Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-02-01


avas nothing if he even adds that he intends to act
quietly and legally, but that my head must fall to
save his own In the present instance, the Senator
says that it is for the South to decide whether its
system Of society shall be destroyed peaceably by
violence" He is benevolent enough to say, that
if we will submit the work shall be done for us
quietly and peaceably. By his efforts and those of
lied, and its members, with the aid Of accessions
from the Democratic ranks and Abolition societies.
have constituted that political organization which
to-day threatens the existence of the Republic Il
claims for itself the name of Republican party, and
by its opponents is designated the Black Repub.
lican party. The latter designation is proper to dis
tnguish it from the old Republican party, whose
image and superscripton" it seeks to counterfeit;
and also because its efforts entirely directed to
advance the black or negro race.
What are the principles Of this party, as indicated
by its declations and its acts? 1t has but sin.
gle principle, and that is hostility to negro slavery
in the United States. Some of its members have
called it party for human freedom; but this is
mistakes for though these in state of slavery in
different parts Of the world men of all races, vet it
has manifested no sympathy for any but the negro:
and even to negro slavery it seems Indifferent out
side Of the United States maintain it has no prin
ciple whatever, but hostility to negro slavery in the
United States man might be for or against the
tariff the bank the land distribution, or internal
improvements; he might be Protestant Cath.
olic Christian, or infidel; but if he was only &C.
tuated by an intense feeling of hostility to negro
slavery, or, as that is interviewer with the social
system of the South, if it only known that he
was anxious that the Federal Government should
exercise all its powers for the destruction of the
southern States that man would have been accept.
ed as good member Of the Black Republican party
But while all the members of the party are actua-
ted by this principle or feeling they differ as to the
particular steps or measures to be taken The most
moderate Of them say they merely opposed to
the extension Of slavery and therefore they are for
prohibiting it in the Territories and opposed to the
admission of any other slaveholdng States. The
Senator from Vermont Mr.. Collamer said not long
since that this was his position, that he was for
combining slavery to its present limits, so that in
time it might cease to be profitable, and in that way
be extinguished. As this position is taken by many
men who claim to be moderate and conservative in
their veiws, let US examine it for few moments
They say that if slavery be confined to its present
limits, the slaves will increase in numbers to that
extent that slave labor will in time be so abundant
that the supply will exceed the demand; and that
the owners will, from choice set them free rather
than be at the expense of maintaining them for their
labor. Let it be assumed for illustration that it
costs ten cents to feed and clohe a slave: then if
owing to the great number of slaves who are carried
into the Territory their labor would he worth less
than ten cents per day, undoubtedly would be
an advantage for the owners to liberate them. But
remember that when the labor of a negro should be
worth only ten cents, that of the white man would
likewise come down to this price. The result there
FORE is that population is be crowded in the South
to that extent that every aborcr is to be reduced
to the starving point, as it in Ireland during
the times of the famine. Now, would ask the Sem
ator from Vermont this question in all candor: if
system was proposed to be instituted by which his
constituents were to be reduced to the starving
point, and thus crushed, would he counsel them to
await such result. would he not advise them to
STAND FROM UNDER before they were destroyed? As
there already four million slaves in the South;
when their numbers are increased many times
will pretend that they ever would be removed The
plaE is to keep the negroes and such whites as are
compelled to stay among them down a. the starving
point for all time. And this is the policy of the
most moderate and conservative of the Black Re-
publican party
There are Others of them who say, that in add-
ton to this the fugitive slave law must be repeaed
slavery abolished IN the District of Columbia tho
sOrtS and arsenas, and wherever the United States
has exclusive riSdiction. Others of them contend
likewise that the slave trade between the States
must be abolished and also the coastwise trade be-
tween the States. Other classes insist, too, that
slavery should be attacked in the States themselves
The largest number of the party. however stand on
the same ground of the Senator from New York,
Mr.. Seward. He says that slavery has no soon
stitutional guarantee" which may not be released
and ought not to be relinquished; that "circum-
stances determine possibilities that they must
stand ready ITO do everything when and on every
occasion that we can :" and that whenever the pub-
lie mind shall will the abolition of slavery, the way
will be open for it," that sit can be and must be
abolished, and you and can and must do it." More
recently he said
1.-THE interest of the white race demands the ul-
innate emancipation of all men. Whether that con-
summation shall be allowed to take effect, with
needfl and wise precautions against sudden change
and disaster or be hurried on by violence is all that
remains for you to decide"
lie also declares that he will 90 with them who
can show him the fastest road to effect the object
Such is the governing principle. and spirit of the
party, to use all the power they have or can by any
possibility acquire, for the abolition Of slavery
When We look to the acts of this party, in what
attitude is it presented? 1t has made the whole
newspaper press subject to its control intensely hos
tie to the Southern section of the Union Such is
the power of the public press that it was able to
keep England and France for centuries in state of
hatred and war with each other. Only few weeks
since, to prevent collision between the two coun-
tries, the Emperor Of France publicly checked the
press OF his own country and yet the iercest ar
tices in the French Journals were moderate in COM
par'son with the general tone of the antslavery
press towards the South
This party, too sends up representatives to the
two Houses Of Congress from, time to time, who,
neglectng all the public business of the country,
devote themselves to preparing and rcciting denun-
catory harrangucs against the Southern States.-
Some years ago, an intelligent foreigner, who hap
pened to hear one Of these TRADES in this body cx-
pressed his establishment at the quiet manner in
which It was listened to by Southern Senators He
declared that if when European Congress had met
for business purposes similar course had been
taken the Congress would at once have been broken
up In our State Legislatures, such things, if they
occur, arc soon stopped by personal collisions. In
Congress- out of Difference to sectional feelings there
is no attempt to check such men as choose to en-
bark in the trade Of heaping all manner of obloquy
| on our constituents.
This antisavery party has torn to pieces most of
the great Christian associations Of the country in