New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-04


the character Of the FIRST steps 10 be taken are an
pouuced With equal openness and frankness Ana-
slavery agitation Ia 20 be cont7ued-conunuedt 100 IN
asfance Of each one and all Of the Interests OF the
country In opposition To sentiments political purely
psiIiot-carred and carried out without regard TO
consequences, however momentDus-or results, how
appalling Mark, too. the extent to which the de-
sians thus announced made 20 reach Anrsiavery
as.tion no longer to be confined purposes OF ex
GLIDING the South from the Terrt MS. ruling out the
admission Of slave States TO the Union and abolish
ing slavery In the District Of Columbia The termna-
don Of s existence the country l. the end new aimed
at--an end which man can contemplate with
out being conscious that would DC the end OF the Con-
srution-the end Of the Republic.
This then, is the issue Shall agitation for such an
end permitted shall Antislavey agitation IN any
shape be any longer tolerated p
is it not melancholy that a human
organism, by no means devoid of brains
and formerly inhabited by soul, should
be degraded to such base uses as this
"Shall Anti-Slavery agitation in any
shape be longer tolerated :" he roars out,
as if he were not perfectly conscious that
those who deplore and contemn its tolera-
ton can't possibly help themselves. All
his idea and expectation is-for hungry
dogs must feed on such pudding-that
some paltryparty capital may be made out
of this bugbear-that by dexterously cou-
ping the Wing party or Gen. Scott with
The Tribune and its ideas, he can brighten
few more slave breeders into the camp
of the Democracy Yet he knows per-
fectly that their taking or avoiding
that plunge will have no more effect on
the agitation by which he affects to be
so shocked than on the return of Sir John
Franklin-that the endurance and pro-
gress of AntiSavery sentiment owes
nothing to any party, and asks nothing of
any but to be let alone. 1t grows and ex-
pands in defiance of parties and of nearly
all existing organizations, religious, poiti-
cal and other-for organized and outward
Christianity too often conspires with
recreant and self-seeking Democracy to
disown and prosecute their common
child. If all the parties in the coun-
try would combine to make the propaga-
ton of Anti Slavery felony, and punish
it with confscation and imprisonment, they
would not thereby retard but hasten the
coming of its ultimate triumph. Not
through the action of the Wing nor of
any other party, but through the natural
swelling and palpitation of the heart of
Humanity, unaided but also inadequately
depressed by party hgaments and BAN
dages, do we look with confidence for
the ultimate Punishment of Slavery from
our land Congress could do nothing in
the premises but confne the National
scourge and shame within its present legal
boundaries-we are afraid it iciU do even
less than this-and yet the sentiments of
Justice and Philanthropy will gradually
vindicate their rightful sway over the hui
man soul, and the end of Slavery will
CONCEIVE trust not through convulsion
and disruption, but like the swelling of the
buds and the unfolding of the leaves,
which need nothing like agitation be-
yond the falling of sunshine and rain on
the earth and the circulation of the sap
through trunks and branches. As respects
Slavery, ell that we ask of any party Is
that it shall let it alone, and not attempt
TO stihe the monitions of conscience, to
fetter and corrupt public sentiment and to
harden the popular heart.
We had half mind to ask our Wash
ington friend to copy the preceding para
graph but that would interfere with the
game he is compelled to play for place and
pelf. and we will not. He understands this
whole subject right well, though the stu
pider majority of his readers do not, and
he is building a wooden pyramid OF their
heads whereon to vault into coveted pow
or. If they could see him cheek by jOwl
with Chase, Rantoul, Preston King, Cleve-
land, &C., settling candidates, platforms,
and declarations on which their common
party could be united and led to victory,
they would stare, doubtless; but they
would soon be convinced, by some legerde-
main, that it was all right 1t is not
Anti-Slavery, per Sc, that alarms him-but
Anti-Slavery in a Wing joumal-Ansi-
Slavery that he may fairly hope to turn
to party account and employ IN soaring
oris, TO the Loco-Foco mill. That's all.