New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-20

his politics would have been. He would then have
Rurslts, aud most Of the leading lawyers of that
day as an advocate for submission TO British taxa
tion and tyranny, just as he figures now as aa
advocate for submission to slavedr7ing tyranny
and usurpa'iOr He would then haze stood by
Lord North and the tea tax, 1s. as he now pro-
POSES to stand by Buchanan and the Nebraska act
Tee word revolution is hateful to him a. the thiog
itstlf sill more hateful The worst that be Can
gay OF any thing il, to stigmatize it revolution
aIy. He cannot endure the Declaration of Inde-
pendeI ce. He admits it to be "eloquent," but
be denources il Us the "passioIate minifesto OF
rerom,cnary war" So of the Republican parry,
which he hates rs much aud wh' ch be thinks must
be put down at oil hazards. He su2poses him eli
! to cap ,he crusx Of is ~ickedness and danger in
pronouncing it revolutionary party. lie de-
rounces that party as working uIdcr "an uncon-
'.secrated and revolutionary banner" That settles
| the matter for Mr. Choate. Being party w5o,e
barner is "uI cousecrattd' and revolutionary
| il to the bargain Mr. CbOate cannot ndOrse IT, aud
| he hasteDs ia hopes Of crushing Il and putting 1t
down to throw himself into the arr.s OF Buchaaan,
though 10 50 dcit he stultfts himself aud co1tra-
diets the pol tcal prof, ssions Of bis whole life
| Mr.. Choate seems to think that the slaveh0l1ers
have tie vested legal right to control our Ma
tioDal Government that they have to the negroes
their plantations, and that it would be Just is mu,i
Revolutionary act to deprive them Of the control
of the lCDal GOverDms Mt, i. would b, to set
their negroes free. 1t must ba, We presume on this
ground, that he sligmatlzes the Republican party
IA evolutionary party, since it is certain that the
only revolution which the Republicans propose to
themselves is revolution in the Administration of
the General Government, aud thorough change q,
Wasbipgt' of both men and measures. Ii this be
revolution if this be treason, Mr.. Choate is well
come to u axe the most Of it,
We may observe, however, that much as Mr..
Choate may hate and detest the words "revou-
ton and revolutionary" to the generality Of
American ears, these words do not sound quite 20
badly. Mr.. Choate msy think otherwise, bu!
with the generality of American citizens, The fact
that the Declaration OF Independence was
Revolutionary document is no serious disparage-
mt lat to il. Washington WIS 81 revolutionary
leader, and yet we see that even conservative Mr..
Choate cohdesceLds to quote hi, Farewell Address,
ard seems to think that his opinions are not en-
iirtly detitnte OF weight, nor his example I'M
worthy Of imitation.
The words revolution" and revolutionary"
so hateful to Mr. Choate, and to his mind so de-
testable and denuncatOry are, to the ears of most
Americans, epithets rather of praise and admira-
tiOn. In applying these terms to the Republican
party, Mr.. Choate has, doubt un willingly, paid
that party very high compliment and no less I'M
Intentionally, no doubt, has also suggested great
truth. 1t was high compliment to the Repobli
can party to apply epithets to it which at once
suggest a comp parh on between that party and the
great party Of the American Revolution, to which
our country is Indicted for all it's greatness and
ali It's liberties; and what is no less remarkable,
though if possible still more contrary to Mr..
Choa'es intention and object. is the fact, that
there eau be traced between the OBJECTS and char
ac.er Of these parties thus brought by Mr.. Choate
into juxtapositon and comparison, some strOng
traits of resemblance. Mr.. Choate recalls the fate
Of that famous so,,hsayer the prophet Balasm.
He was sent for, all the way from the State Of
Maine, to curse the Republican party-apd, for
aueht we know as was the case with Bslaam,
along with tn urgent call went promise Of pro-
motion 10 very great honor, if he would but curse
in satisfactory and efectual manDer; and yet in
spite Of ali his Efforts and cOntOrtiOns, in which |
few soohssyers ever surpassed him, the spirit of |
tuth proves tao strong for him, and when he opens
his mouth to curse, in spite of himself out flies
blessing
The comparison which Mr. Cboa.e suggests be.
tween the objects, ends, aims and character of the
Republican Revolutionary party of &c, and of the
Republican party of to-day, is very striking and
'ery pertinent. The Republican party of to-day
rests on the ssme deep foundation with the Repue-
licau party of the Revolution the greatideas to wit
OF iitert! equality, and human rights. The Re-
publican party of &c proclaim med the Declaration
lIdtpeLdence, aid, in spite of Mr.. ChOate's and
!be slavehodels' disposition to give that document
the go by as mere fight of rhetoric, the Repub-
bcsn party Of to-day proposes to stand by it TIE
Republican party Of rs was called into existence
by he trsnDy and usurpation Of the British Par
lsmelt attempting to deprive The colonsts OF their
rights rs Epgshmen, by Stamp acts and TIA taxes,
by repeals Of Charters, and by enactments for
Transporting th9 colon'sts to EuglaOd TO be tried
'here Tor alleged oiienses committed in the colo.
lies. Toe Republican party of to-day has origi.
raed in the stteDpt of the stakeholder, to deprive
The intba'tsn's Of the non slaveholdDg States of
their equal rights as ACerican citizens, by the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the
Infamous snd outrageous attempt by means of
fraud and civil war to 'orce slavery into Kan
sss. As the Republican party of '76 mad its Otis
hrutally assaulted AID disabled for life BY British
Custom House Officer 50 the Repabli,, Al party of
TO. day has had It's Sumner assaulted ana nearly