New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-03

SOmt hundred or so most Respectable cltlZeis vi
Worcester, Mass, have called a Convention to meet
in that city On Thursday the 18th inst, and there
"ctrsider the prrcticabiity, probability asd eH-
"pediency of separation between the Free and
"tbe Slave States" Their call affirms 81 rapid
"ncrease in the hostility between the two sections
"of the Union,' and that this springs frem "a
"fuudsmeniaI difference in education, habits and
Jaws; :" and declares 1.-The existing Union to be
ga failure, as being hopeless attempt to unite un-
"der one government two antsgonistc systems OF
society, which diverge more widely with every
"yeer"
We differ with these gentlemen quite as pointedly
respecting facts as measures. We do not believe il
possible to sever the Union at present, nor ever By
means Of conventions and resolves. Federation.
ike curs sometimes perish through ccnvusion,
through civil wars, through cOnquest never, we
think. through cool deliberate resolves with blood
lees Accomplishments. Nor do We agree that the
North ard the South maintain "ant.gonistic sys-
tens of ,ociety." Diverse, they clearly are; con-
hicing to some extent they may be- but to say they
are "antagonstic" implies that ours is the com plete
antipode of Slave society, and that We cannot
affirm. On the contrary, we see traces and relics
of the slave system left here in New-YOrk as also
IA Philadelpbs, Boston and al around US. We have
nothing quite so bad in the relatively Free States as
the slave. auctions Of Richmond and New-Orean, or
the woman hogging of Charles ,On or Mobile; but
the unemployed seamstress Of Ne y-York, who is
turned out of her garrett because she can't pay the
ptiful rent or the gaunt labOrer turned away from
the aims house gate because be ism sick or GRIP
pie, and therefore ought to get bis living by work
(as he gladly would if any body would just give him
the work, or show hin where he could find ~,
will not permit us to boast of this as land OF
thorough feecOm
We do not believe there is any such radical differ
ence between the People of the North and of he
South respectively as this Call alleges. True, the
ruling class at the South generally own slaves while
that at the North does not but how far is this a
dift renee of principle Suppose each adult male
citizen OF the Free States were to morrow TO re-
ceive Southern letter, saying - beg leave TO
"apprise you that BY the death of your bachelor
"upce so-and so, you are lefI heir 10 dozen tat,
..beal,by negroes. worth q thousand dollars per
"hesd," how maby would Iepudiate the bequest
In our Judgment, not nearly all the Republicans,
not half the Americans, and not ore in twenty OF
the Democrats Yet ii were ab;urdly mistaken TO
sfirn radical and fundamental difference between
men who hold slaves and men who tcoaid hold them
il they could only get them. We are quite sure
that, Of the men who voted for Buchanan IN this
city. forty nine fitteths believe in Slavery, and
would not abolish it il they could. How can such
peope be expected 70 break up the Union, merely
or mainly because Ct rtan parties 70 it are slave
holdersl
As the case strikes US, tie love OF Freedom,
hated of Oppression and tenderness of conscience,
which could alone impel the Free States 70 seek
separation from tie Slave States, would more tnan
suffice to aboli.h Slavery OF reduce lis POKER over
tie Union TO insign6cance. Before the Northern
People can have been brought earnesty 30 say,
I'VE pref Disuniou with Freedom TO the Union
with Slavery" there viii be no Slavery to Sc
cete from. Our Worcester Cohyentiouists would
seem, therefore to be driving their xe'ge ba,teld
fO:tmcst.