The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-20
The Black RepublIean Creed-Its EXPOSE

The Hack RepublIcan Creed-Its ExPosA-
tton by Chevalter Webb.
The signs OF the times, the progress Of the
counter revolution at the North, the reaction
which is taking place in the popular mind, the
sober second thought prevailing at last over
the wild, fanaical and revolutionary ideas
which had become rampant and threatened the
very existence of the social and political fabric,
and, resulting from this, the new combinations
of the conservative element against the common
danger, have thoroughly alarmed the republic
can leaders, who have no longer any confidence
in the issue they have raised before the coun-
try, but are like men treading cautiously and
with fear and trembling on treacherous ice
which by genial thaw has grown too thin and
toe weak to support their weight, and may at
any moment give way beneath their feet and
engulf them in cold watery grave.
They are half way across the river, and
are sadly puzzled and distracted as to whether
they should 20 On or back. Some advance,
"whistling to hep their courage up !" some
hesitate and pause. and some retreat when II is
too late, and il is safer to go forward than to
return. Thus some of the republican leaders
Disguise their fears while they press onward
but others, like leaky Webb. who never could
keep his own counsel, much less the secrets of
others, are blurting out their inward distress.
The Chevalier perspires from every pore, and
bis courage oozes out at the tips Of his fingers,
like that Of valiant Bob Acres, as be foun-
ders back and falls On the ice, and scrambies
up again, and thinks that every moment will be
his last.
In long leading article in last Saturdays
Courier ard Enquirer, under the caption of
Republican Doctrines" he betrays his appre-
tensions Of the approaching doom of the repub-
ican party, and exhibits his consciousness that
he is no longer safe upon its slippery platform.
he recedes into his old whiggery, which he
blunderingly calls true republicanisrn, the genu.
inc article, the Original Jacobs" Now that
the issue has been squarely made before the
country, and that the various parties and fac.
tons and cliques are ranging themselves I'M
der two standards-one the black banner of
revolutionary republicanism, and the other the
flag of the Union-Webb is frightened, for he
knows that the result will be the same as ii
was in 1852, the issue being the same, but
now more clearly defined. The hopes of
the republicans hitherto were founded on the
insane and suicidal divisions of the conservative
element, and the belief that they would not
unite against the common foe. Those hopes are
now dissolved into thin air, and the CLEAN of
sunshine has only served to weaken the ice on
which the republican leaders tread. Hence the
tears of blubbering Webb. The fusion of the
Bell and Douglas parties in this State, the COM
bination of the Breckenridge and Bell parties
in New Jersey, and the union established in
Pennsylvania in despite of the sinister efforts
of Forney to throw the State into the hands of
the republicans as the price of the Clerkship of
the House Of Representatives, have made him
weak in the knees. The conservative element
is rising and swelling under the republican plat
form, which it will soon shatter and sweep away
as spring tide in the Hudson breaks up the
ice when the return Of genial weather has pre-
pared II for dissolution. Webb anticipates the
coming crash and he runs away as fast as he
can. His feet refuse to stand any longer on the
principles Of his party, and he falls back
on another platform, which is as like
to republicanism as day to night, or Hyperion
to a satyr He says this is the Simon Pure re-
publican creed, and that nine-tenths of the
people Of the South believe it. If this be so,
then there is no use in battle, for republican.
lem will carry all the Southern States, and the
Bell party, the Breckenridge party and the
Douglas party may as well strike their colors
beforehand, and save the expense of contest.
They ought to come down one by one to
General Webb, to save him the trouble of
fighting, as the coon came down from the tall
tree and surrendered when he saw Captain
Scott with bis unerring rife.
The Chevalier Webb says the creed Of repub.
licanism is that 1.-The constitution gives no right
TO the general government to abolish slavery
in any of the States or Territories of the Union
and consequently il cannot confer any such
right upon any Territorial legislature" that 1T
is paramount duty of the general government,
and the object of its creation, to protect the
States of the confederacy 10 their right to esta-
blish and perpetuate slavery" that any attempt
Of Congress to abolish slavery In the
District of Columbia without the sane
ton Of the State Of Maryland would
be gross breach Of faith" that "the
negro is physically, socially and morally in
better condition as slave in most Of the slave
States than he would be in state Of freedom
and finally, that " every attempt on the part of
persons not inhabitants of such State to inter-
fere with the institution where it legally and |
exists is crime against the |
Union itself and that 1t is not only the duty of |
all good citizens to frown down any such at
tempt, but, II necessary, to bear arms In de-
fence of the rights of every State to regulate
its internal affairs as to It may seem expe-
dent" To crown all, we are told that this Is
not only the creed Of Webb himself, but Of |
Seward and Lincoln.
What more could any Southern SHAREHOLDER |