The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-10

cur judgnsnt have united and strengthened North
EN- sentiment In the anti alAvsry attitude which u
The South must remember that ths s,avsry question
has assumed political aspect and that lie decision In
wolves the entire character and tendency Of the federal
great material intsrsts Of the country has FOR years
CONTROLLED In greater or less degree every department.
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laws overru!ing judgss, making the executive its tool
and III the rights interests and powers Of the Other $50
and ita ambition. For years the North has seen and
ie the evidences Of this aggression in the whole
and tendency Of our federal legislation Its interests and
ia welfare have always been postponed and often sacri
feed to those Of slavery It's statesmen have been com
PEELED to hunase themselves and degrade their con.
relentless power. And yet the North has always par
doned at least tolerated, ito encroachmsnts psr
becaufe it was easier to do SO than resist them and
partly because it saw in them only desperate efforts at
self preservation. But the repeal Of the Missouri
compromise gave q new aspect to ths subject II b
modes Of conduct the part OF the
1t was seen TO be faithless we'll
e1ous 90 Well IS grssping II revealed new nece ssity
or withstandng ITS sggressons lest 1t should achieve
the predomnsncs 1t seeks and exercise power with
relentless selfsbness as it shows in its pursuits
The free States have political rights and interests at
stake in this matter and is in their defence and
their protection that this to the extension Of
slavery and the admission OF slave States put FORTH
When there but thirteen States, New York. even
in the Senate welded more than one seventh OF ma
topal power; now she has less than one fifteenth,
whole republic II her power is still further to
be curtalied. she asserts BIER right to a voice "a
common with ali the free States she refuses to
put another share of her weight and her pow
or in the nation into the hands OF the slave power to
be used for her degradation and for the overthrow
OF her best and most important interests. The free
states In their present AZ slavery movement only
resisting the sagressons Of slavery upon their political
rights. They aroused to the necessity of dong
by that startling act OF treachsry and OF wrong the
peal of the Missouri COMPROMISE The Louisville Jour
wa M IN VA fOn fOr fnrA.
saw the effect of the outrage and protested against It,
But the voice of reason and OF prudence was
grasping for imperial sway-the near and tempting
prospect of dominating the whole government Of
age, and OF making all its action home and abroad
subservient to that great interest which consists
in The ownership Of slavss-drove its repro
act which has aroassa .ganss shs o as
formidable danger has yet encountered The prize
The wheat crop of the United States estimated ut
hundred millions of dollars in 1890 the cotton at
about the same Any act Of legislation wbish should
cerned The aavehoding interest Of the South repre-
strange that this vast united
lutte az 1T isshoud venture upon the most audacious
acts which should promise greatly and instantly to aug
ment It's wealth. and to give permanent ascendancy
the nations of the earth?
The events moreover that are daily occurring on the
feh where this great contest must be cecided-the
armed invasion Of free Kansas by slaveholdng cru
sade, and the forcibs imposition of slavery upon its
son-the mobs murders and Wholesale violence BY
by which the slave power seeks there to overbear the
rights and to the interests OF thu States
only prove still clearly the absolute necessy of
81 and resoue resistance We rejoice 1t every days
indications that such resistance will DO msde-that
the free States will demand and enforce the renewal OF
the prohibition of slavery from Kansas and Nebraska
and that slave State will be admitted into the
Onion from within their limits And we ass those
Southern journals which aim to discuss this subject
upon its true grounds to bear in mind that the obect
OF such action is not the abolition of slavery in the
Southern States, but the protection OF political
rights under the constitution aud in the unon, from
the aegrcssons and encroachments of tns savetodng
interett,