Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-10-27
The Better Way.

In commenting on an article in the Charleston No0S,
In which the editor advises the people 'to rally under the
Administration aud the Democratic party" in order 10
nut down S~ewardisu, the New York Express suggests
that the better way TO put down "Sewardism,' i,
not to do anything that Is likely to contribute to Seward
political capital stock. Starve it out. Do not feed and
1,tten If. You must see and feel the truth Of what We
have said, that the Presidents insane Kansas policy con-
tributed to it. The talk Of some of your Fire-Eaters, in
favor Of re-opening the African Slave Trade, is nov con
tributing 10 it. That sort OF material is the hfc-blood
and sustenance of the Republican Party. 1t supplies the
staple of their most telling Trades, on the stump. It
furnishes the most available theme for their defamation
in the newspapers, and il brings them the most votes on
Election days. The Charleston Evening NerS, and the
rest of our Southern friends, who think as it thinks, of
course, do not intend to thus help "Sewardism-but they
hare helped it, nevertheless-nay are even now helping
it, uncousciously, by prescribing as the only remedy for
it-a rally for the Democratic Party, and the Admin
istration." If the Southern People are wise, they will
think twice before they respond to that rally, and calcu-
late the profits of a leap, it may be, from the ~lrying-Pan
into the FIRE.
The " Democrats Party" cannot save the South. 1t
cannot save the North. II cannot save the onion. 1t
cannot even save Itself IL il just as sectional, in its way,
As the Republican party. What then is to be dOne2-
What is the risest course for the conservative, peaceloy.
ing. law and ordsr loving men of the South, and the
North, and the East, and the West,-al sections,-to
pursue The "News" it'sil has incidentally, though un-
consciously, Indicated the proper answer, when it says
"To BASD TOGETHER FOR THE PRorLcTIoS OF TaE GOSSIP
TUITION" That is the idea, for this crisis. Nothing else
will do. 1t Is not in the power Of the extremes Of either
section to "sAyF" anything. To destroy, 10 tear down,
to %irritate, to stir up strife, to revolutionize, to bring
about Iuepressihle Conflict, IL their appointed mission,
aud that mission the7 are bound TO execute. Extreme
Democracy cannot govern the country better, or better
support the Constitution, than Extreme RepubHcani-m,
and hence, If the News were wise, instead Of calling
upon the people TO rally under the Administration and
the Democratic Party as the only means Of putting
down and keeping down the Old Browns and their Harper
Ferry insurrections,-i would join Us in invoking the con
seryative, Unionloving. Constitution supporting element
of all sections, to join hands and hearts, like brethren 0
the same household, to ANSIHrLArE THE EXTREMES, whicl
threaten nov more than ever to crush out, II ]unopposed
not only the Constitution, but the Union itself
But. IL our Charleston contemporary cannot see thcs
things 10 the same light that We do, We must demonstrate
againt It's sndeayor 90 convert Harpers Ferry TO partial
account, for the especial benefit Of Mr.. Buchanan. W,
can Join the editor in saying, Hang the insurgents
go the law and the testimony, in due time, decree; bu
we must part company with him when he advances III
dogma. that ITO put down Seward and the Abolionists
the instructors Of these insurgcnts-the North an
South, a. a necessary alternative, must " rally under tb
Administration and the Democratic Party