New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-07

hi, readers. because be goes on to sdd, "for the
purpose. az is declared Of destroying the equauty
"of half the States, and despoiiing tAem OF the
Territorial rights" thus BY an artfal dodge pro-
yidipe his bow with two strings and while talking
about the lack of popular majority. undertaking
10 set aside Fremont's election, not because, though
he had majority of the Electors he might lack
popular majority, but because be is elected for
what Mr.. Fisher is pleased to consider an unconsti-
tutonal purpose.
That alleged unconstitutional purpose is to ex-
tend to all the present and future Territories Of the
United States Northern institutions, including
free labor. free schools, free press, freedom Of
nublic discussion, free trade in books, peace,
order, law, thrift, industry and prospenty-all
v,h;,b are Northern institutions. bound up IN one
brrdle-to the exclusion Of slave labor, no schools
for tho neople. and no education except for the
rich and not much even for those-a gagged press,
no freedom of public discussion, and the liability
of every bookseller as in the recent Mobile case
70 instant Punishment by sehconstituted \igi-
lance Committee, assassination as an every day
occurrence, quits. percha, Lynch law idIeness'
thriftlessness and poyerty-all which are lnstltu-
tious of the South, and institutions too, which
invariably and inevitably go together.
Now. il seems to us that poor SIR. Fishers ideas
Of constitutional rights must be almost as much con
fused az bis IDEAS of arithmetic when he undertakes
70 maintain that it is breach ofthe Constitution OF
the United States and an attack upon the rights oil
the South to attempt TO secure for the Territories
vet 70 be settled the blessings, and TO shield them
against the evils above enumerated. lmprlson-
ncnt for debt and public whipping as
punishment are domestic institutions OF some
of the States. Does Mr., Elwood Fisher
think it would be an nfr.l cement upon the consti'
Il tional rights of those States for Congress to
prohibit 10 the Territories Imprisonment for debt
and whipping as punishment According 10
this principle he ought to hold and very likely he
does. that the abolition of whipping as means OF
discipline in the army, navy, and the merchant
service was direct attack upon an institution OF
near half the States.
If Mr.. Fishers alleged facts are false, and
his reasoning upon those facts delusiye, qulb-
bling and contemplate, his programme for the
dissolution of the Union is well calculated to
provoke a smile "A Convention he informs
us, "of all the Southern States, or con
siderable number of them, can declare the
Union dissolved, and il will thereupon be dis
"soyed' mighty easy process surely, but we
appreherd that Mr.. Fisher and his Southern clients
would find that for the actual dissolution of the
Union as a matter not Of speculation but OF fact
and Mr. Fisher is a little toe apt 70 mistake the one
for the other-something more would be neces'
sary than the mere resolution of a Convention.
Our colonial Declaration of Independence and the
dissolution of our Union with Great Britain, cost a
seven wears war TO maintain it. 1t is not necessary
10 put Mr.. Fisher in mind of the ineiciency of the
South in that contest. Would they be any more
efficient now If not, their chance, we must say,
of maintaining their independence would be very
little. All they could hope for would be to pass
from the condition of sister States to that OF con-
quered provinces or TO purchase readmis 'on into
the Union at the price Of the emancipation of all
their saves--f indeed at the close of civil war,
hey had any left 20 emancipate.