New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-23
A LESSON AND A DUTY.

6Ilsm OF tnt sldNtullftfr, suC1 as Ougub lvi-
ever TO estop them from Directing to section
slism in others. To these embarrassing a.
legations their friends and apologists the Boo
hoos perhaps will reply; "Oh yes, We ad-
" nit all that. We admit that for the first
" eighi-snd-fOrty years under the Federal Con-
stitution sply three or four chance and scat
ste ring electoral votes were thrown south Of
/" the Potomac for any Northern man for Pfesi-
"dent. We admit that the accession to the
Z" Presidency first OF the elder and after an in
tervsl Of quarter Of century of the younger
Adams threw the entire South into tie most
"Siolent political spasms, only relieved BY the
% throwing up from the stomach of the body
polite of those two Northern intruders after
- the service by each Of but single term. We
" admit the long, rigorous and complete exclu-
- sion from Office under the General Government
1" Of all those who had preferred the Washing
"tonian national policy of neutrality, peace and
- commerce to the sectional slaye3riying policy
"of embargo, non.intercourse and war-grounds
which suffced to exclude from Federal Offices,
ever from those OF the humblest character, all
Northern men with too much brains too much
principle or too much sef.respect to be willing
" to play the part of mere dittoes and echoes to
"the sla7 ebolGers. We admit tbat Washingt N,
"tbougt national man himself proved utterly
'poweress to brir q the shareholders even of his
"oWn State over to bis liberal views; and that
Henry Clay in similar attempi to stem this
Southern sectional current suffered comp etc
political shipwreck. We admit that even Gen.
Jack sons iron will did with great difficulty
"drive up the shareholders to the acknowledge
"ment of the equal right Of the North to share in
"the Presidential Office and the benefits Of ,he
"General Governments thing not accom-
.plished without two successive Southern re-
"bslliOns; one on the part of the nu!lihers; and
CATER Mr.. Van Buren, had been nominated
"anOther aud more formidable one, including
"Gen. Jackson own State of Tennessee and a
Charge proportion of his earliest and most ar
"dent supporters, who had originally brought
"him forward for the Presidency mainly on the
ground of his being Southwestern man, and
"Who we're Mortified at the idea of his having
"a Northern successor"
"None Of these things" say the doughfaces
aud BcOtoOs-at least let US suppose them to
be candid enough to say sO-"are we able to
deny; but then please to recollect that all this
happened long, long time ago. This was in the
"day of our fathers, if not OF our grandfathers.
"Those were old, hard and troubled times
"But because the fathers eat sour grapes, is
sit therefore necessary that the teeth of the
"children should be set on edgei Why look
$50 aDxiously into the past 1t is the present.
"it is what has happened within our own time
"aud our own memory with which we have to
"do By that concurrence in the election of
"Mr Van Buren, to which General Jackson
"droye them up, by the support which they
"gave to Mr.. Van Buren, for reelection, the
" Shareholders, at least those of them who con-
"tiuued to act with the Democratic party and
"who stll, 10 spite ofthe secessions above noted,
controlled Sjority of the Southern States,
"must be considered as having fairly renounced
"their old narrow sectiOnalism, must be con-
"sidered as having fully admitted the political
equality Of the North, which acknowledgment
they have since carried on, by having fairly
shared with the North the Presidential Office
what we aim at, say the BoohoOs, sis to keep
sup this aniable ard fraternal state of things
"True magnanmity requires us to forget past
"iDiuries and 10 be satisfied with having at last
" obtained justice"
Willing 10 make for our friends the BOohoos
the best case possible, we have put the above
remonstranee into their mouths. With fire.
eaters who hold revenge to be duty, and who
reckon applicability as one of the highest of the
virtues, these considerations would not be likely
to have much weight, even admitting the facts
to be as stated. But upon the peaceable and
good. natured people of the North, the Christian
humility of whose demeanOr the savedrvers
have too often misconstrue1 into serviity, they
would be apt to make considerable impression.
We are therefore driven to the necessity of
inquiriDg what are the real terms upon which
Northern men have been and now are admitted
by the Shareholders to participate in the Presi-
Dental Office IL yielding to us the trappings,
have the slayedrivers slso vouchssfed to us the
substance of authority Is it true that from
the time of the election of Mr.. Van Buren, slave.
holding sectenalism has retired from the scene
Is il true that since that time the Democratic
party has so far renowned its Southern sectional
character as to obtain the right of rebuking an
alleged sectionaism in othersl
simultaneously with the nomination of Mr..
Van BureD, new political cry was raised at
the South, a cry ever since OF great potency in
our politics. That cry was: 1.-THE Abolitionsts
care upon US SlayeholdiDg is in danger " If
not started this cry was undoubtedly taken up,
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