The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-28

Sc nj tor DooIftoe'S Exposition OF BIxcA
re ~ 'bfic ~ tsn THE truth and the Fsi.
lacy n Hts View.
The black republican leaders are shrewdly
ecor omical in their plan for the approaching
political campaign, and, accordingly, they
come TO the commercial metropolis of the
Union to make their campaigning speeches
because by 30 doing they obtain wide and
era'uitous circulation therefor in tbs columns
of the New YORK HERALD. Some of them, to
help the matter out charge twenty-five cents
for admission, calculating, no doubt, that as
this is q great anti-republican city, it is good
policy 10 get the quarters if they cannot get the
voters.
In pursuance Of this general system,
Senator Doolittle, OF Wisconsin, came and made
q speech night before last to the Brooklyn
Rocky Mountain Club. We believe the GUS
tomary quarter was not charged for admission,
and so the Senator obtained fair audience,
in view of the small number of black republi-
cans in the commercial metropolis, and the lit
tie hall in which be spoke was very nearly,
If not quite, two.thirds full. The Senator
assumed to give truthful history
of the Nrise, progress and development
of the black republican party. He belongs to
the democratic section Of that party, and the
only mistake he made was the vital one of sup
posing that 1t came into existence when he and
his fellow democratic seceders joined it, and that
it is to-day the same in essence and aim, that it
was when he joined it. His exposition of the
rise Of the Kansas swindle and the abrogation
of the Missouri Compromise is truthful, and he
faithfully portrays the righteous indignation
that led him, and so many other good men and
true, to oppose with might and main, in 1856,
that unrighteous, impolitic and mischievous
proceeding. But Senator Doolittle has per.
mitted the new political affiliations in which he
found himself at that time to deceive him as to
the philosophy Of the movement that carried
BIN away from the democratic organization,
and In regard to the true position and tenden-
cies Of the present black republican party.
The Kansas issue was casual and tempo.
rary issue. 1t was begot in ignorance, devel
oped in folly, even to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and has subsidized through
Indignation into contempt The men who raised
it seemed to triumph, but their triumph has
turned to ashes in their grasp. Kansas will be
q free State, and not only this, but the result
there has practically settled the whole question
of the extension of the institution of slavery
into the Territories by legislation. Natural
causes that are far more powerful than human
enactments determine where the system of ne
gro domestic slavery shall and shall not be es-
tablished. In few years the question of
slavery in the Territories, to which the black
republican leaders pretend to confne their par
ty policy, will be overwhelmed by the natural
march of population, and the new States will
exercise their indefeasibleri to establish such
social institutions as may be most consonant
with their climate, soil and staple productions.
The principle, therefore, which the black re-
publicans assume to attack was settled long
since under natural laws, and Its Gevelopeme
is logical and Conclusive. It needs no party
aid, and ia beyond party control.
The Ode of indignation which carried Sena-
tor Doolittle and the democratic wing Of the
, black republican Organization into oppo-
sit;on to the folly and imbeciiity OF
the Atchison-P ierce-Douglas plot, has
triumphed over the schAmers and havipo
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.ysct that animated it. it is aga
recediDg, and leaving the great oSsan of popu-
lar opinion andfeeling in its natural condition.
Here is the fallacy of Senator Doolittles po-
elton, but which he fails to see. The move.
ment which he followed carried him into
temporary utilization with the leaders of a
fanatic movement, inaugurated thirty years ago
by men blinded by zeal, and who to. day enter
tain the same revolutionary and destructive
views that urged them so long since to agitate
for the total abolition Of slavery This tenn.
porary afiliation he has made permanent
one, when the cause that led to it has ceased to
exist. The black republican party that is now
preparing to 60 into violent contest for the
possession of the powers of the government
has no real identity with the Indignation that
animated the masses against the Kansas xindle
and the repeal Of the Missouri compromise, al
though its leaders are the same that took ad.
vantage of that revulsion of popular feeling.
The aim of the present black republican or
ganization is the destruction of the social sys-
tenn Of the Southern States, without regard to
consequences. The opponents of its principles
and aims are Spooner, Seward and Helper, and
its practical results are foreshadowed in the
John Brown raid. Under their leadership the
fanatics who have for years pronounced the
constitution "a compact with hell" and the
sophists who teach that it is perfect abolition
instrument, have joined hands for the attain.
ment of their common object-the abolition of
slavery and the perpetuation Of the Union by
force. Seward proclaims the "irrepressible
conflict" till the products of free labor only
shall be known in the marts of the South, and
boastfully announces on the floor of the Senate
that 1--WE will reorganize your federal courts"
Saooner shours loaicallxz hou. 4h;s L.