New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-01-31
why Agita.s the slavery oaestions'

injurious Impressions are created By indirect ano
insinusted charges than by direct and strslgh'iof
ward inculpatons And one Of the most curreni
and mischievcus lies Of the day is enveoPed IN re
folds Of the streetcorner remark that the talker
don't zee any use IL agitating the Subject Of
Slavery
'Agitating' agitation CO yo1 refer 70 -
Why no, b. psrSpicUoos and stop talking down
yo1r throat II you think We ought 70 let Slavery
grasp all the gDorgsnized territory Of the Union.
why not say that II you incline 70 haE-and-
half division why %; ascertain that such ar al
justmens Will satisfy the ProPagand.sts. and fse7
ssssI those directly who object TO giving it up 50
And Il you don, mean anything in particular. Why
not keep quiet I'll you shall have something 10 ssy
We insist that, IN the Slavery sgitatlors Of tie
last ten or fifteen years, OR position and that u
those with whom We have acted has been essen
italy defensive and Conservative one. while tie
novelties that disturb our peace have orlglna'ea
with our sdverss1es They have been the sglia'
tore, if anybody haH They first seized the T. =
Mails and destroyed part OF their contents Oh
vague charge that they contained incendIary Nat
ter'-an offense utterly unknown 70 the is"s' hhl
BY 10 means constituting legal JUSTIFICATION u
Mail Robbery. They attempted to Iegahze ue
,ystema,ic rifing Of Mails on suspicion tha' 'he!
/ contained Anti Slavery documents. They gagged
dawn the Right Of Petition in Congress causing all
n.rnorias relating to Slavery to be stihed IN both
J Hoases-a despotism from when the House has
since receded under the pressure OF Puouc sent
rnep,. bit in which the Senate sti. persists. They
| c,,snired To steal Texas from Mexico and finally
/ dragged our Government: directly into their crime
h. making !, a receiver OF the stolen goods. They
encouraged and sustained Texas 10 her outrageous
claim 10 twothirds Of New Mexico and one-thifd
each Of Chihuahua and Tamauipas, whereby our
country was plunged into wrongful and expensive
War From beginning 10 end Of this series Il e
oHgarchy Of Slavery Propagandists, who overawe
and manage the South, has cen the asltaior an
the aggressor The adversanes Of that oligarcfy
have occupied Substantially defensive ground
Slavery has advanced, invaded, and conquereo'
at the expense of Freedom. Il now possesses n
Texas. Gncluding the country Of the Lower no
Grande, which, though not rightioly belonging 10
Texas, has been grasped by and we fear can never
be recovered from herr region nearly as large rs
and decidedly more genial and fertile than Franc
which was Free Soil when the Government revert
Cd TO its hands by the election Of Andrew jackson
to the Presidency Free Labor has won no acre
from Slavery under the protection OF our has
slavery has won this empire from Freedom she
demands MORE and we resist her claim Which
party is Justly accused Of agitating
The controversy is not concerning abstraction $
The claim OF the Slavery Propaganda Tor more tei-
rtory is backed By threats Of Disunion al Wash
ington and throughout the South and by threats Of
an armed invasion of New Mexico from Texas
The struggle is mminent-a thing Of TO day. Lit
the Dickinsons, Monroes, and " sterses give tore
to Northern Sentiment, and New Mexico will he
clutched by Slavery within year. luesolntIcL
and indifference at this crisis. ensure defeat an
disaster lie who now depreoates agitation
respecting Slavery in the Territories either means
that be don't care whether Slavery is EXTENDED or
motor that he considers il OF more importance to
keep matters smooth and easy at Washington
or he talks without meaning anything in par
,icular
But shouldn't the Slave States have sonc
h.ne ont Of our acquisitions from Mexico I've
answ en- whether they should or not they have CT
It. They took Texas to begin wrth-s teritoi,
amply large enough for four States. Then the
ADDED to 1t by the War the whole region be:ween
the Nueces and the Lower Ro Grande--s regloa
mot including NewMexico large as the Stat
| of New.York They have got large slice aud WI.
keep il, no thanks to But the residue Is Ere
Territory and only insist that 1t shat remain So
while they are struggling to subject II TO Saver,
It's people earnestly desire that 1t shall remain
free--no ono can plausiby deny that We stand f.
the existing state Of things-they demand i;s sup
preston at the peril Of bloodshed aud disdnion
Who are the sgitstors
There can be 10 complaint OF surprise o. disaI
poiniment on the other side Al the breaking oui
# the Mexican War, the South was duly notiEeo,
by the passage of the Wilmot Progiso through ihe
House and its barely averted passage IN the Sen
ate also, that the Free States would not consent
that any territory which nigh; be acquired from
Mexico should be subverted 10 the uses o, Slavery
The w ar was fought through in the face OF that
tce. Nobody can now Justly complain that thc
South has been entrspped or is Just expectations
| thwHrted.
-'Oh well there's no use Of agitating Oh
Zsck and the Csbne, viii see that the North hn,
justice We trust they VIII. 50 far Is may be IL
their power though they don't say so as plainly g.
We think they ough, But Presidents. Cabinets
and even Congresses, are and must be swayed .!
public opinion. and to that opinion one earnes'
mind contributes more than ten indifferent ones
Let the Slave States seem to Re united an
resou,e this subject Of Slavery Extension while
the Free States are divided and indifferent and a
must realize that the former viii triumph, Pres.
dent or no President The question will be decided
by lccigkt, as the Quskers say, rather than b,
numbers 1t viii 10 Annexation over again
People Of the Free States do you that the
New Territories, including New Mexico, shall b,
preserved from Slavery Hyou de- 1t Is high tirne
YOU made the fact known and felt 81 W ashington.
| NAsACHUsErrS--The " eyoesfSr Spy ST. keeps
| up al the head Of its columns the name OF JOHN u
PALEKEY the Froe SOL candidate for Coasres-
| in the lVth District although no day has been sci
| apart sor another teal The fooinss OF the last
| Seventh trial as gwen IL table in the Spy are
as follows Thompson. Wing. 4ilo Palfrey.
5 ASS; Thompson. Csss Loco, 1890. This vote
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