New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-15

presumed interest OF eNiecnc! vi 10 P"iHi - ''
to have power TO affect for good or evil the election
Of Members of Congress in a distant locality There
are number of plant and polite journals published
in cur correspondents own cty-A there one of them
that could influence in any way the election OF sin
Gle member of Congress out Gifts own vicinAge
Now let NJ tell our correspondent an anecdote BY
no means new, of which be will have no difficulty in
discerning the moral:
In an early stage Of the Abolition movement,
Charles c. Burlegh, one of its champions saw ut to
stop moving his beard. TO the great scandal OF most
of his CON patriots who said they had personal OBJ
lection to unshaven faces but deplored the udice
thus aroused and the consequent destruction OF Bur-
legh's Influence on the side Of AntiSIavery. In the
midst of this hubbub, friend called on Burleigh,
found him in brown study, and inquired the reason.
II an grieved. was the prompt response, that my
"best friends seem to consider my beard the great
remaining obstacle to the abolition of Slavery
well then, why not shave ~" Because, if l am
" to be denied my liberty on matter purely per-
sonal as this there will be at least slave, though
call the Blacks were set free, and can't consent to
labor for anything short Of universal emancipation"
Does our correspondent imagine that Freedom in
Kansas is to be achieved through Slavery in New
York or that our enslavement is essential to the
liberation Of the blacks We do not.
II those who have mortgaged the Wing party in our
correspondents locality to the Know Nshings have
bargained for THE TRIBUyEs connivance or silence
they should at least have given timely notice of the
compact. We should then have promptly notified
them that they had sold property that they would
never be able to deliver and they could have revised
bair in view of that fact
But in truth those who know what THE TRIBUNE
was in 1o44, and has been in all similar struggles
could entertain no reasonable doubt as to its position
now. We can never be party, even by silence, to
the deprivation of even one American citizen of all
the rights and privileges pertaining to citizenship.
But "the Catholics all against u.s." No, they
are not; but if they were what Of Are mento be
denied equal rights because they do not accord equal
rights to Others! If we are to begin this game of
prescription, where can we stop Irshrnen Ito their
shame be it spoken generally favor the denial of Po-
tca Rights to Blacks; therefore $50 runs the argu-
ment) Irishmen should themselves be denied Political
Rights. But, Messrs Know Nothngsi if that rule be
adopted, how will you come out of the mill If Irish
men forfeit their rights by prescribing Others how are
YOURS to be saved from like confscation
THE Catholics are all against u.s." Then let us
Try TO shame them out of their denial of equal rights
TO Others by standing fast for their rights cOmmen-
.urats with our own. True, we may not succeed in
bringing them to respect for all mems rights, but We
shall at least preserve own integrity and conss-
tency, and the reaction upon their minds though tar
dy cannot fail of being sauary. And for us to con-
nive at their prescription because whatever political
power they may have will be welded against us, is
like their voting to trampe black men under feet for
a kindred reason.
We do not expect by anything we can say to in-
fluence the determined &" Know Nothings" They
will 60 their own way, unswayed by our arguments.
But there are very many politicians like our cores
pondent, who sailing in their wake and doing
their jobs with lively hope of making capital out of
their favor. We guess of these will be disap-
pointed, while others will find, when too late that
they have paid too dear for their whistle And we
are that all hopes of advancing the cause of Uni
versa Freedom by aying it with that Of Prescription
will prove baseless and deusiye.