New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-15

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,ss shield Il positive law jecrccins L 70 Freedom
s,.,,ss A tANes nov siSad u will rapidly hll viii
s.,,s.rs. al standing upon platform Of liberty aud
.,.,s,, AMI sNcn 60 Nscome ercst community cjYine
-, s,,,Aniase al this social and political condition.
- .esisNs rev illustration OF the immense superb
,ss, Al che tlre commonwealth Of our ccuicdoracy
.,r .srs, other faru II human government oxisting
MtAis critical msnont Che astounding proposition
,sses Aym The citifen whose anicccdcnts we have
Nee, traced and who ia nov President 70 repeal tho
.,ssssc which securcs Che immeasursbc blessings Of
erlam g. ths territory, and 10 establish therein the
sV sasltatiea ct African Slavery. Tho proposal Of
sssre ~, eay b. star,le the free States but to
rstse he SlsveholdUe members of the Union, and TO
sseSlsA wanAiad-Civilscd and barb lrisn-couserva-
ave ana raaicalmen of all celors nations and varieties
!. ri srlasoa Everywhere under thc whole heaven, and
IN even language aud dialect spoken among men, the
imposition Ia question will be received with equal
rse2sere OF iucrcdulity and smascmont The whole
wNTaa has been steadily advancing toward tho over
Arew of African slavery for more than century. Ma
te-s have abolished H. England has omancpatcd her
Mach populations France has dsne the same. Even
Hassia herself has abolished scrom in every territory
she has added 20 her empire since The beginning of the
nCsnc<a as pirscy by all ranons. The remains Of the
AAEASrisIs Of slave holding now lnger in the world
tser the protection of the decaying kingdom of Spain
M cf portion Of the States of this Union. AT such
ssine for the head of this Republican Government,
Aaseli citizen Of the Free States, to propose the ex
ssaion Of this world condemned institution into virgin
territory, eoEsecated 10 perpetual freedom ty solemn
legsation snd compact, is an act no less abomins-
he tSn would be proposition to reopen and re-
establish Slavery in any country where it has been ex
tnguised
But sha adds to the turpitude of the act aud sggra
Yates tie sentiments of hostility with which it must
eyerywhre be received, is the fact that it is wholly
without ocuse or apology. No crisis real or imagi-
nary, impads No danger threatens which 1t is de-
signed TO sert. No popular clamor has been raised
in its favor The slave interest, the only in the
country whielcoud be presumed capable OF initiating
sscs proposiicn has never demanded nor asked for
nor minated it expectation Of~uch boon. On the
contrary it has declared it has anticipated no such
thing. Even nov while the montrOus proposal is
under elaboration Southern shareholders deprecate
its suggestion and il many instances dencunce it. The
set is thus purely ad prominently gratutous. The
proposition comes an uninuenced, deliberate, vol
untary offering the part of the Presl lent The rec
ords of the world will be searched in vain for a more
inexcusable and astounding act. We will notsay more
wicked for we will b,lieve that it is more owing
to weakness of moral aud mental perception than to
the diabolcal wickedness Se should be otherwise
strained to impute TO its anthOr. We caunot believe
that any living in the fee States out of the State
Prison, is so bad such "a act would afford Prima
faeie evidence of his being.
No view Of Slavery or of the African race that can
be taken on either side Of the question: at all miti
gates the enormty of the ofense. Nobody will pre-
Tend that Slavery is either pecuniary profitable in
any way desirable in any territory north of the south
ern line of Missouri Let it be admitted that the heel
OF the negro foot long, and ais skull an inch thick
that he belongs to an inferior race and utendedby
the Almighty TO be in subsection to the white man
that lie is barbarian, and incapable Of civzatOnand
that his bappiest possible condition is state of sla
very Admit all this and every other absurdity that
can be bucked to the back of this abused subject aud
it all affords no shadow of apology for establishing
Slavery in Nebraska On the contrary these very fea
lures present the strongest argument for excluding it
therefrom.
1t il perfectly well understood that the great draw
back upon the growth and prosperity Of Maryland,
Kentucky and Virginia is African Slavery. Its
existence in all those States is depiOred by every
intelligent man in them, 1t is felt and acknowledged
by all their best citizens that it's removal to-day would
double the value of every of land therein and give
stimulus to their advancement that would be felt to
their remotest extremities. The incubus Of Slavery
alone retards this advancement To all these States,
as well as to Missouri, Slavery, in mere economAa
point of view is unmitgated curse, and is recog
nized and admitted to be. IL would be
swept out Of existence in each AMI all of them tomor
row if could be done without shock to interests and
relations that are interviewer with every thread of the
vast web Of society Under such circumstances, what
shall be said of the proposition to establish it in new
communities, soon to come in as States similarly stua-
ted in regard to this institution those have
merated 1t is monstrous and totally without excuse
or justification even when looked upon from the very
lowest point of view of proslavery men. As Pract-
cal question having reference merely to The gross ma
teral interests of the Nebraska and Kansas Territories
the admission of Slavery therein must in all quarters
of the country whatever opinions may be entertained
upon the Slavery question be considered the greatest
calamity that could befall them.
Let it not be said that the Nebraska bill is not pro-
position to establish Slavery in free territory 1t Is
bald falsehood to assert any such thing. The bill is
plain proposition to make one if not two slave Staeson
territory now free aud where only free States can be
made unless this bill shall pass To repeal the Mis-
souri, Compromise is to make Kansas at any rate, and
probably Nebraska slave State and it is this very
thing and nothing else that the bill intended to secure
just msnifesty if the purpose were declared on
the face ofthe bill in terms, and everybody who knows
anything about the subject knowst. All the talk about