The New York herald., 1860-09-10
The Reign OF Tsrror-The Dsty Of New
York.

their appearance, and are highly instructive.
These manifestoes, which fairly represent the
rank and file Of the party, are recent speech
Of W. H. Seward, an editorial article from
the New York Times, and another from the
New York Tribune, the leading newspaper
organs of the republicans, as Seward is their
foremost statesman, their prophet priest and
guide.
These deliberate expressions Of sentiment are
the programme Of the drama By the author
himself, and by the chief actors, who have their
parts already assigned to them. The perform
ance Is to be a reign Of terror. 1t has
been carried already into the South.
The Times calls it " terrorism in Texas,' and
the Tribune describes II az Texas in terror"
The Times says:-"As long a. slavery exists,
and wherever it exists, there will be de-
signing and indefatigable abolitcuists and
suspicious and egcitAble masters, and
social organization which can only be saved
by fits Of anarchy and bloodshed and mob
Law every four years Is not worth saving"
TIE foregone conclusion is, of course, to get rid
Of what il not worth saving. The Tribune,
plainly. II says There Ia one state Of So
cie'y-one state Of suppressed war-which,
when II breaks out into open hostility, may
bring with II consequences with which nc other
warfare Ii ever followed" What the sup
pressed war Ia, which Is TO break out Into open
hostility, another part of the article leaves no
doubt. "It Ia dangerous adds the Tribune,
playing with such az edged tool as servile
insurrecton. They would then find,
too late. ,ha, they have really kindled con
suning fre which they cannot 80 easily extin-
guish, and raised hands by thousands which
viii rot walt fer arms 70 commence the cruel
and ffightful work of servile war" There
l. no mls,aking such language as this, nor the
following from the same pen;-"Slsves, who
may tonight acting with one common purpose,
carrying out long cherished design, under
the lea Of those among them who are most in
telllgent, most cunning, and also most cruel
wreak their long Pent up vengeance or mortal
foes"
All this l. only IN perfect unison with the key
note In the speech Of Mr.. Seward, who declares
that bis policy is not to prevent the extension
Of slavery in the Territories, but to decrease
and diminish II in all the States" till, In the
words ofLincoln at Springfield, he has accom-
plished Its ultimate extinction" "This," says
Mr.. Seward, sis the whole question. II am
wrong, then am egregiously wrong" Here
Is straightforward declaration Of princi-
plies and policy, and we regret to say 1t Is not
yet met on the other side By corresponding
boldness. Mr.. Seward shows In his speech that
the South viii be an easy prey Of the republi-
can party. when they ge, into power; that the
Southern States are In such q condi-
ton that handful or men can, at
any time, raise @ domestic insgrrection
which cannot be quenched; and that at this
moment every Southern State, as well as Texas
now, and Virginia last fall, il In terror Of an ap
preaching bloody revolution. In the same
strain sing the Tribune and the Tines. II is the
very burden Of their song. In the exaltaton
Of anticipated victory Ii the Presidential elec-
tion, they already exult over the South as q
PROSTATE foe, and tell Il that II may "a well
quietly submit 10 Its doom, and surrender &c
destruction itself and It's institution, which II
cannot save
Nor i the means left doubtful ty which tais
devoutly wished for consamma,ion Ia to be at
tanned. In Helpers book, endorsed By all the
republican members CT Congress, including
Mr.. Seward the reign os terror, TIE torch Of
the inceDdiary, Gre AMI sword, . servile insur-
rection Of the blacks, headed by the non-slave-
holding Southern whites reinforce by Northern
a. Ill ~. ~.
the planters In the even, OF their refusing to
submit peacefully 10 be despoiled. The mode
Of doing the business without bloodshed 10 un-
folded In the work Of Spooner, the other grea,
handbook Of republioanisn. Its plsr Is to free
the Southern slaves By habeas corpus, SUP
ported By the whole power Of the army aud
navy; and II the army and navy will not do their
duty, then, as Mr.. Seward intimA.es, they must
be abolished, and their place supplied by the
republican militia Of the North and the Wide
Awakes-a military organization within the re-
publican party, who are fully In the secret Of the
political leaders, and who wear Uniform and drill
at prvsent with o torch, for which musket l.
to be substituted hereafter, when they march 10
Washington TO enforce the Inauguration Of the
republican President, and perform other ser
vice for which II seems the regular troops can.
not be trusted. Mr.. Seward says be considers
| IL bis duty as q patriot to refuse TO wiring
money from the freemen Of the United States
to sustain the army and navy, which are nov, in
their very influence corruptng public virtue
Here, then, Is full Development OF the idea
Of the irrepressible conflict" against slave la
Dor wherever II exists, which was proclaimed
two years ago both by Seward and Lincoln;
and let no moderate conservative republican,
who is only wanted By the revolGtionist to
swell their vote, but Is really despised by them,
lay the fattering uneton to BIZ soul that the
design Of the party Is to prevent the extension