New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-01
No Compromise.

Why should Freedom compromise What
WHAT y1gM Of we who hold the fundamental
basi, of the Declaration Of Independence no
fraud, no rgmsrols, no cant, 10 surrender strip
Of territory 1000 miles lony and 200 VIDE 10 per
petual Slavery How dare we do 1t
% Slavery never will 90 there 1t can't live
there II authorized Then the less excuse Tor le-
CALLING it. II there were seeming necessity
for the concession demanded-it the newly ec-
ouired territory south Of 36' 80 were valley Of
the Mississippi or another Cuba, we might with
more plsusibility be asked 70 concede sometbine
OF stern principle to the impetuous demands Of
luteres, and Sectional Feeling But to commit
the Nation to ljustice-to steep It's soul in Wrong
aud Oppression-when those who ask it tell us il
will come to nothing, is the very wantonness o.
shameless iniquity. Never think Of it
But the concession piH amount to something
live agree 10 the Compromise line, there will be
two new Save States-New Mexico and Caliior-
nia-added to the Union within five years. Those
portions Of either VIA ch are arabic will be clutch
cd BY Slayery--,he Mines will be filed with
slayes-and the power and influence Of both will
be welded from the start in behalf Of Slavery,
lIOukU not vi litAi iiuaDitdhto &c '."''
holders, Just as Missouri aud Western Virginia
Acugh mainly cultivated by Free labor are now
ranged on the side OF Slavery.
The advocates of Freedom hold strictly deien-
sive position. Slavery has now no legal existence
In any part Of the New Territory-no business
there. AL we ask is the statU q"o. 1t is Slavery
which inyades and advances. We but ask it 20
stay where it belongs. Having submitted to the
acts OF our Government whereby the Territory
was acquired, we now make stand against any
farther act whereby that acquisition shall enure
70 the Extension Of Human Bondage.
But you will dissolve the Union. My friend
you are a cowardly blockhead or you kaor better
The South will never break away from us merely
because we will not consent TO the propagation o
Slavery. Il she does, she will be surrounded witt
cities Of refuge for her Saves, and half of them
can outstrip pursuit in a single night. They will
vanish like the dew, and she will be glad to come
back TO us within few years on terms more
favorable 10 Freedom than the present. Blu
Slavery will never divest herself Of her right o
retaining her bondmen within the Free States
upon any such provocsfion.
Then let the friends Of Freedom stand firm
We shall never be more ready for the struggle
than now. The general breaking up Of party
shines is suspicious 10 the formation and expression
OF Free sentiment Let us meet the danger al
the threshold, opposing hrmness to violence and
calmness TO threats. The North may be betrayed
N ss she has heretofore been. but let no true mau
aiuch or falter. Let a political grave yawn by
the side of every traitor, while every man VIII,
prizes Liberty too high to sell it, and reveres Prin
eiple too much to compromise il, stands like p
rock by the cause of Universal Freedom. Pass
the watchword from rank to rank. aud see what
coward lips 1t blanches. what false hearts it Aut-
tors--No yTrYsIoN or SLAvERYl