, 1859-10-29

publican Party.
The Richmond Wig has been laughing at the
ridiculous figure cut By the yirginia fire'eaters
in the late Harper's Ferry foray. The Rich
mond Ezamiaer rep'ys By charging that il lis
"tbe intention Of the Republican party to en-
"ploy any and all means 10 e1tirpate slavery
"from the Southern States By 1h- bayones Of
foreign enemies or BY the torch md knife Of
"the rebellious negro"
The Vhig takes up these false and malicious
charges and replies to them, and We commend
its remarks to the Northern Democratic papers,
which are striving to extract some dirty par
tzan advantage out Of the Harper's Ferry af-
fir. it thus nails the base coin to the coun-
ter
So far as the Republican party, as a distinct
political organization, is concerned, there is no
eridencc existing Of any intention on its part,
Us the Eramiatr alleges, "to employ any and
all means to extirpate slavery from the South
ern States, whether BY, the Gayenet Of foreign
enemies or by the torch and knife Of the rebel
!ious neero.'' We repeat, that no such purpose
hos trtr ben siynif<d by Tie R1pa6licon party,
and no such threat cyer mnde, nor do we helieye
that any such purpose has eyer been, or ever
will be, entertained by it, or that any such silly
threat towards the South will ever escape its
lips: TH<oalg purpose Of thas party. 20 tar as
hase bee ade to 'srertaa1, ~ 10 tt<et tie t1-
eluston IF slaserv from the 7trritor1t&.
We suppose that Seward will be admitted,
eyen by tie Eramintr, to be Us able and as reck-
less as any Of the Republican leaders. Tie
Era,aintr has often clargcd that lie is the head
aud front Of ttat party-its representative mau, l.,
aud tie embodiment Of its principles and de-
signs. 1t often quotes from lis Rochester
...,ns, }c s1tn,r To the Nnnfhnrn naauft tr1,nf
tsley 1uay expect in the event Of 4 triumph Of
tie Republican party ut the next Presidential
election. 1t harps upon the @'irrepressible con-
aict" with great satisfaction and Eusto. But
Nc dcfy it to point to 4 single sentence or line
ur Thai haranguc, which sussains its assumption
that the Republicans, as party, propose dAy in
k+r}trtnce srith Starery IN the Southern States.
Un the contrary, that very haraugue Of Seward
tisapproves aud repudiates anr such idea. At.
ter declaring in that speech, that Slavery and
Freedom arc antagonistic institutions, md, in
his opinion, cannot always exist s'de by, side in
tue same Government, and asserting biz
1tixf, also, TINT Slavery would ultimately
aided: Much as / desire kuch result, I
neither expect nor hope for it. <rc.pt through
IL. artioa If the ptop< Of tie Stare Stat<s, ana
"a conformity uith thtir rttpteffre tohstitu
tioo." Now, Seward, in our judgment, is Il
bold, bad man-near about as bold aud bad rs
HLehHEn Il. Du0nlAS, WHO'LL A4E 1sFAWfHtF 1.
wiling 10 support for the Presidency-but lie
has never, to cur knowledge, 1utiu.atcd any
purpose or wish TINT tlle action Of the General
| Government should be brought, in any manner.
| to bear upou Slarcry in the States where 1t ex
lists. He desires. a. all -Eorthtrn 1aen DO, and a.
many Southern men Iar< done, and perhaps dc
still, to see Slavery abolished in The States
through the fundamentally Of tie ptopt Of tNos
Stats fh.ms<tets. But lie takes the ground thai
neither Congress nor the people of the Nortl
have auytiIfpg to do with the question-that i
il Unconstitutional for either to interfere in ths
matter-and that it can only be lawfully ant
peaeeably accomplished by the notion Of tht
Southern States themselves.
In thus explaining the position OF Seward
who is recognized By the whole country as III,
leaders. VIC bare bcen actuatcd only by des,t,
to prevent tic Southern people from takin,
needless alarm, as a necessary consequence O
! their believing the statement Of the EIamintr
| that the Republicans "ayow that they will en,
| plos any aud all means 10 extlrpate SLAYER,
from tie Southern .S1attt. whether By the bayo
net Of (u1cicn enemies or by the torch and knifi
Of the tebciiious negro" We say that the Re
publican party. as sucb, have ayowed no sHeA pur
J,ostdnd no such uish All it's leaders and presses
with rcarcely IN exception, openly proclaim tha
ther entertain no designs against Slavery in tb
| States And AZ nsdtttr Of policy, to say noth
ING OF the justice Of the matter, VIC think it i'm
| proper in the extreme, to lmpnte to them suct
purposes aud designs If We believe, as TIL
Eraniatr iHt<nds to 10, that the Republican
party harbored any such atrocious designs, VI
should be calling Justify upon the Southern peo
| p1e 10 fly to arms, Aud not to wasting thei
| breath IN printing about the Democracy at tn
| next prcsident1n! election.