The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-05

ers, Merchants and Mechanics to Think
OF.
The State election of New York, which is to
come off next month, will be everywhere looked
upon as a preliminary skirmish to the great
year; and if looked at in that light alone, apart
from the important local questions it involves,
it will awaken great interest in every section
of the country.
Although the friends of Seward failed so
signaly in the Black Republican Convention at
Syracuse to obtain any State endorsement for
his name, and even withdrew his portrait,
which had been ostentatiously placed in the
hall of the Convention, the success of the black
republican ticket will be loudly claimed as his
success, and as an endorsements by the Empire
State of New York Of the brutal and bloody
programme he announced at Rochester. That
programme proclaims an irrepressible con-
fiict'' between every Northern and Southern
interest, between every farmer, merchant, man
ufacturer, ship owner and mechanic in New
England and the Middle and Northwestern
States, and every cotton, sugar, tobacco, and
rice grower in the South and Southwest. As
the home of Seward, the success in this State,
and on issues purely local, of the party which
he claims as his party, will be looked upon
everywherc as proving willingness on the
part Of every great industrial interest in the
North TO enter upon struggle with every
great interest in The South, which. whichever
way the result may turn, cannot but prove
dangerous and destructive to both
Proclaiming the same conflict on abstract
principles that was proclaimed by the fanatics
of England against the social organization of
her West Indian colonies, its triumph among
us could but produce the same results, though
on much grander scale. The great commerce
of the British West Indies has ceased to exist
It's warehouses have gone to decay, its ships
have been driven to other ports, the looms and
anvils whose labor it once quickened have
been forced to look to other marts to con-
sumo their products, and the fleets that
once came to the ports of England
laden with the much needed products of ia
maica and her sister islands have either dwin-
died to insignifcance or are known no more.
These untoward results were produced because
the farmers and mechanics of England were
persuaded that between themselves and the
system of labor in the tropics there was the
"irrepressible conflict" that Seward breaches
here, and so they abused the power of the I'm
perial Parliament to destroy social system
that, instead of being hostile to- was the COM
plement of their own.
In order to secure success Sewardism is en-
deavoring to beguile the industrious millions of
the North into the belief that the system of
labor in the South is inimical to them in every
way. For this, the South is represented as en-
croaching on the North, as being overbear-
ing to the North, as wishing to tyrannize
| over the North, and as a drag and in
| jury to the North In order to refute these
| misstatements it is only necessary to appeal to
| facts. In commercial and industrial point of
view the South forms part Of every North
| ern enterprise. Its cotton, sugar and
tobacco give employment to the ships
of New England, and are thus a
stimulus to every shipyard, every mechanical
art and every trade in its numerous ports. The
| wants of the South when the rest of the coun-
| try was Frustrated by financial revulsion two
years since, sustained the dropping commerce
of New York, and always forms one of its most
| important elements. It's call for manufactures
| Of all kinds was what first set the suspended
workshops again in movement. 1t never claims
that the labor system of the North shall be
changed in anything to suit its social ideas. It's
daualnnapnpnf ond prnufh 10 cou4hr,oc5 ooJ
not northward, and every new acre of land it
brings under culture, every store it opens,
every new home it builds, creates new mar
ket for the productions of Northern industry
and a new source Of supply to Northern neces-
sites.
Thus, instead Of there being an ''irrepressi-
| bic conflict" between the North and the South,
there is an irrepressible harmony, which should
be cultivated by every possible means 1t be-
hooves every farmer, every merchant, every
shipowner, every mechanic and every laborer
in this State to see that the vote of
the State of New York is not per-
verted to an apparent ratification of
Stewards pernicious idea. We know that there
are thousands in the republican party itself who
| not only do not assent to the brutal and bloody
| doctrine OF the Rochester programme, but who
dissent from it decidedly. But, entertaining, as
they do, an honest conviction of their duty to
| oppose the spoils organizations Of the demo-
Gratis, they must take care that this honesty
does not lead them to become the mere blind
instruments Of equally dangerous spoils-hunt-
ing dcmagogues who pretend to affiliate with
them. The next election in this State should
be looked at in its national as well as its local
aspect and every man should ask himself, and
answer to himself truly, is the labor system of
the South an Injury to me? viii be better off
if succeed in destroying II? VIII it make me
more happy or more prosperous if can sue