New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-31
The Union, Meeting.

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is denounced by name, yet the :" heartfelt
thanks" rendered to Daniel S. Dickinson
among others for his disregard of personal
consequences and party predictions, and
his willingness to be " sacrificed for the
good of the Country" stamp the character
of the concern. But the managers proceed
to indorse the Fugitive Slave Bill as ex-
pressly Constitutional and every way what
it should be, and to pledge the resolvers tc
sustain ard enforce that law. Finally, we
are favored with the opinions of these
Peace gentlemen in the words following
8. Ra0v,d That, in the opinion ofihs meeting, further
agitation OF the Slavery question in Congress wonld be
fraugh with incacuable danger Union and that
will support candidate at The ensuing, any other cleo
lion for State officers or for members OF Congress- or of thu
Legislature who is known believed TO be hostile the
Peace Measures recently adopted by Congress, any
them in favor ofreopening the questions involved il
them for renewed agitation.
O. Re,Optd. That we regard obligations the Con
stiion ana the Union as superior to the es OF any OF the
and that on nil future occasions will range ourselves m
are most calculated to uphold the Constitution and per
peuate our glorious Union.
All this, we take it, is tolerably transpa-
rent. WASHINGTON Hunt is we'll known
to be hostile to the Fugitive Slave Law, for
he has publicly proclaimed the fact. Most of
the WING candidates for Congress through
out the State are "known or believed " to
be hostile to some of the :" Peace measures"
SO called. "That party" which the Cot
ton meeting pledges itself henceforth to sup
port is not the Wing party, South Carolina
and the glorifers of Daniel S. Dickinson
being judges. In short, the Union Meet
ing is simply trap to catch Wings for the
uscof Horatio Seymour and Daniel S. Dick
inson. Whatever the mass of the signers
and auditors may have intended, the plan
ners and wireworkers had this end in view
from the first, and into this their meeting at
last resolves itself. Had it not been intend
ed to operate on the Election, it would have
been postponed sing week. 1t is an I'M
pudent Political trick, intended to strike
down the Free Soil sentiment of the North
the reelection of D. S. Dickinson.
And so the fiat has gone forth from
Castle Garden that there shall be no fur
Their agitation with regard to Slavery. No
matter if the great Territories wrested from
Mexico should be overrun and by force ap-
propriated to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Slave
ry--no matter though freemen are liable to
be captured in our midst at any moment
and hurried off into Slavery, without the
benefit of Habeas Corpus or any form of
Jury Trial to determine the fact that their
ancestors before them were stolen, so that
they legally can be-no matter though free
citizens Of New ork have been and as any
moment may be seized in Southern ports,
dragged from our vessels, immured in pris-
ons and finally sold into eternal Slavery
and Mr.. Winthrop read documents in the
Senate to prove that TWELVE HUNDRED
Northern Freemen, suspected of no crime
but their color, had thus been disposed of,
Zone of whom only happened in Slave
holding port by taking in Carolina YES
sci which had been abandoned on the
ocean)-no matter what Manhood, Justice,
Liberty may thunder in our ears-the
Union Meeting has decreed that there
shall be no more agitation respecting Slave
ny, and that all candidates who like WASH
lNGroN Hunt declare themselves hostile
to the Fugitive Slave Law or to the Ex-
tension of the area of Bondage shall be
prescribed, and only those who sympathize
with Daniel S. Dickinson elected. FREE
MEN OF THE COUNTRY Your voice is yet
to be heard in this matter Shall the can
didates hostile to the Fugitive Slave Law
for that cause be defeated! Your votes
next Tuesday will determine