The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-21

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A Republican spsech In Favor or Dis
solving the Union.
Last evening Wendell Phillips, the Cory
pheus Of the Garrisonian republicans, deli
vered another campaign speech ia the neigh
boring City of Churches. A full report will be
found in our columns to-day. It is true ii was
announced by advertisement in the newspapers
and by placard that It would be lecture; but
it is evidently stump speech in favor Of the
republican candidate, like the lectures of Cas-
sius NJ. Clay, Abram Lincoln, Tom Corwin
and Joshua R. GiddiDge These men have
been content with one Grafton; but not 70
Phillips, who has wonderful laundering aftsr
New York and Brooklyn, where he has now
made some three or four stump speeches, each
more violent than that which preceded it He
regards New England as safe, and his game is
to make an impression on this State. 1t is the
programme of the republican leaders to ope-
rate, not in the decidedly republican States,
but in the Middle and doubtful communities;
hence New York is selected as one of the battle
fields of the campaign, and Phillips and the
rest are continually lowering about this city
and Brooklyn uttering their hoarse and oni-
nous notes, like so many ravens
The speech of last evening was plea br
the dissolution of the Union. This is he
natural tendency Of all the republican mo,e-
ments and of the principles Of the party. hut
it is only the section Of Il TO which Mr.. Phillips
belongs that avows that purpose. The party is
divided into three sections, all having he
abolition of slavery as their grand and CON-
mon object, but each seeking it by different
means. The extreme section is willing to .c-
company the most moderate as far as it gps,
or rather continually leads the way, and finds
the others at its heels. The most moderste
section of the republican party is now where
the extreme section formerly stood, and 1t will
soon be where the extreme section stands now.
The extreme section, and the original one,
which is now in existence thirty years, is
known as the Garrisonian; and the leader-she
facie princeps-is Wendell Phillips, who
brings brilliant eloquence and the cru
dition and polished style Of the classical
cholar to the aid of political fanaticism. He
execrates the constitution, and considers It q
covenant with death and an agreement with
hell. He advises " the tearing up of the parch-
ment," and the dissolution of the Union. He
says that Washington and Jefferson, and the
rest who made the Union and the constitution,
were good men and abolitionists, but did not
see the effect of the instrument they drew up;
consequently they must have been FOOLS And,
then, does it not sound rather strange to tall
these two great men abolitionists, who were
shareholders to the day Of their death? He
draws horrible picture Of slavery--a pichre
which has no existence but in his own mobid
imagination yet he calls those men god
who engraffed it into the constitution and hid
slaves themselves while they lived. His m,de
Of getting rid Of slavery is by abolishing The
Union which protects it; for he says it cold
not exist without that protection. But his
Utopian visionary, who quotes Bacon, Benthm
and Carlyle, but never consults common sense,
forgets to propose any substitute for the UnDn,
or to tell us how, when disunited, the Sites
will be saved from war of mutual destruction,
or from becoming one by one the prey ofthe
great Powers of Europe.
The sentiments of John Brown, Phillips ind
their section are suited to the region of lew
England. The sentiments of Seward, fred
Douglass and their section are more moderate
and more coDgenial to New York State and
while the black apostle is propagating his
opinions in England, and raising the sirews
of war, the white prophet Of the higher Law is
instilling his ideas at Washington. The loc-
trine Of this section is: that the constitution
does not support slavery, and that the Union
should be maintained; for, If dissolved, thefree
States would have no more influence over the
slaye States than they would have over Clba;
whereas, If the Union were upheld, and The re:
publicans gained the ascendency, the Uhion
might, in the language of the black Douglass,
be rendered mighty instrument for th' de-
struction Of slavery, root and branch" Mr..
Stewards idea is to abolish slavery in
the Southern States through the oper,tion
Of the constitution, by getting possession d the
government, filing the Offices With republicans,
especially in the Supreme Court of the Uiited
States, who would thus reverse the DEED Scott
decision, and liberate every slave under hsbeas
corpus-the decisions Of the Court to be sus-
tanned by the whole power of the army in
creased to q force which would strike terror.
Phillips calls Seward the ablest statesman of
the age, the representative man, and yet GEN.
sures him because he does not 60 far enough.
The censure Is mere CANNON, for the section Of
Phillips and Garrison will all vote for Seward.
The third section Of the republican party are
the free sellers, who chiefly. belong to the
Western States, and have holy horror of
negroes, and do not think them at all
equal to Anglo-Saxons, while the New Eng,
land republicans think them rather bet
ter than white men, and the Seward