Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-10-18


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taken out.-Ja.per Free Press.
POLITICAL.
The BLAcA-REPuBIcAN CANDIDATE
FOR THE PREsIDEscY IN 1860 AND
HIS PLATFohx.-Whatever the fu-
sionists" may say and desire, no one
entertains the least doubt that VIM.
II. Seward will be the black republic
can candidate for the presidency III
1860. Not one of the ferven. admir-
ers Of John c. Fremont-who, three
years ago, suddenly discovered in
him al the cardinal virtues, as we'll
as all the high qualities of statesman
ship necessary to the efficient dis
charge Of the duties of the exalted
office to which he aspired-thinks Of
him now, except as the representative
Of slgual failure and defeat. N. p.
Banks, Of Massachusetts, although for
the present very Jealous disciple OF
black-republicanism - the political
creed which be has last professed--
is admired for the facility and ad-
dress with which he managed bis
apostocy to democracy and native
Americanism, but he is not consider
ed Trustworthy. He does very well
as subaltern, bat he will never be
alected captain. Chase and Wade,
end Sumner and Lincoln, have sew
orally little clique of worshippers,
but none of them reaches the standard
which the wire-pullers of the black
republicans have set up, and the re-
quirements of which must be rigidly
complied with. With the exception
of Seward, all the aspirants are too
tall OF too Short too broad or too
narrow, too stiff or too plant, too
slippery or too rough. Seward er-
actly fits; and, independent OF
personal qualifications, he has cla'
for past services which his black.
publican friends will not permit
be ignored. They proclaim him t.
be sthe wet-nurse and dry.nurse, the
architect and builder" Of the repub.
'ican party, the father Of sectional
ism, the very handspring Of the whole
concern. They insist on it that it
was he who gave the death blow to
the wings as party by abolitionizing
the Northern wing of that association
and insulting and defying all those
who refused to enlist under hi.
standard. They insist, also, that it
was he who broke down the Ameri-
cans, and that he has compelled all
the most prominent and influential OF
that party to crave permission to be
admitted AS privates into his ranks.
His friends and managers boldly an
nounce that he is as good as nomi-
mated that he not only "has no
equal, but no competitor; :" and that,
if the bIack-rcpublican party do not
nominate him, they must 90 to wreck
and ruin.
We take for granted, therefore,
that William II. Seward-the unri.
vailed black-republican, the pet OF
the Exeter Hall abolitionist, the des-
piser Of wings, and the annihilator OF
know nothings-wil be the standard
bearer OF the party who will offer
battle to the national democracy in
1860, and who, il he triumphs, pro-
poses not only to change the admin
istration Of the Government, bu; al
so to change that broad. national
democratic policy which has prevail
ed in our country for SO many years,
and which has been the instrument.
under Providence, of the maintenance
and elevation Of the Union.
Neither Senator Seward nor any
one of his followers can pretend that
the irrepressible conflict which he
and they insist "underlies and ami
mates all our political contests" can
be waged for one moment without
an absolute withdrawal of all allie
glance to the Constitution and the
Union. When it common ccs, unres-
tricted popular passion usurps the
place of constitutional Law, and vi hen
it ends, in the complete triumph OF
either Of the complaints, the Federal
Union will have ceased to exist.
This is the doctrine which Mr.. Sew
ard and his friends distinctly avow
these are the means by which they
propose to enforce it and this is the
inevitable result to which it must lead
If allowed to prevail. The busy army
Of traitors who espouse the Seward
cause in the columns of newspapers,
at public meetings, in lecture rooms
and pulpits, labor necessarily to per-
suade the people At the North that
they have the rignt and the power
nay, that it is their duty as friends Of
freedom-to impose their opinions and
authority on the Southern States !;
that it is lawful and right to destroy
tho property Of shareholders, and to
shut them out forever from their share
in the common inheritance. of the
Union. Because the hallowed theory
Of our Government refuses to be sec
tomato pander to the passions and
prejudices Of the North SO as to des-
troy the rights Of the Southland re-
fuses, in its strict and impartial Justice,
to recognise any section as superior to
another or contemplate anything but
the whole Union, it must be changed
and be replaced by purely sectiols
Government, whose fist duty it aha
be to reduce one half of the States
the Union to the position Of vass..s $