New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-26
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Whoever reads and confdes in the Cotton journals
North or South will naturally be led to believe that the
acations from time to time arising in this country re-
spectng Slavery are entirely omented By the adver
ssres of the peculiar institution that we who de-
pore the existence and hope for the termination OF HUI
man Bondage in land boastfu of its Liberty are in
cessany deyisirg schemes plots, maneuvers for the
restriction of slavehoding within narrower limits or
IFS complete eradication.
Now the actual truth is exactly the reverse Of this
There are certainly Abolitonsts who live and labor
for the entire and immediate overthrow OF Slavery
but these form an nconsderabe minority even at the
North and rarely cleo. so many as halfad0zen Mem
bers to Congress of three hundred They WELD no
direct mower and excite no serious alarm in the breast
of the slaveboldng interest while the immense major
ty of the conscientious opponents of Slavery in the
Union, while they indeed hope and would gladly labor
for its complete extinction, yet perceive no mode in
which affirmative political action on their part could
promote the end they seek and are averse to agitation
and alienation where no positive good is attainibe-
They war against Southern Slavery no otherwise than
against Chinese dolatry South Sea licentiOusness-
that is BY the diffusion of light and truth and the quiet
rebuke of o consistent testimony. Ardently desiring
the dawn of that happy day wherein the shackes shall
fall from the limbs of the last human chatte they yet
dclaim any moral right TO use any power conided TO
their hands by the Federal Constitution for purpose
so obviously foreign to the the contemplation OF the
trainers of that instrument es the abolition Of Southern
Slavery BY Northern votes Discaimng anyright thus
to use the power conferred, they feel no more re-
sponsbiity for the existence of Slavery in Mississippi
than IN Timbuctoo, and expressly limit their Political
action respecting the institution TO keeping the evil OUT
of their own States respectively and of the Terrific
ries belonging 10 the whole Union and governed only
by the laws and funconares thereof In other words,
their position is purely defensive, and one which the
South has 10 reason 10 complain Of
How is il On the other side
The territory known as Nebraska stretches west
ward from the frontier Of Missouri to the cress of the
Rocky Mountains 1t is the home of many Indian
tribes but has recently been settled by several
hundred families of white pioneers who naturally
DESTROYS of the protection and security only found I'M
der a government Of laws and civil iunctOnares. But
Nebraska has organization no government no laws
and quiet but determined effort has for years been
made to prevent her organization except on condition
that the vital stipulation OF the Missouri comprmise be
annuled Missouri, for many years previously an or
psnized territory applied in lSl92O for admission into
the Union as State She had been a slaveholdng ter
rtory before she was transferred by France TO this
country she always remained saveholdng territory
and she framed a savehoding constitution preliminary
to her application for the rights and inmunites of
State of the Union He admission was resisted by the
Free States with general unanimty, but was finally
carried on the express condition that all eur remaining
territory North of lat So 80 should be eyermore Free
territory Even thus the great body Of the repreen-
tatyes of Free States held cut but acceded and
by these added to nearly all the Members from the
Slave States the Missouri compromise was enacted.
And certain pro-Slavery politicians are squirting
UP the South to demand the ebrogation notification
of the vital condition whereon Missouri was admitted,
and the opening Of Nebraska to the legal Introduction
Of slaves
So with regard to California She has come into the
Union Free State, and her admission was balanced
by an important concession TO the Slave Power Now
tie Slavery Propaganda hold to the concession aud
at the same time insist on the division Of California in
such manner that the southern portion may become
first ssveholdng Territory, aferward slaveholdng
State. We of the contrary part are simply resisting
this effort
SO, again, as TO Cuba: We who condemn slavery are
making no attempts 10 abOlitionze Cuba nor TO bring
her influence to bear against Slavery whether within
tie Union OF out Of it, But proSlayery agators are
constantly work. frst to perpetuate Slavery in that
important island; next, bring her into the Union,
whether by negotiation, by revolution, or BY war
Fellow Citizens of the Union are not the facts as
we have stated them Does any one gsinsay them
And if not is ii not mOnstrousy wrong in the Con'er
yaye and Cotton Press to brand as dsturbers and
agtstoIs and commend adversares as devotees OF
peace and harmony Judge whether they or we are
most faithful to the Union, the Constitution aud
even to the Compromises which they are perpetually
clarifying lut Perpetualy plotting to crcumvent or
struggling to subvert.
FLUNKY IN LIVERY.
II is currently reported that when PETER ID. NRooM