New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-30
The Southern Observation-Disclosures aud
the Union.

The Southern Observation-Disclosures aud
the Union.
The stars in their courses fought against ~
sers, when IL was decreed that he should .all
and perish IL is so nox-so always. Whatever
10 doomed hssteDs " destruction the efforts Of
friends and foes alike conducting 70 that end lie
who cannot now perceive the handwriting the
wall with regard to Human Slavery IN tie United
States must be smitten with moral blindness
Never before did champion and adversary more
clearly though unconsciousiy cOwork 10 secure the
same result. The last grand struggle IS evidently
and rapidly approaching. It's advent will be herald
ed By the transformation Of tmid, time serving un-
prncipled men throughout the Free states inte
free spoken and imIaovabe oontemners o. the en-
slavement Of one man to the use aud profit Of
another The moral nature Of Slavery viii come
to hold the first instead Of the last place IN popular
regard leaving the Constitutional obligations IN
dertaken in behalf Of the Free states 70 follow
after. Thinking. conscientious men wall Erst IL
quire and determine what is their duty 10 God and
Humanity next. what Is required OF them by the
south and the Constitution. Such IS the natural
order it will soon be the actual
The proceedings Of the several caocCses held
with closed doors by the Members Of Congress
from tho Slave States have at length been made
public, and we lose no time IN spreading them be-
fore our readers. We omit Judge Bernens Ad-
dress first because IL was ultimately rejected, and
80 is no part Of the authentic expression OF South
ern sentiment secondly, because II is bat diiu-
ted and inoffensive rehash Of Mr.. Calhoun's which
Tas adopted, and which we make room for. il is
certainly more polite and less exceptionsble
than the one adopted bat none at ell would have
been still better. We prefer to know the
worst, and so thank the majority for adopting
Mr.. Calhoun's manifesto. Nothing was ever bet
ter adapted TO the gros; work OF arousing sad fix
ing the North.
The Address ia a lsbored recital OF Southern
grievances, which, closely Fcrutinized, resolve
themselves mainly into two, viz l. The North is
not as good hunting ground for runaway slaves as
it used to be and 2. The North is determined
not to suffer Slavery to overspread the New Ter
rtories recently added TO the Union. Both these
allegations are essentially true. Whs. then
ine sa' N,S's~-- &c sI~ so~sh hove q cons,ifn-
tional right to reclaim their fugitives from labor
few deny that--bn. have they any right TO my ser
vices or yours 70 aid in their recaptare7 II any
mans time may be impressed for such service
to-day, it may be for three fourths Of the time
five rightly apprehend the force Of the Supreme
Courts decision in Pngg vs. Pennsylvania the
slaveholder has perfect lessl right to take his
slave wherever he may be found within the ter
ritory Of the United States This cannot lawfully
DO resisted. Bat hunting, tying, and carrying Of
fugitive slaves is the stakeholder busness-if he
wants help let him pay for it, and obtain such as
pay will bring. The slave shall be delivered NJ.
on proper proof that be Is slave but this deliv.
cry 10 legal not popular duty The sheriff and
his posse properly act only upon evidence not
even an officer can rightully arrest man Is
sonc other mans property without giving some
evidence that such is the fact. Thus fugitives
often escape while freemen have repeatedly been
carried off and sold for slaves. Fifty able ad-
dresses WILLING arrest the strong tendency through
out the Free States TO have less and less to do
with the return Of human beings into bondage
We really can ioresee no help fos this-none
surely, IN caucuses aud addresses fnsn the slave
holding Members.
Then as to the other monster grievance The
Free States -shamed into manhood by the Aboli-
tionists OF various species-will non permit the
extension OF Slavery. The vast regions which
came to us Free must remain so There is no
reasonable ground for expecting recession from
this resolve. on the contrary, each day is morally
to strengthen the popular hostility Slavery
Extension. What is to be done about it,
MIR Calhoun utterly fails, in our Judgment, to
show any constitutional right OF the Shareholders
t. remove their human cattle as cattle 70 New |
Mexico and California, there to labor and increase
tor the masters profit. He talks strongly about
equality, by which he means not the equality OF |
men and their rights but the equal right to DO JUS
tce and injustice, which we cannot admit. In sus.
tanning his position he resorts to assertions which
the truth does not warrant. 1t is not true that
Southern men and Shareholders are disiranchised
OF privilege in respect 10 the New Territories,
which Is possessed by all others, citizens and
Foreigners without discrimination as to character
profession or color II is not SO, MIR. Calhoun 49,
Let Russian noble migrate thther with his serfs
and the Law we stand for would say to him as 10
you; "fou are welcome here, Sri-so are Your
people; but the relation formerly existing be
tween YOU OF bondnen and lord cannot here be
recognized and enforced by law. 50 long as II is
voluntarily maintained by mutual consent IL viii
not be intericrcd with bat IL and " IN not
a be upheld by legal force Just so the law will
say to Abd-el.ksde and his assortment OF wives
md to any other Turk or Arab who chooses to
'srry the domestic institution of Poygsmy into
,ur Pacific realm. He would be welcomed there
so would his women if they outraged no dictate
II deccncy or propriety; out we are not bound to
,sturslize and legalire az manner Of oppression
md immortality because the persons who prsesiced
hose elsewhere have an undisputed right to mi
rate to California and New. Mexico Mr. Calhoun
sceives himself by hismastery of equivocsl terms :
at he cannot deceive the People Of the Free ,
tates.
But the South did her part toward the
,quisition Of these Territories. So she did-snd
tber more. She took the lead in the original
EFF Of Texas from Mexico. She took the lead in
10 Annexation swindle, driving the reluctant
orth into it through her control Of the machinery
that stupendous fraud entitled the Democratic
Irty. Bat ior that machinery no, one-foursh Of