The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-07

endorsed by the resolutions OF the State Con
vention which selected the names on the ticket
At Harper's Ferry the confiictbegan, and Har
per's Ferry and revolution" is the battle CRY
of the party. They go into the fight under thu
auspices of their god, John Brown, and they
depend on his aid for victory. The Other
party, whatever may be their faults in Other
respects, have taken conservative ground on
this question, and they regard John Brown JUS
as he is-an assassin and a brigand, who has
committed cold -blooded massacre, and would
set this whole continent in one wild blaze
of civil war if his power were only equal to his
will. Harper's Ferry as the battle ground Of
the commencement of "the irrepresslble con-
| iict,v and John Brown as the hero of the
drama, are inseparably mixed up with this
election. They are part and parcel of the
| issue.
The democracy, to give the devil his due,
take the right side, and, therefore, the conserva,
tive classes ought to vote for it. But these
Glasses appear to be Indifferent and apathetic
to degree that is painful to every patriotic
mind. They do not appear to realize the dan
ger which is all around them and beneath their
feet. They sleep on volcano, whose mighty
throes and torrents of burning lava may soon
rouse them from their chambers. That section
al strife and animosity which Washington fore
saw through the dim vista of futurity, and in
his Farewell Address predicted as the pre-
cursor of the downfall of the republic, have so
far realized his gloomy forebodings, and, if not
speedily suppressed and crushed by the wisdom
and high resolve of the conservative element,
will soon complete the catastrophe of which
the Father of his Country warned the people
If the ticket SO intimately identified with
William H. Seward and John Brown, the ban
dit, should be elected tomorrow that will be
regarded, both North and South, and through
out the land, as a triumph of the revolutionary
principle, which will result in the elevation of
the "higher law" prophet to the Presidential
chair-the signal for the collision and decisive
battle of 'the antagonistic forces" When
that day comes, then farewell to the Union Of
States, and farewell to the glory and pros
perity of the American people. Like another
Mahomet, with the sword in one hand and the
"higher law in the other, Seward, in order to
maintain himself, will have to march at the
head of fanatical propagandist army to wage
war of conquest or determination against
the South. The end of that conflict who can
foresee? Such are the vast national interests
which are imperilled and tremble in the balance
at this election. If the conservative classes
rally even at the eleventh hour, and throw
their weight into the right scale, the country
may yet be saved from the calamity which
hangs over it. But if the startling events at
Harper's Ferry, and the tone and temper of the
public mind North and South, are not sufficient
to awake them from their apathy, there is
nothing we are able to say that can have any
| effect. We hope it will not turn out that they
have grown wise when it is too late.
| THE TEACHERS OF JOHN BRowN-CAUsE AND
EFFEcr-From the statement of the Herald Of
Freedom, and from other testimony, it appears
that Brown, when in Kansas was in constant
intercourse with men in the East who declared
on the stump and in all their published cores
| pondence, that their "only hope of abolishing
slavery in the United States lay through reve-
luton" and from them he received funds and
arms from time to time in prosecution of his
war schemes Now, when it is recollected that
at meeting held in Rev. Mr.. buttons church,
at New Haven, in 1856, such men as Professor
Silliman, Of Yale College, and Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, called upon the students to sub
scribe for the purchase of Sharpe's rifles for
Brown and his followers, and that Beecher
pledged himself on the part Of his church in
Brooklyn to raise twenty-five rifles, if twenty
five were raised then and there, what else could
be expected than bloody results from such
bloody instructions? Rev. Mr.. Dutton on that
occasion desired to present one Of the fighting
men who was going out with Bible and a
Sharpe's rifle; at the same time Mr. Beecher
applauded the spirit of Robinson, who, when
Governor Shannon went over to Lawrence and
demanded his rifles, told him he would com
promise the matter by giving the Governor
the contents and keeping the rifles him
self. This is the sort of compromise" said
Beecher that will work" In the same con-
nection, he denounced the constitution Of the
H.,
then, to be wondered at that Brown and his fol.
lowers used the rifles sent out, to STAY and muir
der, and that they attempted to overthrow the
constitution and the general government by
force of arms? AS Beecher a. Co. have sown.
so they have reaped. They must abide by
the consequences of their own acts. It
will not do to call John Brown crazy
now for doing that which their teach
ings prompted and which the means that
they supplied enabled him to do. If he is
mad, there is "method in his Madness which
is dangerous to the peace of the country. IF
he is mad, Beecher and Greeley are equally
mad, and ought to be taken care of by the
proper authorities. They are responsible to
God and man for what has been done at
Harper's Ferry, and they ought to be deprived
of the power of doing further mischief