Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-03-14
AND REVELATIONS OF
THE BLACK REP UBLICAN LEADERS.

, tiki BLACK Kill UbLlCAN bIAbhho'
The True Issue Avowed.
In their speeches at the screnade in Washing
ton, which we published exclusively yesterday,
the Black Republican leaders-PenninGton Sher-
man, Hickman and Grow-boldly ayow, amid
their Civilizations, that the true issue for which
they are contending, and which they hope trium-
phantly to carry, is the abolition of slavery and
the perpetuation of the Union by force.
Defeated in their pertinacious attempt to force
the endorscr Of lIeiper's treason into the Speak
ers chair, they changed their colors for moment,
and put forward more national man than them
selves for their standard bearer. Under the guise
of his conservatism they secured the defeat of the
conservative element in Congress but the sim
pie comparison Of the speech OF Pennington with
those OF Sherman, Hickman ana Grow, reveals
at once how grossly tho Speaker elect misiudges
the principles Of the party which has elected
him. or if he is not deceived, how great IL his
hypocrisy, aud how imminent the danger which
his professions are used to conceal. In these
speeches the Black Republicans confess to the
truth Of every charge that we have brought
social philosophy of Seward while affecting to
deny it. They acknowledge their identity of
principles with the ncendary and revolutionary
doctrines Of Helpers book, which both Sherman
and Grow had endorsed, while they brand him as
crazy fanatic" They sanction the raid Of
John Brown. in urging the conflict of which it is
part, and endeavor to smooth over the llarper's
Ferry affair as " nine days. wonder" In this
light expression, Mr.. Pennington shows how lit
tie he comprehends the conflict that is raging
around him
But there is in these exultant revelations of
the Black Republican leaders much matter of
grave import to every man in this country In
their general tone they are bitter from sense OF
partial defeat in the forced withdrawal of Sher-
man. This gentleman exults that in twelve hours
the evils which are foreseen as the result of q
Black Republican triumph have not been con-
summated then he exclaims that " we will beat
down their preudices,' and Immediately, ns if
fearing that he had confessed too much, announ-
ces that "we will do it with frmness and
love two qualities which have nothing in com
mon.
Mr.. Hickman is mora defiant. He clings to
the sectional conflict of eighteen Northern mil
lions against eight Southern millions of men,
proclaims the certainty of conquest by the North,
and announces his determination to " first hang
him as traitor - who in the North shall oppose
the brutal and bloody policy of his party. veri-
ly, the zeal of converts surpasses that Of the
old
Mr.. Grow is more philosophical, but more
to the point of the argument. lie procaims the
very essence Of abolitonism. According to his
exposition of the doctrines of the Black Repub-
lican party, they hold that all men, without dis
tinction, are entitled to their liberty that there
is now going on great conflict between two sys
TENS of labor, or, us Mr. Seward expresses it,
- an irrepressble conflict, in which slavery must
be extended over the fields Of New York and
Massachusetts, or free la Dor over the cotton,
sugar tobacco and rice fields of the slave States,'
and he claims that the Government shall WELD
it's power in behalf of free labor in the North
and the South.
Here we have the true issue that is to be can
vassed before the American people in the coming
Presidential election. 1t is the open proclama-
tion of crusade by the North against the exist.
ing order of things, the relations of society, and
the foundation Of ell values, in fifteen States of
this Union. Inc object is, to gain possession of
the Federal Administration. and the Legislative
powers of Congress, in order to prostitute them
to the brutal and bloody work of destruction,
preached by Phillips and Garrison, promulgated
by Seward, taught by the Helper book, endorsed
there by Sherman, Grow, and thirty-cght other
Black Republican members of the present Con-
gress,-practiced by John Brown, and expiated
by him upon the gallows' There is no evasion
of the great fact. In an unguarded moment,
walked from their sleep by midnight serenade, |
isolated, without consultation, and without con-
cert fresh from partial triumph obtained by
deception and the treason of Representative to
the highest interests of his constituency, in the
great commercial metropolis of the Union, these
Black Republican leaders proclaim their hopes
to gain possession of the Government, to abolish
slavery and to perpetuate the Union of the States
by force.
Let the peolpe ponder on the terrible conse-
quences which such conflict as this involves
the bitter feelings which it must awaken in the
North-the terror and struggles for self-pres-
esvation in the South--the diminution of trade-
the waning of industry-the unemployment of
labor-the depreciation of property-the destruc-
ton of credit, and the universal ruin of families
everywhere. The issue is before them. confirmed
by the exultant revelations Of the leaders of the
who would carry their brutal and bloody