The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-08-03
The Old Cry OF Disunio n.

The Southern Democracy are in troub-
lie. Already the great struggle of 1860
is agitatiDg the public mind, and the sa-
qaeious leaders of Southern Democracy
are slammed, as they see in the political
heavens the portents of defeas.
In this extremity, the once cffeetual,
but now powerless cry Of disunion is rails
ell. In order that our readers may see
the state of feeling now existing, we copy
an article from the Washington States,
one of the ablest aad most influential Dem
oerstic papers in the country. The arti-
Go is headed, "Seward nominated for
President by Exeter Hall"
.The article which we introduced into
our issue of Saturday, from the London
News, the most influential journal in the
British realm, with the exception of the
London Times, cannot fail to create pain
full forebodings, with respect to the future
security of the Union, in the mind of every
true American by whom it Is read.
1t has turned out just as we supposed
and stated would be the case, when Mr..
Seward embarked for Liverpool, that,
whatever might be the ostensible object of
his visit to Europe, the real one was to
secure the endorsement of the British Alb
oltionists rs the candidate of the Black
Republicans for the next Pres;de This
was scarcely SIX weeks ago, aud already
we have that endorsement as explicitly
and authoritatively as though it had been
formally prepared in Exeter Hall, for the
News may lie regarded as the recognized
organ OF the Foreign and British Anti
Slavery Society.
ut is probable" says the News, in the
commencement of its leader, "that no
man in London, or let us say no foreign
er in London, is more deeply interested
in the appointment of the new ministry
than Mr.. Seward, at pres INT so often met
in society here. 1t is understood that Mr..
Seward Is to be the freesoiI candidate for
the Presidency of the United States, and
probably the first anti-slavcry President.
This is sufficiently well known, we believe
TO save him from the danger 10 which so
many American gentlemen are subject, of
leaving this country without having OBJ
tanned any clear idea Of what our feelings
are about the Powers which, in the face
of the most solemn engagements, keep up
the slave trade. Mr.. Seward has affor-
ded every possible evidence in his own
country of his absolute and hearty con-
domination of the Institutions of the South,
which arc incompatible with the liberties
of the Republic at large. and which even
threatens its existence. There is no occa-
sion to consider his feelings rs in the case
of m unknown man whom it would be
inhospitablc to remind of the faults of his
country"
1t is thus evident that Mr.. Seward has
made q full confession of his faith to the
High Priest of Abolitionism, whom we
suppose to be the Earl of Carlisle; and
therefore, that confession being entirely
satisfactory, there was '.no occasion to
consider his feelings, as in the case of an
aalknoWH man. whom it would be inhos-
pitable to remind of the faults of his
country"
Mr.. Seward having furnished convinc-
ing proofs that he was an out-and-out
Exeter-lIall Abolitioni>t it was natural
enough that "n9 man in London, or let
us say, no foreigner in Lond or," was
"more deeply interested in the appoint
ment of the new Ministry" than himself.
Naturally SO: it WAS important that he
should have M unmistakab!e foreshadow-
ing of how far he could rely upon the
affiliations and indirect support which
that Ministry could afford him during
his candidacy, and subsequently if he sue
cecdcd, r-
Mr.. Seward is truly wonderful per
snnage. We are at loss to determine at
which we are the most amazed, bis cour
age or his lcstitution of patriotic principle.
BE first announces his traitorous platform
in the Senate chamber, beneath the I'M
turled flag of the Union, and afterwards
proceeds toa foreign land to derive moral
aid, if no other, for its consummation and
his own elevation Us It's exclusive emboai-
mcut.
The Democracy will require no addi
tional proof, now that they have fear
less, u,nlisgui>cd. formidable enemy to
encounter, WHO has detiantly entered the
field. That country is in the worst poss-
IDLE state Of public decentralization which
can fritter away IFS strength in pro6tless
intestine quarrels when well organized
aggressive army is preparing to cross its
frontier. So with the Democracy. 1t
liust, in decd, be more fallen than we
Suppose, if il can continue to wrangIe
about meaningless distractions in the pre-
s,ncc of so substantial danger as that
which stafes it glaringly in the face.
That which the integrity of our system
Of government emphatically demands in
1860 in the defeat of Sewardism, as ex-
eupliied in the following program, en-
dorsed through the Lonlrn News, by
the Foreign and British auti-Sla, cry
Society: 49,.
''Our system Of government is "a war
Of antagoniBtic systems "a conflict be-
tween slave labor and free labor and it