The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-04

The Speech or Ex-Governor Foote-Loge"i
Results OF HIS Position and Action.
We published yesterday the speech OF e1-
Governor Foote, at Saratoga, on the political
questions and leaders Of the day As the
speaker and his policy for the present cam
paign constitute fair type OF the professional
politicians and their measures in the impending
crisis, an analysis of his character and position
will convey an instructive lesson to all
Mr.. Foote is q man Of mark. He has held
numerous Offices in the gift of the people,
ranging from the representation of district in
State Legislature up to the Governorship of
sovereign State, and from that to a seat in
the national Senate, the highest deliberative
body the world ever knew. He has lacked but
one short step--the limited one that intervenes
between the Senatorial seat and the Pre-.
sidency-of attaining the highest honor
that q nation of freemen can bestow.
His private and public career have
combined to give him wide prac.
teal acquaintance with the wants and
hopes of the country. Born in Virginia,
the State of great memories, he has filled
the duties Of citizen in Alabama, Mississippi,
California and Tennessee, and acquired by long
personal intercourse an extensive knowledge of
the Central, Northern, Eastern and Western
States. In bis public career he has taken part
in some of the greatest political contests that
this. country has witnessed, and is not without
honor for his deeds Such is the speaker. His
delineation, therefore, of the requirements of
the country, the present political divisions that
attend in given case, are not the echoes of
mere hearsay, but they are the fruit of wide
scene of practical observation.
Ripe from these labors, he comes into the
present contest as working politician. He
recognises the great fact that united and
combination Of the social prejudices, the mis-
led moral zeal, and the baneful reli-
gious fanaticism of the people of the
Northern States. His practice in states
manship, his knowledge of the different
sections of the confederacy, and the
findings Of his common sense, all warn him of
the dangers in which the triumph of such q
party must involve the highest and dearest in
terests of his fellow citizens and his country.
But If these were wanting, he has the acknow.
lodged aims of the leaders of that party. Lin
coin, its head and front to-day, proclaims the
social superiority of the North and that the
Union cannot exist between States half slave
and half free. Seward, Its master spirit, repeats
the announcement of the "irrepressible con-
Hict,' and vauntingly boasts that "where free
dom is there is my home" Spooner its law
giver, demonstrates with irrefutable logic, If
you accept his black republican premises, that
the constitution is an abolition instrument suf6-
cient for the utter destruction of the slave half
of our Union. Greeley, its mouthpiece, aaunt-
ingly announces his hatred of the social organi-
cation of the Southern States, and that he will
tabor for its eradication from our own and all
other countries 30 long as live" And these
revolutionary, destructive and atrocious senti-
ments, are repeated in the ears of Mr. Foote, and
before the whole country, by hundreds of
presses and speakers of the black republican
party
They are not lost upon him. He feels the
danger in every nerve, and in the speech we
have now before us he makes acknowledgment
of the convictions Of his practical experience in
these words
Much opposed some In the South to secession,
and though some Of them might inclined 70 protes
against the breaking up the Union in the of
Lncolns being elected, was his duty TO say, with his
hand his heart that Lincoln be elected ON the plat
form which he 10 running all the efforts OF all the
Union North and South would not be sufficient 10
prevent the destruction Of the confedcracy.
With this confession of his conviction of the
duty Of defeating the election Of Lincoln, with
the honors he won in the battle for the Union
in 1850 still hanging worthily upon him, what
is the practical tenor of Mr. Foote'S late speech
at Saratoga and his present labors as work
ing politician? They contain no word Of re-
buke for tks fanatics who would carry an ir
repressible conflict to the shedding of torrents
of fraternal blood nor one well directed effort
to the defeat of a candidate whose triumph he
believes to be 30 inimical to his countrys
good. 1t cannot escape his practised
eye that the conservative masses Of
the people outnumber by far the fana-
tics, zealots and fomentors of local pre-
JUDGE; and that If they are not d.
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they will not only cave the country from the
fate he deprecates, but will consign Northern
seetionalism and fanaticism to as deep grave
as that in which be helped to inter Southern
folly and disunionism ten years ago. Yet with
the Inevitable results Of division and pickering
among the conservative interests standing plain
to his view, he heaps abuse upon his fellow
conservatives, and counsels war to the hlt with
them, simply because they will not accept his
personal preferences in the selection Of their
candidate; and that, too, when the one he
would have them adopt has not q probable
chance of being supported by the electoral vote
OF one State in the Union.
Where, then, is the logical connection be-
tween the words and deeds Of Mr.. Foote-be-
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