ..
IL there no lesson in all this to the people of the
United States2 Does it not speak to the democracy
as well as to other organizationsg Does it not
evince steady movement deriving its vital and ami
mating powers of mischief from continued conces-
sions to such demagogues Mr.. Seward, and now
grown into formidable combination aiming at the
overthrow of the government
All the public who, from motives of policy
and personal benefit to themselves have yielded to
the antislavory schemes of Mr.. Seward, are parties
in fact to his bloody manifesto at Rochester
That is his last instalment drawn upon those
who, little by little, have contributed to build
up his revolutionary party in the northern
States. That he would at length come to his
present position no man of sound practical sense
could doubt for a moment. That he would be sat
isfed with the principle announced only four years
ago, Of hostility to the admission of any more
slave States, and carry on his work of poison
ing the public mind Of the country upon vain con-
troversial issues about the public Territories. no
man of judgment could believe. There was no vi
tality in such controversies. They could be kept
up only by fitful startling Frauds by misrepresen-
tations about the purposes of imaginary slave oil
garchy, and their true character would be exposed
by tho inevitable events of lfe His schemes of
agitation about Kansas having been thus brought to
the test and their sckening details presented to the
country he compelled either to surrender all
his cherished plans of alarm or take the next step
and proclaim perpetual warfare upon the States
of the Union. .....
We do not regret the action Of Mr.. Seward. To
all thoughtful men it has been long apparent that
crisis in American politics is what is demanded to
correct and purify the political atmosphere. We
have gone on with one experiment after another,
testing the vital energies of system and its pow
come over-confdent of its capacity to meet every
draft which such hucksters and traders as Mr.
Seward can make upon it. There is evidently an
unwillngness to believe that are serious in an
nouncing such fearful doctrines those of Mr. Sew
ard and his republican associates But they forget
that he is great and accredited leader and that
while the of the people regard at first his
schemes as the exuberance Of zeal in behalf of
q political organization, effort to secure its
success for the time being thousands led away sub
sequenty by the machinery of party, and soon come
to adopt his theories the rule OF their political
conduct. 1t is not enough, then, to sit quietly and
laugh at doctrines the general adoption of which
would destroy the very foundations Of the republic.
1t is not enough to condemn those doctrines. The
dictates Of patriotism demand of us that we should
also condemn and prescribe the man that utters
them. They are heresics made powerful and effect
i've for mischief, threatening the overthrow of our
social and political Union, because they uttered
by William II. Seward. 1t was he that struck the
fatal blow at the old political organization of wings
II was he that created the republican party. But
for his aid there would never have been in this
country sectional organization at all. He is the
Embodiment the very heart and SOUL of that concern
II IA idle and worse than idle, then to say that his