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vitioCt the craft of Candidate il noniaatisn
add literary culture, political zeal and the git
CT eioqrsnce, which place hiu in the very
foremost rank - leader and &C exponent Of
the black republican ideas. AL of these circur
stances combine to give q moro deep soleunity
&c bis words, In this grave moment Of their Ute
ra,oe.
And what are his words. He opens with an
os.entatoa Of tie pure aud holy feeling Of cha
rity; but does that quality predominant in lie
conceptions, breathe II his utterances and live
in lis IDEAS, to stimulate men to deeds offorbesr-
aace ard mercy towards each other, No. His
self adopted phrase for the denomination Of his
tSeme Is "the barba-ism Of slavery and all
lis Learning, memory, Wit, eloquence and
logic ars directed to heightea and eubitter the
brutal add bloody conflict which Lincoln and
Seward have proclaimed against the social ex-
isterce of fifteen Of the sovereign States Of this
Union But he goes farther even than these,
fer be claims that this aggression upon the
rights Of the South-this attempt to enforce
Upon other communities, not analogous In
any ono Circumstance Of their existence, social
forms and laws indigenous to totally diffe
rent state Of society-this after negation of the
principle Of selfEovernment- is "sacred
aaimosity;' and, like them, he proclaims that it
must be famed and urged on until the theories
which he, in his intolerant wisdom, finds good
"shsii be installed everywhere under the ma,
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selfappointed saints of the earth, he tells Us
that there is sustere work to be done;r anc
we well know what such language in the
mouths Of such men means. It means carnage
and the flames of war. 1t means swords drip
ping with fraternal gore, torches put to
the bones Of brothers, desolation spread
over happy and prosperous States, for OPT
MONS sake. No man can assert that the South
inhicts, or desires to inhict one single positive
injury upon the North. Every man admits
that our fraternal relations with the Southern
States are productive Of unmixed benefit to us
and to ours; and yet Lincoln and Seward in
cite the North to an "irrepressible conflict"
with the South; and now comes another mighty
leader among the black republicans, and pro
claims it to. be sacred animosity."
This is the burthen of Mr.. Summers elo-
queDce, and we need not enter upon its de
tails. But there is one characteristic Of this
speech which is in perfect accordance with the
policy of the black republican party in the
present campaign. The bloody and terrible
results which must ensue if that party succeeds
in getting possession of the federal govern
ment are kept carefully out Of view. John
Browns practice is taught but there is no word
of john Brown. The social condition of Of.
teen populous, rich and powerful States
is TO be revolutionized; but not Q
hint of the possibility Of resistance
on their part, or of the reactive effect of such
resistance upon the aggressive North, is drop
ped. This "irrepressible conflict" this "sacred
animosity," is to be pursued to its bitter end.
without the superstition of single sacrifice or
q angle danger to the conquering aggressor
Mr.. Sumner adopts, in all its consequences, the
sophistcal and Elusive theory Of Spooner.
The meaning Of the constitution Is suddenly TO
be wrested from that harmonious interpreta-
tioA which has given us 90 marvellous a
career Of individual happiness and national
greatness. Federal laws, administered by
federal courts, presided over by abolition
judges, and protected, and their DEGREES en-
forced, by q federal army, are to do all the
bloody work, and con6ne its presence, and IT.
multtudinous results and perils, to the South
ern States.
Therein lie the fallacy and the folly Of the
black republican argument 1t Is an impos-
sibility. The South il united ss one
man against this aggression of the
North, while the North itself e d.
vided. With the success of the black
republican party in its present attempt to
seize upon the federal government would
come the first blast Of resistance from the South
which would be echoed from every hill and
dale between the Delaware and the Rio Grande
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific shore
Fanaticism would then at once be hushed, and
the voice Of reason would prevail in the North.
But repentance would come too late. Blows
struck in fraternal strife are not like those
given where indifference has preceded conflict
Civil wars are not stopped by the efforts Of
diplomacy. Mr.. Summers eloquence has there.
fore come In good time to awaken the conser.
vative, the judicious and the tolerant men Of
this country 10 the necessity of union and &C
ton against that fanaticism which, making alb
stract moral questions the ground of political
rule, is Fastening them TO the abyss Of revolu-
ton and ruin. The iseue now before the peo-
pie IL fairly made. Shall abolitionism be ex-
allied and the Union destroyed, or shall the po-
litical abolitioniss be put down, and the
Union-the palladium Of our liberties and our
preserved?
REJECTION or THE MEXICAN TRE,rY-THE
EFFECTS or PARTISAN PorIrTcs.-The rejection
Of the Mexican treaty by the joint vote Of
democratic and republican Senators furnishes
a striking evidence of the rtfsr Administrations