The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-27

national csveiopement frsught with present
disaster and future ruin TO ocr whole social
and poiitics. organization.
An attempt k being made BY Seward. Lin
coin, Wilson, Sumner, and host Of other dema-
gogues, TO engratt upon our policy Of national
development eeriss Of philosophical and ab
stract Ideas which have grown Up In Europe,
where an entirely different state of society OK
lists, and that cannot vita safety be applied to
our own. The people Of Europe are homo
geneous race. Where social or political sub
lection has existed there It has been that Of the
uneducated or the poorer classes 70 the more
| educated or tie weather Of their own race The
doctrines Of social and political equality, there
| fore, have had nothing to contend with bit the
advsrtitious circumstances Of social ex-
iience; ard the theories Of equal
rights can be practically applied With
out introducing into the body polite
any permanent elements Of discord. The vicis-
| STUDIES Of lite carry men from ore class to an
other in society, AID tena continually tc their
ama,ganatio2 without lowering the STANDARD Of
| its condition.
| But the Efforts Of these initators ct European
philosophy to introduce its principles into Arne
ricaa society tend TO e very different result ln
the United States population comprises two,
| and II nearly ell the other countries Of this
| continent three, dissonant and unequal races.
] These are tie white, the Indian an6 tie negro.
| They cannot anaiganste without degenerating.
| This truth does not depend upon theory. 1t
! I'D ~ tho If
the European prir ciple5 70 society 10 the enan-
| cipated COUNTRIES of Spanish America. There
social and political equality has been confer
red upon III Of them, and all have thereby been
iosers II 0 moral, intellectual and material
point Ct view. Industry and commerce have
warad Religion has degenerated into priest
craft n one side and superstition en- the other
| Politics have subsided into the practice
| of robbery under the name Of govern
! nent Literature, science, the mechanic
ats md manufactures have receded, until
they have become the crudeet limitations Of the
productions Of the European mind. The exist
Ing roads, bridges, churches and public edidces
rule Of the white race IL tie colonial era The
tone and standard Of society have been greatly
lowered, the forest las resumed its sway over
many CT the cultivated fields and brute force
hos substituted its rile fer that of intellect.
This attempt Of Seward and bis followers to
engraft these European principles upon our
policy and practice Of government constitutes
the great error AMI evil Of the black republican
party. In the Northern States they can be pro-
claimed with saaty to eccie.y, because we are
hers homogeneous race. The Indian las
disappeared, al5 tie negro constitutes &c IL
fcitessirnal pgrtion Of our population Yet
even here there IL er ineradicable sentiment
of repugnance il the bosom Of the white
&c social equality and assimilation with the
black. But in making the European theories
the rule OF policy for the federal government, all
| ite powers become converted into instruments
Of war against the social organization Of fifteen
States Of the Union, where four millions Of TIE
inferior race OF negroes are held In social and
political subsection. This L the burden Of all
the speeches Of Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, Will
son and the active republican leaders 10 the
present campaign. All their harangues are d.
reeted against the Institution Of domestic servi-
tide in the South They 81 declare that
slavery must be abolished wherever II exists,
and the four millions Of negroes admitted to
equal social and political rights.
This. then, Il the true issue of the present
campaign, and II constitutes crisis In our ma.
tonal existence, and . DANCE. for our future
development. Its ain is to establish an IRE
pre.sible conflict" not between individuals or
parties In the Eerth and the South. but be
tween Jealous and fanatiSsl party In the
North, with all the powers Of the government
IN lie possession and society itself IL the South.
Such contest must be terrible in in triumph
to tie nftee, Southern States, and eminently
disastrous TO those Of the North. In the South.
the liberation Ct four millions Of the inferior
negro race would reduce IL society &c the con
dillon OF that o: the Spanish-Anerican republics
south q us The impoverished whites
would Gee to the Northern communities, crowd
Ing every pursuit Of human industry The
enancipated blacks themselves would abandon
TIRE ruined social edi6ce they had once inhabit
ed. and swarm Northward TO the paradise OF
black republican theories, and border free
States wonld be cverran with the outpouring
bands CT ignorant, INDECENT and mischievous ne
groes. Pennsylvania. New Jersey aud the
southern counties OF Ohio. Indiana aud Illinoi.
would inevitably be oiled viii their dissclute
and hieving hordes-
Bu, II would net be necessary to wait for the
triumph Of the black republican policy Of libe
rating four millions OF negroes. and admitting
them to equal social and political privileges.
TIE processes ~ which that triumph would be
obtained are equally dangerous to our national
existence and Development We are told tina,
nothing would be done that Is not con.titu-
uonal, tina, the national army and navy would
not be employed to force emancipation only
that they would not be used TO prevent liberst