New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-25
rrom The Bnfalo pemoeraep.

"FURIosUs FCRORE sUO PUNITUR.' -rIto,y uaus-
lated, "men in a rage bite their own noses on" The
percussiOncap gilt.epauleted statesmen OF Missouri
the Majors, tie Captains almighty few OF that low
prade) the Colonies (numerous the Generals thick
s hairs on dog and toe Major Generals OF the highly
intelligent and carefully polished society of the trans
Mississippi Southwest recent y in Convention in Lex
ipgon. have fully manifested how it is possible for
men in a rage to make perfect fools OF themselves
Everything tremendous there, according TO
the ,elceraphc report. Southern proceedings are al
wnve tremendous The "excfement" among the
Coionos Generals Majors and Captains was tremend-
ous 10 less then twice. The " confusion was ire
mendous so the storminess OF The session. Every
thing was tremendOus-even the folly absuriity ana
Childsbness of the entire OCCASION these were more
tremendous than all else.
Think of it, nOw-the stupidity that sets mp great
six-foot two-nch fellow-pOmpOus with a self assumed
or bar-room baptized title OF " General -herce WIN
erea; wbiskers, and "a carefully cultivated martial
rowland actually fires out of him in bomb-shell
sle an offered resolution TO exclude by taxation the
products of Massachusetts, from the State of Missouri,
for that Massachusetts, will not catch Kentucky mig
gers Not 20 talk of the unconstutonalty of such
Pro-Sayery revenue arrangement, consider Its folly.
1t proposes TO stop the supplies of the neeessanes OF
life Of this very creature, and OF his brothers ana SIS
tiers and friends and neghbOrss Missouri does not
manufacturer She has to buy, or go naked aud
wretohed. But all the manufacturing States regard
Dgger-catching with equal repugnanee' Tehera,
Phoebe of Missouri, therefore, Is Obliged to exclude aH
American manufactures from ms State. lhcre are
Bntisb fabrics To be sure. But England not only
rsses to catch slaves but enancipates all she mas
power over. So with the French. But France ana
England are out of the Union, and not bound by the
"Compromises of the Constitution. Then comes
a difficulty not anticipated by the Generals aud
Majors of the Southwest The manufacturing States
Of ihs UnicT are the importing states. IL Missouri
wants Manchester or Birmingham Lyons or rariS
fabrics she has got TO buy them IN philadelphia New
York or Boston She has not the choice OF going to
New.Orleans for them, nor TO savannah nor to
Charleston. They have lots OF slaves there, ana
carefully -chershed Savery-but no ships, no Euro
pean trade and no present visible means oil ESTABLISH
ing direct European trade. Does not General Phoole
see that his resolution beside being sei-njurOus, IS
impossible of execution Missouri would become rs
ragged as Lazarus and more impoverished than JoD,
she undertook to accomplish the pohcy reconnehu-
Cd TO her by the epauetted fools recently III OVnfen
ton at Lexington. e.
There would have been no harmony IN this affair." IL
some Colonel after hurricane OF Missouri ei0quehce,
had Lot passed through the Convention Iesouon -
suppress Free-Soi opinions and publications. IN the
Central Slave States. My per ussiOn-cap friend, you
night well bag the winds that sweep your states
psniesas well chain and hopple the laws OF gravita-
non as the great law of freedom OF thought ana III
Republic the consequent freedom Of expressed opinion
hnow too, military Sir, (iseus non iaeeHdo/ that
i1ei resolution sOws civil war in the South. lou arc
10, al Of you fools, all welded by actual or I'M
ssinefy interests to The system of Slavery. There are
toones and Generals who viii thirk aud speak thef
CONVECTION that unpaid negro labor is the baIe of the
prosperity OF The South, aud wno will avow their I'M
Ruhngness to transmit II rs the has of social econ
oomy 80 their children and their chdrens children.
lou Colonies and Generals will come by the ears You
PAD better be careful how you pass such resolutions
They are wholly useless, utterly mpraeticable-but
hey are dangerous too. They lay the foundations of
an in,Iuisiiorel violence in Your own society which
wil 80 Tar toward bloody issue Of this slavery oues.
tiOn. '' -
The folly OF these ePauettes is harmonious one II
runs through their ideas Of Trade Commerce Society
foincs, Finance and Law. Slavery is blessing not
cure. Yet IL Is a curse too-to be ameliorated Inv
expansion: natural settlement of Territory il by
Slo"ing The citizens of neighbOrng State to le,,is
ia's ioI ~ A refusal to allow State officers and STATE
ivpery 70 be used by the United States Government
~ s new business of negro catching is declaration
y. nvs'iy against the Constitution How
msgnineeniiy General Phoebe of Missouri must have
Pne9 'ne vocal on that word when speaking 10 the
.ssolnnon And then that hreadbare threat ef de.
sosuSn Of the UniOn-the browning lie and impudent
ssp snsaf Of all savedriyng convocaons We x;.b
nom the bottom Of our heart thar n;Snno siT1
Ses slapped to these people for just two years Oh or
~ ney would sicken Of il. W;,b;y ~ Gu 60,
he ~ ie operation from every Slave S,.,a ,a -
a. s men hurryng North with por,shIs ~ woua
"eeaslng tide Of emigration would 40, ~ PC ::