The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-17


tai, and Of the value Of their little houses and
lots We know, too, that The black republican
party Is raising the same fanatic CRY Of "the
rights of man." which once delugSa France in
blood and forced the beautiful Madame Roland
to exclsim on the scafIold, "Oh, Liberty, how
many crimes are committed In thy name!' and
caused the entire French people to rejoice
when the despotism Of Napoleon saved them
from continuance of the horrors Of
red and black republication. We &C
knowledge that with this cry the black
republican party hopes to "sweep like
tornado through the political atmos-
phere" of this country, but we have never
known any tornado" to produce great good.
1t Is destructive alike of friend and foe, just as
the black republican idea will be, II that party
triumphs in the approaching political struggle.
A just and strict analysis of the black repub-
lican party will show that its leaders and apos-
ties are just az repulsive as are their IDEAS and
the aims and objects that animate them. For
many years set of broken-down clergymen
have been advocating the fanatic idea of abo-
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ministering the government according to GER
tain moral distractions and exaggerations. The
defeat and breaking up of the old wing party
let loose crowd of desperate politicians, con-
sisting of broken down lawyers, disappointed
office seekers, bankrupt merchants, crack
Drained socialists hungry shoulder-hitters, and
the rag-tag and bob-tsil of the wing primary
elections. When the bank and tariff questions
were decided, these political desperadoes, in
stress of an issue, took up the hugely moral
idea of the rights of the niger, and
coalesced with the fanatical broken down
clergymen upon it. Ever since then they have
been endeavoring to get up "tornado in the
political atmosphere" in hopes that it would
bring them into the high places and fat valleys
of the land. There are good many shrewd
fellows among them who see already that, with
Seward and his brutal and bloody Rochester
platform, they are in the same dilemma with
the man who drew the elephant in the rattle.
The natural result of such condition of
things is the rousing of every conservative
interest and sentiment, in the North as well as
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Of black republication. Its leaders see this,
and, therefore, do they endeavor to raise the
cry Of "aristocracy," and proclaim that they
war only with three hundred thousand slave
holders of the South. But the vital interests Of
the eight or nine millions of white inhabitants
in the Southern States are more closely bound
up in the existing social organization there
than are those of the three hundred thousand
rich planters and shareholders. If the slaves
were taken from the latter they would have some
capital or property left. But the many millions
whose labors and whose income depend upon
the existing order of production and exchange
would have nothing left, and terror and desc
lation would sweep over them as it did over
those of St. Domingo, when the selfstyled
friends of the blacks" inundated their fellow
whites upon the altar of their fanatical and de-
structive idea.
1t is with the preservation of the vital inte-
rests of these eight or nine milliens of South
ern whites that the conservative feeling of the
central and Northern States sympathises 1t
is seen full clearly that they cannot be stricken
down by the hand of destructive fanaticism
without carrying down with them the interests
also of millions in the North who live by the
plough, loom and anvil. Fanatics and dema-
gogues may call this "mercenary trading
spirit" and deride it; but it is spirit that per-
vades alike the humblest home and the most
costly residence. Upon it depend the wages
of labor, the profits Of manufactures and mer-
chants, the reward of the farmer, the return of
capital, the education of our children, the sup
port Of our churches, the happiness of the pre-
sent and the prosperity of future generations.
There is neither aristocracy nor democracy in
such an allpervading spirit, but only the in
stinct Of self preservation common to all classes
of the community. When fanatics and old
broken. down politicians unite, as they have, to
form the present black republican party, and
insist, as they do, that the material and living
interests of millions Of men must consent to
self. destruction in order that an exaggerated
and impracticable idea shall be exalted, q blow
is struck at the existence of society and govern
ment, which the world has once seen in the
first French revolution, apd which it neither
desires TO see, and much less to feel, again.
This destructive blow is what the leaders of the
black republican party wish to see struck at
the Union, the constitution, and the society of
this confederacy.
The Devil. IN THE CHuRcHEs.-In ancient
and scriptural timss we are told that Satan
went about like roaring lion, seeking whom
he might devour. Since then he has assumed
many and cunningly contrived DISCUSSES. Some.
times he takes the mask of a moral philosopher,
sometimes that of religious reformer, and oc
casionally the surplice ITSELF In each and all
he manages to do large amount Of evil, dis
tracing mems minds by false theories, and
leading them into the path of error. Latterly
he has got into the Protestant churches; and