New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-10

COMMITTEE, iSoUtu t"o 'cil lhd"io
manifestoes Just before our late Election.
declaring that Slavery Agitation must be
PUT DOWN, to which end they exhorted the
voters ofour State to discard their respective
party predictions ard vote the mixed or
Cotton ticket which the residuum of the said
Union Safety Committee had in secret eau
Gus made out In their first Address, these
gentlemen say:
1.-THE people must discard the counsels Of those
men who ridcule the idea of danger, while they are
exertipg themselves 20 ALLEVIATE the feelings OF the
North and South from each other, and are thus
creating the danger They took the same course
when the great men Of both parties. seeing the
danger Of dsunion imminent. joined IN oreaslihs
the storm, and In carrying the COMPROMISE inca
sures.
II this country IS 10 be saved, it must be saved
by the people in the exercise OF their good sense
They must come out IN opposition 70 msthpfySicas
theories and fdSfidiOVs notions Of phAdnfhI1py, ana
support such for Office as are determined al all
hazards to PUT DOWN all agitation OF Slaveryln our
Legislative Halls, and to support our glorious
Union"
So in his reply to Hon. JOHN c. sSPES-
GER of the date of the LIST inst, Mr.. George
Wood, on behalf of the same Committee,
thus misreads History =;
"If we look back some fve.and-twenty ySars, we
see our whole country satisfied with the. federal
Constitution and Laws, each section leaving the
other sections TO manage their own dome4fc insti-
tutions leglslations and local affairs without annoy
ance. II we 90 back for shorter period we ind
the bitter opponents Of Slavery rising up attempting
TO spread their doctrines as moral rebrdnds through
the South, and creating alienation and bitterness OF
feeling between the two great sections OF eAr coun-
Try"
You, Mr. George Wood are quite aware
you cannot be ignorant--that THIS is not
The whole case. You know well tat when
your intimate friend, Daniel Webster, at
Wing meeting in our city, declared, some
thirteen years ago, his conscientious and
invincible opposition to the Extension of
our Slave Territory, he was not regarded by
you, Or any Of your present contederates,
as a wanton assailant of Southern institu-
tons and Southern Rights. Yet there was
far less excuse for Slavery Agitation at the
North then than there is now. You know,
too, that when the whole moral and intellect
tual strength of our City met in the Taber-
nacle, In the Spring OF 1914, and proclaimed
the infexible hostility of New-York to the
Annexation of Texas, for the reason, among
others, that the agitation in its behalf was
the work of Slavery Propagandlsm, and at
war with the rights and conscientious
convictions of the Free North, you
did not then pretend that the North was
wholly or mainly the aggressor in the brood
log collision with the South affecting Slave
ry. Nor when we afterward met Messrs.
Webster, Choate and their compeers at Wing
Mass Meetings, and heard them vehement
" denounce the Annexation scheme as one
of Slavery Aggression on the rights and con-
victions OF the North did You, Mr.. Wood,
intimate that they were wrong, and that 1t
was the North which was crowdng and the
South that was aggrieved1 Mr.. Choate is
most eloquent man, and makes ar mpassion-
ed effective speech on either side of any
question but never has he been able TO tear
his neither vestmentS so extensively on the
pre-Slavery side of this great question as
we saw him do while acting with us on the
other side, and denouRcins the aggressions
of the Slave Power, in the great gathering
at Springfield, Mass, on the 10th of Sep
TENDER, 1874
True, We were defeated in that contest,
by the detection of those who had entered
upon II with us shoulder to shoulder The
Van Burens, Havemeyers, Bryants and
Fields who had bravely battled with us at
the outset deserted when the FIRE grew hot,
and elected to the Presidency an avowed
and pledged advocate of Annexation-that
scheme which, according to Mr.. Calhoun,
was so essential to the perpetuation Of
Slavery, and which his bosom friend Gen.
James Hamilton commended as certain 10
give a Gibraltar to the Southland which
carried al the heartily pro- Slavery State.
against Mr. Clay and the Wing party. Still
We resisted; but Slavery and sham De-
mocracy combined were 700 much for Us.
and the lniquity was consummated Still.
Mr.. Wood, neither you nor your present as.
sociates lntimated that in resisting that afro.
cious scheme, and giving our reasons for
asking others To resist it, we were warripc
Oh the Rights Of the South Yet We clearly
were so if the whole course of Anti Slave
~ Agitation through the last quarter of
century has been aggressive and unjustifia-
bic.
Well Annexation took place, and Wag
With Mexico followed, as We earnest ann.
Annexationists had all along believed and
predlcted.whlle our adversaries had ridiculed
ard Gerlded our croakings. Meyico vas snc