Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-10-10
The Spirit neutrality-suspicious.

The black republican nominee for Cover
nor of Massachusetts, 20 succeed Mr Bauks.
is John \. Andrew. whose niggerism is OF
such an Intense description that even the
more politic and timid of the blacks them
selves are alarmed lest his nomination should
damage their chances of success. Thus, the
Springfield Republican whose own bitter rad
icalsm is undoubted, complains that his
(Andrew's) John Brown sympathies and
speeches, his Garrisonian affiliations, his ne
gro training predilections aud all that sort
of extreme anti-slay cry ism, with which bis
| record abounds, will be trumpeted far and
wide-in the State to ipjure hun, out Of 1t
to harm Lincoln"
The vasicinations of this Massachusetts
Journal are correct; but why should they not
be! The nomination of Andrew a de-
liberate act on the part of the republican par
ty of Massachusetts,, and was, indeed made
as speech of the most violent abolitionist
character by Mr.. Senator Sumner. Mr..
Sumner was, in fact, the spokesman of
not been defined with sufficient distinctness
by the character of its nomination, Mr. Sum-
ner's speech would have been the proper source
! from which to seek information on that point
As i. is. that speech is useful to show that
| the nomination of Andrew was deliberate.
and that the black republican party intended
| to put him forward as the formal exponent of
! their principles.
| Only short time before the convention
met Mr. Seward spoke at Boston, and said
that the ''irrepressible conflict was about to
be ended BY the destruction of slavery; aud
Mr.. Sumner said before the convention itself
and repeated it, that he sought to put into
operation "active measures" against it. We
do not like to suppose that Mr.. Seward con-
templated the ending of the slavery conflict
| by such mesus as are now being employed III
| Texas, and which seem to threaten other
States neither do We wish to believe that
these are the '-actiye measures" which Mr.
Sumner eulogized; and yet we cannot discov-
er any meaning in the declaration of either
gentleman less sauguiDary than this. And
| 1t the convention OF the party TO which they
| belonged symDathised in the demand, for this
kind of ''ac;ive measures as it appears they
did, they naturally sought for man. who,
as governor of the State, would not object to
the most radical and revolutionary means
which it might be proposed to use against the
South. The nomination illustrates the speech,
and the speech the nomination. The one
shows that the black republicans are not in
capable Of desiring TO employ on a grand
scale the torch of the ineeudiary, the blud-
! geon of the assassin, and the lustful passions
of crowd of dcbauched saYages, in order TO
extripate slavery, while the other indicates
thst they are torgetful enough to cndesyor
to place men in power in their State govern
ment who will be ready to 60 with the fore
most in support of the most ''active" and
most atroeious measures.
If the support of such man as John A
Andrew. by the republican party of Massa-
| chusetts, does not harm Lincoln" il will
be because the party which nom mated him is,
throughout the whole North, as badly sbOli-
| tionlzed and John Brown-izei as it is in Mass
achusetts, aud if that be the case, there Is
indeed an '.irrepressible conflict at hand,
which, however, We are confident Heaven will
not permit to end as Seward, Sumner, Aa-
drew and their fanatical supporters exulting-
ly predict The Liucoluites are to be rein
forced, in the event of his election by the
support OF Mr. Douglas, as we have it al
ready announced; but numbers are not al
ways victorious, nor can the abOlitiOuists
count upon their ability to carry out all their
schemes, even with the aid of traitors from
the democratic party.