The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-11

The Congregational Endorsercs or Reys.
lution--shan Any One or Them be
Speaker:
Within Me period Of little less than one
year three remarkable and consecutive events
have taken place, which indicate with Logical
precision and certainty the tendency and pro-
gress of the republican party towards treason
and revolution.
On the 9Th of October, 1858, William IL.
Seward made bis brutal and bloody speech at
Rochester, in this State laying down the pro-
gramme of the 'irrepressible conflict" which
was to end in converting New Orleans and
other Southern cities into marts for the pro-
ducts OF free labor only, or else to turn Quincy
Market in Boston into slave pen. On the
following 9th Of March sixty-eight republican
members of Congress signed secret circular
recommending Helpers revolutionary book,
which calls upon the poor non-saveholders in
the South to make an agrarian revolution aud
destroy the property of their more wealthy
neiehbors. In this incendiary publication the
Nirrepressibie conflict" of William H. Seward
is rendered still more brutal and bloody:
because from an idea it is converted into
a revolutionary plan, with reasonable
appeals to the poorer classes. On the
10th Of October, 1859, John Brown made his
revolutionary attempt, by seizing upon the
United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, and
numbering several inoifensiye and peaceable
citizens. In this he was only acting upon the
principles laid down by Seward at Rochester,
and endorsed by sixty-eight members of Con-
gress, in the same manner that he had been ac-
customed to act in Kansas with the applause
Of the entire republican party
These three events mark the course which is
being followed by the entire republican party,
and the rapidity with which it is becoming an
aggressive and revolutionary abolition party.
One year ago Seward, in proclaiming his bru.
tai and bloody doctrines, was denounced bv
many as being far too much advanced for the
bulk Of his party. Six months later, sixty
eight of its representative men in Congress en-
dorsed the still more ultra incendiarism of
Helper; and now the great bulk Of the party
worship the memory of John Brown. in PRAYER
full meetings and requiems for the repose of his
soul, while the Tribune begs that his epitaph
shall not be written until not single slave shall
be found upon Mount Vernon or in the Wales
of Monticello. Such is the rapid progress of
sectionalism in that party, and to-day it stands
proclaiming open war against sister States, on
questions of social organization and self.
government, not here, but there in the South
where not single adherent to its revolutionary
views exists.
Helper has only formalized what Seward
preached, and John Brown has only practised
what Helper formalized and sixty-eight men,
bers of Congress recommend Among that
sixty-eight stand the names of Grow and Sher-
man, both of whom have been seriously pro-
posed as Speakers Of the national House of
How these men. who cor
daily recommend in secret circular the re-
evolutionary doctrines of the incendiary Hell
per, can take the oath Of fealty to the constitu-
ton. which they must do on the organization
Of the House, they can best explain and justify
to themselves; but if, after the public exposure
that has been made Of their secret proclivities,
and their efforts to provoke a revolution and
WIN WdA, WuiSA villa OcSLOy Uuc UcduLlul
fabric of this Union, and involve every interest
in it in ruin, either of them shall be elected
Speaker Of a national House of Representatives,
we shall believe that all virtue and patriotism
have left our public men, and that Congress
has ceased to deserve the title Of national
legislature. When Grow and Sherman placed
their hands to that secret circular, earnestly
recommending the treason Of Helper, they for
feited the esteem of every conservative man,
North or South, East or West, in this or in any
other country. We pronounce them traitors to
the nation in whose halls they seek to attain the
seat of honor, and we call upon every honest
man in the House of Representatives to see
that neither Grow nor Sherman, nor any other
Of the sixty eight imitators Of Cataline, be Sc
lected for its presiding officer.