New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-04

tain State Government can estaoiisn one hnoin
The meantime they viii be living under the protec-
ZION Of our arms and enjoying the only laws they
are vet prepared to endure.
There Is then only one real wound upon tne oody
noliic. the suspension Of California ana this
he very ore which, with exquisite surgery the
President proposes 10 us to heal INN ILL
by itself alone s;.,o,hsn.
ces are he country ia nevertheless irritaIei eA-
c;tsd and distracted Sir, the country seems % me
neither excited nor distracted. l, Is worried Oy
our own delays, and has become mi aI1nI.-n,-
impatient vet enough TO approve this bu' oas
,an, Eor,be admission OF California alone. Inatis AZ
Sill r. rsplied that the Slavery question must
be settled That que ston cannot be settled oy tnis
bin. Slavery and Freedom are conflicting systems
brourIt together by the rnion Of the States, not
peutralized nor even hsrmonzed. Their an'sgo-
nism is radical and therefore perpetual Compro-
misc eneenders conflict, and the conflict involves,
unavoidably, all questions OF national interesS-
questions OF Revenue, Of Internal Improvements,
Of Industry Of Commerce, Of Political rivalry, and
even all questions Of Peace and OF War. In en-
tering the career Of conquest you have kindied 70
a fierce heat the fires you seek 70 extlngush' oe
cause YOU have thrown into them the fuel OF FRO
nsgandism. We have the Propagandism OF Slave
~ 10 enlarge the slave market and TO increase
slave representation 10 Congress and IN the Elec-
toral Coleges-for the bramble ever seeks power,
though the olive, the fig and the vine should reuse
it,-snd the Propagandlsm OF Freedom 70 counter
act these purposes Nor can this Propagandism
be arrested on either side. The sea IS covered
with exes, and they swarm over the land. En-
igrntion from Europe and from Asia, and from 20
| Npesis and from the Free States and from the
Slave States, goes on and must go on, Will go on IN
! obedience to laws which / should say were higher
than the Constitution, If any such laws were &C
knowledged here. And may be allowed here TO
refer those who have been scandslzed by the allu-
sion 10 such laws 70 q single passage by au author
whose opinions did not on the side OF superstl'
| ton or tyranny:
1Iftbe said that every nation ought 10 this to follow
teif own Constitutions we are al an end OF al our con-
toverses for they ought not 10 be followed unless they
are rsbiy made: Ibe, cannot 9e rg .Ia 49, s'f DE-
oou,ses On Government by Agerh0n Sdaey, eh !, p 49,
And wherever these emigrants go, whetherthey
20 from necessity of choice they form continuous
unbroken streaming professions Ct cOlonists, found
ers Of States, builders Of Nations and where Col
| onies are planted, States are fjrmed or Nations
built Labor is there the first aud indispensable
element, and it begins and proIecutes TO the end
its strife for freedom and power. While the Gov
ereignty of the Territories remains here the strife
willcome up here to be composed. You may say the
Wilmot Proyiso in the Senate Chamber and bury
il beneath the Capitol 10 day, the corse in com.
plete steel will haunt your legislative halls to-mor'
row.
When the strife is ended in the Territories you
now possess it will be renewed on new helds, 70
CURED; for both of the parties know there Is yet
that word Hereafter"
Senators have referred US 10 the promise oil
peace. heralded in the Mexican Compromise. Sir,
| that prophecy is but half its journey yet Inc
| annexation OF Texas the invasion OF Mexico this
prolonged struggle over California, this desperate
contest for the SHOWS and sands OF New-Mexico
and Deseret are all within the scope and limits OF
| the prediction and so are the strtes yet 10 come
| over ice bound regions beyond the 81. Lawrence
| and sunburnt plains beneath the tropics.
But while this Compromise will tal OF all Its
purposes il will work out serious and lastng evils
All such Compromises are changes oil the Consltu'
top made in derog alton of the Constitution Ihey
render il uncertain In its meaning, and impair lts
vieor as well as its sanctions This Compromise
finds the Senate in wide divergenceirom the House
| OF Representatives, by reason OF the undue mutt
! phcation Of feeble consumptlye states enecsed oy
former Compromises Of the same sort lou win
incur that evil until the Congress OF the United
| States will be unable 10 conduct the business OF the
country by reason Of chronic disagreement De-
tween this and the popular branch, ana Tue result
will be the abolition Of one branch or OF sne otner'
Eitber Of such would probably be fatal to Liberty
| This compromise is rendered doubly dangerous
| by the circumstance that II Is eoncessioh "
| alarms Of disqualification and iacton' olcn Son,
| cessious once begun, follow each other with iearIn
| rapidity and always increasing magnitude. IL IS
time high time, that panics about the mon should
| cease; that il should be known and felt that the
| Constitution and the Union within the limits o.
| human security, are safe, firm and perpetual
Settle what you settle, conde In that old arol-
! ter Time for his favor and aid IN setting Tor toe
future what belongs to the future, and You will
| hereafter be relieved Of tro classes OF patriots
whose labors can well be sPRred-those VINO
canor for disunion, either 70 abolish Slavery or to
! prevent s'cipstloD, and those VINO surrender
principles or sound policy TO clamors so idle.
Sir. the agitations which alarm us are not signs
! of evils TO come but mild Efforts OF the Common
wes H. for relief from mischieis past
There is a way, and one way only, 10 put them
arrest Let Us 20 back 10 the ground where our
forefatbe rs stood While We leave Slavery 70 the
cere of the States where il exists, let Us inteAoy
direct the policy Of the Federal Government to cir
cumscribe its limits and favor its ultimate extin-
euishment Let those who have this misfortune
entaed upon them, instead OF contrlving now 70
maintain Tn equilibrium that never existed con-
slider carefully how, at some time-it may be ten,
or twenty, or even fifty years hence-by some
means, by means of their own, and with our aid,
without sudden change or violent action, they may
bring about the Emancipation OF Labor and It's
restoration to its just dignity and power In the
State. Let them take Hope 10 themselves, give
Hone TO the Free States, awaken Hope through.
out the world. They will thus anticipate only what
must happen ct some time, and what they them
selves must desire, if it can come safely, and as
soon as il can come without danger. Let them DO
orIv This. and every cause Of disagreement will
cease. INN ediateiy and forever. We snail then
not merely endure each other, but we shall be re-
conciled together, and shall realize once more the
concord which results from mutual league, united
coupsels and equal hopes and hazards In the most
sublime and benefcent enterprise the earth has
Witnessed. The fingers Of the Powers above would
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