Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-11-02
The /" Irrepressible Conflict"

Ahe uocITiies announced Oy MT. Seward, IN MS
Rochester speech, have displayed their first fruits
in the recent outbreak at Harpers Ferry. Mr.. Sc
ward declared in that speech that the conflict be-
tween slavery and the abolition forces would go on
that the existence together in the confederacy Of
slaveholding and non-slaveholding States, was in
compatible; and that the conflict between the op-
posing forces would terminate in converting the rice
and cotton plantations of the South into free terri
tory. or the rye and wheat growing regions of the
North into slaveholding territory This is the issue
rs presented by the head and leader of the black Re-
publican party. In uttering these sentiments at
Rochester he but carried out the doctrines Of the
platform of the black Republicans, in 1855, in which
they pledged themselves to labor to extrpate those
t'oin relics Of barbarsm, po1ygamy and slarery"
The battle between the two sections has hereto
fore been fought in the common territories but this
movement in Virginia indicates that the scene of
conflict is to be changed The States themselres are
to be visited with the torch and the knife the abo
ltion forces to be directed against the property
the repose the safety, and the very lives of the peo
pie of the South 1t is in vain that the black Re-
publican journals seek to palliate the wickedness of
Oiu DTONu aIlu Ills Nv ueclallTS tndl
! he is madman, and that they not responsible
for his conduct. If mad, he has shown smal!
degree of method in his madness He is mad only
as Giddings, and Greely, anhSeward are mad. His
acts are the legitimate fruits of their doctrines,
which teach that slavery is lnonstrous evil, to he
"extrpatcd" by every means under the "higher
law which its enemies can command In the Ian
Of tho Ior
ask
"Whcre, then, rests the responsibility Of this in
surrection? Who is responsible for the thirty liv s
lost, and for the hangingS and mprsonments which
| are yet to follow? Do not the words -" TIou
! ART THE MAN So frown down upon every one of
those persons. whether editors clergymen. other
citizens who have aided, directly or indirectly, in
exciting or promoting the fatal attempt? 1t matters
not that they thought they doing God service.
1t is vain that they asSeveratc in the distressed
language of one of cotemporaries that no po-
litical party is responsible and plead in ex'enua-
tion of the atrocities of Brown that lie crazy.
To be sure he crazy, and has long been so but
he is no more crazy than those by whom he has so
long been encouraged in his bloody career
We rcterate the opinion. expressed in our last,
that this outbreak will strengthen the friends of the
Constitution in the nonslavehoiding States. The
battle for the Constitution is to he fought in that
portion of the Union in 1850; and before the battle
is fairly begun we'll while it is going on, it is
the imperative duty of every true Southern man tc
encourage and uphold those patriotic men in the
non-slavcholdng States who are contcnding for OH,
rights. Seward and his bloody doctrines arc as
much dctestcd and firmly opposed by the Demo
Gratis of the free States and by potcn of the ole
line Fillmore Wings and Americans, as they are by
the people of The South. Let us in crisis like th
have no divisions among Southern men,-let us hea
nothing more of the pro-osed union of 1.-THE oppc
siton North and South; but, on the contrary, lie
the black Republicans be given distinctly to under
stand that they have sympathizers in this region
and that the election Of Seward to the Presidency
with his odous doctrines. and after what has occur
red at Harpcr's Ferry, would be regarded as dc
libcrate and final declaration of the North agains
%i the South and would sound the death-kncll of tn
union of the States