New-York daily tribune., 1844-02-08

Foco Press less observed by the South is prepar
ing to wage the battle: (The Italics and capitals
are lust as we find them in the Democrats
Editorial)
Be remembered That HENRY M au Clay hs Ho + farmer nS
~ n ss s H 5sH Hp0M
and he toll and sweat ihis sLaIEs enables 6n
Sa 1 'iy iss 1sai continued scene 0
Here is one truth stated-to wit, that Mr.. Clay
holds slaves-and on the strength of tthe abom-
Unable lies about 'the sound of the lash,' gam
bling debauchery,' &c. are imposed on the La
boring People of New Hampshire, to make them
hate and abhor Mr.. Clay. Is this the way to pre-
serve the Union Suppose Mr.. Calhoun, or
some other Southern man, shall be the candi-
date of the Loco-Focos in l848, with what
face will the Democrat advocate his election?
How will it meet it's own paragraphs p
These are questions which transcend all per-
sonal and even party considerations; they touch
the very vitals of our Federal Union. If no.
bic and lofty Statesman can be hunted down on
such grounds as these, is not the Union already
In essence dissolved? How shall we ask the
South to support Northern man for President,
or to submit to the rule Of one, if the bare fact
that candidate is a Southern man is to subject
him to such foul imputations as these and to ex-
cluson from the honors of the Republic?
Rejecting, patriotic men must answer these
questions They cannot be put aside by any
declamations against Slavery. We are as decid-
edly opposed to Slavery as any of those who are
now raising clamor against it to defeat Mr..
Clay; we have never been any thing else than
Anti-Slavery, either in word or deed; but we
know that Slavery is to be abolished only by the
consent of the South-that this consent must be
based on and preceded by conpiction-and that
convection is not to be produced by denunclatlon
or prescription Mr.. Clay is indeed a slave
holder-we wish he were not ; and yet we would
not have him take any new position now which
would subject his motives to impeachment or
misconstructon. The world knows that ne re-
soutely opposed the establishment OF Slavery m
Kentucky that, while he afterward conforiiieo
To the institutions Of his State, he has since re-
peatedly expressed his deep conviction that Sla-
very is evil and curse, and his earnest desire
that it might be extingtiished. Yet he is not and
cannot he an Aboltionist, In the modern sense of
the term he recognizes no eight in the People of
the Northern States to drive the South on this
subject, either by the direct force of law or by
the less manly but equally unjustifiable and in
essence unconstitutional mode of prescription
snd ostracism from the public service and the
honors of the Republic 1t is possible, as we
have long dreaded, that some OF the less reflect
ing People of the North may, by such articles as
that OF the Democrat, be impelled to vote against
HIM on account of Slavery but it is not right TO
do SO, and the leaders who induce them to it, by
such foul ISLANDERS as that above quoted, do wrong
TO hum and the Country as well as retard the
cause OF Emancipation.
The real issue to be decided in the coming
PRESIDENTIAL contest is simply" Shall the policy
and measures advocated by the Wings or those
of the Loco Focos prevail?" This is the oues.
tlon, and there are just two sides to If. He who
votes against Mr.. Clay on account of Slavery
accomplishes nothing for Emancipation, but vir.
1ualiy or directly aids in restoring the Van Buren,
dynasty to power, with their Sub Treasury finance
and their no policy or bad policy respecting the
Protection Of Industry. Any man can see the
aosurdlty of this course if tested by another illus
ration: for instance, the mass of the People oi
tms City are voting the question, Shall we
DANISH our pestlent grog-shops and thus rid the
1"y OF the woes of Intemperance majority
oi hve hundred in forty thousand, we viii sup
pose, are IN favor of the Reform; but twentieth
part OF the majority take the crotchet into then
mat they can vote for no other than avowee
''ohs'S, ,;aa. and SO they separate Abolition
1,eNe'' aho' throwing away their thousand votes
.a.a uaii prevails, Now i, would be idle for hi,
a'.n 10 say to their fellow Temperance ,,,s,,
90 might have voted with US in Opposition a,,',, :,