New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-04

been encountered; for the Const ution tseity recog
pizee the right Of each State 70 make its own laws IN
this respect snd no portion Of the people
in any section Of the country have sought to in
terf re 9TH the exercise of that right Bat when the
SLAVE holding interest has endeavored to extend the
local Law which gives IL existence bsyond lts legt
mate Liis then collisions Of eBne1t and Of action
have arisep in the Free States aud Territories There
have been three great occasions in the history of this
country in which the Federal Governmeot has been
compelled TO d. eide The question whether ,he savehod
ing inerest should shouid not extend its local lag
and by is force establish Slavery in new Territories
in which Slavery then had no existence.
IMr Raymond entered at length into the hietory
and effect of slavery Legislation. We are unable
from want Of room. to prin. his remarks. he cen
Guided by sayiDg,l
Since tie principle Of compromise has been an.
RULED, we must go back to tue principle Of right
Since the precedent of 1920 his been destroyed We
must go bt ok to the precedent Of 1857. Ii would
have been wei for u If we had never len that ground
but that mistake is past remedy. All that ~e can
do il to regain that position a. soon az possible
We must prohibit Slavery in ksDsss and Nebraska,
By positive Law. We must refuse the assent Of Con-
gree, when that assent shall be asked TO the divi
sions Of California and Texas, for the fornson OF
new Slave States. And we must refuse assent TO tue
sd isson OF such States into the Union when the sp-
plcation shall be mare. We do no wrong to Slavery
by tuch acton this. We do not touc in the least
any right guaranteed to il by the Constitution. We
only defend ourselves against its encro schmens, and
secure our National Government from falling under
its supreme sDd complete control That il Is our duty
TO do; for Mr. Calhoun himself declared, aud he
never uttered Dobler truer sentiment, that he
"beId the obligation to rep,i aggreis'On not much
"less solemn than that Of abstsinng from making az
" eression; and the party phieh 'Hbnas 10 u rhea 1t
can Je resisted TO be not much less guilty and re-
sponsibe for consequences, than that which makes
ait.
GEORGE II. ANDREWS, the Wing candidate for
Congress in the With District next introduced, and
said tina, he did not appear before the meeting a.
candidate for their suages but as one OF themselves
Kings County mao, and a resident OF that section
which would soon be the Eastern District OF the vide
spread and growing City Of Brooklyn He then took
review of the acts Of the present Administration as
compared with that Of President Fillmore during the
course of which he strongly advocated the Homestead
bin and condemned the Nebraska outrage.
After calls for Culver. the candidate for City Judge,
Col THORPE Of Louisiana, came forward and adj
dressed the audience. He was followed by other
speakers when the resolutions were put and carried
with the unaDimity which had characterized the
mt citing throughout.
The speakers were all listened to with marked at
tentop and frequently elected the rapurous applause
of the audience, which was one OF the largest and
most ORDERLY assembleges that have convened in
Brooklyn during the present canvas.