Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-10-23
Letter from New York.
| Correspondence IF the Richmond Enquirer
New YORK, Oct 18th, 1850.

New YORK, Oct 1oln, Iooo.
Som people consider Seward crazy. he has
made speeches ut the Northwest Whlch no
sane man would be thought capable OF doing.
The chief method in his madness, however,
consists in his malignant hatred OF the South,
md false representations Of it, in everything.
These appear in every speech, and never desert
Him. Ills miserable devotees and blind follow
ers call him q great statesman! And this, too,
in the face of the fact, that during his whole
life he never originated a single measure, or
carried through Il single public act OF ilnpor-
lance, or one which has benefited his W
State, or the States at large. His whole bust
ness has been sowing the seeds and nursing
the embcrs of discord between the North anu
South. lie tries to ALLEVIATE the North, by tell
ing its laborers, in its ship.yards, factories,
and on Western farms, who draw their CHIEF
support from the products of African labor AT
the South, where they cannot live and work,
that they arc deeply injured by African labor,
and that they should do all they could TO over
throw it-and for such reasonable work ne Is
called (God save the mark q statesman ohe'
too, who is to direct the destinies Of the couh-
try, should Lincoln succeed. AT Il recent
speech, made at Lacross, the ioiiominS PaSsaSe
occurs. He was received ny "luc A"aAc
| CluD. WHO'LL he lQQTcSSCu 90
"Hcexpresscd his qualification at the strength
of this Wide Awake organization, ana said II
was possible their services might not cease WIN
the election. They had heard Tor two months
Of the last session Of Congress nh lnccSsant
boastinr as to what the South would do in case
of q Republican triumph in the Presidential
election. That contingency was now 4 certain
IT,. and though he did not apprehend there
would be any effort made to carry out these
threats, vet If any effort should be made, this
Wide Awake organization would be found
mighty convenient in sitting and crushing out
any attempt to overthrow the government.
1t il the first time in the history of the coun,
try that a political party has ever organized
military forces, to be used to enforce It's sec
| tional measures. 1t is q yankee element oil the
North and West, 10 crush out the South. Tie
goes on to say:
GLOW much more gratifying it is for us TO
find, in everything We see and hear, abundant
evidences that we are, after all, not separate
and distinct peoplcs-not distinct peoples OIL
Iowa, Wisconsin, New York and Massachu-
sets, but that we are one peoplc-irom ny
mouth Rock, at least, 10 the banks OF the Mis-
sissippi and to the foot Of the Rocky Noun
tains. It is an assurance that enables us 10
trample under our feet every menace, every
threat Of disunion, every alarm and apprehcn-
sion of the Acknowledgement Of this great en-
pirc."
He dcnounccs slavery and the slave trade, ms
4 co. partncrship Of thirty.three States, fifteen of
which delight in the slave trade, and eighteen
of which dislike and repudiate the slave trade,
and prefer the hiring and compensation OF Tree
laborers. Wemay call slavery by gentle names
or modest terms, but slavery is nothing less
than the trade in slaves, for it makes merchnTi'
disc of the bodies and souls OF men,
The rights of the South in slaves as proper
" arc TO cease when they come into the
Union. But when it comes 10 the Federal
Union the Union which is the government
over us all-their rights to trade in slaves in
the Territories Of the United States has ceased,
because the Constitution is q constitution TO
establish Justice, not injustice; to maintain
peace not by force, but by the consent OF the
governed, and to perpetuate, not the curse OF
slavery, but the blessings of liberty to our
selves and to our p~osterity forever. This
| Union is this nation-is this empire OF thirty
millions of people. 1t is not made for trade,
much less for trade in the bodies and souls OF
men,"
What Massachusetts and other free States
WoulQ 10 II one oT iioIc 0ou'i'Si" 49, 49,
coded:
"If they 20 out they go out for n cause, and
that cause is to save slavery. We'll, what are they
in for, but to have slavery saved for them by the
Federal Union? Why would they 50 out, for
they could not maintain and defend themselves
against their " slaves: We would see them
march up, one after another, under the black
| flag, ,ralnpling under foot, those stars and
stripes of our Union.
II think they would fold their arms and see
whether they behaved themselves, and they
would let them stay out Just rs long as they be-
lavei themselves. We'll, what would they do
if they got out and did not behave themselves?
If New York should levy taxes and itnposts,
and instead Of paying them into the national
cxche1uer should keep them on her own ac'
count, that would not he b~eha"ing we'll.
He says that n test Of their good behavior
would he their willingness, while ont Of the
Union, to pay tribute under Il protective tariff,
which, should they refuse TO do, would justify
coercion on the part Of tho free States. The
idea is new, that they were, If out, to depend
upon Massachusetts and other free States for
the character of their department. What nm
mi,igated nonsense!
The reporter adds the following at the close
Of his speech:
awhile in Milwaukee u deputation FROM Gin
cinnati waited upon him, and invited him TO
visit that city. lie declined, on the ground
that when he was about to speak there on n
former occasion he was not 10 DC permitted to
speak in favor of human freedom. The depu.
tation represented that that day had passed,
and that he might now speak whatever he
chose to SAY in Cincinnati. 1t lid not move
him. lie thought Cincinnati just as bad as
New York. But said he, 'f the people OF
New York will not listen to my speeches, they
will have to read them, or else fOrego the
newspapers. The people of Cincinnati can do
the same.
Here we have q man, Il Senator from New
York, abusing and condeming 4 city which
should, with its commerc preaching to every
State and to every part Of the world, be cherlshed
and promoted by every consideration OF State
bride. put under the banns of traitorous sec
tionaljsm. because its people do not drive
Southern trade from their doors and fall down
with abolitionists in politics, and worship the
eternal "nigger."
This city and its vicinity, which contains
near about one.third Of the population OF the
whole State, and possesses moro than onc-lnis
the taxable property of the State, is to be VIC
tlmizcd by Seward and his New England fol-
lowers, in the interior. This city has more
friends and admirers, for its growth and enter
prise, at the South, than it has at Albany.
The present census will, no doubt, demon,
strate what the previous one Of 1850 did, that
the chief increase in wealth and population in
this State will be found in this city and its adj
~jaccnt neighborhoods, while the population in
the Gcnnesec Valley and other parts Of the
interior, will show n decrease Why is this
so? Because New York is a national city, and
not sectional, and is also the great commercial
centre for the vast planting States of the South,
where exchanges are effected and goods are IN
ported for distribution over the South, while its
shipping is employed in the Southern carrying
trade.
One single vessel, the Robert Dixey," was