Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-11
Tx great demonstrated result attained by


TKE great demonstrated result attained by
this affair, however, is of political significance.
1t entombs Mr.. VIM. H. Seward, and any and
all candidates of his kidney, There was little
enough chance before Of the election of any
such person, or, indeed, even of his being
candidate for the presidency, but the Harper's
Ferry demonstration has quietly inurned the
whole batch of ultra Republicans. Inc north
will not venture to present them as nominees,
and if they should, such names cannot rally
strength enough to keep ABOVE Water'-Ltc"-
'aona Morning Ne,cS.
Nothing betrays so clearly the insolent igno-
rance which regulates slaveholding talk OF the
Republican party, as such newspaper articles
as this which we copy from the Richmond
organ of Hon. John NJ. Bolts. We say igno-
rance, because it is evident that the men who
talk and write in that strain have not taken
pains to understand the present condition of
: public sentiment in the free states. We Re-
publicans propose in politics only what is con-
stitutional and right,-only what was proposed
and sustained by the founders of our govern
ment,-and it is no longer in the power of
alarmists or lbelers to hide this fact or weaken
the popular force by which the Republican
party is sustained. If our Richmond contem-
porary will seek that enlightenment on this
point which he so much needs, it is likely that
his next statement of what "thc north" will not
venture" to do in regard to a candidate for
the presidency will be somewhat more modest.
1t may be that he will also moderate his ex-
pectations in regard to the presidential pros
poets of Mr.. Bolts.
Slavery has "entombed Mr.. William H.
Seward" great many times, but We do not
perceive that he has suffered by the operation;
and many time it has "inurned the whole
batch of ultra Republicans" but they have
never seemed to be aware of what had happen
ed. 1t is stupid in public journal to t'lk in
that way. Do southern newspapers like the
Richmond News, suppose that any reasonable
being in any part of the country, does not
rightly appreciate their libellcus misrepresent-
atoms of Mr.. Seward! And will they never
understand that the time has gone by when
such political villainy as that which has
sought to use the Harper's Ferry affair against
the Republican party, could excite in the free
States anything but scorn and contempt? If
they really are capable of learning anything,
we counsel them to study the election returns
in New York, where the work of humiliation
was to be most terrible. The Republican
party was never before so strong as it is to-
day and these atrocious attempts to make
crime of the anti-savery sentiment of the
country, and to destroy our noblest men be-
cause they describe slavery as the enemy of
freedom show that it was never before so
much needed. 1t will live and do its appoint
ed work; and the south as wei, as tho
north will bless the result,n.e
We 90 not undeEstand why anybody con-
nec'ed "l.h Composition" in Virginia
should unuei'' .e to assume command of the
Kepas q party. Politically, we have no
more connection with them than with Govern.
or Wise and his supporters They have seem.
ed to us to be far more rabid on the slavery
question than he is, and quite as vehemently in
favor of having slavery established and de-
Tended in the territories by Congress and the
general government What they said and did
during their last state election, is known to the
whole country. They are just the men to be
Incapable of pursuing any great truth or bold
purpose, and to accept matter of course
the most abject condition, or the most unmany
prejudices and hatreds, that cowardly con-
servatism may prescribe. Not among their
leaders, nor amid the indictments of their in
fuence, may we hope to find the men who will
at length rcgenerate Virginia and restore to
her people the sentiments of Washington and
Jefferson. These men are not capable of an
honest recognition of the Republican party;
therefore, they may as well refrain from any
attempt to speak for it.