New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-01


whatever topic without clnsiug his speech with these
words; horecr, my opaien IS that Carthage rHs' os
oesfr0yed advertising hi countrynen tAst mere
was one QUESTION outweshing in importance all oener
quesuoDs from which public attention should never Tor
amoment be Withdrawn
such, 10 my OPINION the condition OF the world now
carthage and Rome had place on earth togsther-
hepubhcsn America and aloverwheimine RUSSIAN ao-
soum cannot much loneer subsist together on earth
Russia active-America passive-;bere Is an immense
danger In that fact IL like the avalanche in toe Alps
"nicn me noise Of birds wing may move and thrust
oo"n WIN irresbtlbe force. growing every moment
cannot but believe IL highly time 70 do as old Cato
dd' and hnish every speech with these words; " HoH0
trf me iap Of nations should Be maintained and ALSO
fm'sm not Permitted 10 become 0xnip0ieHf"
could Lot forbesT to make these remarks, and the
answer got was That IL al true and all right and
will be attended to when the election is over but AFTER
an the patty must come into power, and you know
there are so many considerations men want to be
managed, and even prejudces spared and so forth"
And 1t true; but II is sorrowul that Is true That
reminds me OF what in Schiler's Maria Stuart, M)rt
mer says T. Lord Leicester the almighty favodte of
Elzabeth Oh God cla als steps has sei great Lord
go az mrs Court There Is the mrs, obstacle have 70
meet with That consolation at least have, that the
Chief difficulty have to contend with neither lasting,
nor an argument against the justice of my cause,
against the righteousness OF my PRINCIPLES. Just the
calumnes by which am assailed can but harm my own
SELF bur cannot impair the justice of my countrys cause,
or weaken the propriety of my prncples-so that diff
hcuy, being just a difficulty, and no argument
change the public opinion of the people, which always
cares more about principles than ,bout wre-puings.
The second difficulty have 10 contend with. Is rather
curious Many has told that ii had only not
fallen INTO the hands of AbOhtonts and Free Sellers,
they would have supported me, and had landed some
where IN the South, instead at New York would have
met quite differ ent things from that quarter but being
supported by the Free Sellers of course must be OPP
posed by the South. On the other side received
letter, from which beg leave to quote few lines
"r6u are silent on the subject of Slavery Surrounded
you have been By shareholders since put foot
ON Engh soil If hot during whole voyage nom Con-
stantnope and ever since you have been IN this country
surrounded by them whose threats promises and hatery
make the hearts succumbyo position has put
in mind of described by the apostle OF Jesus Christ
when the devil took him up into high mountain" &c.
Now Gentlemen, thus being charged from one side
with being in the hands OF Abolirionists and from the
other side with being in the hands OF Shareholders,
indeed at loss what course to take II these very
contradictory charges were not giving me the satsac
ton to feel that stand Just where Is my duty TO stand
on truly AMERICAN ground.
must beg leave 10 say few words IN that respect,
the more because could not escape vehement attacks
for not committing mysef even in that respect, with
whatever il terror party question claim the right tor
my people to regulate its own domestic concerns.
claim this as law OF nations, common 10 ell humahy
and because common to all, claim 10 see taem pro-
tected by the United States not only because they have
the Iower 70 defend what despot dare Offend but also
because it is the necessity OF their position TO be power
earth which they would not be, the lazy OF natons
can be changed and the general condition OF the world
altered without their Now that being my position
and my cause it would be the most surdncons'tency
if would offend that principle which claim, ana which
advocate
And Oh. nv God, have not enough Sorrows and
cares TO bear on these poor shouldes Is nst aston
ishing that the moral power OF duties, and the iron VIII
of ny heart, sustans yet this shaert frame that
am desired yet 10 take up additional caresf III the
cause plead be just it s worthy of your sympathy
and at the same time sistent with the impartial con-
sderatoDs OF your own moral and material interests
which patriot should disregard, not even out OF
phlanthfony then why not weigh that cause WITH the
scale OF its value and not with foreign one Have
not enough dicu lties to contend with, chat am de-
s ed to increase them yet with my own hands Father
Mathew goes on preaching temperance, and he may be
opposed supported on his own ground DuS VINO ever
imagined opposition to him, because at the same time ne
takes into his hands to preach tortude and charity
And inde ed oppose 10 abandon the cause plead
only because mix with the agitation OF an interior
question is greater injustice yet because to discuss
the question of foreign policy have right My nation
Is object OF that policy we are interested In Out
to mix with interior party movement have no right
not being citizen Of the United States
The third diffulty which meet, so far as am toid Is
the opposition of the commercial interest nave tue
agreeable duty say that this opposition, or rather Ia
difference is OILY partial have met several testimo-
malls of the generous sympathy from gentlemen OF
But II, upon the whole, 1t should be reaiiy
true that there l. coOness even opposiuon, IN
that quarter than in others then may that there Ii
an entire misrepresentation OF the true commercial inter-
ests in il. could say that would De strange to see
commerce, and chiefly the commerce OF republic, IN
different TO the spread of liberal institutions. That
would be sad eience teemng with incaculable mis-
fortunes reserved to the nineteeth century Untl now
history has recorded that commerce mas been tne most
powerful locomotive OF principles and the most fruitful
ally OF civilization intelligence, and OF liberty they
were merchants whose names are shining with minor-
tai uster from the glorious pages OF the golden book OF
Venice Genoa, &c Commerce. Republican Commerce,
raised single cities to the position OF mighty powers on
earth, and maintained them in that proud position for
centuries, and surely it was neither indifference nor OPP
position to republican principles by which they nave
thus obed the history OF commerce and OF humanity
know full well that since the treasures OF commerce
took their way into the Golfers fdespotsm in the shape
of eternal loans and capital began to speculate on the
oppression of nations, great change has occurred In
But thanks to God, the commerce of America is not
engaged in that direction hated by millions, cursed by
humanity Here commerce is still what IL was in for
mer times the benefcent fundamentally of making
mankind parake of all the fruits and comforts OF the
earth and of human industry here 1t is no paper spec
uation upon the changes of despotsm and therefore,
If the commercial interests OF Republican America are
considered with that foresighed sagacity without
which there Is future and security in hem feel
entirely that particular interest can be more
anxious 10 absolutism checked, and freedom and
Democratic institutions developed in Europe, than the
commerce Of Republican America 1t is no question of
more or less prof-t is question OF life and death TO
il Commerce Is the heel OF Achilles, the vulnerable
point of America Thither will thther must be aimed
the fin blow of victorious absolutism the instinct OF
sefpreservation would lead absoutism TO strike that
blow its hatred and indignation would not lead to it.
Air Il not indispensable to life than freedom and
constitutional government IN Europe 10 the commerce
Of America.
Though many things when nave seen, nave, upon
calm reelection, induced me to raise an humble word OF
warning against msteriaisn, still believe there was
more patriotic socitude than reality in the fact that
Washington and John Adams at the head of the War
Department. complained OF a predominating material
ISM they styled avarice) which threatened the ruin
of America | believe that complaint would, even to-
dsy not be founded than it in the infant age
nj your Republc still il there be any motive for that
complaint Of your purest and pest parios-f the COM
merce Of America would know indeed no better guild
ing star than only the momentary profit OF cargo just
floating over the Atlantic would be even then at
Ices how else to tor the indifference OF the COM
merce of America in the of European liberty,
then by assuming that it is believed the present de-
graded condition Of Europe may endure II only the
popular acations deprived of material means to
disturb that which satirlcaly called tranquility
But such supposition would indeed be the most oo
noxous the most dangerous falacy. As the old phil
nsopher how he could prove the exstence Oh