The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-18

ence enough Of Herrick in the corporation to
Justify US in proponncing him wholly disquali-
fed for seat in Congress. Az far as the other
Congressional candidates are concerned We
have nothing to say but We cannot help re-
marking the fact that while the republicans
have very wisely put only one candidate In
domination in each district, the democrats have
put up two, and sometimes three, more stupid
and euicidal course than which they could not
possibly have pursued,
The Abolition Programme Tor Lincoln's
Adm ration-Boil-ss for All or Nome
Ballots for All or None.
Various surmises have been INDUCED in as to
Seward to abandon his quiet and comfortable
home in Auburn, and to undertake q long, tie
dious and harassing campaign across the con-
tinent, up to the head waters of the Mississippi
and through the parched and arid praires OF
Kansas. In his various speeches by the way,
wide as was the range he gave to his ideas, he
was reticent as to the true object which he had
in view. He did, to be sure speak OF his anxiety
to make pilgrimage to Kansas, which he de
nominated the Saratoga Of freedom, and also
of bis having an idea that, whereas the State Of
New York was safe for Lincoln, there might be
some danger that all the States of the West
were not So But he did not himself appear TO
expect that those excuses would be accepted as
the true explanation Of his political tour, and
he rather threw them out for the sake Of battling
inquiry than with any idea of satisfying public
curiosity on the subject
And yet 1t was utterly impossible for him to
conceal the secret springs of his action
Whether or not the ideas had resolved them
selves into settled and clearly defined princi
ciples in bis own mind there Is no doubt that
they existed, and that to their existence should
be attributed tie fact of his having undertaken
the journey and made such speeches as he did
Every one knows, and be has never attempted
to disguise it, that he is no admirer of the coun-
try lawyer Of Illinois whom the Republican
Convention at Chicago preferred to himself as
the standard bearer Of the party in this Presi
Dental struggle.
1t is not unnatural that he would regard with
disavor, If not with some degree Of contempt
a man who, without any special merit of his
own was taken from the subordinate ranks Of
the party and promoted over his head. /. was
not, therefore, out OF favor to Mr.. Lincoln that
Dir. Seward left bis Auburn home to undergo
tor five weeks the annoyances incident to an
extended political canvass; nor was it that he
might have an opportunity of visiting Kansas
He had twofold object in view, OF far higher
Importance to himself He wanted, first, to
create an enthusiasm for himself in the Western
otatee, which would be at the same time sooth-
ing to his own self love, SO deeply mortified by
bis rejection by the Chicago Convention, and
also aid him materially ia insuring the Presi
Dental nomination in 1864. His second and
paramount object was to bind the administra-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln, In case Of the success OF
the republican party, to the radical anti sla-
very policy Of which he is the great apostle
and expounder. II is only in the carrying out
OF this last idea that his enunciations have as
sumed q character Of the gravest Importance;
for IL is generally assumed, and may be taken
for granted, that although Vim. II. Seward has,
In advance, notified MIR. Lincoln that the State
Of New York meaning Seward himsef-wil
ask no office under him, still his will be the
leading genius in giving direction 10 the policy
OF Lincoln's administration. MIR. Seward, there
fore, has laid down the programme Of national
affairs for the next four years.
II is well that the country should thoroughly
understand Whist that programme is; and the
better to enable il to do so, we have collated
and present TO our readers 20 day extracts from
our special telegraphic reports OF his speeches
all the way from Detroit to st. Paul, and back
70 Cleveland. These extracts contain the very
pitt and marrow OF his political conceptions,
and furnish reliable data from which 10 predi-
cate the national policy Of the next four years.
The burthen Of the cong which be sang from
The shores OF the great lakes up TO the plateaus
on the head waters of the Mississippi, was the ir.
repressibe conflict bet ~een free labor and slave
labor. Occasionally be introduced variations
indicating that The conflict was one be. seen the
NO systems OF aristocracy aud democracy-be-
tween rich and poor-between the great and the
humble-between capital and labor--between
The slavery celebrating people Of the United
States and the slavery hating exiles from En-.
rope. In his first speech al Detroit he announced
that the North was not satisfied, and that the
South was not satisfied; that the difficult.
ties Of establishing satisfactory and sooth-
ing policy on the subject Of slavery had
over,asked our wisest and most eminent states.
mea-leaving the inference TO be drawn that be
thought the time was past for trying
satisfactory and soothing processes; that new
and great moral question had arisen in
the nation which would be fatal to political
parties unless they consented TO be immediate.
ly renewed and reorganized according 10 the
humane-another word for the abolition
spirit Of the age; that the only existing cause
Of mutual alienation among the States was
slavery, and that at last We had reached point