The New York herald., 1860-09-19

HIM ALL, w EJN ESDh
thrown. The city Of New York leads the way.
Let the Union rank ana file throughout the
State follow her example and their triumph
people opposed to Lincoln are rising. Let the
politicians concerned move with them, or stand
out of the way, so that the will of the ma
jority may be heard. Let the conservative
voice Of New York have vent, and the country
will be saved. EaN
Our Historic Developemsat-shani IL be
Superseded by = War OF Races:
The political Issue that il now before the
country is q far more momentous one than has
ever before been presented here, and the con-
sequences flowing from its decision will affect
our historic development for ages to come, II
they do not establish an early period to our ex-
istence as q nation.
Party divisions among us have hitherto been
based on questions of policy in government
but without departing from the great principle
of the rightful preponderance of the white
race. Thus, in the first division of parties after
the establishment of the constitution, the lines
of the federal and republican organizations
were drawn on the great question of a stronger
orweaker form of federal government involving
the right of controlling personal liberty, the
freedom Of the press, and other questions OF
similar character. which marked our legis-
lation and political agitation during the
closing years OF the last century This
was succeeded by party divisions on
the question of a second war with England
in defence of our rights on the ocean and the
patriotic sacrifices the war party then led the
country to make in the face of the bitter oppo-
sition of " the Massachusetts, school were the
foundations of our present commercial glory.
After this came the great division under Jack
son, on the questions of bank, tariff and inter
nal improvements by the general government.
All of these questions were discussed with par
tisan bitterness, but in them the doubt of the
right of the white man to rule never entered.
The only party division that exists to-day,
aside from the chickering's of selfish and unscru-
pulous leaders, who are each endeavoring, with
their petty cookie boats to gather the fragments
that are floating upon the tide of party revolu-
ton, involves far deeper and older question
than any that has previously been discussed
among us during our national career. The is
sue that Is presented by the black republican
party involves the whole question of our social
and national existence. Black republicanism,
founded on and animated by the anti slavery
idea, and pursuing an exaggerated notion of
individual rights, involves not only an attempt
to equalize dissimilar and discordant races in
their social and political immunities, but also
the most des.s:cc..;S .aeo,ies in regard to the
organization of society. Socialism in its worst
form, including the most advanced theories of
women's rights, the division of land, free love
and the exaltation of the desires of the indi-
vidual over the rights of the family, and the
forced equality of all men in pha!ansteries, or
similar organizations, are part of the logical
chain of ideas that fow from the anti-slavery
theory which forms the soul of black republi-
canism.
This anti-slavery idea aims to establish new
social policy in this countryside policy Of an
equalization Of the white and black races which
has never produced anything but bloodshed in
other parts Of the world, and which can only
result in the subjugation or destruction of the
numerically weaker race There is no possibi-
lity Of the black and the white existing harmo-
niously together In social and political equality
Even the blacks and mulattoes cannot do il.
We have pregnant examples Of this truth in the
bloody history of Hayti and the Dominican re-
public; in the scenes that have been witnessed
wherever European colonizationh has been estab-
hshed in Africa; in the events now passing
in every Spanish.Am republic within the
tropics, and even among ourselves, In the popu-
lar feeling In the southern counties of the free
States bordering on those holding slaves. II Is
then the question Of revolution in our social
organization that the black republicans present
to the people-a revolution that brings with II
q perpetual war Of races, which must endure.
when once inaugurated, until the blacks now on
this continent have been swept from the face Of
the earth. With the abolition Of slavery in the
Northern States, the negroes that once existed
among us in family servitude have been almost
exterminated. The paucity of their numbers
prevented their presenting any resistance to this
social determination and the same reason ap-
plies to the fact that the loss Of their labor was
not felt to any great degree by the material in
terests OF the community
But this does not and cannot apply to the
Southern States. where four millions Of blacks
are now held In position of social subsection,
which contributes to their own moral and mate.
rial welfare and 10 that of the whole commu-
nifty in which they exist. The triumph Of the
anti slavery sentiment. through the election
Of Lincoln to the Presidency, will initiate so
cial revolution among US which will require
generations, and perhaps centuries for its con-
summation If we exist through Il so long. Such
a war Of races viii absorb all the powers Of our
society, diverting them from the prosecution Of