The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-20

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tionary Aims or she Back Republicans
Proved.
The approaching election in Connecticut is
one of the most important State elections that
has ever been held, for it is the preliminary
skrDish to battle which must soon rage
Union, on the greatest issue of the age and Of
the world.
What is this issue that carries such vast re.
suits with it, and what are these results? The
prelminaries of its advent may be seen scat
tered over the past, in the divided churches of
the land, the broken and disorganized political
parties. the increasing fanaticsm of their
preachers and leaders, and now in Connecticut,
in the symptoms of its invasion of the CONNER
cial relations of manufacturing industry with
the great Southern marts. 1t is the issue Of the
invasion and abolition of the labor system Of
the South, the destruction Of one-half of the
States of this Union, carrying with 1t the anal
hilalon of one-half Of our national or
ganization, of more than one-half Of
our contributions to the material wants
of the civilized world, of the immense
market which that portion of the Union pro-
vides for the products of Northern industry, of
our commercial relations between North and
South, America and Europe, the New and the
Old World, and, over and above all, demon
strating the failure of free institutions, in the
fact that a rich, active, thriving and happy
people, possessing and intoxicating the right of
selfgovernment in its highest form, are not ex-
empt from the ia natical rage of imposing their
social theories and political forms upon other
and unwilling communities.
This is the issue proclaimed and urged by
the black republican party of the present day.
1t is yelled and disguised for while, because
the people must be led step by step to the ad.
vocacy of such ultra fanaticism, and the assur-
ance is given that the party only aims to secure
the unoccupied territory of the Union from the
extension of slavery. But it is truthfully set
forth in the brutal and bloody speech of
William II. Seward at Rochester, and the
same sentiments that are inculcated there
are found in one form or another run
ming through all the utterances of the
leaders, spokesman and affiliated orators and
preachers of the party, through all its litera-
ture and logic, for q number of years back.
Beginning at first cautiously, and denying any
coalition with the fanatical aboliionists, the
leaders have advanced step by step, till now
Seward, Wendell Phillips, Chase, Garrison,
Wilson, Parker, and all the other black repub-
Iican and abolition leaders, are in full COM
munion with each other, and many of their fol-
lowers mourn together over the fate of the
horse thief and fanatic John Brown. Little by
little the corners of the veil that hides their
llterior designs are being lifted, and in due time
he whole nefarious and revolutionary plot
will be exhibited, in an open attempt to destroy
he constitution, and to involve the whole
power of the federal government in war with
he South, and for the humiliation of the
South.
Seward and his eo-operators deny that their
designs have any similarity to those of John
Brown, and assert that they merely wish to
obtain their ends through constitutional
means. No. John Brown was merely
. fanatic madman, and went about obtain
ing his ends in an open and manifest
way, in which he not only risked his neck and
lost it, but defeated his hopes by showing at
once their object. William H. Stewards is
more subtle scheme, and safer to its operator.
We have it under his own hand and signature
that he aims first to obtain the party control of
Congress, and the possession of the executive
power Of the government; then he aims to re-
organize the federal courts with the powers of
the habeas corpus; then he will appoint to
these courts officers and judges of his peculiar
way of thinking; and then he will evoke the
whole force of the army and navy of the fede-
raj government, and the militia of the States, to
defend the issue of writs to bring into court
and liberate every slave.
These are the constitutional aims of Seward
and his black republican and abolition CO.
workers. Already the doctrine is proclaimed
that the constitution is an anti-slavery instru-
ment, and abundant for all these purposes; and
no man can close his eyes to the great
truth that its installation would be the opening
of civil war that would deluge this Union in
fraternal blood. The coming election in Con-
necticut is the preliminary skirmish of the
great fight involving this momentous issue.
Every mans interest, and the welfare of his
family, and the future of his children, are all
involved, and every man should bear his hand
in it. To day the contest is on the rupture of
the commercial relations, the last material link
Of brotherhood between the North and South,
and.to the preservation of these the fight should
be directed. Let the orators of Connecticut bring
the subject practically home to every mans
workshop, to every mans trade, and to every
mans profit and loss These are the interests
that move alike men, communities and States.
And let the merchants of New York see that
these orators have not to bear, with their own
purses, the expenses, as they will have to
bear the heat, the sweat, and the burthen of