New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-17


which 10 amount Of disloyaty to the Union, however
plainly utt 0ki at all compromised national pOpu-
arty The trained masses of the free States have been
kent IS the mere retinue and tail Of savehodng poll
ticisns ausrreIing tooth and nail wh.ever party
.lsnc-whang pitched into their throats 1t is not
chiefly to recall an odOus transaction that the alusion
to the Hartford Convention is so often msde. but to
cas-: odum IN advance upon any concerted movement
in tie free States rid the National Government Of
the in;olerable domnstiOn of the slayepower though
We believe Tlc P0rtiand irguS, paper largely circu
lated IN Mac iOnald's district. ard which published his
sreech still continues TO tell the story OF the Federal
st burning blCe-lights the coast in the last
10 attract the enemy and furnish leaders for the
treason concocted at the Hartford Convention.
But the fact is the odium of voting for the Nebraska
bill is so much greater that OF attending the Hart
ford Convention, that if Mr.. Macdonald is able to
conceive of any future beyond the next election aud
before the day of judgment, he would be somewhat
appalled, to estimate the oboquy which. during all
that interval will accumulate upon the heads OF such
of his companions in the Nebraska iniquty as have
sufficient standing or talents 10 make it worth while
to remember them.
Mr. Macdonald gives il as bisopinicn that the North
generally, and all East of the Hudson, excepting the
three orthies (of whom he is one go against the Ne
brasks bill because they hare orgiren the South
=. fov being the birthplace Of Thomas Je6erson'"
most unnatural quarrel certainy-and no way to help
II. The South can't take that back, any how. The
birthplace coudn Mt be changed now, could it, by act
of Congress Perhaps We might prove in some Court
Of law the lrishmsns allegation with regard to him.
self that he got swapped in infancy. There is some
thing odd too in Thomas Jefferson being born at the
South-the author Characterization that all men are
created equal "a declaration which has infinitely
perplexed the settlement of the Slave queston-mover
and author of resolutions in the old Convention that
would have settled the rights of propertyn the Terri
tories and States too. quarter OF century ago, but
for the lack of single yOte-wrter OF the remarkable
sentiment which our member from Maine may have
heard in some of the Abolition meetings he sometimes
frequents for his amusement. "he almighty has no
attribute that take sides ruth the master against
the attempt OF the slave TO secure his emancipatonb by
force The facts just now, the North is in no mood to
twt about peoples rth-paces-the " East of the
Hudson especially. Being accountable to posteri-
~ for having furnished with brth-places Stephen A.
Doagias and Franklin Pierce, not to say Moses Mac
donald if the Devil himself had beenbOrn in the South
the North would be discreet enough not to mention It,
We are further informed by this orator that The
NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE opposes the bill, leads the OPP
position against it, and that OF its conductors docs
mot believe in the doctrine of future rewards aud
"punishments." We are unable to see why any sus-
picion the Editor of TIE TRIBUNE may have OF the
existence of hell herceter, should incapscitate this
Journal from any form of constitutional opposition to
the sending of hell fto Nebraska. We decidedly Ob-
% laUif inn tn M
tcal influence by sneering at anyregious creed; but
if it is permissible TO compromise in matters theolog-
ca as well in matters political, for the sake OF ac-
commodating we will consent that there should be
mild form of damnation for northern representatives,
that betray their constituents and Democratic states
men that deliberately curse with Slavery the infancy
of n empire Ii men can do such crimes in spite of the
fear of ,fufure punishment" that fear might as well
be abandoned a motive to influence human conduct
In common with the great mass of pro-slavery
Democrats Mr.. Macdonald is quite sensitive TO what
he terms the violent denuncations OF the northern
CLERGY" He thinks all political actlon ON the part
of ministers unwarrantable. though they did very
good Office in le5O, in preaching acquescence IN the
Fugitive Slave law and subsection to the powers that
be- as the ordinance OF God. Even now, if they
would Interfere in politics upon the other sde their
assistance would be received with the warmest well
come and they themselves covered with iusome adu-
lations Ii is hard 10 why studies IN morals ana
religion and lives spent in the application OF the prn-
cipes of Justice and rectitude to human conduct,
should any more ncapacitate from the pursuits OF
politics than the trade of making Justices writs and
fighting the low squabbes OF county courts, trade
which has long had almost the monopoly OF the busl-
ness of the national legislation The American clergy
have now in fact quite redeemed their reputation and
occupy they have not before since the Revolution
position of commanding influence and moral power.
The rage with which such Douglas resent their
simple manly, Christian protest against the gigantic
yillsny of the Nebraska bill. shows how much their
power is felt 1t is the language which the very
presence OF goodness and truth always wrung from
the tortured conscience OF wickedness. 'Hhat hare
..Ifo do nuh thee thou Son Of God Art thou come
.hither to torment us before the tmel'
But Mrs stowe swears terribly IN ULcle Toms
Csbin-worse than army in Flanders" An
extract however is here required to do our Degberry
justice:
Evil communications corrupt good manners, and IN
this mus remark that have been surprised
tie silence the religions press regard To the pToan
" which marked feature Of that celebrated book
Uncle Toms Cabin. surprise only equaied by my
amezemen: that the author female should have shown
herself in the dialogues contained IN her book such an
adept in that vulgar habit,
'WhicA i r.thsr brave polite wis
VI IL mv opinion these c.ergymen would be prop
cry emI loved in strong endeavnr to resist tins tide of
profanity guarding the morals Of the land than IN this
work # stirring up sectional Jealousy and heapng upon
Congress their low abuse.
This is d most feeble exhibition of envy and spite
sc.ir.. . claimant and o. it.d woman rontemDtl0usy