New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-22
TIE F,-ChnrceiIor'- special Piendine.

rsnscious craving for notoriety who couid co'e'
hat nomination. But the Chancellor $ ou' ~ o'-0
lust now, for the FIRST time III quarter VI
,u~v. and he NAV as well as not earn orelSn
Nf;ss;, -; c.se of Casss election. SO be goes H.
T,ys. very proper that the Hunkers should
,,;,.a,s Exactly hini--very proper that be should
run for them-but bis attempt t. tnimo'srS lne
voters Of our State with regard to the : rec 9oi'
is.ue. /. highly improper, and cons'ralns Us 70
talk 20 him. The Chancellor IS not we oeheVe
much addicted 70 newspapers yet he cannot De
~ ionorant As not to remember the pledges gwen
bv his party in 1914 that Slavery should mot
,eould gain no advantage by the Annexation OF
Texas. He knows that an attempt was made by
Jobn p Hale in the winter succeeding % limit
Slavery t-ithin the territory called Texas, and
how IL was defeated and its author read out OF
the marty He knows that the attempt was re-
newed at the next session, this time with REGARD
70 territory likely 10 be acquired teyoHd Texas
and that the Proviso submitted by Wimot was
passed by the House but defeated ia the Senate.
He knows that Gen. Cass then protested to be
jealous friend Of this imperative Introduction Oh
Slavery in the new Territories presumptvely ac-
ouired. and loudly regretted that be was not al
forded an opportunity 10 vote for IT, though he
has since tursed square round and condemned as
unwise and unconstitutional the very ProWso
which he was then so eager to vote Tor. And ID
his private letter 20 r. s. Wilson Of Ann Arbor ne
gves confdentialy his reasons for backing water
ON this question, VIZ that the South would bolt re-
volt. stop the supplies crush the War, and defeat
anv accession OF Territory, causing death to the
War. the Administration and the Democratic party,
if the Wilmot Proviso should be carried. tie
knows how the State Convention Of his party last
year refused 70 pass resolution simply c'arins
that while the Democracy Of THIS state would
respect and fulfil all the Compromises Of the Con-
s,ituton, it must resoutely oppose any Extension
Of Slavery He knows what a desperate effort
was IN ade last winter 20 press Compromise biii
through COnTess-an attempt which succeeded
IN the Senate but failed in the House-and ho"
this was followed by a struggle to engrait The
Missouri Compromise line on the Oregon bill-an
attempt only defeated by the imness OF the House
or rather by the gathering Of the Buffalo Conven'
ton. He mast have read the arguments OF Cal
houn Butler Foote &c. against any Introduction
of Slavery at least South Of SO j0, and their
threats that the South would plant Slavery there
aw or no law. On both sides this was treated IN
Congress as a practical momentous, hesh and
blood question wherever the Chanccllors com
patriots Dickinson, Brdsall Co. voted with the
south and IN favor of extending Slavery. Surely,
the advocates of such Extension never dreamed
that they were contending for a shadow fancy
"a worthless abstraction. Would such ardent
patriots have threatened TO paralyze war they
had often pronounced righteous aud necessary for
a mere punctilio
But saws the Chancellor Slavery can never get
Itself established in the New Territories, IN the
absence Of any legislation on the subject. Indeed
Is Saul also among the prophets Have we not
seen Slavery established in Texas not only with
out law, but against an express, peremPtory sta
tutc DO we not all See that the line OF the Jefer-
sonian Ordinance aud Missouri Resolution bounds
to this day and henceiorth the rival domains
Of Freedom and Slavery Just so far as Con-
gress has forbidden Slavery there the Soil is Free
the moment you touch the line below which Sa-
very is tolerated, there you have Slavery
How does he know that the Future will be utterly
unlike aud antagonist 10 the Past
But the Chancellor is contradictcd aud coniuted
| by his own candidate for President Gen. Cas- la
his Nicholson letter argues the whole question with
a manifest consciousness that Slavery rW be eX
| tended and dhused in the New Territories IN the
absence of any express prohibition Just hear
| him;
But there l. another important consideration which
ought not be lost sight o. in the investigation OF this
subject The question that presents itself Is not
question of the increase but Of diffusion % SlaU0y.
Hath. its cnhg hp ife
amount will be the same. The rejection OF this re-
strcton will not add one 10 the class of servitudc nor
will It's adoption give freedom 10 single being who s
I now placed therein The same numbers HW b. spread
0rer oreafr frrOrV and so far AS compression with
less abundance of the necessaries OF life, Is an evil so
tar will that evil be miiigatcd by transporting slaves 70
new country and giving them a larger space to &C
! cupy."
How does this comport with the Chancellors
| representations
But Gen. Cass goes on 70 express doubts that
slavery " IN actually be diiGsed over New-Mexico
and California. Yes, he does but on grounds
which il once plausible, are SO no longer He
says that those regions are not cOngena 10 the
production of those great staples which give en-
ployment to Slave Labor-that mere plowmen or
herdsmen can rarely be Shareholders. But now
weknow thatthe great staple OF California must be-
as that of New Mexico has ever been, Gold and
this, in all aces, aud nearly all climes, has been
produced by Slave Labor To dig and raise min
eralzed earth or rock is among the rudest of
known pursuits j. is unaffected by climate il
renders supervision easy and escape difficult
There will OF course be vast and speedy influx
| Of immigrants and adventures 70 the Gold Re
sion; May Of them in all probability slavehod-
ers. Now it is only necessary that few thou.
sands of these should hasten thither and exert
their natural influence in organizing the Terri
tories and Slavery may be fastened upon the
New Territories, perhaps as irrevocably as in
Texas And this Gen. Cass considers organizing
government on Republican principles aud the
Chancellor deprecates all agitation on the subject
Polk may threaten aud Csss promise 70 veto any
bin embodying the Free Soil principle but We
OF the North must keep still until our hands are
tied behind us. Mr. Walworih, the People vii
reject the counsel and the counselor.
IP-The Boston Courier recently changed hands
having been edited formerly, by gentleman Il has
two three times recently dsrkly nsinusted, being
base enough to imagine more than It's coward nature
gives it confidence to utter that certain Phsnthro
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