Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1860-03-06
SPEFcHES OF sEsATOES DOUGLAS
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manned silent
In the snasavor to blend antagonisn and 10
satisfy the " opposing and enduring forces
within his own party, he talks Of the JoHN
RpovS gang as a band Of exeeptionsble
men. - Who. . Inspired by an. enthusiasm Pecn-
Lar 10 tbpmsefres.s committed an act al Sc
sition and t~reason.n and, becoming the "inno-
cent victims Of 4 frensy kindled without their
arspcv.- were in their deaths I" piiabie." BE
does not refer either for approval or eonden-
nation 10 HErrER's handbook Of revolution or
its sixtv-eight congressional Biaek-RePubhean
indorsers but he s~eknoviedges that me
whole ain Of that party is to oppose @ slavery
and polvgauy,s and be gives rs a new version
Of HELrFR's motto Of the party; IN aboli-
ton OF slavery and the Perpstuation OF the
Union p bv force, BY Transporting it into one of
the old revolutionary savings Used when lib
srtg . carried a very different meaning from
what it now does in the mouth o. an Abolition
ist-a Union and liberty, COM what nay
etc. Bu there is graver mater than thess
dextsrous w-ord-mongerings in his speech
We pass over bis errors, wilful OF involuntary,
in the citations Of political history, some Of
which were cagentIy refuted Immediately On
the floor Of the Senate, particularly the effort
to throw The blame Of breaking up the Mis-
sour compromise upon the Democrats, when
it was himself and bis present followers who
did IL, and enter upon an examination Of bis
political philosophy, in which be is one Of the
Black-RepubIicsn apostles
Tie school Of philosophers TO which M.
SEwARD belongs are engaged IN a strenuous
effort 10 transplant and nst1raiizs certain Eu-
ronsan political and social theories upon
American soil. He therefore taeitly assumes
in bis oDening, and proolsims bsforeh he closes,
that we are Of one race This, which may
be proclaimed in sny OF all Of the conmuai-
ties Of Europe, cannot be truthfully asserted
in an. Of the Atlantic States, nor in Spanish
America, nor in the West Indies, Dor in Cali
fornia, noT in Australia, nor in India, nor
wherever the European has set his foot in
Austria OF eastern Asia. In al Of these
countries there are dissonant races. and the
white race is engaged in a constant struggle
10 maintain its ~honoeensity. It is a natural
conflict and Mr.. SEwARD himself recognizes
it in citing the example Of the European
immigrant, who avoids he African as IL his
skin exhslsd contsgion.n In The northern
Atlantic and the western States Il ejscts the
negro and the Indian fTen social communion !;
in the southern States it subjects the former
to domestic servitude in California and Aus
tralia it is striving TO drive the Chinese from
the community in Iudia # turns The native
into a righless ryot; aud in China it is
quicksniug resistance to the advancing spirit
Of European domination.
Nor is the struggle Of races a new enc to the
world. Through AT the pages Of history #
attends the marches Of conquest and Of migra-
ton wherever dissonant races have cons in
contact Ans in every instance the result has
been It's sane. Wherever the white race has
maintained its homogeaeity It has elected or
sabiuEated the inferior race, and maintained
its own civilization. Wherever it has failed
to preserve its homogenefty If has lost its civil
izing power, and been absorbed 10 bsseF con
ficts. No hybrid OF mengrel race presents a
single exception 70 the world. The mixed
Populations Of many Of the Spanish American
countries which have adopted ar. seWsra's
theory, that We are all one race present
notable examples OF this. And fsttering as
such a theory may - supposed to Be to the
negro race. even that race rejects It, as Is seen
in Hsvti and The daily experience Of Jamaica
Il IL tbs natural impulse which fmpels the
South unanimously to resist Mr.. ssward's
amalssmstion theories, and to strive 10 pre-
serve in is midst the only social organization
that can preserve its homogeneiiy and The
eohsbitstion Of The two races.
Starting from a falss position, Mr.. Seward
proceeds &c erect a faliacious theory, under
which, q for convenience sake be dsnomi-
mates 60 he slave States capital States, and
free States labor States 1-mesning to incul-
cate that ia The social system Of the South the
rights Of capital p~redominafe, while in that
Of the North the rights Of labor are supreme.
This fallscy is at once destroyed in the mind
of every northern man who migratss to the
Southern States, by the practical conviction
that there be has social position whether be
has money OF not or, as the popular express
sion phrases It, "a man is a gentleman here
If he has no money in bis pocket, while in the
North be is not looked upon AZ such Il be is
poor" In truth, Mr.. sEwaEn's elassifca-
AEA " LUA4AHA IalAE1 uEN NalaL eAnAEe
is the reverse Of the fact. It is in he North
sn States that capital is rapidly reducing the
free laborer to a condition q degrading serTf-
tuds Mr.. sEWAED appeals % @as weaTers
and spinners Of Massachusetts, the steredores
Of New York. and The miners Of Psnnsyl-
vania-7 Let hen speak Let them tel how
they have to maintain their unequal contest
with capital. Let the union projections, the
strikes iBnumsrabie, the professions Of starF-
ing workmen through the streets, speak for
them. Listen 10 the cries Of he shoemskers
o. Massachusetts,, that a. tins very moment
are ascending 10 heaFen against their opprss-
sors- Hsrk 70 the whispered fnjunction Of the
mother 70 her dying daughter, crushed in the
faIHns death-trap Of the Pemberon mill.
" Hush, NY ehHsi Would you deprive Your
mother Of breado
IN the truthful comparison Of the two social
systems il win be seen that the free laborsr Of
the North has no claim but upon the sweat Of
bis brow, pressed forth byhunger that capital
Is IN possession Of the land, and when II has
aone wifi thewofker, or bis youth or health
fails hin. Il dismisses hin 70 die IN poverty
asd neglect On he other hand, an inferior
race in the South has a claim upon beth capt.
tai andfhe land, which must be satisfied EbGs
lfelssfs. The result Of these two systems is
that tie one degrsdes the Iaboriug portion Of
The superior, and the other elevates the inferior
race. uess are the two great f~allscies Of Mr..
Stewards philosophy, upon one Ct which be
bases and with the other be s~xenplfss his sd-
vocacy Of thedoctrines Of bis brutal and bloody
speech a. Rochester. They are an contained
in the present speech, but be has ensesvored
10 hide them BY tie use Of miider language
and paistive modes Of expression. The effort
Is failure, and today, when he eyes Of the
conservative classes are being opened 70 the
destructive tendency Of his political theories,
tits too late for him TO sndeavor to cover up
bis abolition theories by political eneonomv
talk and g~liitsring e~eneraHties.s