The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-25
a6- The Harper's Ferry instruction will

prove an event of deep import In our polit-
ical history. 1t changes at once the pros
poets of the two rival parties. 1t damns,
by a single deed, the ultra, fanatical faction
of the Republican party, and renders them
odious and Infamous to the country as con-
spirators, traitors, and rebels. The other
portions of the party, however earnestly
they may repudiate the connection, or con-
denim Browns mad acts, will not be able to
escape an implication in the odium which
these violent associates have brought upon
the party. Though they may never have
contemplated treason, and are now Mortified
by the bloody crimes of Brown, his madness
Is but the legitimate result of their preach
ing. Brown has been made monomaniac,
like thousands Of others, by the doctrines
and the passionate appeals of the New York
Tribune, and papers of its class. There are
hundreds of thousands of readers of those
papers who have been prepared by those
fanatical sheets to aid and applaud Browns
designs, who had not any of his courage to
execute their diabolical wishes. The event
will give a shock to the party that will
scatter its strength, and render all alliance
between it and the conservative, national
opposition party hopeless. 1t is death blow
to Sewardism. Brown and his co-conspir-
ators justify themselves upon the principles
proclaimed by Seward, Greeley and Gid
dings. They are the men whom the conn.,
try viii hold morally responsible for the
lives that have already been sacrificed, and
for the horrible butcheries that were intend
ed if the diabolical attempt had not been
arrested at the outset. IL it be proven that
Gerritt Smith and j. r. Giddings were
privy to the movement, it will be difficult
to persuade the country that Seward and
Greeley had no limitations of Browns
schemes. Giddings foreshadows such an
event in his speech last winter on the thirty
million bill, in which he said:
look forward to the day when there shall
be servile instruction in the South; when
the black man armed with British bayonets
and led on by British officers, shall assert
his freedom and wage a war Of extermina-
ton against his master; when the torch OF
the incendiary shall light up the towns and
cities of the South, and blot out the last
vestige Of slavery. And though may not
mock at their calamity, nor laugh when
their fear cometh, yet will hail it as the
dawn of political millennium.
Mr.. Seward, in his Rochester speech, de-
clared, in speaking of free and slave labor,
that:
These antagonistic systems are continually
coming into closer contact and collision re-
suits. Shall tell you what this collision
means2 They who think it is accidental,
unnecessary, the work of interested or fnnat-
ical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mis-
take the case altogether. IL is an irrepres-
sible conflict between opposing and enduring
forces, and il means that the United States
must, and will, sooner or later, become en-
tirely slaveholding nation, or entirely a
free labor nation. Either the cotton and
rice fields of South Carolina and the sugar
plantations Of Louisiana will ultimately be
titled by free labor, and Charleston and New
Orleans become marts for legitimate mer-
chandise alone, or else the rye fields and
wheat fields Of Massachusetts, and New York
must again be surrendered by their farmers
to slave culture and to the production OF
slaves, and Boston and New York become
once more markets for trade in the bodies
and souls of men. II is the failure to appre-
hend this great truth that induces SO many
unsuccessful attempts at final compromise
between the slave and free States, and it is
the existence of this great fact that renders
all such pretended compromises, when made,
vain and ephemeral. Startling as this say
ing may appear to you, fellow citizens it is
by no means, an original, or even a modern
one. -'-
The Republican party avows now, as the
Republican party in 1900 did, 10 one word
its faith and its works: Equal and exact
Justice to all men, Even when it first en-
tered the field, only half organized, it struck
blow which only just failed to secure @
complete triumphant victory. In this, it:
second campaign il has already won ad.
vantages which render that triumph now
both easy and certain. The secret of il:
assured success is in the very characteristic
which, in the mouth of scoffers, constitutes
its great and lasting imbecility and reproach
IL lies in the fact that it is q party of one
idea; but that is a noble idea-an idea tha
fills and expands all generous souls-the ides
of equality-the equality of all men before
human tribunals and human laws, as they
are all equal before the Divine tribunal and
Divine laws. | know, and you know, thai
revolution has begun. l know, and al
the world knows, that revolutions never &c
backward. Twenty Senators and hundred
Representatives proclaim boldly in Congress:
to-day, sentiments and opinions and princi-
Piles Of freedom which hardly so many men
even in this free State, dared to utter in Their
own homes twenty years ago. While the
Government of the United States, under the
conduct of the Democratic party, has beer
all that time surrendering one plain and
castle after another to slavery, the people o
the United States have been no less steadl,
and perseveringly gathering together befor,
the forces with which to recover back AGAR
all the fields and all the castles which hav,
been lost, and to confound and overthrow
by one decisive blow, the betrayerS of tn,
Constitution and of freedom forever.
The event will bring the country TO it
sober senses and hasten the formation OF
conservative national opposition party.