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

threateEcd to dissolve the Union II we zee
Soilers were enabled by Congress to rob
them (as they called iD of their full
and equal right to carry their property
Il. e. Slayes) into the ne xiy acquired
Territories. We smiled At their threats
and held on, and by % dong saved
those Territories from the desecration OF
Slavery. The soil of California down to
the line of 800 was expressly consecrated
IN Free Labor: there was then no Union
Safety Committee to deprecae Southern
vengeance and yet there was 70 Secession.
Were we reckless and aggressive aglta-
tors. Mr.. Wood, in fighting that battle for
Freedom You did not say so then; dare
Won saw so now If not, what becomes of
vour recital of twenty-five years Anti
Slavery aggression on the Rights of the
South
All says a Cotton-broker, il may
have been well enough to resist the extern
sion of Slavery into New Territories while
that was practical question, but now that
is setAed-there is no more excuse for agi.
taton-and it must be PUT DOWN
Ne, gentlemen you mis-read or mis-
state The question of Slavery Extension
is not settled. It is present and potent to-
day. At this moment, California is con-
yulsed with a projected ACKNOWLEDGMENT
which is to cut off her Southern half and
make of it a new Territory-yes and
Slave Territory There are various pre-
texts put forth; but Slavery is at the bot
tom of the agitation - The Southern
PrOpagandists have never for one moment
taken their ewes OFT Of Southern California
they long age determined to have it for a
Slave State; and they have now, thanks
to the Union Safety Committee and kindred
agencies, Congress little likely to make
anv efectual resistance to their demands.
We shall have to resist them, perhaps un-
successfully; but with us to-day, as with
Mr.. Webster short time ago, Resistance
to Slavery Extension is 4 matter of con-
scieDtious duty, and we cannot stop to cal
culate the chances of success. Well, MIR.
Wood, suppose the Country should be pung-
ed into fresh commotlon respecting the
opening of Southern California to Slavery,
will YOU charge Us with fomenting Slavery
Agitation
But why need we point to California -
The soil of Cuba, almost at cur doors, still
smokes with the blood of its defenders. shot
down in resisting an invasion of which the
handspring was Southern lust of conquest
for the sake of increasing the power OF
Slavery in our Federal Union. MessrS.
Webster and Fillmore have not yet pro-
nounced resistance to that invasion agrees
sive, so We will presume that it is not stlg-
matized as such by the Union Safety Com
mittee. And Just across our South West
ern frontier the blood of the defenders of the
country and its laws is now flowing IN the
streets Of Matamoras, shed in pretended
revolution but real invasion from our side IN
the copjoint interests of Smuggling and
Slavery. The game of Annexation Is Just
opening afresh, and the Republic OF the
Sierra Madre is preparing to follow the
Republic of Texas, first in oyerpowerlng the
native population; secondly, in exPelllng
the Mexican authorities and soldlery third
". in applyin for admission into our Union
as Slave State, with power to give birth
to other Slave States All this is perfectly
transparent; it is passing to-day before our
eyes vet Messrs Wood, Collins K Go. IN
form us that Slavery Agitation Is exclu-
sively Of Northern origin, Is contrary to the
Constitution. dangerous to the Union. and
must be PUT DOWN. Let MS stand by and
see how this is done