New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-17
AN Ey-GOyERNORs LOGIC.


at the cost of truth. The opinions of Ex-Gov-
ernor Hunt are worth just the reasons on which
they rest, snd no more. He is Of the opinion
that "the violation of the Missouri Compromise
"was a great wrong, and an Unmtigated calam-
"ity," and that " if ii had been the deliberate
" oct of the whole Southern people, separation
"would have become unavoidable" Here is
an express concession that the North has sut-
fered ga great wrong" And here is the fur
Their concession that if the South, as ga sec
ton" had done the wrong, ga separation
docs he mean dissolution of the Union y
"would have become unavoidable" But he in
sists that the violation of the Missouri COmpro-
mise " was the measure of party and not of
section" This we contend is false to the
truth Of history. The simple fact is, that it
was the measure of section and of party;
and that the party allied itself to the section,
and obeyed the will and did the work of the Sec
tiOp, solely TO maintain its party ascendency.
The Elk. Governor is a lawyer. He kaOws that
the constituent is bound by the act of ais repre-
sentative, which the law imputes to him-QHi
fdcit per alum fdeit per Sc, is maxim he has fire.
quently applied in his practice at the bar. When
Schuyler issues fraudulent certificates of stock,
be knows, as the Courts have again and always
decided, that they are deemed to have been
issued by the Corporation whose officer he was.
He knows that the entire body of political cor
porations of the South, by the almost unaui-
nous vote of their representatives in Congress,
repealed the Missouri prohibition, and therefore
it was the act Of that section. He knows that
the South is united to-day, and inilexlble in its
purpose not to permit that wrong to be repaired
by restoration of that prohibition; and yet, In
the face of facts Of universal nOtorlety, aud
which no sane and candid man pretends to deny,
he has the ttmerty TO assert that the wrong
was not done by "sectiOn." The South called
for the act-did it-approveS of IT, and declares
its purpose to adhere to it; and yet, forsooth,
it was not the act of the South
But whoever did the wrong, what is the rem
edyl Shall we call upon Jupiter to lift the
wheel out of the rut Will the wrong, by some
occult natural law, without human Intervention
slough itself off and work out the healthy right
If old Wings, if Northern men, initiate the Ex-
Governor and pass their days "in the more ge-
NAL occupations of rural life" will Slavery
stop south of the Missouri line No; even Mr..
Hunt will not say this. AS a man practiced In
aiairs, he knows that the forces of the world
thought and action, purpose, plan, combination,
organization, work-must achieve the redress
OF one Of the most fragrant and gigantic political
wrongs recorded in modern history, or that it
must remain and grow more and more intOlera-
bic forever.
COncediDg, then, that something must be
said by way of protest, and something done by
way of effective redress. what has Mr.. Hunt to
PROPOSE A measure like as making revolu-
tiOns with rose-water. He knows that the
specific remedy for the wrong is contained in
one word-repeal. He knows that re-
peal can only be obtained by getting and keep
ing compscted together, by a common sentiment
and purpose majority in both Houses of
Congress. He knows that anything short of
that will be the merest child's play-the most
contemplate sham. Knowing all this, what
does he proposel Simply and absurdly this,
and nothing more: "An appeal to that por.
"tiOn of the Southern people who are still
"loyal to country and faithful to time.hOn-
"ored covenants, invoking them in the
"Dame of patriotism and justice to come
forward and aid in undoing the wrong of which
&" we complain, and in restoring that natural
confidence and good will which impart to the
" national compact its true strength AID Its only
" value" Here is the potent remedy for our des-
perste political ill-hemeopathic, infntesimal, and
TO operate ward the close of the next century We
are TO invoke the aid of such Southern men as dis
approve of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Who and where are they Call up spirits from
E" the Vastly deep They were called for when the
Nebraska bill was before Congress; they were
called for at the KDOw-Nothing Convention at
Philadelphia; they have been called for at each
Southern poll during the recent Congressional
elections. and they have not appeared. AT this
rate. at what remote age in the infinite future
shall we reach that goal to which Mr.. Hunt so
blaudly and smilingly points US
Mr.. Hunt objects to an abandonment OF Wing
principles but what are those principles tie
says that "to cement the bonds of union by
"just regard for the rights of every sections TO
"maintain the national character by the obsery-
lance Of justice in our foreign relations;
"to guard against executive abuses and en-
croachmepts and to promote the moral, intel