The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-14

the democratic Senators comes entirely from
incompetency on their part. There ID an
other cause for It, and 1t IL q pro
life cause Of public evil In and out
of Congress. Very many Of them, u
not all, are their own self-elected and
selfsufacient candidates for the Presidency,
and as such each strives to become the head Of
some political school within the pale Of the
party, in order to be admitted as leader, and
to prepare the way for his nomination. Hence
the curious exhibitions of metaphysical logic,
which mean nothing, amount to nothing, and
do no good whatever-not even to the candi-
dates themselves. If some power would give
them the gift that the poet asked for, to see
themselves as others see them, they would soon
give up the foolish antics they now cut under
the belief that they are making an impression
upon the country and the Charleston Conven-
ton.
The great issue that is to be fought over has
been stated over and over again by the repub-
lican leaders and orators Seward proclaimed
it at Rochester eighteen months since; Helper
printed it, and sixty-eight republican members
of Congress endorsed it year since; John
Brown practised it, and has become the martyr
and saint of the party. Theodore Parker
postulated it, and Wendell Phillips and Joshua
R. Giddings are now preaching it, and
will continue to preach it until the
November elections have taken place.
Senator Wilson, one of the most elo.
quent stump speakers the black repub-
lican party possesses, whose master was
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, and whose preacher is
Theodore Parker, has stated it distinctly on
the floor of the Senate within the past three
weeks. We give in another column several
extracts from recent speech of his. He states
the question squarely in his opening. The con-
test is with slavery; it is moral evil, q deadly
sin, covenant with hell; it is growing strong,
and must be weakened; it is extending, and
must be restricted; it is living, and must be
killed. Taking advantage of the arms fur
nished him by the metaphysical distinctions of
democratic Senators, he winds up his perora-
ton with fling at the extension of slavery,
not directly at its existence. But neither the
SuDtle ART OF NllSOn, nor tne IOOllSn aD-
stractions of Douglas, Jefferson Davis and
other ambitious democrats, can change the
issue. If the republicans elect their President
the constitution is to be interpreted as an anti
slavery instrument, and to be administered as
an abolition compact. The army and navy of
the United States are to be used for the work
begun with John Browns pixies.
This is revolution. This is civil war. This
is the destruction of the principle of self
and the proclamation that small
part shall govern the whole. This is the inau.
,uration of the reign of fanaticism and frenzy.
It will sweep over this Union like a whirl-
wind over a prairie on fire, scattering flames
and bloodshed in every quarter, destroying
in the North as we'll as the South, and
breaking up every bond of the Union, every
family tie, every hope of leaving our present
inheritance to our children. Let the demo-
cratic Senators and the party look the evil and
the danger square in the face, and, throwing
overheard such foolish hairsplitters as Douglas
and Davis, take up the defence of the conser-
vative cause and save the country from the
ruin in which the revolutionary black repub-
licans would involve it.