New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-06-17
CONSCIENCE


The CALL.-ll ever there was time when
an The best feelings az the human heart were appealed
o. IN order 20 sustain the right this j. d, vast ma J
r 0i the old Whig party OF Massachusetts, know, a.
vel a. they know anything that this transfer OF them
selves % man who hcp' l-ht battles n order to nil
keephi- TWO hundred slaves Jon under biz unr ght1u
power is not the thing which as Christians ami ~ eI
they ought 20 sanction They know % what lcugtns w
party they have pledged themselye- 10 maintain r.
distance ~ this atr0cOus policy of War and slavery
Are they going 20 swallow al their professions Ar,
they going 10 do the very thing which ia l-44 they
blamed Democrats for doing without one word %. re
-istance We know them TOO well % believe 70.
Then look TOR a moment al the way it was brought
about a perfect game of fast and loose. First, Gen
Taylor wa not WhiE-tEeu he was moderate sort o
"a NMQ Next be would tike Wing nOmicatiOn7 bu
then on the other hand he would take LocoFo ones
Then. be under pledges but then. again. be
was In the hands OF his friends, who might say eno
DO for him just what they pleased.
Thus ha been that boz has been held over the heads
the Wing Convention. II not nominated he would have
run % an independent candidate. H. on the contrary
-urc Of nomination. bis friends would abide by The DE-
csion OF the Convention 10 was heads, WIN. tails
YOU lose. and al done for the sake OF saving slavery
Tour ycst longer This The sum and substance % Oh,
plot The slave power concentrates upon Cen Iaj oi
as he best protector.
But IL win not avail Against the steady advance Of
great moral power Gen. Taylor has mo- kin 10 sav'
bis friends. he may bee the instrument FOR blasting
many regulations OF individuals who have shown iht
viii 10 eel the rec States 20 h.m .ut Ae cannot Pee
vent the spread Of the food which vii before Ion
wash Slavery away from the high place. o tue cilllzc,
world. There is a viii and determination abroad
which il stopped at this day by anything short
success
We pity the course Of argument adopted by the Fay
Tor party 30 far as have seen t. II is me last ~
-ource Of men seeking for power AZ any cost u they
get H. they win md Themselves welding barren scep
ter u not where viii they BE- IN the words opinion "a.
well ~ iu their own
On the other hand what glorious field s open 10 tll
ardent and aspiring youth il be- viii now throw himself
ardently into the Of .sht Tho only regulations
that have been raised in the civil affairs OF the Union
during the last two years have been raised by the OPP
ponents OF Slavery. The new school OF policiins arr
a OF that side Nobody fail 10 per GIVE the public
-ympathy more and more warming toward them
Thomas C0rwin made the only ad, ance IN the Senate
that wa. made lat year that he had bad the cour
axe % follow in the path And john p. Hale ha, con
ccutrated more sympathy upon himself this Winter
than any one else John Van Buren, is the most proni
in1 politician in New York a the present moment AMI Z
he only keeps steady and irm. without iaterl5 AMI
trading paterng aud equivocating be VIII before long
guide the political fortunes OF that great state.
The Democratic Organization j. IN the last stage ODD
decny Vitality has gone OF TO- and the com u
election Will probably destroy i utterly. The move
ment is elsewhere and f the party wishes % revive
must come back % 10 again. The Ltomtaole VIII can
carry everything before IT, That VII now exists only
in two part es 10 the United States The one the slave
holding psrty-the other the party Of freedom Here
is the only issue.
CHOOSE YE WHICH w WILL srRyE.
L.U