New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-26
POSITION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
MR.. SENATOR WILSON'S SPEECH ON THE
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.


Mr.. SENATOR WILSON'S SPEECH ON THE
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Through the attention Of one Of our Warrington
correspondents We have received full report OF
Mr.. Wilson's admirable speech on the Presidents
Message, delivered in the Senate on Friday last.
Owing to IN unusual pressure Of important matters
upon our space, we are compelled to content oar
selves with publishing a few passages from 1t IN
itead Of giving TIE whole
ACCUSATIONS AGAINST 1BK REPUBLICANS.
II Mr. Webster, for q simpe aud besuSfd tloue 10
the benefcert effects OF the Ordinance OF iIs., VS.
arraigned on this floor ia 1870 BY one Oh ths
most accomplished Statesmen Of the South; II tneie
were then found Northern ready TO echo bis woros
surely the who now vote 70 apply The principe "
that ore al ordnance to the va. territorial
OF tbe Republic cannot hope to escape thu misrepre
sentatiOn, censure, and reproach OF SNShefn uen
who see IN the expansion Of Freedom me signs OF
their waning power Of that class OF Northern meh
who
"Iu the dust are eropine
For the lsrsess, bsse and .mss,
Which the hand OF powers ses'ternsi
Crumbs which from iis table fall
But, Sir can stand, we can stand here today aud
ssy Is the great New gland orator then SAID, ta'
their accusations snd suspicious are wholly grouha-
kss-,bat no attempt has ever been made since Waeu
ineton took the oath Of office the Uth oi aPrh,
1859, 10 this hour TO interfere with the legal sud con-
stutior rights Of the people OF the Southern otaes
il their domestic concerns. ooo mn
On the 4,h Of November last more than ], po,oW
mep-iptellipen, patriotic lberty-loving laS.abidng
citizens of New Englsnd the great Central States ana
of the North West holding wi n republican, l1toeis
that eli men created equal and have an naensoe
right 10 liberty; that the Consultation OF tne Cn'ea
States vas ordained and s.ablished 10 secure st III
aepsble right everywhere under its exclusive au'
thorty; denying the authority of Congress OF Ter
Z" rito ial Legislature, OF any individual 0: asoaGn
" OF individuals to give legal existence 70 stNe.y ~
'apy Territory of the United States, whue the pres,
cent Constitution shsll be msintaned" -pronounced
through the ballot box that the Constitution coniers
upon Congress sovereign power over the Ierno.ie
"of the United States and that in the exercise OF '
"poyer it Is both be right and the duty OF Coh-
"ere,s TO prohibit in the Territories those Twin
"reics of barbarism. Polygamy and slavery.
Believing with Franklin that Slavery - ap
"airocious debasement of human nature WIN
Adamp, hist "consentiDg 10 Slavery is sacrpegons
"breach of trust-with Jefferson that one hour OF
American Slavery is frsC,h With more misery IMAM
cages Of that which we rose in rebellion I? op pose
with Madison, that Slavery is dreadful caamny,
that imbecility ia ever attendant upon country
filled with slaves"-with Monroe, that Slavery has
"preyed upon the vtals of the community In al tue
"states where it has existed with Montesqaieu taat
"eyen tbe very earth, which teens with proiusion
under tie cultivating hand OF the ree-born laoofer
"hripks into barfenness from the communicating sweat
"of slaye,"-bey pronounced their purpose - DC 70
cave Kansas now il peril and all the Territories OF
tie Republic, for the free-laboriDg men OF toe N9Ia
and the South their children and their childTens GNU
Cren, forever.
Accepting the Declaration Of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States as thor political
cbar!s-evowing rheir purposes to be to man,an me
Constitution the Federal Union and the Rights OF the
Statts-procaimipg every where their purpose not to
make war upon the South, not to interfere With the
legal and constitutional rights of the people OF any OF
the Sistes-they gave their votes with the Proounoe't
conviction that they were dischargiog the duties sapc-
toned by humanity, patriotisr1 and religion. fouh,
with its high hopes and aspirahOns-manhood In the
veor and maturity of its powers-age, with its ncn
and ripe experiences, inspired with the sPri' OF WASH
ippton when he announced TO Robert Morris that his
"suffis age should not be wanting to effect the ab)-
clifton of Slavery" in his native Virginia, In the only
"proper and effeotual mode in which it conld be ac-
"complished-tbat is, by legislative authorty'-sev-
cred the ties viii IN had bound them to other orsaniza
TONS ar united TO prohibit Slavery here out
side the Slave States where exists under the exclusive
authority of Congress- This lie the offence OF these one
million three hundred thousand sons OF the Tree NORTH,
upon whom the ubkenneed hounds oil the slave propS
gapdsts have been unleashed.
WORD FOR CALEB CUSHING.
Thee il one member of the Cabinet whose hand
some think thew see in the Message, who knows fal
well the character of this production. mean the
Learn ed Attorney General. His vast acquisitions and
tretss industry, his early associations and
ence with the AnolioDists of New England, all tea;n
bin that these accusations against The people OF the
North are without foundation. For years he Tss In
couespopdepce with the leading Abolitionsts OF the
North. remember, Sir, the pub letter penned IN
his Lght-dress, dictated by the poet Whittier, which
he wrote to secure Abolition votes. remember 100
Sir that when Wise made the iDsoent threat that they
woud Introduce Slavery into the North, he Indignantly
answered, that before they could introduce slavery
into the North, her cities and villages would De eveed
in the dust 30 that sguadns of cavalry could galop
over them unimpeded as the steeds sweep over tho
boundless pYairies of the West. He should have re-
e;raiped the pen which Ibels more than one bundred
thousand sons of his native State whose only Oense is
NJ 1ovb oxa ya1f SlaVpry ahal
tioduced into the North
THE SLAVERY AGITATION.
Sir, Senators who have undertaken to sustain, or
rather apologize for this eItIao diaary course OF the
President have condo mined the discussion OF the sa-
very question during the pest few year,. l commend
to Senator'S who the people for these ds,ussons
the words OF JAMES HADIsoS, that Everything
(Which teods TO ipcrease danger involve national
pehe or safety becomes Of 10 every part If
"the Union and is proper subject for the considers
"tion Of those charged with the general sdministra-
'1ion of the Government Surely Senators cannot
be surprised a. the dscutson OF Questions so vast as
those which grow out of the Slavery of nearly four
millions Of men In America. American Slavery, our
come ctiOns with IT, and relations to il and the OBJ
legations these connections ana relations impose upon
us az men, as citizens of the States and the United
States make I'D the issues OF the age in
which we live. Pbanthrophists who hsve sounded
II de- pits and shoals Of humanity scholars who have
mind, of philcsorhic inquiry and historical research
ttatefmep who impressing their genius upon the
ipst tutors Of their country and their Age-s are nov
illustrating by their genius learning and eoq aence the
vast and complicated issues involved in the grea,
problems We of this age in neri "a, are working out
The rapscendent magnitude OF the interests involved
in the existence and expansion of the system of hua
bondage in America in arresting the attention of the
people, and stirring the country to ts profoundest
depths.
the REAL DlsuSIoNIsIe.
This charge of disun made against the Republican
pal ~ BY the President with III grace from
H. 49, k,aih aa in ranEa
icsl dsppionis. of the United States. The Senator
llom Georgia mr.. Toombsl, not now here declared: