New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-18

sisve law that he "soie1niy believed IN toe
Of slave catching as in genuine dtspenssuOn OF ROW
depce- but not q word be found IN the nahsure-
soisg b show that be would have voted for ethrI
the courpromks measures II he hsd bsen N ConzIes
or that be would have voted against rnodcaiion OF
ans me OF them which would have impaired ~ cons.
t,tons efficiency, had opportunity been pre'en'el 70
| him
We don't wonder it has taken sfortnight
m inter the above. Surely NOBODY but the
most reckless pettifeeger could presume to
bring it before the public in less time. Ii is
the --LATEST contradiction OF the whole OF that
mart of the inaugural which refers to the
late Free Soil agitation in which this same
Post performed part so blatant. President
Pierce says:
shiect which has recently ataed the nation 70 G!aOs
faorfrI d>1re am moved by other impulse than
most earaest desire for The p1pesa<on Of tkdf Union
which bss msde US whist we are The sentl
meuts | now announce were not unknown before the
expression Of the voice which called me here. Ny
portion upon ibis ssbe clear aud Rreqsicoc0l Epos
ke record Of nv tccrds and and Ia only
rcd to at this tune because silence might perhaps, be
nsecOnstrued.
Ercy measure finding 70 strengthen N. fratr1ai feel
iH9s Of on ne members Of our IHon has had nv Mart
viiud as il exists in different States Of this confedera
cy IL recognized by the Constitution. believe that
ssnds like any other admitted right and that the States
where itexsts entitled 10 efficient remedies TO
force the Constitutional provisional hold that the laws
Of 1880 commonly called the COMPROMISE Measures"
ore Srilg Constitutional and to be Enthusiastically
red into effect believe that the constituted authon.
ties Of this Republic bound regard the rights Of
the South this respect they would view any other
legal end Constitutional right and that the laws
force them should be respected and obeyed not with
reluctance encouraged by abstract opinions to their
proprie in different state Of society, but cheerfuIy.
toll do nft
their exposition belongs. Such have been and my
convictions and upon them shall act lfervently hope
that the question is rest and that sectional
bilious or fanaiics excitement may agGin threaten tie
durability Of iaStifEfio7s Obscure the light OF
prosperity But let the foundation Of hope rest
upon msns uisdom. IL will not he sufficient that
tions preudices fnd place in thepubcd hbera,ons
1t nil not be s1cisnf that The rash o0Hnses Of hlRaH
passions are reec,ed II be fs thar there IL
fi0nal security but in the nations humble dcFRopsdged
dt..dtpoe upon God and his orerraiia1 proridencs.
We have been carried in safety through perilous
crisis Vie couHsols LEX those nkich care vs. he C0aHi
tption, prsUdUcd % UPHOLD a. &c, &c.
Now if President Pierce does not here say,
not only that the Compromise is constitu-
tOnol, but that it is good and wise, even
though il makes a man of less account than a
horse, and sends him into slavery without
! Jury trial If be does not say that all his
"werds and acts prove that he would have
voted for that Compromise aud against any
essential modification Of it if he does not say
that it saved the Union and that the former
policy of Tie Post was hostile to the Union {;
and if he does not imply that slave catching
without jury.trial is now essential to the
Union, and with Gods blessing contributes to
hold it together. why then we do not apPre-
bend the meaning Of language, and The Post
is justified in the plea We have above quoted
from its columns But if the words he en-
plOys have their usual sense, the President
does mean to say those things, and in our view
they are very base, Shiny, iDhuman, and insult
ing to the Providence they profess to invoke.
And The Post would have done better to main
tain its unmhnly silence rather than to open
its mouth with speech so jesuitic and
shameful.