New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-04
FROM flashing TON.
TIKI MESSAGE AT THE CAPITAL

The House TO-DAY diversified its labor for the
nea-electicn az Speaker by sundry little debates
Ara votes respecting the Presidents MeSsage-re-
sukns in nothing as was doubtless anticipated, in
view of the result Of Kindred efforts on Monday.
In act nothing cas- probably be done at this stage
e the business but what has been done. The
President pitched in his Message upon dsOrgal-
lied HOUSE, As l think he should have done, con-
siderinS thst the protracted disOrganizatlon was
TIE Houses own fault while the Message was
spplinS BY being kept olt of season; and the
Hoase-seing in no condition to do other business
until lis own organization shall have been effected
let the Message fall it's table, where it now
hes. and must lie till there is organized House
70 act upon. even by reading or printing it. But
the two Pro-Slavery parties were each DESTROYS of
making capital at the others expense by efforts
10 have II resd or in some shape indOrsed so they
made metions which meant little and came 10 no
Ting. The motions, like the Message, all sleep on
the table.
And DOW a word on the Message itself, and the
impression produced by it on the minds of Repub-
leans here.
Ipass over ts Aagtious and impudent perversions
q f1lsIOf1 Win w bh' va ~
tie Compromise of 1920, the Annexation OF Texas,
&C.. to deal with the extraordinary terms in which
Mr. Gushing for this is evidently has wOrk) wells
The atrocities Of the slavehOding system, and vrtu-
slly accuses of sediton and treason very large
proportion Of the American people. Mr.. Gushing
els US that the result Of our Revolutionary fathers
,4rils and priyatons was - the fOundatiC0 OF
Federal Republic of the free ,cite men of the re-
volted1 colonies" But they never said anything
Ike this. On the contrary, the Declaration OF lu-
depepdenco expressly bases and justifes our Revo-
luton on the inalenabe right Of all men to liberty
and to alter or abolish the government which might
At any time exist among them. You hear nothing
in that or any kindred document of "the subject
"raees, whether Indian or African for the Indian
race was not then subject, even ii it now is;
and 1t was one of Mr.. Jefersons counts in the ar
aignmen of the British King that he had persisted
niforcing slaves in upon US, in defiance OF the re-
mOnstrances OF our people. Yet Cushing makes
Pierce tell us that Mr.. Jefferson and his compa-
triots sore engaged in no extrayassAt scheme OF
social change" How comes it then that they set
forth the objects and nature of our struggle for In
dependence III Terms so uiNCAc' h"NA N"''
employed by Pierce and Cushing
But the Federal Constitution, they inform US,
was framed in steady adherence to Zone guiding
thought that of delegatng to the Federal Gov
trpn,knt the smallest mOdcum OF power that
would answer the purpose. Yet that Constitution
itself tells U.S. in its preamble that it was framed
and adopted 10 accomplish several vast and neceS-
sarily general purpOses-"to establish justice
"secure the blessings of Liberty" &c, to the
p4ople of the United States. Which, is 1t likely
understood their objects best-the makers of the
Constitution, or Messrs. Gushing and Pierce
But. say the gentlemen of the White House,
"the peculiarly of larger redtioe eOI0red PoP00
"ton in the Southern than in the Northern States,
wa chief object of solcitude III framing the
Constitution, and of difficulty under it.
Now we deny most emphatically that the color
of any portion of the Southern people has anything
10 do with the differences which Messrs Cushing
and Pierce affect to dcplore On the contrary, we
affirm that the color of all the Southern people Is
perfectly constitutional, and in no respect open 10
complaint or criticism on the part OF the NORTH
Ithere were any of us inclined TO complain OF The
dark. Il would be unreasonable indeed to blame
The Southern Whites for it, since their efforts are
constantly and successfully directed toward Its
Modification. But in fact there is no difference
between us-there never has been-growing out OF
he color of their dependents; and if they should
succeed In bleaching their human chaftels 10 tne
average whiteness of tallOw, lard, or paper, the
differences deprecated by the Acknowledgement ana
bis President will IN no degree be accommodated
The real diversity to be considered is this; I"(
People ofh Northern StateS-at least, the more Ill
telliQent humane and religious portion OF then
dee,a IL unjust, pernieioas and National shame ma
Fosy Millions Of The ndtire-bOrR inhabitants Of h'S
ExpsAie--nany if not most of them fcrvent and ex-
enplary Christians-shOHld, in this middle Of tn
Nineteenth Century after Christ, Be held, 'oorked,
SogocS unmarried bought and sold ehattl SlGres.
This is the real truly stated, wel-understood
foundation of the difference which Messrs Gushing
and Pierce affect to deprecate, though they have
made high positions out of it, and hope 10 holO
them BY means Of it, They are welcome 70 wha
they can make out of us, but why have they not the
courage 10 state the case IS 1t is
We have right to our convictions; those whC
differ from US have an equally perfect right tC
theirs. They hold their slaves under laws and
constitutions over which we have no power. W.
hold our convictions by tenure at least equal!
invulnerable. We are not their enemies-we dc
not seek to " inaict injury upon them (as The
President is made TO charge upon us) in wishing u