New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-23
NORTHERN COHSERvAT TIsy on TIE sAsi
TOGA CONVENTION.

Two or three of the more de'pers'e'y fiction,
the Silver Cray journals OF our State have essysls
speak sligbtngly or sDerrngly Of the donys ani ..
solves of the Anti Nebraska STATE Convention at San
toga; but they are not sustained in this bytSs
narrow segment of party The following leais
from yesterdays i-sue of their central organ. Z.
albany Register, approaches far nearer to au exprs
sion Of the views OF those Wbigs who distuyus
themselves as Conse yatiye. la fact those WI
have put most faith in compromises are ni.ar.A
most indignant and aggrie'ed when a compromise
wsntonly repudisted. But hear The Register;
1.-THE SARATOGA CONVENTION.
That the Saratoga Convention expressed in the M,
Il popular sentiment OF the State OF New-forS. no a
ligent man can doubt. The passage Of the Nebrnh
measure was wei calculated TO arouse the An,S.l,s1
feeling that was ls;ent in slmos. every noriherh M
bosom. Sprung npoa the people in time OF pr~iolain
pose they were taken by surprise. The mnnbers oC C
cress were elected without any possible reference u.
txigency that forced upon the country, aud u
absence the presxPessed opinons of their conaso
through the baoi.b xes, they were at WashingOn f
from responsibility they chose 10 understand It, fO s
violation Of what hey could not but vAs tho p)pdr
sentiment of the whole North. Had heir election tara,
mise end the opening up of the Tertiary north Of 80 ~
10 the advancement of slavery. DO not believe that
solitary men Der could have been elected from tls STA
whose opinions wors~poi de dedly in opposiioa %
Nor do we believe tn sYif the vote OF the Nebraska m.
ure had been postponed 10 the coming session Of CJn
one member of Congress from III STATE could have bee
by any possible inducement made % vote in he a.a
tive.
core thing is perfectly eviden'-that tho members
Cororess from the State OF Nes-Iork Who favored
passage ct the bill have done that which secnre3 tbs
utter poi iea prosira'ion for all ims to come. raq
not only encountered the III will OF their Old oppoihA
but they sack cd the moral ol their poaca relk
and forfeited the confidence be ore tepOsed IN hen s
between this open deuunciaoa the one hand and h.
cold but silent reputation the other, they viii nk
political graves which there wi be no rosureca
.ltwss supposed that there would be now psN
formed at Ssreoga, rather fusoa OF psrue' bsS\
upon II universally Of the Anii-Savery sentn ,n,S-
comparison of views auong the delegates conPSs |
the Convention showed that there in principle To-
little difference Of opinion to warrant the disturbing
present Ii 'ound that all psrIies ses
opposeo 10 the Nebraska measure opposed the erts
sion of Slavery; and upon ascersinns this all that ~
left TO do was 10 embody that sentiment give express
in firm and manly language, and GO home % gyeu p~
teal potentaliiy through he agency OF he balotboL
This Convention will admonsh all political puts
that success be hoped for, only by selecting cant
ates from among those whose opinions are not doabss
on this question. That the public sentiment in this m
pect is stronger than party ties or party discipline. Tbs
opposition 20 the extension Of human slavery has bcoa
settled and permanen, principle, fixed fac, 50 ff
this State is concerned and that will crush the polasL
fortunes of every man and every party that res,s
sway.
"The Saratoga Convention was useful in snoA1
respect. 1t will open the eyes of the Administrator
they bo opened to the true condition OF tho popar
sentiment Of tho North. 1t will make our Sol.1snI
brethren too aware Of the actual condition Of ,hagh
tie Free States Hitherto it has been supposed bJ,hb
the Administration and by the politicians Of the s,aa
that opposition to the abrogaiop of the Missouri Coz
promise and to the extension Of Slavery was cOnha
mainly to fanatics and Abolitionists whom they REGARDED
as powoross in whatever amount Of noise they n
make in the world. But here Conyeahsa
composed Of Delegates from all parts of the Ssr,
most Of whom men of calm minds al sober js-
nent representing all parties aud all sections and sls
ofparty who whatever differences Of opinion ghl s
between them in other respects, were unanimous Oit
question that called them together. This invention hp
constituted has spoken calmly firmly, in the esrne,n
guago OF conviction the pubc sentiment of the S,ed
New. York. 1t viii be listened to and respected d
into which the administration and the people oil
South have fallen viii be ted and all paetos csaEr
plainly and distinctly where they siud Il the sp
Gates OF the extension OF Slavery shall insist upon pa
that ins tuition beyond It's present limits they vii Iva
clearly against what they will have to contend. It Bh
sisted upon that free labor shall be ostei By Ssye
Territory consecrated by solemn compacts to frcean
that the balance Of the Union shall be made to depa
upon the admission Of slave States equipose TO s
by whose Constitutions Slavery has no lecnl ex m
then there is great contest in the future the beginH
OF which the SarGtogs Convention and the peopk
the whole country should know it.
From this time forward constitutional abstr actions,
not be the support the apology for the eSpansios u
human slavery. IL has come 10 be great practcdhe
one about which the people Of the North ere thorOaay
aroused On this subject in the present state Of tue p
lie sentiment, there can be more COMPROMISED II
past has proved them to be ropes Of sand and free
tons and slave institutions, free labor and dave ssr
must hereafter rely each upon its own strength. Ha
friends of slavery insist upon the principle Of o1psnin
contained in the Nebraska b then the struggle vl,
in earnest and the weaker must go to the wall.
1--WE were not among the orginators or tho adyOcses
Of the Saratoga Convention. We doubted its policy nj
dreaded the of hasty action, but nov ha
has been held, and look upon what it has done M
csnrot deny that it bas given n the language of tr
just ano frank expression Of the sentiments Of the ga
body CT the people Of this State. Sentiments which i@
with the spirit OF republican institutions are in sor
with the civilization of the times aud the sps
progressIn all that relates to human government "a
marks the age in which VIC i've"
An esteemed correspondent of Hibenian birth 10
exception to phrase in recent number of TsE TRr'f
and ia IA lefke fheroa hat in