New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-16
NORTHERN DECENTRALIZATION.

From Our specd Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May IA, 1856.
The shameless regeneration of Northern men
on the subject of Slavery is spectacle to make
angels weep. 1t is needless to enumerate instances
in detail They Indignantly dot the surface of the
Free States like pu,tules on q smallpox patient.
Southern Slavery has become the great god be-
fore which the army of place-seekers bow down
with abject submission. 1t occupies the seats Of
power, ard robes and unrobes official dgnitaries 10
all the plenitude of imperial majesty 1t issues it's
bulls of accommodation with the lOrdly authority
of the Vatican. 1t saves and it damns with more
than papal prOmptness and zeal. Its mandates
issue, and the trembling herd of its Obedient fol-
lowers rushes in skurried alacrity to obey. This
is no figure of speech it is sober and exact truth.
Behold what Slavery has demanded of Northern
men in the way of eating their words and swallow
ing their opinions, and behold what it has got.
Let the record be examined. There was time,
and no distant time either, when all parties in the
North expressed their condemnation of Slavery.
1t was condemned without qualification, and
manly stand taken against its spread. Every emf
Dent and every uneminent man in the Free States
declared against its being carried into Free Terri
tory. There is not a man in the North, who has
political record, which is not clear and emphatic on
this point ALI men and all parties, and all the
Free States upheld the Wilmot Proviso few
years agO-while most of them declared against
agitation and against molesting the institu-
ton in the States, even by discussion, the
expression Of determination to resist its spread
into Free Territory was universal. Search the
record, and it will be found that every prominent
mans position was identical on this point The
gathering up and exposing the attitude Of this man
and that on the question in times past, which the
House has been occupied about of late, is labor
lost The record of sll is alike. Ten years ago
not one Northern man was as debauched as the
entire body of leaders of the Democratic party Is
low. Ten years ago the North unanimously occu.
pied the ground now maintained by the Anti
Nebraska men. Whoever does not hold it now
has fallen from his former po-siOn aud apostatized
from Bis former faith. IT is idle to enumerate
;;.oi,idual examples Every Northern man who does
not occupy the Anti Nebraska ground to-day, is
a deserter from the side of Freedom to that
of Slavery, and goes to swell the reeking mass OF
''H"ol apostacy that now Qffends the moral sense
of every uprigh. man. "A 0acA and around and
see the individual monuments of this most lament
able detection. Behold Mr.. Webster; himself at
one time light shining in the path of the Wimot-
Proyiioists. Behold Mr. Cass, ponderously rolling
into the Senate with a Wilmot- Proviso speech in
his hat, which he was only saved by an accident
from delivering. Look at Mr. Buchanan, holding
to the Missouri Restriction, and declaring it holy
and sacred as the Constitution. See New-Hamp-
shire, beaded by Franklin Pierce, outright and
rank in declaring against the spread Of Slavery
Read the resolutions of every Northern State to
the same puIport, passed with the consent OF all
sides and emsnatiDg from all sides. Even
in the South, the voice for the same
general doctrine was potent With its nooler