The daily union., 1856-12-18
ABoLITIoN OF SLAVERY in THE STATES THE UL-
INNATE TENDENCY AND DESIGN OF BLACK RE.
prRIICANISM

their sectional creed and organization LIGHTED match
cast into powder magazine could not have produeed
greater explosion than did this shot produce in the Ere
mont camp Grave aud potent senators forgot the pro
prenes Of their exalted positions and iGuiped in ep
"sS o' V'uperauon towards the President which Gen
srsl Rusk very pontedly told them would make a
record Of senatorial literature at all eredtabe to the
body. These gentlemen will find boweyer-iE indeed
they bave not already oHndthat their artillery has been
directed against bomb-proof battery The President
spoke the plain TRUTH and it was the truhfuness OF what
he said that made his message effective in exciting the
indignation Of the blacE-republican champions They
have been compelled since to hear, day by day, the
most oyerw helrnns replies to their assaults and the
most whitening rebukes OF their passionate abuse of
the President They have been told TO their faces by the
venerable patriot and statesman from Michigan that the
legitimate tendency of their proposed measures is to inter
iere with slavery in the States and that persistence in
their sectional agitation is endangering the Union It
an insult to the common of the nation for these gem
emen to suppose that they escape from the de-
ductors fairly drawn frem sentiments dgain and again
uttered by them and from measures to which they stand
fully and repeatedly committed, and that they now
limit their seconalism to the prevention of slavery in the
Territories. When they eated with the trumphs
which they achieved in 1855 by the help Of know nothing
ism they made record, in the face of which they cannot
now change front and avoid its true import and response
by. They may bluster and denounce President Pierce
but this will not expunge the record which fully vind
Gates the truth of the arragnment which he has sub
iected them.
In repelling what they aege is unjust imputation
OF the President the republican champions suppose
ind 10
they recognise the legality of slavery in the States where
1t EXISTS and that there is nothing in their platform which
goes beyond the claim the part Congress to exclude
it from the Territories But suppose were defnvey
settled tomorrow that slavery should exist hereafter in no
Territory, will any of these leaders say that that
would be the end of slavery agitation? Would there
then be no further opposition to the enforcement of the
fugitiVeslave law? Would there be no more memorials
and discussions about slavery in the District of Colum
ba2 Would the clause in the constitution which gives
an increased representation in Congress by counting three
fth Of the slaves to be subject of denunciaon
Would the institution of slavery to furnish theme
for anatical abuse of the South We hardly suppose
that any candid republican would any of these
questions airmaively Every sensible knows that
opposition to the extension of slavery has been adopted as
the present issue because of its presenting the strongest
PLATFORM but without the remotest idea of abandoning
other questions 10 which the leading republicans are
rs fully committed and as resolutely welded 1t is
not necessary, however to indulge in conectures on
this subject when we able to appeal to positive
proof Since the pending debate in Congress COM
menced and whilst the assaants of the President were
seeking to escape from bis arragnment by dscaming any
other object than the exclusion Of slavery from the Terri
tories their New York organ the Tribune has lifted
the curtain and given distinct view of the ultimate
designs and objects Of the republican party After con-
ceding that the constitution recognises the legality of sa
very n the States and admitting that Congress has no
power to interfere with 1T there Mr. Greeley in the Tribune
Of the 18th inst, proceeds:
awe hold that we have the same right to interfere with
slavery in the slave States with intemperance gambling
centousness and other fashionable vices We have right
to do all we can In the way OF percussion argument
ty and by the exhibition of facts to induce the slave States
to give and abolish slavery This doing and
to do henoeorth But do expect and claim no
right to essay, the abolition Of slavery otherwise than
through the convictions and action Of the people
OF the slave States"
This is said with the habitual frankness and boldness
Of Mr.. Greeley. BE does undertake to practise fraud
the country by pretending that republcansm has no
other and further design than to exclude slavery from
the Territories he speaks out boldly and notifies the
North and the South that there is to be no peace
the subject of slavery until It is abolished in the
States He regards its exclusion from the Territories as
the first step to be taken bat when that Is taken does
not say that epublicansm has executed it's mission and
then TO be dsbanded He does rely upon an act of
Congress for the adjustment Of slavery in the States
that is absurdity that very few but he re-
lies upon -agitaton-contnued agitation until
the southern people shal abolition themselves
Which Of the congressional champions Of black repub
canism will say that Mr. Greeley has spoken the SEN
timen and disclosed the purposes of his pary2 If any
of tender conscience has been seduced into the party
upon the idea that sectional agitation would cease II sla
very excluded from the Territories that there
ultimate design to effect its abolition in the States let
him be warmed Of his by Mr. Greeley lie is the great
awgiver Of black repubcanism, and he procaims war
unceasng war-upon the southern States until they sbal
"give up and abolish slavery
These important declarations made BY Mr. Greeley
and they made ut a time which would seem 10 give
them peculiar significance Whilst he admits that the
the right citizen OF State where slavery does not
exist trort Il egalized crime and to do all he can
in the way Of persuasion argument cntresy, and by
the exhibition Of et to induce the slavc States to give
up and abolish slavery lie snys that he has been exer-
cisng this right heretofore and intends do IL heuceorh
Those who hive noticed the Of the Tribune times
past we'll understand what by the
arg,een cntreay and The exhibition Of act, to which Mr.
Greeley induce the people Of the slave