The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-03-12

Our readers are aware that the infamous aboli-
ton manifesto of W. II. Seward promulgated to
the world at Rochester last autumn, involved
the revolutionary declaration that there is an
conflict going on between North
ern freedom and Southern slavery, and that 1t
must go on until all the States Of this Union
shall have been made either free States or slave
States" 1t will also be remembered that during
the late session of Congress several of the re-
publican members of the House boldly endorsed
the sentiments of this Rochester speech of Mr..
Seward, and substantially declared that active
hostility to Southern slavery and the slave
power" would be the paramount and controlling
issue with the republican party in 1860.
In this connection the flaming abolition re-
port Of the New York Tribune, which we trans
fer to our columns this morning, of the late sale
of some four hundred and thirty-six slaves Of the
great Butler estate, at Savannah, Georgia, gives
us clue to the contemplated plan of operations
1t is, in pursuance of this "irrepressible con-
aict' proclaimed by Seward, the desperate and
diabolical plan of an extensive and energetic
abolition crusade among the slave States 1t is
a system of operations which must necessarily
comprehend, among the tobacco, rice, cot
ton and sugar plantations of the South,
an extensive distribution of abolition spies
and emissaries. These spies and emissaries,
taking this Savannah pioneer as an average
specimen, will be keen to select out, and eager
to exaggerate in the darkest colorings, all the
events and pecuiarites of plantation life, South
arm IN itut nd hast
lated to infame and widen that anti. slavery sem
timent upon which the present republican party
came into existence.
lie Kansas agitation has done its worst-it
is exhausted. We hear no more of bleeding
Kansas But the scope of the antislavery
into play in that Territory against the 'slave
power" is just beginning to be developed. That
disastrous political Kansas experiment has not
only placed Kansas in the occupation of the
most intensely anti-slavery population in the
Union, but it came within an inch of the abso-
lutte humiliation of the democratic party in
1856. The party was only saved through the
nomination of Mr.. Buchanan, whose hands were
clean Of any contact with that Kansas Nebraska
BILL But the mischief which that measure thus
failed to effect among the democracy in '56 has
SINCE to great extent, been effected by treacher
GUS leaders Of the party upon this and other
sectional issues, go that now this late great ma
tional organization is torn to pieces. 1t has
ceased to exhibit any signs of useful vitality
in the North, and In the South it is reduced to
pro-slavery faction as intensely sectional as the
republican party itself
1t is not surprising, then, that Seward and his
party confederates should desire to keep alive this
state of things, for it is only through purely
sectional contest that he can hope to reach the
Presidency. Hence this Rochester manifesto;
hence the endorsement of this manifesto by re-
publican leaders in Congress-; hence this elabo-
rate and highly colored abolition report of this
late great sale of slaves at Savannah. Kansas
has done wonders for this Northern republican
party, bred Scott has done something, Southern
Walker filibustering and African slave trading
have done something for it; but, as of Kansas,
we may say of bred Scott, the flibusters and the
slave traders, that they are substantially played
out as political scarecrows. The game, then, on
the part of Seward and his partsans, is to trans
fer their anti-slavery Kansas plan of operations
from the conquered field of Kansas to the larger
field of the Southern slave States.
The astonishing success of that mischievous
abolition book, "Uncle Toms Cabin" revealed
so conspicuously the dangerous fact that the pre-
vailing moral and religious sentiment of the
North is opposed to the institution of Southern
slavery, that INSCRIPTIONS politicians could not
fail thus to discover the uses to which this sen.
timent might be applied. But if work of fic-
ton could accomplish so much, what may not
be done in the political task of exasperating the
South against the North, and the North against
the South, through succession of reports of
slave auctions, slave whippings, slave burnings,
slave fortunes, and suferiogs, and wrongs, and
cruel separations, with the names, dates, places
and details, all given as positive vouchers of the
truth of these reports?
The war, then, is to be carried into the slave
States. "Uncle Toms Cabin" is to give
way to spies and emissaries among the towns
and plantations of the South and their reports
and specifications Of the practical workings of
slavery. That these things will keep alive and
influence the Northern anti slavery sentiment
no man can doubt. On the other hand, the
Southern ultra pro-slavcry leaders of the demo-
cratic party have brought themselves to that
pass of counter fanaticism which has rendered
them rather DESTROYS of precipitating than Of
averting dissolution of the Union. Thus Sew
ard and Toombs play into each others hands
and thus, between the nigger-worshpper of the
North and the nigger-drivers Of the South, we
may seriously count upon political struggle in
1860 which will strand US upon the rocks of dis
union, unless saved through the timely interven-
ton Of q new constitutional and national party.
We denounce this new black republican move
ment in the slavery agitation reasonable, dia-
bolical and revolutionary. Right or wrong, the
Southern institution of slavery is there, and any
violent or incendary efforts to uproot 1t can