The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-12
Sumner on the stump-The Panic In tho
Republican Camp.

Sumner on the stump-The Panic In tho
Republican Camp.
Last evening Senator Sumner of Massa-
cbusetts, delivered at the Cooper Institute
stump campaign speech ON the "Repub-
lcan Party, Its Origin, Necessity and Per-
manence." 1t is rehash of his late violent
Grafton in the United States Senate spioed with
personal abuse of the Chief Magistrate of the
Union, in which he paints him as "fur n,agnus
Ia great thief. marinaus htror0tm (the greatest
of highwaymen), the exposed cOrruptor, the
tyrant enslaver, and the robber of human free
dom" The lame and impotent conclusions of the
Covode Committee are laid under contribution,
and heaven and earth and the regions below
are ransacked for weapons against the Presi-
dent and the shareholders.
The selection Of this ultra and extreme leader
Of the revolutionary school ofrepublicanism to
deliver campaign speech in a conservative
city like this, while William II. Seward, chief
of more moderate views and less offensive die
ton, takes the background, is clearly indicative
of the alarm among the republican managers
which prompted Thurlow Weed to write the
gloomy article foreboding defeat, which we
published two or three days ago, and which
inspired another article of Horace Greeley to
the same effect in yesterdays Tribune. They
are frightened at the prospect of the democracy
uniting upon one ticket in this State, and the
danger Of their own party being split by two
tickets. Therefore they call in Sumner to their
aid.
A short time ago even Seward was too ex-
IRENE to represent the PARTY; now he is not suf
icently SO; and Sumner, whose speech in the
Senate all the republican journals, including the
Tribune, condemned for its violence, is chosen
to be the oracle and expounder of republican
ism. The explanation is that since the nomina-
ton Of Lincoln, Wendell Phillips came out in
strong speech against him as not black enough
for his school-not dyed in the WOOL The effect
of this speech and other manifestations Of disap-
probation on the part Of the John Brown sec
ton of republicans, was the nomination of Ger
rit Smith on the most extreme principles-the
ultima thule Of abolition. Fearing that this
ticket may take away vast numbers Of votes
from Lincoln, and knowing that they have not
one to spare, the republican leaders are using
every effort to obviate the danger. Hence they
select Sumner to stump for the rail splitter, in
the belief that his revolutionary views and tru-
culent language may prevent secession and
keep together the abolition birds Of
the same feather as himself lie is the
decoy duck to rally the vagrant flock. He
eulogizes Lincoln to the skies. He dcnounces
the Southern Shareholders Ms "a corrupt oil
garchy," worse than the devils in hell, in proof
of which he cites the German poet, Goethe. He
raves about "Bluebeard's Chamber" and the
"Five points of slavery" Bleeding Kansas"
the "Lecompton swindle,' and "the crime of
compelling slaves to work without wages" the
fact being that they are better remunerated for
their labor than any white man on the face Of
the globe. Another discovery made by this
fanatic is that "out of the slender cotton fibre
have been formed the manacles of the slaves"
and hence he concludes that Eli Whitney, the
discoverer of the cotton gin is, next to Christie
pher Columbus, ",he chief agent of the bond
age of the African race on the North American
continent"
1t il useless TO argue with man OF morbid
mind like this-a man who, in the face OF the
plain words of the instrument itself, denies that
the constitution of the United States contains q
single clause giving protection to slave proper
,y, and claims George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson, both Shareholders to the day Of their
death, as rank abolitionists Of the Sumner sect
Yet this is the stuff that will go down with that
class Of fanatical voters likely to flock 10 the
standard Of Gerrit Smith, Phillips and Garrison
But the sword which Sumner wieds Il two
edged and cuts both ways, and whilst he may
draw recruits to Lincoln or keep his soldiers
from deserving him, he will be sure to repel
many conservative republicans and drive them
into the ranks of the democracy or the Union
columns Of Bell and Everett. Pray, Messeurs
Greeley and Weed consider this peril and shape
your course accordingly, before too much
damage is done.