The republic., 1851-08-07
The rruoe Ann NEW York.

The Truce I'm New York.
We have expressed our qualification at the
prospect of restored harmony in the State of
New York, not because we feared the defeat
of the Wings, but because we loved the Union.
The triumph or defeat Of parties are events
with which we are too familiar to compare
them with the momentous consequences de-
pendent upon the permanence of the Compro-
mise; for upon this we conceive the endurance
of the Union itself depends.
We have been convinced that the strife at
the North upon the subject of slaves was eagerly
seized on to encourage or to justify the South in
its hostility to the Compromise. We knew
that these disputes engender violence of Ian
guage and feeling, and thus weaken the bonds
of social and political association
We do not hesitate to say that we should re-
joice if this source of agitation and of acrmony
were sealed forever. Nor should we consider
the disntegration, amagamaton, or oblitera-
tion of parties price too high for such bless
ing, if unattainable without it,
If however the sections of parties, which have
heretofore differed upon question of principle,
consent, we can see no improperly in such an
adjustment of those differences as shall leave to
each the right of private judgment, with an
agreement in future to abstain from agitating
those subjects upon which 1t has been proven
they never can unite. We are willing to
leave to others the unmolested enjoyment of
their opinions-we are determined to avow and
maintain our own. We think that whilst strife
of opinion is often unavoidable, yet, when the
deliberate will of the people has been embodied
in the laws of the land and established by the
decision of the judicial tribunals, it may be
honorably acquiesced in, and may become a
proper subject of compromise between those
who advocated and those who opposed it. We
consider that the call for Wing convention
is at once an armistice and an amnesty. We
suppose it is due to the imminent danger
which threatens the Republic. We do not
suppose it was the intention of the parties to
sign recantation of opinion or surrender of
principle.
As was, however, to have been anticipated,
the Administration has been condemned for
having subscribed to terms inconsistent with. its
position.
The Union has, accordingly, charged that the
call ''does not regard the Compromise as q sell
Element of the questions which have agitated
the country-not as a treaty of peace and
amity-but that any of its features may be
assailed, and any of the questions settled by it
may again be agitated."
In regard to the inconsistency of the Admin
istration, 1t may be observed that we still keep
flying the following declarations:
"Ihe series of measures to which have alluded
are regarded by me settlement, in principle
and substance-a final settlement-of the danger
Gus and exciting subjects which they embraced"
"By that adjustment we have been rescued from
the wide and boundless agitation that surrounded
us, and have firm, distinct, and legal ground
to rest upon. And the occasion, / trust, will JUS
tify me IN EXPORTING MY coUNTRYMEN TO RALLY
UPON AND MAINTAIN THAT GROUND as the best if
not the only means, of restoring peace and quiet
to the country, and maintaining invioate the In
tegrity of the Union"
GPREsIDESr FILLMoRE's MESSAGE.
These declarations are stereotyped upon
every act of the Administration. 1t has done
nothing inconsistent with them. If any con
troversy were to render IL necessary to reopen
or review the unhappy divisions of the past, the
Administration would be compelled to tread the
same path; ii must be governed by the princi-
pies which it has avowed, and from which il
has never departed.
In thus stating the unchanged position of the
Administration, we should do injustice tc
others if we did not recognise in them a
correlative right to freedom of opinion, and
to defend the integrity Of their own actions
But it is precisely the conviction that per
Petual strife upon propositions already deter
mined by the forms Of law is dangerous, and
therefore Improbable, that the call for the pro
posed convention is based. To forget the past
and to abstain from reviving the same contro.
versies in future, is the simple principle of har-
mony; it involves neither recantation nor sub
mission 1t is the only basis upon which har
mony can be honorably restored OF preserved.
We shall religiousy adhere to the Federal
Compromise, because we believe the peace
perhaps the perpetuty-of the Union depends
upon it, Ii the call does not regard the Com
promise as a settled question, then is language
wholly incapable Of justifying a logical infer
ence.
The following extract from the preamble o.
the call recites the purpose of calling the con.
venton:
principles Of the Whigs Of this State, as they are