New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-06-29
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
NEW-YoRK, THURSDAY, JUNE %.
The struggle before u.

Slavery under the hag Of this Republic Is to be
messed 70 decision now Let who VIII paltcr
or equivocate the great Csrolinisn Is always him.
sells never less than archangel ruined. Des-
perate, idolatrous and blind as is his devotion %
Slavery. we would sooner see him President to-
morrow than any Doughiace in the Union. He Is
no smooth-tougued parasitc-no oily wnsgler be
tween resorts which he pronounces more and most
detes,able He always strikes directly for what
he wants and boldly for all he wants, and ia this
holiness finds the elements Of success. The word
Compromise is never on his lips unless 70 execTate
it; Expediency has hardly a place in his vocabu-
larry He knows no line Of SO, 30'-no dodge be-
hind the inherent power Of Territories TO leg1slate
for themselves--but comes square up 70 the work
and demands that al territory which has been or
NAV be added 70 the Union shall be made Slave
Territory. and so declared nori Whatever may
be the issue Of the struggle, thanks 70 you John Z
Calhoun II we are beaten, the execrsiions Of the
Free North shall rest not on your head, but on the
heads Of her betrayers
We had supposed the complaint instanced by
Gibbon, Of an Orthodox Church in Italy complain
ing TO the Emperor that it vas peTsecuied by the
erection Of an Arisn Hereto Church IN the same
City, about the absurdest thing ever uttered, but
this remonstrance Of the great Nulliher against
the inequality Of excluding Slavery from the new
Territory surpasses it. That slaveholding implies
and neoessitates inequality is plain enough bot
that the absence Of Slavery should create Unequal
ity is denonstrable only 70 most subtle and way
ward intellect. Let Us consider It.
Human Slavery is at deadly feud with the Com
mon Law. the common sense and the conscience
Of mankind: nobody pretends 70 justify 1t but
those who share in it's gains and its guilt and the
better part even Of these sincerely deplore It's ex-
istence and acquiesce in it because they can see
no practical way Of getting rid Of At. God, Man.
Naturalization. Law, Reason-all are against
IT, The very Doughiaces who will Justify any
thing, for consideration, DO not pretend 10 Justify
the enslavement Of one mau by another. The
Judges Of the most ultra slaveholdng States, them
selves fanatical Shareholders have repeatedly de-
cided that slavery is a creature Of positive, NUM-
cipa law, and can be held valid no farther than
such law extends. The STAKEHOLDER who permits
his human chattel 10 accompany him to Europe
cannot reclaim him though he voluntarily return
70 Charleston or New-Orleans-a breath Of free
air, legally inhaled, has expelled every taint OF
Slavery from bis blood. And yet it IS contended
by Mr.. Calhoun and his followers that the mere
extension OF our country's rule over immense
empire whence Slavery had long been legally and
peremptorily excluded transforms that whole re-
gion, as II by magic, from Free 10 Slave territory
subjects it to the law Of Slavery and authorizes
shareholders 70 settle in any part OF it, and there
legally compel men, women and children to wear
out their lives in the unpaid drudgery OF the cot
ton field aud sugar MILL unprotected victims oil the
rapacity. anger cruelty and lust OF the whole brood
OF overseers, traders, masters relatives, &c. which
Slavery inevitably engcnders. That is TO say
The flag OF the United States carries the law OF
Slavery along with it wherever it goes, overriding
that OF Freedom which had previously prevailed
there This is Mr. Cahouns doctrine aud We
rejoice that Congress aud the Country now call
ed 20 adopt and sanction or reject and demolish IT.
Let US see whether those who should be cham
pions Of Liberty are equally ready for the contest
Ofcourse Mr. Calhoun condemns the Jeiersonian
Ordinance of 1857, the Missouri Compromise OF
1890 and the feeble and unavailiIg restriction on
Slavery in Texas Incorporated in the Annexation
Joint Resolutions Tie whole history oi the
country must be read backward to make It con.
form to the new basis of the Slavery Propagan-
da. But it is against the immortal preamble
TO the Declaration of Independence that his
batteries are mainly directed. That preamble
stands, and will stand long as the world, lofty
and radiant beacon whereby the oppressed OF
every cline read their rights and the oPpressors
their doom I'VE hold these truths to be seli'ev
dent that all men are created equal-ihat they
are endowed by their Creator with certain IN
alenable rights among which are Life Liberty
and the pursuit OF Happiness there is the tails
man that shall yet break every yoke and shiver
every coiiier to fragments. Unless Adams Jeter-
son. Hancock and their comPatrot signers are
proved knsves or nnnies, 1t IS impossible that
Slavery should be justified.
Just test this claim set up by Mr.. Calhoun by
familiar example: Suppose South Carolina, and
half dozen other States if you please, were to
legalize Polygamy, or had done so century ago
None OF us would have any right to interfere with
il politically so long as they kept to themselves
But new region is added TO the Union, and now
Carolina contends that, by the mere fact Of add
tion, and in defiance OF the fundamental laws ex.
isting in the territory when we acquired it
Polygamy is legalized throughout its extent for
any Carolinian must be authorized to take his
dozen wives with him and settle there, or marry
20 many after he gets there, else there viii be
inequality in the benefits OF the acquisition. Who
believes that such logic would claim a moments
patient regard And why should it in the matter
of Slavery
We rejoice that tins question has come up on
case so extreme as that OF Oregon, and that New
York has at length foand utteranee in the Senate
through the lips OF Mr.. Dix. The vote OF this
Senator for the Annexation OF Texas, has unex-
pected silence throughout the Session. and ms
tameness under such provocations as those OF the
hangman Foote. have induced very general feel
ing of disappointment. which little more would
have opened into disgust and detestation Mr..
DIX has spoken not moment too soon, but we
believe he has at length spoken wisely aud
manfnlly. His Speech viii be read with deep in
terest throughout the State, and we have no doubt
1t will retrieve his reputation We doubt not
that Messrs. WEBsrER, CoRwIS, DAVIS, NIIES,
HANLIy and other known champions OF Free Soil