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

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.cety Of Clique
-, ,ljm;ration could not console Mr.. Webster for
t,.s Of Inc sympathy Of the people. Conscious OF
q, r.r though too proUdto confess it, disappointed
- ~. ambition. that great heart sckenod and died.
- dd MOI see this, YOU clt not the tragedy. In your
a,,.wotshp you filed your streets and house' with
- NJ that gloomy and disappointed face. You
-. him your patron saint, for every city IT seems
1t have ite saint. Maple has it, ~. Januarius,
Iona IL, st, Petrorio VI Ian its 81. Charles Borro-
a Venice n. 81 Mark As.si IL 81. Francis. And
- Pan. too has lis ST. Napoleon, Frankfort its st.
ce,br Antwerp IT, 81 Rubons London it, II. Wei
r,4oo mad YOU have elevated ID inel Webster to be
A., SAINT Of Boston. No stranger visiting Boston can
,,i.- anywhere that onnprcsent face. Whether
fognirs colossal from acre Of canvass in Fanueil
Hal. OF shrunk into the compass Of a brooch or
ftgtr-ring whether standing in plaster in the Mer-
,hsnts Exchange or overlooking bronze bust the
Telcc- OF the Banks, your Welster-worshp is the
,l,.urdty Of Boston. We all know that he had ma
iestc int lcct and large SOUL but we know equally
vel that the one not infaible nor the other ul-
usculs.e Careessness in money matters iuterfered,
~ / ewOys must, with his independence
"ycuditu1 srbitriun, dun yivtur slieno
sumptu. Pane tue ycscere liber cris"
Thu speak Latin poet in the twelfth century, and
i, would have been well for Mr. Webster if he had
bend this warning; Eat your own bread and be
"frcc-there i, 10 great enough to dispense with
dis maxim.
See 70 what your ready acquesccncc in Mr.. Web.
,,crs views has led. In 1850 the Northern States,
without an exception / boieve, had instructed their
Senator'S and requested their to exclude
Shaver, 10y positive Law from all now Territories The
cree. intellectual leadeI+-Webster, Clay and others
apa!y inauced Congress TO omit this prohibition, and
he Free States to acquicsce il il OMISSION What fol-
ogcd this rejection of the Wilmot Proviso in 1850
The Karaas-N ebraska bill in 1874, removing from those
territories the restriction Slavery guaranteed thirty
Years before. Those who introduced and supported
tbtt pefarous act did the avOwed plea that the
LEGISLATION Of 1850 had established the principle, and had
virtually repealed already the Missouri contract of 1920
This ule, though false was plausible and at all events
i mute certain that If the WimOt Pr0viso had been
snnlied in 1850 TO NcwMcXc0 AMI Utah, the PrOvsO
ahead, applied to Kansa; could not have been set
ASIDE in 1854 The legislation of 1870, though it did
not iu,tf, the wicked act. nevertheless was the direct
oause Of H. When the North recedod from position
80 deliberately taken in consequence of Southern viO
knce sDG threats IL quite natural for the South to
infer thai it could be driven back still further And SO
Il fprncd out The Kansas-Nobraska act was til ere
fore not only the Consequence Of Southern aggression
which YOU den,J, and OF party aggression (which you
as.er, but Of previous Northern concession for which
YOU. and those with whom you act, arc directly re-
sponoblo
This responsibility you cannot evade by dcclalna-
ton concerning fanatcism, sneers about philan-
hropy The iron pen Of history has craven it on the
rock forever Let it stand there The past is fixed
but the question now Def re Us regards the future
The issue Of the present campaign is very simple.
II has been forced upOn in the progress OF events
and cannot pc avoided. The simple question is, Shall
SLAVERY be cxtetdod on not, Mr.. Buchanan and his |
friend. answer "Yes,' and Mr.. Fremont and his |
friend. answer No. Mr.. Fillmore and his friends
say nothing az all about it. They talk about the dan
ger Of scctionalism, meaning Northern sectiOnalsm;
they talk about the necessity of moderation; they
Trais, Mr. Fillmore and his former administration; but
concerning the great issue Of the hour they say moth
ing But not 70 resist the aggrcssOns of Slavery, is
to acquiescC in them. Not 70 oppose is TO yield.
The Slave Power, having blasted the South with /
plague Of ocu,ts finds II necessary to extend its sys
TEN continually over territory part of the |
Shareholders 90 to the new territories 10 reap profit
able crop from the virgin sOs, while another part re-
main at lone and iinl profit in raisng slaves to
supply the demand in these fresh regions Thus |
Slavery which would soon become Improbable If con-
fined at home can live by extending itself. and only
so. Hence the determination OF the slave Power to
occupy the great region west of Missouri. The qucs-
ton is Shall this region be surrendered To slave labor
Or preserved for free labor Mr. Buchanan says the
former: Mr.. Fremont the latter; aud YOU say, Mr.
Fillmore i. moderate man, very respectable gen.
leman and the interests of the country will be safe
in his bands
Til, answer means acquescerce. The party that |
rcssS aggression is, in your opinion, geographical,
and ,ou will have nothing TO do with 1t. More than |
hat YOU ion tho aggrcssors in helping them TO put
down (e resistance. Let me- show your attitude bya
COMPARISON:
Once it happened that steamer was running
through the fog on the Ohio River undr heavy
head of steam 1t was one of the hgh-pessure boats
common in that region, and the captain was racing.
One part of the passengers liked the speed, and
WISHED it to 60 faster; hut another part, seeing that
the beat ran a double danger OF explosion and oil ex
erna collision insisted lifting the salctyvalve and
letting Of the steam. The escaping steam made
g1ca noise and frightened third part of the passen
gers, who hiAkiRg that lie dORgtr came from ne
voise assisted the frst party in shutting down the
valve again Now the boat is the American tnon,
which is in wo-fod danger Q: explosion and OF col
Eson This danger comes rom the determination oil
The South TO extend Slavery. In resisting this extern
sion the Republicans arc assaed by the Save Power
with great noise and clamor; and YOU, thinking that
the danger is from the no- and not from the asgrcs
sion, unite with the parry OF aggression in shutting
down the valve.
Let ur suppose thai Your poAcy Of acqn.cscence
.bould carry the day. 1T US suppose that some
good easy man, ike NJ. Fillmore, should be chosen
Precedent and the Slave Power De allowed TO take
omit lion cf Ean.o- Tn. r,su't yvoull b. a. IL