New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-30

was law that legsliZed Slavery. Slaves were se'
free By the courts 90 this ground In 1926 a
case was decided where a Young man, born "f
slave parents in l773 and had been held 10
boIdace ever suce. IL was the HaGFn-Hs
decision Of tie Court tat the young man being born
- in this country could not be legally held slave
yet be born three years before the Declaration OF
fldtpcT Genee OF slave parents When therefore the
Declaration Of independence was made by the dele
gates Of all the Thirteen States and accepted and JOY
fully proclaimed in all the States, every slave IN tins
country could have gone from BIS master as the
colonies left he mother country and no legal power %
earth could lave prevented IL Yet they were as
much fTeemen by Nstuo any period anterior to the
Declaration W iich simply the announcement ef d
fact. That great instrument was no ACT OF
legislation IL was the announcement 0y lhe
legislators ard by the PeoPle-who are tae foln-
tain Of legslatoG-cf the laws of Nature, Il refer
alone TO the first principles Of the instrument and
their acceptance of these in future. their sole bass
Of legislation instead Of the authority of England.
II was declaration to the civilized world that Amer
lea no longer ie herself boUnd TO conform her enict
ments to tie arbitrary will Of any man or class OF
men. But abjurng -nd totally renouEcing authority
wLch claimed the right to enslaye and nations,
ami falling back upon the principles OF human nature
IT, lave Of equal justice and Of God which they had
been discussing for sixteen years, their enactments
should be made cOnfOrmsble
SO far az Savery is concerned eight cut Of the thir
teen States carried this grand declaration, and to-
tally eIsdicaied the despOtsm OF ssyehoding and
more than thirteen thousand slaves In the other i've
Ststes were set at liberty: and the evil would have
been by this day entirely oyerhrown as It was at that
tine proIhesed-(the year 1850 was announced by
one vnter)-Lad not tie Tory party By its secret
arts aid jesuitical designs gained the ascendancy
and control Of the General Government, d.
yided the North into factions, and made
use of these factions to the influence OF the bal
lot-tox.
Fl, III the day that the political Jesuits-the advo-
ates sud abettors Of arbitrary pOwer-attalned the
throne of government in America to this moment,
Slavery Las been gaining on the one hand, ana rec
&, IN has been losing ground on the other. Before the
coumencement Of the present century no man was re-
prosched for adyOcatlg the freedom OF the slave.
Atoliti,1iss rere known everywhere aud allowed
everyHh here. There We're known Abolition Societies
in Virginia and Mau land, which openly petitIoned
Congress v ith reference TO Slavery and can md no
lew.papers Of those times that assaed the friends OF
emancipation with oIprobrious epithe's Northern
papers were then afraid Of offending southern taste
BY publishing strong articles against sayehoding
Such men sy, Hamilton Gtuv. Morris, Franklin,
Rush Mif Jefferson Patrick Henry. Madison, Wash
peou sud all the other great and good men OF the times
were not med to speak and write for the freedom OF
the esave nor many of them to be the Presidents, wee
PfedeIt Secretaries other officers OF Abolition S0c
etss The patriot and the AboitOnlst were one. Every
phisnthropst espoXed openly the cause of the slave
d tie friends Of MspOtism-the Tcries-were quiet
their cpthfts their tongues We're never iO0sed to
sid tie venom Of bad names till there was triumph
0i & r power.
w is it nowl No man can repeat the language
of as noble forefathers without being covered with
the spttle of infinite scrpents tongues. Once IT was
destructive to any mans reputation 10 advocate Srbl
trs power in the streets OF Boston Now 1t is death
to Dis good name if be opposes II when the Court
House il in chains, or when two thousand soldiers
with drawn swords aud loaded muskets and cannon
march human being. whom tie Declaration of lnde-
renderce said was born free into perpetual Slavery
THERE'S mo>rous eapirom the one to the other. On
Sir s,re where in our course as Americans we have
abandoned the Whg principles Of 76 and gone back to
those ayowed aud always supported by the old Tories
To show where, and how is one of the main purposes
OF NY work. Your Obedient servant C. H. IL
L. f.fu Ana