New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-10
b,v Affected by the accession Of any new State TO
IN, ~ them. Each State therefore watches jeal-

s,;hsy ~ them. Each State therefore watches jea-
ously the settlement growth, and iuchoete ssvehold
ing and non slsvehoiding characters Of Territories
usSirb NAV ultimately come into the Union as States.
II has resulted from these circumstances that slavery
in relations purely political and absolutely Federal
Il an element which enters with more or iess &c
tivty into many national Questions 2, hha ~ i,ee
revenue, Of expenditure, Of protection, OF nee.
trade, Of patronage. Of peace Of war OF
of defence, and Of conquest and modhes opinlon' coH
ctrning constructions Of The Consttution anu che as
tiibution Of powers between the olon s ne several
States by which 1t Is conshtu'ed. SleVery, under
these political and Federal aspects alone, enters into
the transactions Kansas, with which the President
spd Congress concerned. Nevertheere, he us
;noepuosy aies to those transactions in his defense
a. ftsey were ie ntifed witt that moral discussion Of
slavery whpl be regards a. odious and alarming and
without any other claim to consideration. Thus he
aHudee TO S1e question before belonging ~
q politierl agitation concerning matter when
consists 10 great extent Of exaggerston oil newt
" able evils, er-zeal in social improvement, or
"mere Imagination Of grievance, having but remote
ccurection with any Of the constitutional functions OF
" the Federal Government, and menacng the stability
"oftbe Constitution and the integrity Of the Union
In ike manner the President assais and stigmstizes
those who defend and maintain the cause OF Kansas as
"Inen Of narrow views and sectional purposes, en-,
gagged in those wild and chmericol schemes OF social
" change which generated one after another an the
UNSTABLE minds OF visionary sophl5s and interested
agitators"-" mad men, raising the storm OF frenzy
land faction sectional egitators, enemies OF Inc
"Consttuton who have surrendered Themselves 70
far TO fanatca devotion TO the tupposed interests OF
.fthe relatively few Africans 10 the United states,
as totally TO abandon and disregard the interests OF
"tLe twenty-five millions Of Americans, and trample
"under foot the iDunctons Of moral and constitutional
"obgatioD, and to engage in plans of vndctiye hos
"tlity against those who associated with them III
"be endowment Of the common heritage OF our free IN
"siutons" Sir, the Presidents defense on this oc-
casion if not matter simply personal 10 at least one
of temporary and ephemeral importance Possibly, all
the advantages be will gain by transferring 10 hS ac
az be preIu1lCp against
ton and boitionsts, can be spared to him. III would
be wise however for those whose interests are nsep
arable from Slavery to reflect that Abolition will gain
an equivalent benefit from the identification of the
Presidents defense with their cherished institution.
Abolition slow but irrepressibe uprising principles
Of natural justice and humanity, obnoxious to preu-
dice because they conflict incOnvenieny with exist
ing material social and political interests. 1t belongs
to others than statesmen, charged with the care OF
present interests to conduct the social reformation
of mankind in its broadest bearings. leave TO ADO
litioniss their own work of Standardization may,
however remind Shareholders that there is time when
oppression and persecution cease to be efectual
against such movements AID then the odlum
they have before unustly incurred becomes an
element of strength and power. Christianity,
blindly maligned during three centuries by
PIetoIs, Governors, Senates, Councils, and En-
peors, lowered above its enemies in fourth; aud
even the cross on which its founder had expired, and
which therefore was the emblem of its shame, became
the sign under which it went forth eyermore there
after, conquering and to conquer. Aoohuon Is only
defense false sue and Celebrates an irrelevant ar
gumeut prove that Congress has no right or power
has any sister State any right or power TO inter
fere within q slave State by legislation or force, TO
abolish Slavery theren-as if you, l. any other
responsible man, maintained the contrary. The
President dntorts the Constitution from its simple text,
so TO make it expressly and directly Defend pro-
tect and guarantee African Slavery Thus he alleges
that "the Government" which resulted from the Rev.
olution was Federal Republic of the free white
men Of the Colonies" whereas, on the contrary,
the Declaration of Independence asserts the political
equality of all men, and even the Constitution itself
carefully avoids any political recognition not mereyof
Slavery but of the diversity of races. The President
represents the Fathers as having contemplated ana
provided for a permanent increase OF the number OF
Slaves in some Of the States and therefore forbidden
Congress TO touch Slavery in the way OF attack or
oense and as having therefore also placed II under
the general safeguard of the CONSTITUTIONS whereas the
Fathers, by authorizing Congress to abolish the
African slave trade after 1908, means of attack,
inflicted on Slavery in the States blow, OF which
they expected it to lsnguish immediately, and uti-
maely TO expire. The President closes his defense IN
the annual message with deliberate assault. very H.
congruOus in such place, upon some OF the Northern
States. At the same time he abstains, with marked
caution, from naming the accused States. Ihey,
however, receive compliment at his hands, by way
of giving keenness to his rebuke, which enables
us TO identify them. They are Northern states
(which were conspicuous in founding Tue
Republic" All of the original Northern states
were conspicuous in that great transaction. AL
of them therefore are accused. The ofense charged
il that they disregard their constitutional obligations,
and although conscious of their inability to heal ad
mtted and palpable social evils of Their own, con-
fessedy within their jurisdiction, they engage IN an
" offensive, hopeless and illegal undertaking, to re-
form the domestic institutions of the Southern States,
at the peril of the very existence Of the Consultation
and Of all the countless benefits which 1t has con,
IL" feIred." challenge the President to the proof in
behalf of Massachusetts, although have only the In
terest common to all Americans and 70 all men in her
great fame. What one corporate or social EVIL Is
there of which she is conscious, and conscious also oil
inability to heal it Is it ignorance, prejudice big
otTy, vice, cime public disorder poverty or disease,
affecting the minds or the bodies of her peope
There she stands. Survey her universities, colleges,
academies, observatorles, primary schools, Sunday,
schools, penal codes, and penitentaries. Descend
into her qpares, walk her fields and through her
gardens, observe her manufactures of thousand
various fabrics, watch her steamers ascending every
river and inlet your own coast and her ships dls-
playing their every sea; follow her fisher
men 10 their adventurous voyages from her own al.
jactnt bays TO the icy ocean under either pole ana
then return ard enter her hospitals, which cure or re-
leve suffering humanity in every condition and at
every period Of life, from The lyng-in 10 the second
cldbood and which not only restore sight to the blind,
and hearing to the deaf and speech to the dumb, bat
SlsO bring back wandering reason to the insane, and
teach even the idiot to think Massachusetts, Sir, is
model of States worthy Of all honor and though
she was most conspicuous Of al the States IN the
establishment of republican institutions here, she
is even more conspicuous still for tie municipal
wisdom with which she has made them con
tribute to the welfare of her people, and to the
greatness of the Republic itself. In behalf of New.
York, for whom ii is my right and duty to speak,
defy the Presidential accuser Mark her Tranquil mag
nsnimity, which becomes State for whose delivery
from tyranny Schuyler devised and labored, who re-
ceived her political Constitution from Hamilton, her
intellectual and physical development from Chnton,
and her lessons i'll humanity from JAY As she waves
her wand over the continent trade foakes the broad
natural channels which conveyed it before to the Del
aware and Chesapeake bays and TO the Cults of St.
I.axN nd Of md lie horn