New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-09
SLAVERY REsTRIcT1oN NOT SECTIONAL.

SLAVERY RESTRICTION NOT SECTIONAL.
A faint and feeble wall of opposition is raised
in certain quarters to the mighty gathering and
organization now going forward, Of the free,
self.directing Democrats of America. The at
tempt to rescue the administration Of our Gen
eral Government from the usurping hands Of a
slave-dIiving Oligarchy and their miserable
doughface traitor tools is denounced as sec
tonal. The party which it is proposed to form,
or which, to speak more truly, silently and
secretly formed in the hearts of the people, has,
like Minerva from the head Of Jupiter, leaped
suddenly forth armed for battle, casque on
head and sword in hand, in so many Northern
States-this new born party of Liberty and JUS
tice is stigmatzed as sectional, and by this mis-
cradle bugbear it is attempted to brighten the
honest and patriotic but ignorant and unthink
ing from joining it.
OF those who raise this cry of sectionalism
there are some doubtless who do it in all sinceri-
ty. Every despotsm has among its victims a
certain number of tmid individuals in whom the
bump of veneration is developed In such excess
that they cannot regard as at all short of treason
any and every combination for the overthrow of
the very tyranny under which they groas
TIE greater number however, of those who
start this objection are persons bound to object
at any rate-so long voluntary and AFFECT polit-
cal slaves as tn Aave become infected with sort
of fanaticism for making political slaves of 9TH
ers. Themselves emasculated, eunuchs as it
were in the Southern political seraglio, they
look with the envy and hatred Characteristic of
that unhappy class upon everything manly in
others, and willingly would, if they could, re-
duce every body else to the same pitiable condi-
ton with themselves.
As 10 this cry, however, Of a sectional party,
these poor people, these 'mean whites of the
Free Slater, may as well give it over, and
seek cut some other better adapted TO their
purpose; for to this charge against theopponents
of the slave Oligsrchy, of attempting to found
party on a sectional basis, there are two little
objections. In the first place, it is not true;
and in the second place, if it were true, there is
nothing in il at which anybody even with the
heart of mouse need be frightened.
A party, to make itself obnoxious to the
charge of sectiOnalsm, must be one which has
in view the peculiar interest of some one sec
tOn to the sacrifice of the interests of other
sections. Such is not the case with the oppo-
nents of the slave Ohgarchy. What they seek
to promote is the growth of republican, demo-
cratic Freedom-the doctrine and practice of
equal rights throughout the Whale Union-a
thing needed enough, 1t is true, at the North,
where we have so long been under the hateful
rule of the slave ling Olgarchy, acting AMI
represented by Mr.. Deputy Dcughface; bat still
mere needed at the South, cursed, blasted and
tIo6den under foot as the South has been and
still is by the still more hateful despotism, be-
cause holder and more relentless, of the Oil
gsrchy in person.
How then can this uprising for Freedom and
Democracy against the tyranny of aslave-driving
Oliesrchy be called sectional movement Has
not the restriction, the curtailment, the fua
abolition of Slavery been always the cherished
aspiration, the wish, the hope, the longing de-
sire of all the noblest spirits of the South
Were there no longer left any living man in that
quarter Of the Union to respond to and to take
share in this great republican and democratic
movement, at least there are those there who
from their honOred graves would and do shout