The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-26
mr.. Seward In pIinnesota-An Epsstis
from st. Paul.

from ST. Paul
If Mr. Seward bad been deep ia Western
lands, and was endeavoring to get them off biz
hands by m cans of first rate notice, he could
not have given the great Northwest more
magnificent puff than that which forms the ex-
ordium of his speech at St. Paul, which We
print in full elsewhere. Mr.. Seward Is not,
we presume, In the land business. His magma.
tion sears above pre- emption rights, town lots
and city sites. He looks forward to the time
when the seat Of power in this republic shall be
located in the Northwest, when the interior
shall give the law, aud the Gospel as WELL we
presume to the seaports and when New York
shall be no longer the Empire State. He en-
larges upon the idea that our Northern boundary
IL to be moved up to the frontier Of Russian
America, and that the Southern limit of the
republic will eventually extend TO the Isthmus
OF Panama, perhaps to the Straits of Magellan;
that the man is already born who will see
slavery abolished from all this land. Mr..
Seward then enters into philosophical disqui-
sition, socia! and political, and lays down as his
theoren that this continent had been designed
especially by Divine Providence as the theatre
Of grand experiment in the science Of govero-
uent; that for elk thousand years society bad
been failure, because Of the political and So
cial inequality of its members; that the fathers
Of this republic, knowing all this, adopted laws
to repress the foreign slave trade, and passed the
resolution Of 1857, in order that slavery might
gradually die out, and then the world would
L. prt
Gays Mr.. Seward, a number of the slave States
adhered to their system and the consequence is
that they are in terribly bad way, while the
free States, and especially those made from the
territory embraced in the ordinance OF lasl,
have prospered beyond the most sanguine ex-
peetatioDs Of their founders. Notwithstanding
all this, the people Of the North and West have
been faithless to their trust, In permitting new
slave States 10 be admitted, 10 conserving to
the abrogation of the Missouri line, and in al
loving the Supreme Court Of the United States
10 decide that tie institution Of domesti,
slavery is legalized By the constitution. Thus,
through the timidity Of the North, the South
has had all the power in Its own hands,
and the wrath Of the anti-slavery men has
been, In measure suspended. The South has
heretofore been able to bully or TO buy the
North. Now, however, the time has come when
the South can no longer triumph over the fears
or tempt the cupidity-ef Northern men They can
only cry out accession "disun;cn," 10 which
threat Mr.. Seward derisively responds, who's
afraidsr and the adberents Of the Senator echo
"who's afraids- Mr. Seward further tells the
men Of the Northwest that the slave power has
been overthrown by the moral force OF the ex-
ample Of progress, prosperity and material
wealth In these States the territory Of which
was included 10 the ordinance OF 1851, and that
the war against slavery is to be maintained
until Il has been entirely abolished. HE exac.
words are. that the men Of the Northwest have
enlisted for this war for the term Of their aatu-
raj lives.
Now, we lay this St. Paul speech before our
readers as the clearest exposition of the real
platform Of the republican party that has ever
fallen from the lips Of its great leader, and In
that view call special attention 10 two or three
Of Its points
IL the first place, Mr.. Seward humbugged the
people Of Minnesota when be compared the old
world systems Of slavery with that which
existed here when the fathers founded
this government The systems Of serf
dom, vassalage, villainage or slavery,
both antique and medieval, were quite
different from any that ever existed here. In
Europe the slaves were Of the same race-the
Caucasian-as their masters, and were held In
a cor, Of military bondage. Their normal con-
dition was that Of freedom, and they were
sometimes able to throw of their shackles, and
obtain for themselves o share OF political
power. But the African has no such talent Of
organization. This has been proven In the
case of Hayti. The black must serve the white
man or amalgamate with him. And once let
the African and Anglo-Saxon blood be tho
energy, the vigor and the enterprise that belong
to the latter. The state OF things now existing
In the slave States Ia a natural one. The exigen
cies Of that section demand slave labor. This
II not simple demand either tbs an absolute
condition Of existence. Consequently, when
Mr.. Seward says that the man who will see
slavery abolished In the Gulf States is already
born he Is talking nonsense, and drawing on
his Imagination for his facts.
Then, as 70 the result Of the systems, Mr..
seyard claims superiority for the North and
WEST over the South, and all because Of the ex-
stence Of the peculiar institution In the latter
section. Mr.. Seward ID wrong, and he knows
It. He knows as well as we that the
West ewes i,s progress almost entirely
TO the influx Of foreign immigration,