The Texas Republican

SPEECH OF W. H. SEWARD

The New York Tribune contains a speech made by W. H. Seward, at Rochester, N. Y., on the 20th of October. We do not think any Southern man could read this production without feeling the obligation imposed upon him by patriotism to ally himself with the democratic party. Mr. Seward, after explaining what he conceives to be the designs of the proslavery party, and inveighing very bitterly against the Dred Scott decision, says:

How then, and in what way, shall the necessary resistance be made? The republican party must be permanently dislodged from the government. There is only one way. The democratic party must be placed in power, and the reason the democrats the democratic party is inseparably committed to the designs of the slaveholders which I have described.

He then proceeds to say:

The very constitution of the democratic party commits it to execute all the designs of the slaveholders whatever they may be. It is not a party of the whole nation, of all the free states and of all the slave states; but it is a sectional party, having its seat within the slave states, and controlled by their votes national and local party. Counting its constituency chiefly and almost exclusively there. Of all its representatives in Congress and in the electoral college, two thirds uniformly come from the slave states. Its great leader it of strength lies in the vote of the slave holders augmented by the representation for the slaves. In other words, it is a party of the southern section, made by the constitution of those latitudes the dominant section, and so far as that section is concerned, it is a consolidated and permanent organization. The democratic party being thus founded and sectional, acquires its strength from the admission of every new slave state, and is relatively diminished by the admission of every new free state into the Union. A party which sympathizes with the actors in such a tragedy as I have described, must itself be a tragedy.

The slaveholders contributing as an overwhelming proportion to the capital strength of the democratic party, the party they nearly dictate and control its policy. Of the inevitable conflict of the system masters them to do within the District of Columbia and elsewhere. It is not possible to conceive for me to forget that the free state party alone determined the fate of the slaveholders or would then be a withdrawal of the south if which would lay the minority open to the charge of treason.

