New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-17
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM WILLIAM GooDELL.

ANOTHER LETTER FROM WILLIAM 6ooDELL.
T. u. Estv If TasN Y TrisEa<
SIP; thank YOU ior publishing my letter. thank
YOU or your response to it, and for your prompt and
manly correction of your mistake concerning my sup
messed political pr.judees cannot help dieress!ng TO
;hsrk vou for your able assault against the Pcsoce
monopoly in which you maintain the views wneh, as
YOU NAV remember were incorporated by ,he impracu
cables along with Abolition. inalienaoic homestesd
and free distribution Of public lsnds into Their nuch
derided Liberty League. in 1871 II ihe people ana
their fortunate ayoes will only learn that our lnprae
rrabiliries are practicable, We shall not stop "
contend what party names, organizations and leaders
shall have the honor and the Offices to be gatefu ou vi
tsern We understand weli enough that there are 1913
of h.r in store for sOKc5Ody. So, let an concerned
keep wide awake, a2d beware lest they come IN "a es
behind the nick OF time for laying hold OF them An
hour too late may be even worse than beiuS seven
And now Sir. allow an old acquaintance, of 50 nearly
twenty years stsnog the opportunity oihankng you
for thing or tao mOre-ior the privilege of asking
question or two and getting direct answers 20 them
do desire very much TO know er0cg how TO understand
you in respect restoration OF the Missouri Comprc-
mise" had understood YOU la propose IT, You now
seem 10 GisclG.m H. Can be certain that 1t is SO You
would have the Nebraska bill repealed You would have
restriction against slavery north OF the line 30 far,
ye~y we'll But in securing this would you consent to
the understanding expressed implied, that Slavery
shall be permit onth OF the line Would not this be
&" entering into compact with Slavery or re-
vvinc en- old one :! Bat docs yor plan contemplate
or provide restoration of the northern ressrctior
without restoration of the southern Nermssi0a Would
not such restriction unless otherwise explained De un
derstood TO imply such permission Could you expect.
the Castle Garden assistance yn are seeking, with
such explanation to be clearly expressed in your pro-
. csed legislative act. which should not be ambiguous
will not press other questions that occur 20 me-
would rot ;respass your e your space or your read
ers. Yet LEI say that your assumed position hat we
nave no righul power over Slavery IN virginia and
Alabama than over Slavery II Cuba and Brazil, hold to
be sre assumption, and that lies s the bottom OF the
difference between Itct issue an ready ana
eager debate with any competent opponent; orally or
! in wiring, before the public at short notice.
If Won still insist giving little band OF 800
500 impractcables the credit of having worsted the
whole array OF "practicables connected with You
when you have carried your presidential sectlon anu
when You have failed OF doing so by hundreds OF thou
sands shall cite it signal homage 10 the power Of in
considerable minoresa triumphant reiustion of the
fsllacy that "mejoriiies ideniica! with success
IL YOU still think that among our twenty-five millions
there ere five thousand impartial persons who believe
cscendqncy of the party whose riumyiraate of embod
"ments" had just given the Fugitive Slave ba and
commenced is despoic enforcement woad have secured
us from the Nebraska bill would not seek 10 unsetue
your confidence That previous Congress conH have
done whe he present has DONE is indeed certanas
certain thai consequents cannot come before their
antecedents nor effects before their csusesas GER
tam as that the present depths could not have been
reached without the last preceding plunge in the same
direction The lower that either Of the parties dcscends
the lower must its rival deve to defeat IT, The party new
or ol that without any Anti-Savery platform, broader
or rnarower-suppiants he present, must by neces-
city ressees the laws OF sravita'on sink deeper st
With two more expressions OF my thanks, VIII
close thank you for your alusion to the Temperance
cause" and thank you for not claiming sfter all that
the Name Law carried in the absence OF any Tempe
perance platform, broader And just e; me
remind you the long and struggle between the
practicable" and the impraccables an the Tempe
ranks resulting in the triumph Of the later "a ieeoe
band and opposed by the leaders OF the state aud Ma
tiona Temperance Soeiees aier years "a obloquy and
long Ii ofthe earlier parts of
that history are not familiar you If you unaware
that the present triumph of prohibition f Il has tri-
umphed comes in consequence OF that struggle and OF
| that victory ask Edward &. Delavan or John Marsh
They can tel YOU and whether " Messrs. Goodel & Co..
as YOU call them had anything to do with that struggle
and what il was and the result of it. The history might
be an instructive one II 81 have become fool in glory
ing" nv dear sir you have compelled me- and will al
low an old soldier the privilege Of fighting his battles
'o'er again. WILLIAM GooDELL'
| No 70 BsekMdsst June so, 1884