New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-29
The Parting Of the WAYS.


support anybody pledged to the support ofsthe
COMPROMISE measures
1--WE shall probably support any Wing who may be
na'ed though shall not hold under any OBJ
legation to DO support OF the Fugitive Slave Law, Of
ary measure extranoOuS the declared and well known
Trcples of the Wing party is made Shbbsleth by the
,instine Convention We Will support candidates m
Spc OF serious difference with them on this question,
have repeatedly supported Shareholders and defend
cas- of Slavery but lo,ssk 70 support candidate nom
mated and run expressly as supporter Of this or any other
Here Is the usual misrepresentation of The
Tribune. Nobody ever asked or even expected
any support OF the Fugitive Slave Law as an
isolated measure, but as one OF the Compromise
measures they have asked that the whole be ac
quiesced in upon the principles laid down In the
President Message.
Remarks.
We believe this is not the first time that
Tie Eapress has called our attention to the
difference which thinks it sees between sup
PORTING the Fugitive Slave Law as an iso-
lated measure and "acquiescing' in it as
Zone of the Compromise measures" We
confess that the distinction is not vet
made obvious to our understanding. What
we object to is being called upon to aid.
directly or indirectly, in the capture and
reinstatement of fugitives from hereditary
bondage. This we say boldly we cannot and
wW not do. Let the Shareholders catch
their runaway chattels, and let those who
please help them but to any law, COM
pact, agreement, or compromise, which
shall seek to make us personally re-
sponsible for or conserving party
to the enslavemert of human beings, we
object, and against it enter eur protest.
Now, to say to us that, though we are con-
scientiously opposedto enslaving self-eman-
cipated persons "ss an isolated measure"
yet we may readily acquiesce" in it " as
ore of the Compromise measures is to
speak what we do not comprehend or utterly
revolt at. If some High Priest or his
minion had told Judas of old that he could
not be expected TO relish the betrayal of
Christ Gas an isolated measure" but might
readily acquiesce' in it I" as one of the Com
promise measures the payment of the
thirty pieces being the other-it seems to
us that he would have talked very much
the same logic and morality with that of
TIE Express.
But, suppose the Fugitive Slave Law
were measure to be swallowed without
choking, we ask why our side should be
required to "acquiesce in the principles
laid down N the Presidents Message"
while our antagonists plainly do not The
very man who drafted the Fugitive Slave
Law is a bitter enemy Of the Compromise
Measures as whole, fought them from
iIsttO last, and don't mean to rest quiet I'M
der them. Two-iifths of the vote which
passed it were east by the bitterest anti
Compromise men in Congress. The State
of Texas voted solid for this act, vet Con-
gross is now to be strongly importuned to
modify ore of the Compromise measures for
the special advantage of Texas, although she
was most bountifully dealt with by this very
measure. Then her Governor, following
in the wake of George NJ Dallas, another
jealous Compromise man, calls for revi-
sion OF the Federal Constitution in the in
terest and for the better security of Slavery
and these are but two or three among
many projects now on the anvil, all looking
to the modification of the Compromises on
the side of Slavery. Against this no Com
prcmiser demonstrates nor cries Agitation :
it is only when an Anti-Slavery sentiment
is expressed that the sacredness Of the
Compromises is insisted on. We demur.-
But
The Tribune does not feel itself bound 10 sun
pSrt any body pledged TO the support OF the Compro-
mise measure"
No, Sir that is not fair statement. Is
not Mr.. Clay OF Mr. Webster abundantly
pledged to these measures Did we in
innate that we could not support them. Just
as they are
Here is our ground The Wing party, as
such, is not a pro-Siayery Moran nti.Slayery
party, though there are pro-Slavery and
anti-Slavery Wings. We are willing 10 -