New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-06

portant that the North should maintain the
attitude taken andthe sentiments expressed
at the Syracuse Convention. Let US be
temperate in language, conciliatory in de-
portment. and in every thing studious of
the things that make for peace but let Us
not betrav the cause of Human Freedom
and dishonor our fathers memory, even for
Peace. New-York does not repent her
resistance to the legalization of Sla-
very in the territories wrested from Mex
leo; the North does not repent it. In
taking position that Slavery is an evil
which the Federal arms and treasure should
not be employed to extend, the Free States
were guilty of no usurpation, no oppression,
no Injustice to the South. If the legal Ex-
clusion of Slavery from the Free Soil of
New-Mexico and California be a usur-
patton, then its exclusion by the Mis-
souri, Compromise from our vast ter
ritories North of Sc 30 (wherein it had
hitherto at least a constructive legality
was far greater usurpation; and its ex-
press Introduction :" for ever" in all our
territory North West Of the Ohio-(terri
tory mainly coded to the Union by Slave
holding States)-was a still more monstrous
assumption of power. That original Anti
Slavery Proviso was first drafted by Ieffer-
son in 1884 (iust after the close of the Revo-
lutionary War; was adopted in 1137 by
Congress mainly representing Slave States
while the assent ofeach State was necessa-
rv. and under a Federation of powers far
more limited than those Of our present
Federal Union, whose jurisdiction over
the Federal Territories is Of the most
comprehensive character. Unless the
Congress of Shareholders in 1737 was
guilty of the grossest and baldest as
sumption of power then the North has
sought to do nothing since 1915 with regard
to the New Territories which it had not
ample right and reason to do-nothing
which it should apologize for unless for do
ing so haltiDgly and imperfectIy-and Moth
ing which any State or section of the Union
has any reason to complain of. The North,
therefore, asks no forgiveness for the past,
and makes no promises of doing better for
the future and this should be distinctly
understood. Whatever mouths may be
crammed with Cotton, ours is not and we
are rendering essential service to the Union
in expressing to the South the sentiments
of that large portion Of the Northern
People who neither seek to sell goods to
our Southern brethren nor obtain or re-
tain Office through communion with them.
1t is the truth that the North acquiesces in
the Territorial Adjustment on the under
standing that Slavery is not to extend one
inch beyond the boundaries assigned to
Texas, and would not assent on any other
condition. Ii Is the truth that the Fugi-
tive Slave Law is obnoxious here whenever
it is attempted to be enforced, las Gen.
Cass and his friend Buel can bear witncss.)
and that. if the South were to really hunt
up and arrest even half the Fugitives now
living in the Free States not twenty Mem
bers would be chosen from all the Free
States not positively pledged to vote for
that laws repeal. SO long as it is rarely
enforced, its existence may be endured, and
no longer, Such being the fact, it is
right that they should be known. Their
PRONUNCIATION is due to candor, 10 good
neighborhood, and even to peace for men
will bear to be resisted who viii not bear
10 be deceived. With frankness, calmness
and spirit of Cancellation which does not
imply injury and penitence on one side'
with forgiveness and magnanimity on the
other, the Union may resume and preserve
its accustomed harmony.