Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-12-30
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= Tk Lssissak Josrssl. urSouttedly the
sbiest paper in Kentucky, fos years the
stsnch defender of Henry Clay, declares
Mr Sew sfdss Rochester speech to he one
of the shlsst and most grsceful ever ceiiva
erred on the American stump. II says:
.The doctrine Of the iucompstbiliiy Of,
the systsms of Slavery and Free Labor is
obviously just st present favorise crotehetl
with the Republicans. Il is croichet, but
nothing more. Nevertheless, il is horrid
| bng hesr 70 not q few Southern Democrats.
Mr. Seward, in the course Of his speech at
Rochester, expressed it 90 follows:
III sss the antsgonistic political ienden-
cies Of the two systems which the hrst
! Napoleon was contemplating when he pre-
dicted that Europe would ultimately be
either all Coesack or all Republican,. Never
4 did human sagacity utter a more pregnant
truth. The two systems are al once per-
ceiyed TO be incongruous. But they are
mure-than incosgruour, they are intompat.
ID e, They never have permanently existed
4 together in one couatry. and they neyel
can. Il would be cssier TO demonstra Il
!. this impossibi!ity, from the irreconciiablt
II contrast between their great principles an'
charsc,eria;ies. Bu, the experience of man
kind has conclusisely established IL.
e"This is the language which Southern
Democrats. who..gape and stare al Mr.. Sew
ard As The Prince of al the Goblins, hav'
understood, or pretended to understand, al
declaration on behalf of the Republicans
tofa settled resolution to exterminate Slav
a cry jaihs, S,stes. 1t is an annunciatioI
which the organs of Southern Democrat
epinions are holding up and furnishing a
{ the ayewai of a distinct design on The psr
e Of the Republicans to~age fierce end un
!. relenting and bloody war upon SLAYER
wherever it exists. Surely the men .wh
perpe ;usts Or circulate stis spftifnf uiscou
struction must know better. The whole in
port Of Mr.. Sewerd's proposition, IS ez
pressed above, is clear. 1t is unnistakaoie
But, If it isn't, unquestionably the toilown
/. precautionary paragraph renders il SO; 8
= at rernains to say on this point only on
word, TO gnafd against misapprehensien.
: these STAGES are 10 again become univel
: sally sI4Ss-holding. Il do not pretend 10 sa
~i.a Whist violations of the Constitute
that end shall be Accomplished On th
!. other hand. while do confdsatly beliey
and hope that my country will yet becom
= land of universal Freedom, | DO not ex
pecs that it wiilbe made so otherwise tha
through the action of the several States C,
n operating with the Federal Government
!. and all acting in strict conformity with the
respective Constitution.
Thus the terrible hobgoblin renishe
before the first beam of candur. The props
sition IS perfectly innocent. 1t is, in fac
but the reproducr ion, in somewhat sharpe
form, o: pei opinion of MIR. Clay's. Notl
4 ing could be further from the narrowing in
" port with which distempered or designir
's tsncies have invested IL. The noticn b.
" longs wholly To the realm of ideas. 1t do'
d not contemplate plan of action, but mer
rs ly a scheme Of natural development. II
II a speculation, not a project-the outline
e a conviction, not Of a campaign. 1t is
As mere forecast Of events. II is Mr.. Seward
: theory Of uLr national progression. It
Ii his judgment as to Whist will happen, in Il
ordinary course of fsthings."zszss -