New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-09


"come when an opportunity will be offered
"to abolish this lamentable evil. Every
"thing we can do is to improve it
"if it happens in our day; if not let US transmit
"to our descendants, together with orr slaves,
ga pity for their unhappy lot and an adherence
"of Slorery." 81 can only say" wrote Wash
inptop, "that there is not man living who
"wishes more sincerely than do to see plan
"adopted for the abolition of it, ii. e., SlAyery;)
"but there is only one proper aid effectual
"mode by which it can be accomplished, aud
"that is by legislative authority, and this, as far
"os mn suffrage u1H 60 shall Hrer be ,eaHting."
In the earlier and better days Of Jefferson, be-
fore sectional ambition had spoiled him, it was
bis great and leading aspiration to set on foot
land in this Madison sympathized and cooper
ated with him) some such legislative measure
of emancipation as that for which Washington.
in the letter above quoted, pledged his influence
and his vote.
With this evidence before him can any one
doubt that at least these four Virginians are to
be reckoDed as Anti-Nebrasks, Missouri Pro-
hibtion meni They are dead, to be sure, in the
flesh, but are they also dead in the spirit VIII
any body undertake to affirm that among-we do
not say the people merely-but among the very
avebolders themselves Of Virginia the ideas,
the sentiments, the feelings, the aspirations,
the hcpes of Patrick Henry, of " ashington, of
Jefferson and Of Madi,on are totally extinct
Weknow that by the natural progress Of in
EQUITY the Shareholders Of Virginia have gone on
hardening their hearts, from shareholders aud
sIave.buyers merely, becoming slave-breed-
ers and slsve.seers Yet one righteous man
was found even in Sodom, and we cOnfd sntly
trust that in the South there will yet be found
even tie ten righteous men needed to save it.
1t ia very true that the fret decisive move
ments in favor ofthe new Republican and Demo-
cratic party have been made at the North. And
so Il was IN TIE days of the Revolution. The
outburst against every despotism takes place
at those points where that despOtism is the
weakest, and its presence the most keenly
felt. 1t ia true that the ferocious domination
of the aTe-drivers-suppressing as it does, so
Mar as opposition to Slavery and slave-driying is
concerned, the liberty of speech, the liberty of
public assembly, and the liberty of the press
has thus far kept down any movement against
Slavery and its extension within the limits of
the Slave States themselves. But how long, we
beg leave to ask, is this system of suppression
likely to be kept up with effect If the slave
holding Oligarchy with all the force of the Fed
eral Government in oil its branches to back it,
added to whole army of volunteer Northern
doughfaces, clerical and lay, has been so sgnally
beaten in every Northern State, how long, We
should like to know, is this same Oligarchy
likely TO maintain its domination un-
shaken in the border Southern States
IL il perfectly certain that Atchson is to rule
forever as dictator, with Stringfelow for his
master of horse, in the State of Missouri and the
Territories adjacent What Southern State of
the whole fifteen presents at this moment to the
friends of Freedom and Republication, and to
the opponents of the slave-driving Olgarchy, a
more unpromising field of labor, more discour-
aging prospect than New-Hampshire did, or Hill
nois did but a fev years agol Ii has turned
out, however, that the majority of the voters in
New. Hampshire and Illinois are very far from
being either Pierces or Dougases. New-York
and Massachusetts,, it has been proved, can fur
nish somebody nor only to set off against their
Marcys and their Cushings, but fairly to drive
them out Of the ring; aud the little borrowe
bantams of the Southern cockpit having been
thus plucked of their tail-feathers, who can say
that the natve-crowing cockerels-quite as
great at Growing as at fghtiDg-sball not yet be
driven even from their own dunghills, instead of
lordng it from those dunghills over us
Let the insolent slave-driying DULLES who
have so long domneered at Washington, to the
infinite terror Of men ready enough to shoulder
their muskets to march against rebellious slaves
fighting for their liberties, but without the cour
age or the spirit to strike blow for Themselves
let these DULLES be grapPled with at Washington,
as were the DULLES from the same quarter who
lately undertook to domineer at Philadelphia,
and let the doughfaces in Congress, the small
squad of them still left in the Senate, be served
as the New-York doughfaces were on the same
occasion, and we may expect soon to see in
more Southern States than one the long sup
pressed and trsmpled Democracy taking courage,
and daring openly to yindicate their right to act,
TO speak and to vote with the great American
republican anti slave driving and alti-slayery.
extending party. Already we have the secret
wishes and hearty prayers of thousands in the
very midst of the shareholders, even among the
very Shareholders themselves. Letus persevere,
and we shall soon have not merely their prayers
and their wishes, but their voices too, and their
votes.
THE ENGLISH NEWSPAPER STAMP.