The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-25

the Presidential campaign of 1856 he told hts
hearers TIA, The tabor ot the whole Union gave
to the world annually me value of -four tnon.
sund live hundred millions of dollars OF acc,l-
pnlated industry;' that at that time We con.
'rnlied the cotton market OF the world, and In
ten years mere We would control the.iro mar
ket IN the same way; that if we would look
forward to the years 1850 or 1885 we would
contemplate the American Union with com
merca marine whose tonnage wilt Outweigh
"niucasure aud outsai the cnmhiued fleets of
all the other cmmercial navies." Speaking r
The republican party, he exclaimed IA, we
want is that the raw material which cu,ers int
| the consumption of our manutal les may be
admitted free Of duty;' and, turning t. the
assembled multitude. he asked. twill you shake
! hands with us who want to substitute peace
and commercial prosperity for those fierce Goa
tests between Northern and Southern sections
The reply was given in the thinder OF shouts
that vent up from the gathered thousands be-
fore him. I'VE will"
Such was the position and the policy of the
republican party in 1856. The brutal and
bloody doctrine Of an "irrepressiole conflict"
had not yet been preached at Rochester, nor
had il rpened into practice at Harper's Ferry
la order rightly to comprehend the true ten.
dency and progress Of party politics under
the guidance Of demagogues and fanatics, lot
us contemplate the position Of the republican
party to-day. One Of its most active and cou-
rageous instruments, John Brown, is about to
be executed with several Of his deluded fol-
lowers, for the high crimes Of treason and muir
der Another is awaiting his trial by the fede-
raj authorities for treason, in which there ia
little if any doubt that number Of the most
prominent republican leaders will be implica-
ted by the testimony as accessories before the
fact Virginia has five thousand men under
arms to protect her unofending citizens, and
Pennsylvania offers to place ten Thousand
more TO guard her sisters frontier, while fac
tious demagogues and fanatical clergy ia the
more Northern States are exciting the repnbli-
can party to rescue Brown, and Ralph Waldo
Emerson proclaims before an immense popular
gathering in Boston, that his execution will
make the gallows as glorious rs the cross
There cannnct be a stronger contrast than
that between the position of the republican
party as presented by Governor Banks in 1856,
and that which the republican leaders, both lay
men and clergy, occupy to-day, calling upon
the republican masses to rally to their support
1t is time that the farmers, mechanics. manutac-
turers, merchants, shipowners aud laboring
classes, whose honest hands produce the four
thousand five hundred millions Of accumulated
industry which Governor Banks so proudly al
luded to- should look to the result which this
new position of the republican party will inc
vitality bring upon them. We may divide the
population Of the Union into twenty millions of
Northern and ten millions Of Southern inhabi-
tants. Arraying these in the "irrepressible
conflict" proclaimed by Seward, whose brutal
and bloody results are logically foreshadowed
by John Brown at Harper's Ferry, the Northern
frontier of the Southern States and the Southern
one Of the Northern States must bristle with
tens Of thousands of bayonets, not arrayed as
now by Gov. Wise and Gov. Packer, for brother
~ protection, but in hostile attitude against
neighboriDg invasion.
This line of hostile division will be drawn
through every branch of trade, and protected
by innumerable opposing custom houses, as is
now the case in the territorially diminutive
but independent countries Of Europe. Instead
of attaining that free Importation Of raw pro-
ducts for our manufactures which Governor
Banks aspired to, duties must be imposed on
Southern cotton, Southern tobacco, Southern
hemp, Southern wool, Southern naval stores,
and the innumerable articles Of Southern pro-
duction which are now freely received in ex-
change for the hundreds of millions Of domestic
and foreign products which they take from the
North. The lines Of steamships and sailing
vessels which now vex the Atlantic with their
Northern and Southern passages must be
stopped; the thousands of steamboats, now
blowing our Western waters must run only on
parallels Of latitude, and not on those Of longi
tude also; and the railroad trains that now
freely pursue their Southern way must halt
on the frontier, that it may be seen that no hos
tile enissary turks in the cars. These are but
the mldest results of the new doctrines Of the
republican party which have been proclaimed
at Rochester, have fructifed at Harper's Ferry,
| and are now defended by a large portion of the
republican leaders and of the republican
journals.
Some do it covertly and partially, while
others do it boldly and without disguise. But
the course of all the party is the same, and
though the front ranks may be more advanced
than others, still all are travelling in one direc-
ton, and that is towards treason. The pro-
gress that has been made is shown in the con-
trast we have drawn between the position oc-
cupied by Governor Banks one of the most
stalworth leaders Of the party, in 1856, and that
now held by Seward, John Brown, Beecher
Horace Greeley and hundreds of others, noted
republican leaders of the present day. Let the
republican farmers, merchants and manufac-
turers Of the North reflect upon the changed
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