The portion of the party which is from the north at some moment up passage erect to truly its national character with or impairs its sectional constitution and lessens its absolute great at the center as in detail municipal the appointed the high grandparents continue color of the the other from cin d climate I e th D cratic paiy botrdt vty ad fav Erolom i as Smarrasalh o to k 4 Pratestant Mad draries 1o th Iath He Propegatda t Rane The Iatay at the Demarrathe party commylanl rilt thei didtti at n other agete wha t has cartiI that pe diy ap bo ats prost adamion ohiation Wthout staggpntig to aeitaih, eritis sthy the ot ma Cooheede ie clam t date Irm th en of o of fe litng whuch aourred an Ie th Admiuiatratioh d Prslde nt Mn rO A that timih this tate and thoat that timr in maby others of the Irrr Statee the Demearatie party delit erately disfratebi ed the fher cobored n Areah cifize h, aned it has pertmmetonahy atiaed ths dsfranehise rent ver sihce Thbs wa ah cfhetiveaid to slay i. for while the shaveholder votes tor his slaves agiinst Freedotn. the Ird slare in the Inee states, is prohubated in voting againet slavery In Is21 the Peaercraey rejated the eleetiop of Johm Qoin Adams himmIf hefo that time an acceptalle Pen chat-and th Iss it elleI him fro, th Presidemey and pnt a slayclolder in his place. al thongh the otlice had Lech filled hy slay holders thiriy twa ont of forty years In Isan Martin Von Burch the trst noh daveloldig citizen ol a Fece State 1 whse cheetlon the Phemoeratie cparts evct cenent dsignalized his inatign ration unto the Presidehey by a gratn toats annoucetent that utder to cit calstatces would he cver approve a ball for abohishing Slavery i the Dhistriet of Colungbia and tn the Nattonal dock vands atd arscnals was brotght before Congres by repeated popular appeals The Pemocratie paity therempoh probmpt Iy denied the right of petitoh and ethee taally suppresed the freolom of specch in tongress, as Lar ds the institution of shavrty was cohcemed From 1s4o to 1s43. good and wise men coabscled tht Iexas shoabd remain ontside ot the Uaioh until she should consent to relinguish her seIfinstituted -lavery bat the De mosTatle party pre ouputated her admission into the Union not only witiont that condtien. bnt even with a cotehant that thestate might be divsded and reorgamzed so as to con stitute Iour Slave States ihstead of ohe In Is4d. when the Umited States be came iayolved in a war with Mexies and it was apparent that the struggl Wogld chd in the dismemberment of that Repablte. which was a non slavcholding power. the Democratie party rejected a declaratioh that -lavciy shauld not be established within the Territory to be aoquired When in Is5o. goverments were to be Instituted ih the Territores of Californa and New Me xico, the fruits of that war. the Phemocratie party te fused to admit New Mexieo as a free state. and only cohseuted to admit Cal fornia as a frce State oh the condition, as it has since cxplanaed the transactioh of leaying all of New-Mexteo and Ttah open to Slavery, to which was also added the concessaeh of perpetaal slavery Ih the Distriet of Columbin, ahd the pas- sage of an unconstitutional, cruel and humiliating law. for the recapture of fu gitiye slaves with a further stipulation that the subjeet of slavery should never again be agitated ih either chamber ot Congress. When in Is34, the slavehol ders wer Contcutedly reposing on these great advantages, then so recently won. the Democratie party unnecessarily, ofli ciously and with superserviceable libe rality, awakod them frot their slumber. to offer and force on their acceptance, the abrogatioa of the law which declared that heither Slavery nor involuntary ser vitude should ever exist within that part of the ahcient tcrritory of Louisiana, which lay outside of the State of Mis. souri and north of the parallel of 36 deg JWo min ol megth Iotitue a Jaw whtel with the exception of ohe other, was the only statute ot Frecdom then remaining in the Federal code had organized a new state within the region thus abandoned to Slavery, and apphed to be admitted as a Free State into the Union, the Democratie party contemptuously rejected thelr petition and drove them with menaces and inti midations from the Halls of Congress and armed the President with military power to clfotce their submission to a slave code, established over them by fraud and usurpati At every sub- sequent stage of u shg contest which has since raged inr Kansas, the Democra- tic party has lent Is sympathes. its ard. atd all the powers of the Goyernment whuch it controlled to cnforee Slavery upon that uhwilling and mjured people Is with the asstrance that Kahsas is And how even at this day, while it mocks free, the Pemisratue party keeps the state exeluded from her pust and proper place in the Union, uhder the hope that she may be dragooned mnto the accep tatce of slavery The Democratie party finally has procured frem a Supreme Jndiciary. fixed in ths thterest a deeree that slavery ex ists by forer of the Constitution in every Ierritory of the United states, para mount to all legislative satherity cither withih the Territory or residuhg in Con gTCSS Such is the Democ ratic purty It Ias npobey. State on Foderal for tin ahce, of trade of mahufas tore of com metce, of education of interhal improve tenls or for th piotectiod of even th secmnty of civlor religiens lberty It is pitie ad uhempfomisihginthe intere sl od slavery -megative, compron tsing aind vascdllating in regand toevery thang cise It boasts its loye of equal ty and wastes its strehigth and evch its life tn fortilying the only actstocray known i the Land It prodesses fratet mily, and o often as slavery requires. allhies ssel with pioscrpton It mag Inlies itaait for comquests in foreign lands bat it sends the national eagh forth alnaye with habs a not the olive brahsh in his fangs M. s wand is the acknowle Iged lead tr of the frreeid party ahd a man of peaerfnl intellet It is to him mainly that that paity Ikes for cansel The spectes ol invective which pervade s this qaech bot a reth a of the maleyolent hatred which atolitionism cherishes to wands the Petn ratio patty so bagas that pariy stands they fead that thit as cnlts up d the catitution atd the Iait an foweths for mtechiet Ihut let it be de feated and overthpown and the s uth will te dapelled to sabmit humiliatinn. of serk refnge ont of tha Lntad I tells hia talbawen plainhy that the tinat thig matenthy diabde th o catn gafs fran the ontmal d th 6 ocnment 1 til that tringhent they ights a th ath an afeIhe that hath oes to hear le him her