The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-01


venture upon complete trial Of the same sys-
tenn of free trade! May we not also hope that
when all our furnaces are stopped, our mills
closed, our entire manufacturing industry ruined,
and our people dispersed through the wilds
of the West, or sent abroad in search OF new
islands and States to conquer and annex-may
We not also hope that the same kindly voice will
assure us thai we, too, have been tried and
found wanting ! OF course we may; We have
already once been blessed in that sort it was in
the times of reputation, and il We will only go
OH in the policy called Democratic" we may be
sure Of being so blessed again.
Then there is another editorial on the wrongs
Of Hungary-and long letter from that coun-
try by Mr.. BRACE. Then comes the case Of
Turkey, and the progress of education there
We have omitted all notice of the abolition con-
ventions in Ohio and the speech Of CAssIus NJ.
CLfy,i in which he says
Slaves were called persons held to service !"
and the clause providing that such should be
I" delivered up" did not mean that they should
be caught and returned by The citizens of the
free States, but that no laws should be passed
to prevent their'capture by the persons to whom
service was due.
The South has declared by Madison and
others, was to be alone responsible for the ex-
istence and continuance of slavery, and the free
States were to be entirely sbsolved from all re-
sponsibility, on account thereof, and all partici
patton in any measures to sustain and continue
it. That the fugitive slave bill violates this great
principle, and makes US active participants in sus-
tanning slavery. From state Of entire neutral
ity such as was contemplated by the trainers Of
the Constitution, and at that time by the South
itself, it forcibly makes US partizans and brings
to the support Of tie institution our hands and
our money
In this matter the North is far guilter than
the South. Southern men haze been bred to
oppression, and they see nothing abhorrent in
the relation of IN; ster and slave 1t is sustained
in their schools, their colleges and in their pull
PTS.
| Northern men can plead no such excuse.
advocate the repeal of this law because it is al
war both with justice and the principles of the
Constitution.
In, despoiism of slavery is worse than that Of
Russia. The latter is the despotism of one
man, the former the tyranny Of a million petty
| 10. ds
| While the slavehodng influence controls the
republic, we can have no real liberty. In vain
shall we struggle to make labor respectable while
slavery exists. Its unholy influence is seen in
every avenue of lfe-social, civil, industrial and
| commercial.
A few words in regard to parties. have, as
many OF you know, acted with the Wing party.
| advocated the election of Henry Clay, and sub.
sequently that of General Taylor In the prom
ises Of the Wing party have been deceived
and the time has come when must separate my
self from it.
/ A - L. ;rro ~
rs doves and wise as serpents. We must look
for our str, myth from the ranks Of workingmen.
Ii should be the policy of government to make
every man andholder This will be the best
standing army the country can have The great
issue of the day is slavery or freedom ques-
ton Of far greater moment than that of internal
improvements, or tariffs, or banks
| 10 this issue devote myself Strip me of
every earthly comfort, but give me liberty. We
live in an age of wonderful physical improve
ment, unexampled in the history OF the world
| A moral sentiment has also arisen; moral
power been brought TO bear upon the question
| Of slavery, such as never was before noble
army have enlisted for the conflict, and they wi "
never lay down their arms until liberty shall be
the birthight and boon Of every son aud daugh.
ter Of this glorious Republic"
Such is an imperfect sketch of the contents Of
single number Of the Tribune-and this il
taken by seventy thousand lawyers, doctors
politicians, farmers, mechanics, miIliners, carmen
and chamber-insids.
The process Of reform proposed by the Tri.
bune school is rather considerable. The aboli-
ton of slavery in fifteen States, and the loss OF
three thousand millions of property, are only the
beginning. The entire system Of labor and
property everywhere is to be destroyed. All
men are to have guarantee Of work by the
government, and of course will elect their own
overseers. Commerce il to be abolished Great
Improvements are 10 be made on the Christian
religion, and the marriage contract Ia To lie ma.
terialy modified As for crime. IL is TO cease the
moment punishment is prohibited, and hanging
is to be abolis ned forthwith.
A PERSIAN AMBASSADOR IN ESsLASD.-Some
excitement among the fashionable and political