Daily American organ., 1856-05-06
WHOLE NO. 465.
From the New York Express
Van Buren and Seward MOvsments.

From the New York Express.
Van Buren and Seward Movements.
The efforts Of such men as B. r. Butler, the ex.
Attorney General Of Mr.. Wan Buren, Of Abijah
Mann VIM. @. Bryant, and others, ex-Van Buren
men, indignant because Of the rejection Of Martin
Van Buren, In l848 by the Baltimore Democratic
Conventon-thsir efforts, we say, to stone for the
proslavery sins Of their Van Bursn administration
the most sopenervient administration we ever had,
are natural-natural enough That Van Burens
admnlstration went 90 far South as to allow South
esn posemastsss 70 bresk open United States mall
bags, In order TO oust from them ant-slavery doo-
uments; and Il was during the administration of
such men that the Right Of Petition was denied in
Congress, and secuted from Congress - AbJah
Mann Co. voting against the righfi These gem
temsn have 90 many prc-slsvery sins to confess,
that whom they make the Tabernacle their public
confessional they but do psnsnce well deserved.
Nevertheless they who annexed Tcxas, ss Mr..
Mann, and thus fastened on us compact for Eve
slave States In that Texas Il Texas desired 30 many,
ought not, II consistent to stick at Kansas or to
growl at Pierce, whom doubtless they al voted for
In 1859. R.sa
Sach men a. Mr.. Evarts, howsver---whigs, who
up 70 this time have been consistent, and who
have no revrngss thus to gratify ought not to be
mixed up with xny Democratic leaders, who are
creating side issues and Indirect excitements, ce,
tain, u they amount to anything, TO re-elect some
other Psrce, and to do over again, In the opposi-
ton ranks now, In 1855, the work Of Birney In
1914, and Of the Van Burens in lS4s, and Of the
Pierces in 1863. Or Il they must be thus tempt
ed TO play now for the Democratic party's benefit,
they ought At least to keep true to history. Mr.
Evarts is reported to have said:
CAT the very outset Of our government, the
common territory uNoccpied 6y any State jnyis
tion was all devoted by solemn ordinance 10 free
dom forever That was the sentiment; that was
the action Of the iounders the Republic In 1887,
and re-enacted In 1889. All was not too little
then to give to Freedom; and all agreed that all
was not TOO littlefor Freedom" Loud chsers.l
Here, If the reporter is not laundering the au-
dience cheer what is in spirit, utter untruth.
At "the outset Of our government" that is un.
der the old confederation all the unoccupied ter
ritory of the United States was slaveholdin
Virginia, In q spirit Of Cancellation. and kindness,
conceded to Northern emigration her territory Ii,
what s now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, &cs, but re-
served to herself for slave emigration whati now
Kentucky; while North Carolina reserved what
was then !" Frankland," now Tennessee, and Geor.
ga reserved what are now Alabama and Mississp.
pi. The South thus, at the very outset of the new
Federal Government, "in 1887" secured to itself.
Of the territory to be hereafter se9ed, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Or in other
words, the Northwest (north of the Ohio) was
" devoted" to Freedom" and the Southwest
(south of the Ohio) was "devoted" to slavery.
So far from all' being given, there was division,
compromise to territory, and four great States
knowledge Of the Revolutionary Fathers that they
we're to be slave States. Nay, to such an extent
was this understanding carried out, that in 1903,
when the United States made the compact with
Georgia, an ant-W Wilmot Proviso, an anti-Nathan
Dane ordinance, pro-slayery ordinance, even,
was erpressly approved by Congress-, and approved
by Jefferson, making Alabama and Mississippi
slave Territories to be slave States
These historical facts become important because
the effort Ia constant to pervert history, in order
to make it appear that Washington and Jefferson,
and their Revolutionary coadjutors differed In their
administrative principles as to slavery or anti
slavery, from the administration Of xr. Fillmore
and others, trained in the Revolutionary school
when the fact is that the difference Is all in Mr..
FilImore's favor. Washington and Jefferson were
snti-slavery men in principle, az 10 Fillmore-but
they were constitutional men. Washington zap
proved" Fugitive Slave Law; ditto "FilImoren
Washington admitted Kentucky and Tennessee into
the Union a slave States Fillmore had no occa-
sion, during his administration TO act in like case
Jefferson made the treaty with France, anncxin
to the Union all the vast Louisiana Territory-tar
is all that Territory West of the Mississippi river
then slaveholding Jefferson approved the compact
with Georgia to make Alabama and Mississippi
slave States. Fillmore never went half 80 far South
as al that; and yet these gentlemen oppose FIJI
more upon slavery grounds, and pretend to uphold
the principles of Washington and Jefferson Tho
founders Of our government almost all out Of the !,
States Of Georgia and South Carolina, in 1887
deemed savery misfortune, and misfortune to
be rid Of When II could be got rid Of; but they.
tied up the Federal Government from acting
against the institution In any form, and they
created Union, contemplating the addition
slave States a. well a. free States. .f.a hr n
In the treaty with France for Louisiana, theiS !.
rst great act the subject, after the Revolution,
they constitutionally extended slavery, ard ID
1890, in making the Missouri compact, they "a.
pented Of that extension 70 far as 10 divide with
IN Of the North what was then all alayery, by ms,
king all north of so anti-slavery The repeal Of
the compact Of 1890 was great wrong, not 4 eA0. !
graphical but Democratic wrong, done BY the
North men ~ well ss by the South mep, and .
wrong NO. 70 Be 1edrssssd, @ gsosrapAicagy by y a.
BY Northern emigration into Kahas aAasv - a.
But what Is the uss OF reaasnine s q he, Van,s
Buren gentlemen met to,reye9gei Mr. Van Bpren's
Democratic wrongs, and the Seward gentlemen, to
serve Mr. Sewards future foftines aHd hshce facts
are not half 90 important fuel for sgtdsiour asi
kindles frs to say that our Revolutionary Fathers
intended TO create Federal Government on purr
pose TO eKtingush slavery but the facts put an
such res out 1t s not true, hsstoncaiiy, that an
antislavery or pro-slavery governments ~sslcpslf
ated by our fathers, but nnired government M
which antsgonistic principles, by compromising.
were attempted to be made to work together, and
which have worked together pretty vef eS0-sinsS
1887 Il Is our duty, their children, "a continae
to make them work together, and TO follow Wash
ingon's advice In his Farewell Address, BY eschev.
ing and abhorripg all "Soufhefh parties, ,-'or
Northern partiss,S all ssctionsksls and isectios-l
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