New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-14

Notwithstanding the despotic rule of Jacooinical
terrorism which just now holds fourteen States o'
this UnCn in the most shject scryltude, IT'S not 10
be SUI pt I'D that the Gre OF Liberty Is entirely
shut cot d. the South. or thai the selfcon'ttuted
thirty y raL:s-be the number more or ess-D!
which each one Of those unhappy States Is no"
governed, can long maintain their usurPed authoil'
ty II il not credible that Washington, Henry
Jefferson, Madison, and the other patriots OF the
Revolution, can have left 10 descendants oeninu
them. We speak not now Of inhertors oil 'heif
blood but Of nher.ors oftheir sentiments their ar
dent love Of Liberty for others as well as for then
selves end their sincere faith in the rights OF NAL
Though sier ced for the moment by the furious and
bloodthirsty clamor for the perpetuaton and extern
sion Of Slavery and for the dissolution OF the Union
as means to promote those ends-a means as
hateful rs the ends 70 which il is to serve are de-
testabe--it is impossible that there should not De
at the South strong cohort of those who 90 not
bow the knee to the Baal of Slavery, and who are
wistfuly watching for the restoration OF the true
and ancient worship of their fathers.
We in the North had twenty years ago, consld'
cradle dash Of the same storm Of lnsoleDt violence
which comes down now with such tropical fury
through the South-so heavy that scarce TREND
of Freedom and Emancipation dares anywhere 10
show bis head. We too had our mObs and SELL
constituted committees, which assailed the liberty
Of press and of speech and which threatened and
sometimes visited with personal violence those
who yentured to ayOw opinions on the SUBJECT Oi
Slavery not deemed orthodox. That attempt 10
suppress the freedom Of opinion, though backed u?
by persons occupying the highest social and polti-
cal positons-such as Edward Everett, for exam
pie, who, as Governor of Massachusetts,, recon-
mended legislative enactments 70 sustain lt-prOved
total failure; and many who at that time sym
pathized and even participated in 1t are now among
the most strenuous opponents of any further con-
cessions to the Slave Power.
1t is true that this attempted usurpation never
reached, here at the North, anything Like the hight
of violence TO which it has lately been carried IN
the Slave States. We have no recollection OF any
attempt ever made here TO prevent the nomination
and support of a Presidential ticket. In the
midst Of all the excitement of the Harrison cam
psigD the Liberty party, 80 called, was permitted
freely to nominate and support ticket of their
own; and so afterward, in the great struggle be-
tween Clay and Polk, on which occasion the few
thousand votes in this State drawn of from Clay
by the AbohiioDists gave New-iOrk to- the Demo-
cratic party and secured the election of Polk. But
if the friends Of free political action in
the South have q greater ferocity on the
part Of their opponents to encounter, so they
must be supposed to have much greater strength
in themselves, both in regard to numbers and So
cal position, than ever was the case with those
here at the North who were made the objects of
similar violence And they have, beside, another
great advantage, in a powerful outside support.
With the whole power of the Federal Government
TO sustain them in the indication and exercise OF
their rights in addition to the sympathy Of the en-
tire North, il is evident that they occupy an im-
Pregnable positions; and the greater and more saw
age and despotc the violence which Is now
brought to bear upon them, the more
Speedy and decisive the reaction may be ex-
pected to be- He who contrasts the present
political position Of the North on the subject OF
Slavery with what it twenty years ago, may
find reasonable ground for anticipating that before
many years Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North
Carolina and other savehOlding States will revert
again 10 the views of Washington and Jefferson,
and instead of throwing their whole political
weight in favor of the extension Of Slavery into
new Territories from which it has once been for
mally and solemnly excluded, viii rather b. nvit-
inc the aid and cooperation Of the North in some
scheme by which, with due regard to the rights and
interests of all parties, those States, instead of
giving new extension to this curse, may BE- able to
rid themselves OF il.
That such ideas are not yet totally extinct at the
South that the crows have net yet succeeded in
deyouring all the good seed by the patriots of
the Revolution, nor the great enemy of mankind in
sowing tares enough entirely to choke out the
wheat, is evident from letter which We publish
TO- day, in which one of the professors Of the Uni
versity Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill responds
TO an attack upon him by Buchanan journal OF
that State as d Black Republican. livery few per
sons at the South have al this moment the intrepid
ity 70 confess, as Professor Hedrick does, their
views on The subject OF Slavery 1t cannot be
doubted that a large part of the best educated,
most intelligent and most patriotic even Of the
Shareholders themselves fully sympathlze with those
yews--a body Of men to whom, IN spite OF the
storm of Pro Slavery ianaticism which now sweeps
over the slAychoding States We may look with
hone for tie return of thc,c States to better con-
dition of intelligence and feeling, and for their ulti-
mate deliyerance from that terrible nightmare
which holds them now in such state at once OF
convulsiye terror and paralytic helPiessness
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