New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-07
THE STATE OF THE 'rASE
t. A< Editor u Tie " Y. Trtb~n,

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Sir: In the article entitled " The T1n,rt,ts I..ua
published IN your paper OF the % inst the quotation
from Gen. Wsshinstons letter was not quite correct
That letter was written to Col HUMPHREYS and not 70
Gen Knox and the extract referred 10. which cite
from memory is in these words
For God. sake tell me what /. the cs1.s II A., tbs.
tons D. they proceed from icentipusuess or zeal .,
which admit o. redress. II the t'er Why rers..
until the public nind has become much ASaed' Il he
ormeI why No; tie Of lie Government r 4,
once"
The article Itself was written without hayiny Seen
the report Of the public meeting at " mington in De.
aware. and at Wheeling, in Virginia II wouI seem
that the coercion Of free speech and opinion At the
South Is beginning to ehafe the minds Of those who
hive any independence.
That there are many men who are unwilling ~ bear
the seE-assumed authority OF Democratic politicians
We NAV infer from Gov. WISE accommodation of traitors
in ne ramp whose number he represents to have be-
come formidable
The speech Of NJ. Bots al Richmond was then the
op, overt act but it would tina, in Western VIZ
yrs the malcontents have gained such head "a openly
70 avow their preference for Freoa-a degree Of pre-.
sumption that must strike the Governor with as much
amazement a. the renowned " Eiam the Testy was
seized with receiving the Of the refractory
Van Rensselaer, OF Albany. Perhaps. under the cir.
cumstances the Governor VIII think it unaiyisabe at
rresent to make the military soe against the North
which he thought % undertaking before Fremont
should get established in the Government.
Ex-Gov. Floyd in his speech yesterday did not in
woke the valorous spirit Shat hi successor in the Cub
epatoria Chair gives credit 10 hs fellow democrats
the North. On the contrary. must DO him the JUS
,ce 70 admit that he seemed o have the idea that some
thing could still be done by argument. The most III.
uortant point of his argument wa that the South had
shown itself moderate by agreeing TO the admission Of
California a. Free-State when by the rule adopted in
The Missouri Compromise one half of should have
been Slave Territory. The Governor has probably
overlooked the fact that the Territory ), nth of 36 20
was not necessarily to be Slaveholdiny. Slavery was
prohibited North Of that line and to the rest was
70 he as should be desired BY the new States res?ec
vely II is in fact the great objection that made at
the South to the Compromise that the Northern part Of
the Territory was made absolutely free while the
Southern might or might not be slavehoding
lido not find that the Ex-Governor ia particularly
clear in his explanation why The division adopted in
LEO should not still be adhered to The case of Cali
nr1 in was not as have shown. inconsistent with the
rule There has in fact been nothing inconsistent with
il until the act Of 1854 passed, and there IS no ar
cument against it which did not have much force in
Is20 a.
Yet at that time il would have been impossible to
have got the admission Of Missouri without the con-
cession that the extension of Slavery north of the
specfed line should never thereafter be asked for.
Iiis ExceIency having had a fair hearing by an au-
dience composed in a large proportion of the Black
Republicans to whom he applied 80 many epithets of
scorn it may be properly asked new that he should in-
tercede with the Virginia Democracy against enforcing
the penalties of high treason against Republican who
should venture to Express lis views in The Ancient Do.
mibop. Az OLD WHO.
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