The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-28
TEw YORK HERALD SUNDAY, AUGUST %, 1859
Stepnrsn a. DOUGLAS VS.. w. He Seward on
. IA Slavery QueSrSOtl.

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scnNor Douglas feels Inc necessity, about these tones,
oil seepipg bimsei 10 the public eye he has awaited
hipsef OF the widely circrsea HDper's As93stns 10
Reproduce hs ideas popular sovereignty The Ger
sNories TINS be has Done toss usbus, sni th ven
gesnee eshistn Mortal psges tehgy In spite OF ~
length, foNever, s v'gorons cocume0t-s very skt-
ru remAi hpng OF The arguments which its author mas
been USING for in Cpgcss and the stump 10 DO
bali OF ice oofma ~bcn ne 10 suabnoas TO have his
dss,ipies Identified Ne by means consiter
Is = far anO complete exposition !. 10 very one sided
aud altogether yLconclusvo But We have no intention
peseu. batDess no. with his Affirmative positions,
but Nh sDG no attributes % his opponents, and with
loo entvy he ,nsensoy furnishes upon bis senate
He ipputes 70 The republican party theory which they
20 hothod. His lspgusge s -
IRE .nd or
sS ss s.: ,1S svs st
op the one shA ~ The o. ne
political party which clsns sovereignty Coasres.
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The allegation hero 10 that the republican party nave
slave labor. IL 10 . most unwArrantabIe charge. Mr.
Douglas advances nothing sustain but the resolution
OF the Republican Nstiooal Convention that at 10 ootn
riorhs those twin relics bsrbarism, po'ygamy AMI
slavery" and brief passage from Senator Sewards no
chester sp The hrs, proof offered has no. even the
poor merit OF being specous. rhs duest utelec.
ohcern opposon TO slavery In The Territories no
epideIce u an intention 10 attack elsewhere bu
particularly presun p,uous IN Mr.. D,ugis TO connect
the two, whtn he knows perfectly we'll that toe sd
which that Convention together express
y 'dscIsned any Intention 70 interfere with slavery In
the States where It exits TO nvadate those portions
OF the constitution by which II Ia removed from the
CONTROL In regard the other eviden 70 cited
we sorry " that Mr. Douglas descends 10 the
suppression prsctsed by many tricklsh politician,
whom be ought to despse and not initiate he quotes Mr.
Sewsrds declaration that there II rrepressble con-
cl between opposing and enduring and that the
time muet when the States must be all glavehoding
or all non s.vehoiding But he entirely passes BY and
Ignores kr Stewards explicit disavowa OF all desire for
20 itical interference. Mr.. Seward thus sad:-
ma TO :ss this sss as
% g rs. a' pS ss: 20 g WI.
On the her band while do confidently believe and hope that
SsuI wiz ~, yet sss1%s land Of In,vsrss freedom
the action OF the several states with The federal
government sst all acting in strict oonfO, TO their respsc
Now Mr. Douglas in emitting this, has done his
brother Senator sroes iOjus,i:e No candid msn
bss read The Rochester speech mistake its import
What Mr. Seward maintained was that slavery has ee
meets Of weakness that must inevitably produce It's anal
extinction, unless trepethen itself by securing The
p stve aid Of the federal government, gracus,
.ncroachmen TO unyerhaze the system and thus bring
the whole country to Identity its Interests and desnes
with the petnation Of the institution His position
that slavery could not remain stationarytbas by s
must either advance or recede-snd that the special
business Of the republican party to Withstand s az
gtettions Mr.. Seward did not cay anything or imply
thug which sennet that political power or party
should be made to operate against institution
within s present limits. The language he did use con.
veys Just the opposite sense; and Mr. Douglas has done
10 well remembered that Mr. Douglas pretext in 1854
Tor disturbing the Missouri compromise that the
compromise OF 1850 might be logically carried
OUT and the slavery question: Far regards the Terri
toree be settled forever Such his proessed MOTIVE
such bic constant argument Well, how has Il resulted
In Il article before us he says:-
~ would be upcsndd to deny thai. while TIE democrats
and sreclss the Republican party are radical differ
en- zee o. 1pnon 10 respec u the pssr, and duties o Con
the which