New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-23

tr, of the Free ard the Slave States, aud he
~ill then be able to answer this q1tstioa for
bim.elf Surely he cannot doubt. however
much his question may seem - imply it, tast
the restriction of Slavery within its existing
limits, and its exclusion from II tse re naming
territory. Of the United States Will do great
deal for commerce. for ibsernal Improvements
for dome stic industry, and for the promotion Of
the general wtlfa'e.
SIS il consistent" so this long cs.echism winds
up with the example and teaching Of our Republi-
"can fathers, or with the 6ea Of Federal system.
"thst the people on one side Of the Potomac should
" combine Themselves inte party to take posses
" sion Of the Government of the United States y
To which we answer that it is perfectly consistent
both with the example and the teachings of our
Republican fathers, and with tie idea of Federal
system that the people on either side of the Poto
mac should combine themselves into party 10
protect themselves against gross outrage and
palpabe breach Of faith of which il is attempted
TO make them the victims and for the accomplish
ment Of that object to take possession Of the Gov
erBment If the United States, and to exclude from
any participation in the administration OF il all and
every person who has been q party to that at
tempted outrage and breach of faith, or who has
encouraged it by his vote, or given to it the sup
port Of bis silent acquescence. VIII Ar. Wash
ington Hunt dare TO say that this is not sol And
should this rule Of exclusion deprive Of participa
ton in the administration Of the Federal Govern
ment every single STAKEHOLDER in tho Union, pray
4. I - L. tkof faui toft tha nkor.
of the Fusion party or of the bafled and defeated
breakers Of faith The wrong and injury, the
thing really to be lamented and regretted-the
breach Of faith-hss been committed already.
Would il add anything to the regretful character
Of this occurrence that instead Of becoming step
pins-stone to power it should operate to exclude
from Federal office every individual who had given
it bis support
@Ifa Northern Anti-slsvery partys desirable"
the Ex-Governor goes on, it must be desired that
" ell the people of the Free States should enter
I" into it," Exactly so, Sir 1t is precisely the OBJ
ject of the fusion movement to combine all the
people of the Free States in party to prevent the
further spread and encroachments of Slavery.
"The very proposition implies that we are to be
'met by the people of the Southern States in solid
array" Are TO be met why, good Sir, we
are met already already the South presents to us
and has ever since the day the Kansas bill passed,
what nay well be called "sod array" in behalf
of that fraud and aided BY large column of
Northern traitors and doughfaces, it advances with
steady resolution to trsmple under its feet and to
exclude from Federal Office every opponent Of that
,candslous nquity including the great mass OF
the Northern people; and at this moment, the war
already fercely raging-at this terrible crisis when
every Northern mans vote is needed to repel this
Shareholders invasion, Mr.. Washington Hunt, in
his rural retirement at Lockport, turning lazily
and half asleep on his sluggards bed and at least
twelyemoDth behind the times, begs us not to
d" exasperate one part Of the nation toward the
other" and not to Danish those sentiments Of
friendship and brotherhood which gave birth to
the Constitution :"
If the Governor will look little into history he
will find that it was not sentiments Of friendship
and brotherhood" that gave birth to the Consti
tuition. The Constitution grew in no such rose
water-no such rosewater now upholds it. The
Constitution was reluctantly submitted to as q
dire nece ssty, forced upon the unwilling States By
the terror of internal commotion, of foreign inter-
ference and invason-by poverty, debt, distress
and misery-and the absolute impOssibilisy Of get
ting on without III and these are the more than
iron Inks that still hold and win hold Slavery or
no Slavery, this Union together, and not, as Mr.
Washington Hunt seems to believe the avoiding
ofense to the South by keeping the shareholders
goodnatured no matter at what price.