New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-23

II Tie Express copies part OF para
graph from our criticism on the Slavery Plank in
the Hunker Wing platform, and thus comments !:
alt IL clear then, from the threat held out 10 Gen.
Scott leading organ here that the campaign Is 10 be
taken up with denunciarons Of institution which
exists In Is VI the 81 States. The Tribune from the
Start has done nothing but TO make tb, hesitation worse
for the slave. ana IL proposes 70 keep up the war
expecting thereby, perhaps, To eject Gsn. Scott without
the VOTES of States where Slavery exists II IL would
spend hostiltes until November, or devote its time
from till November In warning upon the slavery
of vice and crime which exists 10 its own midst Ii
would less Of institution which takes much better
Of negroes than Is possible under the operation
Of passions and prejudces which exist against men Of
black skins IN the Free States"
Whether The Tribune or The Express is
the more hearty and fearless in "warring upon
the slavery Of vice and crime which exists in our
own midst" we cbeerfully leave to the Judgment Of
others. Our private opinion is that the habit of
palliating or apologizing for one wrong tends to
render men Indifferent to the existence or morally
inc fficient for the repression of hers.
We have no threats for anybody. We have
not the least disposition to menace nor overawe.
But our own freedom Of thought and action we
cannot surrender; and the time to say so has ar
rived when an attempt is clearly made to pledge
us to a course which our convictions of Right and
Duty utterly condemn. Silence, under such cir
cumstancss, would imply submisson-hence
Honor and Frankness compel us to speak out.
The sneaking illusions Of The Express to thi,
paper as "Gen. Scott's leading organ" "the
campaign" and the votes Of the States where
Slavery exists" regard with unutterable loath-
ing. The Tribune is the organ Of no man, I'M
less it be Of its conductor. We scarcely know
Gen. Scott, and have neither seen nor written him
for years. Should he ever want an organ he
would doubtless look for more pliable material
than we are made of. 1.-THE Campaign" can
have no exigedcies urgent enough to dvest us Of
our liberty of thought and Of speech. And if
"the votes Of the States where Slavery exists"
are to be given or withheld, not with regard to
the character, services and qualifications of the
rival candidates, but under the influence Of spite
or fear, whereof some newspaper or its Editor is
the object, why then the people Of those States
must be far baser and more senssless than we
ever supposed them. But they are not such as
The Expre,'-infering their impulses from its
own-sees fit to represent them.
We waste no breath on denunciations" of
Slavery. lift would only give up hunting inno-
cent men, women and children in Free-States and
trying to pass gagIaw in Conventions and Con-
sress, we should seldom speak Of it. We would
gladly forget that it exists in our Country, since
we can do SO little directly for its overthrow.
But its champions, North and South, find its adj
vocacy profitable, and so insist on keeping it ever
before the public. We prefer peace, but cannot
consent to sacrifice for it Truth and Freedom.