New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-12
COMFORT FOR THE BooHoOs.

The most Respondent and vocal OF our Boo
hoos were not personally in favor OF the an
nexation Of Texas They would rather have had
that star STAY out of our constellation, and they
submitted to its admission only, as they sub
NIT TO all the advances and usurpations OF
the Slave power, for the sake Of peace and TO
save the Union. They never welcome the ad-
mission Of Slave States for Slaverys sake, but
for the Unions, and always rejoice that the bal
ance is kept even by the cotemporaneous afmis-
sion of Free States Well, gentlemen, if the
annexation of Texas with Its Slavery was no
great blessing, would it be any great curse II II
should leave us Or suppose Georgia should
leave us, as she threatens in case kansas not
admitted with Slavery, and should take Florida
and South Carolina with her, would that be any
worse than the Instrumentation of Texas here we
add Free State and get rid ofthree Slave states
az blow. The slave power thus throws at our
feet as much as the result OF hall dozen OF
ia greatest victories. Is this very terrible Ii
the supposed sececing States had never been
embraced in the Union, failure to annex them
a, an Offset 10 free Kansas would not have been
very deplorable, would III
How likely faction which has always shown
so keen d relish for addition is to subtract three
States from its power, in revenge for being oat-
fled in its design TO add one more, must be lett
entirely 10 your credulity to decide. Ours Is
NOT sdeouate 10 the task. We only call your
attention TO the nature and degree of the evil
in case it happens. Weigh it well, gentlemen,
before you exhaust the briny floods within your
sympathetic and patriotic bosOms.
Possibly your fears extend to a more serious
subtraction, amounting to an entire secession of
the stripes from the stars. You are In awe lest
the Slave States, having gained and long re-
ioiced in almost unlimited power over the Free
States, should renquish the whole of that
power if lot permitted slightly to increase 1t.
In that case the Union will be suniered precise
" between Freedom and Slavery, and poor
Freedom will be left 10 make her way down
through the unexpOred tracts of future history
with an utter destitution of despots. What
might befal her in such untried circumstances
is doubtless sufficient to sgitate the profoundest
depths of your timidIty, aud to unseal fountains
there worthy Of the prophet jeremiah But first
consider whether the circumstances are at all
probable Remember how anxious all the Slave
States have always been to introduce into
our treaties with neighborng nations a clause
for the rendition Of their fugitive property OF
peculiar sort. The labors of our Federal diplo-
matists for this purpose with Mexico and Great
Britain have far exceeded the labors of Hercules
in numbers and siificulty. The Union, as nOS
interpreted and administered, embOdies such
treaty, or rather exists as such. Whatever
then may be said of distant Slave States, viii
those most powerful and pOpul0us ones which
border on Free States voluntarily give up this
treaty, now the sole pi actics guarantee of their
slave property, with certainty that they will
get nothing so good 10 place of it, Their sym.
pathies may 20 hugely with the States south of
them; but they are under bonds to the precise
money-value of their slaves not to yield to those
sympathies, and they are too poor to forfeit
their bonds. Is not this comforting thought
So long as the Fugitive Slave law exists as
the national Interpretation Of the constitutional
clause about escaping from service or labor due
in any State into another, the most abject OF
UnOn-Savers ought to be sure that Delaware,
Mary laLd, Kentucky aud Missouri will stick to
US. But suppose that law should be fatty re-
pealed; what then The States aforesaid, hay-
ing lost their guarantee, would be obliged to
diyest themselves in one way or mother Of their
peculiar property as soon as possible. They
would then come into the worlds land market
and invite emigrants from the Free States and
from foreign countries. Tn, rise Of their real
estate would soon richly compensate them for
any Losses on the unreal. The repeal Of the
Fugitive Slave Law and the absence of any law
for such purpose would at once make it for the
interest of every border Slave State TO become
Free State-it would in fact leave no alterna-
tive but that or ruin Thust is impossible that
in consequence of such repeal the Slave States
viii slough off in body. The physical, geo.
graphical nature of Slavery Itself makes it
sufficiently certain that there will be no dssolu
tiou of the Union, unless the Free States should
come 10 the determination to withdraw from
those which tolerate Slavery. It might not be
so difficult to find reasons for such determine
ton, but the Boohoo party may safely console
themselves that such thing will not be done
till the Free States have fairly tried their hand
at managing the Federal Government for the
purposes laid down in the preamble to its Con-
stitutlOn.
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