New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-20

MED 70 even the fIeeDcn OF The Souh 10 9o'e"'H
whether Slavery is u great good , 49,,
Our citizens visiting theIo are oapt"eu anu
mobbed or driven from the Territory they venture
even to hint doubt Of lts propriety'
The minister Of the Gospel who venture " P''"'"
Gods freedom there IA silenced. ... Il
The schoomaster who dares attempt to instruct tlr
blinded ignorance there surrounding MN ana ule
hook seller who distributes word tor Freedom, are
forcibly expelled. .
Tho citizen who aasocatcs in convention with those
Who n,ocIain the great principles of Freedom which
we piofess IL driven from his family and his home.
The editor who IN the exercise Of the Freedom OF
the Prose discusses the matter ever so empcratey is
beaten with many stripes.
Free men, for assisting 10 break The ietcrs of the
Slave are consigned for long years TO the gloom and
the suffering of the pcnrtentary.
In VIC alton Of the Constitution, winch declares tha,
for nny speech or debate in either House Of Cor.-s
the Senators and Representatives shall not he quos-
toned in any other place, Senator Is cruelty beaten
for words spoken IN debate.
And even in the land of Sumptcr and Of Marion the
pcrpctrator Of the cowardly Outrage is toasted and
lauded and led III tliumphal procession by the whole
people.
And to crown all, the citizens Of the Free States for
exercising the right OF removing TO territory common
TO a hunted like beasts of prey from their houses,
driven fly by the fire of their own dwellings are
imprisoned and shot 10 death with ruthless disregard
to humanity and justice.
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free people of country for nearly three quarters of
a century, in the confident hope-Once strong but now
weak-that the time would come when the OF
these evils would in the land that fellow
citizens of the South would pause in their invasion
alike OF feelings and rights and that peace and
harmony would abide with us all. But how vain and
illusOry Is the hope
Day 10y day thele up 10 us from the far distant
borders Of our land the sound Of CIVIL engendcrcd
in behalf of Slavery. Even in the Halls Of Congress
inferred the threat of gTbIupaiIOu Dy tins interest
of eternal aggression.
An Administration, inauguratcd on the promise
of repose, takes the lead even in agitation.
Others are grasping for power by yieing with
each other which descend the deepest int
the degradation of fostering and UNFOLDING the
Pro-Slavery interest, with all its accumulated
evils both To the master and the slave And over ana
over again l. the dissolution of the Union Threatened
by those who have done much 70 dissolve the bonds
of harmony and iratenal regard among Us, without
which union is endangered.
Against all these accumulated ills-against these Oft
repeated aggrcssons-against these evils OF the present
and the prospect Of more in the future what our pro-
lection but to meet fairly and manfuly the question
now thrust upon US
We repeat thas not been now presented at our IN
stigaon. Il has not been by our procurement that II
is now agitatng the hearts OF people To- Their deep
est depths. It's forced upon us by circumstances be-
yond our control. But beng upon us, we have no nj
tentative but to submit once and forever 0 the rlum-
plant domination OF the saVehOldng interest, or by
resisting, end IT.
No man in whose heart beats one throb of the love of
that Freedom which dcsccnds TO u richest in
hcritance can for moment hesitate which 10 choose.
Our choice i made. We 90 for Freedom, and We IN
vite all the PEOPLE TO associate with Us.
But We are not and cannot DC unulindiu that they
with whom thus called upon 20 contend are
brothers still, and members, with Us, of the same
great family Of FTecmcn.
Cursed by all affection which has been fastened
upon them by the times which have passed-hcirs to
an inheritance of evil which unasss,cd, they cannot
shake off and whose bondage weighs even more
heavily upon the master than upon the bondnan be-
cause il enslaves at the mind and the heart they
are the objects of our compassion rather than OF
our resentment. For them as well As for oar
seves-ior their posterity as well as ours Will we
Struggle and when the hour of victory shall come, az
most assuredy it WILL will rejoice in it the be-
cause of the cmanc patton il will bring 10 them-an
emancipation hcl will at length enable them to stand
side by side with us example of such freedom
among the world has never known.
Such will be the result which must flow from the
promise of the Constitutional Convention Of Is
such the result of the expectations Of the people since
that day and such the result against which the aggrcS
sions OF Slavery are and from that day have been way
ing s iuvctcratc And while we aim not to inter-
fefe with the domestic relations of any state, we de-
mand that the principles and The promises OF the Rev
Oluon shall be carried out, 80 that Slavery with It's
inevitable and its enduring hostility to Freedom
may be confined within ITS Legitimate limits wherein,
if die not, like the Scorpion by the poison of its own
sting, it will at least cease It's invasion OF freedoms
domain and It's eternal warfare on that Union on which
depends much the welfare and happiness OF our pco
pie, and the cause of Freedom throughout the world
RESOLUTION.
The people of State OF Newly ork represented in this Re-
publican Convention ayOwg their steads determination TO
uphold the Union OF the States and he rights of the
rdefs Constiiom to every individual do hereby declare and
Rescte That they aihrm and accept he Platform OF fci
dcpha in June 1856 and will increasing and invcerae
give their cheerful aud hearty support TO the candidates pre-
,ented by that Convention to the American people