New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-12

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ii pleases and the North must yield all that is demand
ed on penalty OF separation II is sufficient rea-
son, says The Columbia Tinss for demanding the pas.
sage of the Nebraska bill that it excites the hOsi-
ties of Aboltionsts and Free-Soilers" That it does
so is regarded evidence tina. the measure is right
and proper and therefore 10 be supported" Let
tie North fume and fret, it dare not dissolve that
Union to which it is indebted for all its power and
gain We make another quotation from the Charles
ton panphlet:
The fall Of wages would be heavy and instantaneous
the Union dissolved for that even. would. we
have shown not only throw $50 100000 of upon
the NORTH but would withdraw 81 900 900 Of capital
which employs her labor. This loss would fall chief
would submit to decrease of profit but would send
part Of his capital TO the South where profits higher
until he had reduced wages at home to point which
would leave him nearly much clear gain his industry
before He would in this way escape the whole burden
Of the taxes and throw it upon labor"
Northern politicians repeat this doctrine, assur-
ing their fellow citizens that safety and prosperity are
rdissoluby connected with the maintenance and ex.
tension OF Slavery. which We are told is absolutely
necessary 70 the maintenance of the Union. Slavery
must be tolerated 10 all the territory open 10 settle
ment and organization, or the South will seceie.
Some of these politicians for the sake of candor
admit that but few years since they did desire to
preserve portion of the common territory exempt
from slavery but they their southern friends
they are most pentent and gladly admit tie error
Of their former course. Thank God, we failed - Is
the pous exclamation of one Of these gentlemen re-
Gently before the Senate Visiting confirmation 10 the
honorable office Of Charge dAfaires to Portugal
Anxious to bis Office he gladly proclaimed bis pen
iterce. Had re succeeded as he tells his country
men, the South would have seeded from the Union
Such was the cry in 1920 such it in $780, such
was il in 1850 Such il now is and such it will be
When the South shall demand the repeal of all the laws
which prevent he introduction Of slaves such into
the free States and those other laws By which the
African slave trade is prohibited and all concerned in
it are declared pirates. The proverb tells US that
little by little the bid builds its nest Those who
will study the course of proceedIg frcm the days of
Jefferson and Madison to the present time scarcely
fail to that the nestha been built little by little.
until it bOs arrived almost at the point of completion
that ii DOW needs little than to be covered in by
the passage Of brief law declaring that slaves may be
purchased anywhere and carried sreryrhere-and that,
Ito this complexion We must come at last"
More than thirty years since southern men com
mencfd their threats of dissolution More than thirty
years portLern have been engaged in saving the
Union and to accomplish that object they have not
only yielded all that has been claimed, but have
crouched before the men that spurned them Through
out all that period they have to the words Of The
Charleston Courier exhibited the base cupidty and
seryie trucking and subserviency to the South
which as that Journal informs it readers prevail al
most universally" throughout the northern States,
and with what result For answer to this question
refer readers to the following comments upon
Mr.. PafkeIs recent discourse which, az The Courier
assures it's southern readers
"Iruihully as well strongly details and depicts the
various occasions which southern interests have OBJ
tanned the mastery in Congress at least important ad
vantages phieh rel rorthy the consideration Of all
rho err0neousy suppose that Tie action of the General
Government has BEEN the whO adrerse TO Slarery. The
truth is that our Government although hostile in its ncpi
ency to domestic Slavery, and starting into political being
with a strong bent toward abolition. yet aerward so
changed its policy that its action for the most part aud
interest end eled 1t from six 10 fifteen States and from
feeble and sparse population to OF ten millions"
Harsh as this may sound to northern ears, ii is yet
most true and it affords to it's southern author full
rant for conpin,enting the sons Of the South upon
their unwavering fidelity to their own interests real
supposed What however, shall say OF the sons of
tie North-the "hucksers in politics. always ready,
as The Mrcury assures u.s. to knock themselves down
"o the highest bidder for northern with southern
principles Can we say aught of them but that
their has generally been marked by "cupidity
trucking and subservency to the South, by aid of
which the latter has acquired degree of control over
the operations of the Union contemplated by
the men who framed the Constitution
Sixty five years since at the date of the adoption Of
the Constitution there existed throughout the Union
scarcely any difference of opinion the question Of
Slavery. Washington and Adams, Jefferson and
Franklin, Hamilton and Madison Jay Randolph aud
Pibckney, all equally regarded it as blight and q
curse TO be exterminated at early period as was
consistent with proper regard for the interests of those
BY whom the slaves held. The policy Of the
government then naugurated tended, as The Courier
informs its readers toward abolition Twenty years
later the same opinions were still held by southern
mep as was shown by the debates in Congress the
subject of Slavery in the Territory of Indiana. The
war of 1912 directed by Madison and Munroe, was
emphatcally war of the southern and middle States
having for of its objects all enlargement of the
free territory of the Union Virginia did not then object
to the annexation of Canada, but at that time none
had yet undertaken to prove that Slavery among the
people was required for the establishment of perfect
freedom among their masters None had then under
taken to show that :" the love Of true liberty aud
"maDly independence of thought" could exist in no
communities except those in which men, their wives,
and their children were bought and sold like cattle in
the market The discovery Of this great political
truth was reserved for the generation succeeding
that which gave TO the world such men Washington