The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-06


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The perfect platform OF the black republican
party has been laid down by Senator Sumner,
in bis recent speech In the Senate. and 1t is nov
before the country tor approval or rejection.
That party has deliberately set aside its
greatest leader, avowedIy because his conser.
vstive tendency was distrusted, and has select
ed the more radical among its propagandists
ss its opponents and representative men. Sena-
tor Seward accepts the retiracy which his
party has conferred upon him, and his mantle
is DOW contested by those who were his COM
psniops and followers. Prominent among
there stands Senator Sumner. He compre-
bends the great truth that a party can never re-
cede from the logical Development of the ideas
upon which 1t has been built up, and the ex-
ample of Stewards fate teaches him that even to
psuse Is full of danger. He has therefore &C.
cepted the result to which the black
republican theories must carry all
their advocates, and, throwing over
board the shallow pretences of limiting
his opposition to slavery to resistance to Its ex
tension to the Territories, of aiming at al eco
pomical reform Of the government, and of fos-
teriDg protective tariff, has declared that
black republicanism, pure and simple, consists
in an incorporating war upon the social or
ganizstion Of the Southern States. He i'm
proves on the plain 'irrepressible conflict Of
Lincoln and Seward, and proclaims that 1t is
sacred sDimosity." In this be has boldly
placed himself In advance Of all his compsers
among the black republican leaders, and they
must follow him or accept the second rank.
To halt will throw the whole army into doubt,
confusion and ultimate defeat.
In taking this frank and open position of I'M
compromising war on Us South, Mr.. Sumner
hes not been hasty or inconsiderste. He has
been for four years preparing for It, and hiding
bis time. When Seward was rejected ct Chi
csgo, and the more violent and radical leaders
OF the party were placed In the van, he saw
that the time to bring forward the true issue
on which the battle is to be fought had come.
He has brought II forward, and no man, clique
or party can change It There IL stands-the
triumph Of the political abolitionists and
the destruction of the confederation, or the
preservation Of the Union and the putting
down Of political abolitionism. The tone and
temper OF Mr.. Summers speech leave no doubt
as to the spirit with which the contest is TO be
wsged. There is no compromise, no considers
ton, DO appeal to reason and the highest int
rests of the State, but one continued stream OF
fierce invective and bitter vituperation. The
Northern sectional party is to exert all Its
strength, and compulsion is to be the order Of
the day. What feeling this must encounter Ia
the South every man can know by looking into
his own boeom. Resistance lie the natural i'm.
pulse when coercion is used, and this Ii what
the triumph OF the black republican theories
must produce In the South. Under Mr.. Sum
ner's lead we can see how fierce and bitter will
be the struggle, and how terrible the results
And Mr.. Sumner has given the honest and
truthful u,terance Of black republicsnism.
All Of this is evident to the national SEN
timeDt that rules In so many thousand hearts
In the Central and Northern States.
Wherever the hammers Of industry resound.
or commerce spreads its sails, the national
feeling lives and prevails. It sees the danger
and knows the remedy Of the crisis; aud all Il
nov desires is, that ambitious politicians shall
not thrust their personal claims between them
and the destructive mania that must be met aud
conquered. IL wishes not to dwell on hair
splitting distinctions in abstract theories, nor
minor questions Of State policy. II lie no time
to discuss the forms OF making new States
when the existing ones are In danger II is
no time to talk Of questions Of tarifo or internal
or traDscontinental mails and |
rosds, when greater issue, that involves all of |
tbese In life or death, is forced upon the coun.
Try. The national sentiment knows and feels
ihis, and IL looks for such action from beth the
and Baltimore conventions as shall
.pable the whole country to unite on one sound
rational and conservative man for The Presi-
iency. IL these conventions are equal to the
emergency that attends the country, they will
nominate such man, and he will lead them 10
such complete political victory that the pre-
rent generation a, least will hear nothing more
II the political abol,tionists.
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