New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-31

Is THERE A NORTH 1t is high time this ques-
ton were defnitively answered. Year after year
have our public men been giving up the ground
under our feet yet all the time protesting that there
sos point beyond which they could not be driven
at which they would face about and make de-
termined stand, if only TO die. And if that point is
not now reached, it never can be.
DANIEL WEBSTER signaliztd the morning of his
National career by vigorous and ousspoken protest
against the admission of Missouri as Slave State.
No man fought more resoutely than he against the
Annexation of Texas-not that he deprecated such
Annexation per Sc, but solely in view of the Pro-
Slavery tendencies Of that measure. He spoke and
voted against it to the last. In the same spirit, he
sustsined the Wilmot Proviso through years of
earnest struggle and especially in the closing scenes
of the XXXth Congress, in March, loi9 When
he made bis Seventh Of March Speech Oo5O) he
protested stil to maintain his old ground, and in
various spe eches, at Buffalo, Syracuse, and else
where he declared his repugnance to the Extension
Of Slavery fixed and immOyable. As at Niblo's
Garden in 1888, he pronounced this great moral
question, which had taken deep hold on the
conscience Of the Free States, and on which our
portion could not be surrendered nor smpromised;
So down 10 the hour of his death, Mr. Webster pro-
fessed to cherish this sentiment, and dared any
10 say when or where he had ever swerved from it.
RUFUS CHOATE in lSA made dozens of spread
eagle speeches against Texas and for the principle
If No More Slave Territory. He raved, he loaned,
he rent his garner e. under the inspiration OF this
theme, To the intma,iOn that his doctrine on VI 3
subject was not that Of Southern Wings, he re-
Piled, "As 10 our Southern brethren, we propose
"to do on this subject just what We have often
Heretofore done-simply rote them dOrn." Aud
now he denounces those who, under far stronger
pIovocation propose to do this very thing, as Sec
tonausts, disuniOiists, and as arrayiug sixteen
States agsins; fifteen.
WILLARD FILLMORE and WASHINGTON HUNT
for years acted and voted with the great body Of
the Northern Wings against the demands and az
gressions of tie Slave Power. In not one instance
while either of them remained in Congress did he
fail to vote, when he voted at all, on that side
which they now deneunce as sectional" At the
clOse Of the XXXth Congress, Mr.. Hunt voted with
oil the Northern Wings against every Southern
Member 10 let the Civil and Diplomatic Appropris-
ton bill fail rather than allow it to pass with pro-
visions incorporated by the Senate which organized
tie Territories newly acquired from Mexico with.
out Prohibition of Slavery.
A 10 the John Van Burens and John Cochranes,
i is needless to ask what hey meant when they
solemnly proclsimed that they could never never
cop,ent to the Extension Of Slavery into Free Ter
ri,ory They went Ill TO win, and their pledges and
uro,estations did not contemplate the contingency
Of finding Tie advocacy of Free Soil for Free Men
> losing business. Since Power and Profit are on
ne side, with Principle and Consistency on the
,ther, they take the course which Is natural to
urn of their character and purposes. But We do
appeal t. that large body OF sedae, CONSCIENTIOUS
., did linz. VIII. vim have So oi-en resolved that
the, would never c01sea. 10 sae EA.en''V4 " p~'