Daily national Democrat., 1859-11-23
where Rests the responsibility ?

4
2v reference to the sentiments avowed in a a
cttor from Gerrit Smith to the Jerry Rescu- s
rs. published in another column, it will be !
cen that the feelings Of the Abolitionists are
riendlv to the course and position of the
Republican party, and mainly for the reason
hat this party insist on the eradication OF
slavery by legal means; instead of 10y vio-
Ience and bloodshed. There is nothing to be
gained by Misrepresentation Of facts at
crisis like the present, and spirit OF far
ness should dictate the propriety oil throw
ing the responsibility of the Harpers Ferry
eu,,ete npou other shoulders than those OF
the Republican party, strictly SO called
This party can be said to be responsible IN
no sense whatever except that the moral eli
feet of their constant agitation Of the subject
Of slavery and Of their opposition to 1t may |
have a tendency to excite, unduly, ianauc
minds and drive them to extremes to when
the party itself would not think of going
The avowal Of the opinion by VIM. Ii. Sew
ard that there is no middle ground on this
question but that it is an "irrepressi6le con
dictr in which either the North or the South
must win. and that there can be no peace
until all the States Of this Union are eithertree
or slave must contribute greatly TO the NOR
al effect of which we speak; for fanaticai
spirits seizing upon the idea, will proceed TO
unlawful and violent remedies" while Sew
ard himself would make his war in the coun-
| ellis of the Nation, in the Supreme Court OF
the United States, in the State Legislatures
and in the general tribunals of justice Inc
"irrepressible conflict" with him means one
,5ipa and with the Abolitionists quite dnoth-
cr.
If we understand the programme of the
Republican party, it is this:
To gain possession of the Government by
means OF the regular and legal elections; to
remodel the Supreme Court of the United
States. so that the decisions shall conform to
their own Interpretation cf the Federal Con-
sttution; and to inaugurate such system
Of legislation as will gradually and peaceably
eradicate "the evil'-for so they term it.
Gerrit Smith, land we again refer our rea
ders to his letter on the Jerry casein another
o column talks very differently. He regard
, the Constitution of the United States
|, friendly to slavery, and thinks it should, il
q consequence, be treated with contempt IL
thinks the Republican PARTY, or any othe
marty Of white men, will not be likely to d.
much good in the liberation of the slave, ex
cept as such party may aid the blacks them
selves ri ct arnis in recovering their liberty
He seems to be clearly in favor of insurec-
ton. Men, he says, are entitled to their llo-
ertv. and no law should be respected which
holds them in bondage. Any means is just
and right which goes to secure to human be
ings the great inalienable rights OF humanity
Such is the feeling of the Abolition party
Such was the feeling of Brown and his white
: confederates.
l. The great trouble, we may say here witt
&c the friends of these 'inalenable rights o
= humanity" men is this, that they care NOR
D. for the freedom of the slave than he doe
n himself We believe, not solitary slave as
e sisted Brown in his movements. Those whC
u went with him or his adherents and left thu
o farms of their masters did so by compulsion
e Even the free negroes of the North had Sc
slender an estimate of the priceless value o
D liberty to their brethren in bondage tina
they turned out in very small numbers to tn
assistance Of Brown. Fred. Douglass, tn
C great colored orator, whose voice has so Ion
been heard in violent denunciation Of tn
le Constitution Of the United States for its re
l cognition of the institution of slavery, an
VI who has so often declared the justice of I'll
liberation of the slave by the out poure
Y, blood of his master; this great hero of IL
r Abolition rostrum, this great inciter to insu
is rection, is missing on the occasion whic
" called for his presence Brown and Cook e
in pected him at Harper's Ferry, in accordan
st with his promise He was not there! /
ye could talk, but when it came to fight,
Nv preferred to be absent. Brown expect
&c, two or three thousand slaves-n we m
III, Judge from his halfdefant, halfcautious il
gg, mauons-to be with him in the attack VIII
I'M. he made. They were not there
SO much for the present The revelati
to be made in the progress Of the tria
o." Brown will afford much matter for comm
&c hereafter 1t is one of the most import
Tue trials that have ever happened in this COZ
~ try, since the foundation of the Federal G,
"'' ernment. Many grave and important gu
Jus tions of State and Federal jurisdiction '
have to be determined, and the lines betw
.he the two more distinctly drawn than befor
ed TIE London News and London Globe ST
his that communications from Washington h
rn- been been conveyed to the British COVE
ted ment distinctly asserting that Presid
mt, Buchanan disavows the action of Gen.
eX' ney in regard to the occupation of San j
Ilar Island.
or
ACCORDING to London correspondent J
Stoves work, "Tho Minister'S Wooing,"
D L. proved somewhat of success, now that i
He'd before the world as a whole.
lie MAJOR Ben PERLEY Poopr, of Boston.
'o"i been mulcted in $e,793 in suit for
any brought by Moses Bates for certain re
re tions upon his (Bate's) character, publii
lns' in the Boston Journal, over the signatul
axe 'Perley," and written at Washington.
be- To MORROW, the third yacht race betty
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