New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-24

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r,;o, q, a, eSes question, among large and inhu-
.,t;,I ,jay Tho have hitherto shrunk nom the oons'd
.r,,;cn Of the subject. The able correspondents Oh
81. Convention who deprecated DNunion, sti recog
,xed !, a. q legitimate mstter Of discussion. To's
VA. a sreat step. great blow was strock ~ tne
nourlar. unres,onirg idolatry. Such blows must 90
renea.ed. The Slave Power will have lost lis cher
vropou when the North has learned to calculate p,e
vaIne of the Union. Until that Is done there VIII
al~sys be a means Of crushing US into mecisscn.
II may seem. to some, that the present v not r.,
wear alter Presidential election is always penod Oh
Iur "Optiuists and quietists' represent that tue
character Of the Administration and the new Ush
er.ss are rot yet definitely Indicated. AZ pfcsens
affairs in Kausas look more propitious, wh'ie ae"
light dawns in Missouri, and even, it Is thougn', ~
Virginia The me mory of the Sumner outrage Is soH-
or by the twin deaths Of its author and It's
The Fugitive Slave Law and the IePsa' o. ine ms ud
souri Compromise have ceased to be novelties, ana
the bred Scott decision is acqulesced IN Dy many -
merely abstract grievance. ,u
But all this ia merely a truce, not peace. We
have no indemnity for the past no secSf ,is u 1ns
We, saved; Sumner IS not yet restored; Missouri IS nov
vet freed; Virginia is not yet colonlzed. Inc 'utuie
IN ALI these cases is still couded by uncertainties.
The bred Sect case be abstraction, II Is one Oh
those distractions whose practical consequences con-
vuJse the world. For all our efforts, there Is not YET
an inch of truly Free Soil 10 the nation: Inc great
State of Ohio, under the abest Republican Govern
ment has Just been the scene OF bloody and success
mi slove HINTS That the new Administration will be
Thoroughly subservien to the Slave Power Is lore
ope conclusion The existence of Slavery agrees
Sion, and new Dgenuities OF outrage may at any mo-
ment be sprung upon US. ,.,
The Slave Power has alw avs commanded just votes
enough 10 cary its measures and under our present
organization, always will. If the Republican party
told truth last November the Presidential election
/ a Ill, 80 u0ra
the side of Slavery. 1t has four years of corruption
conquest and annexation before it, and 1t remains 70
be proved that any merely political continuation can
defeat it. On the other hand, the attitude OF ihe he
publican leaders Is now, Always, one OF tmidy ana
compromise. They deprecate, with profuse caution,
the charge Of any disposition TO interfere with slavery
as Il u.s. and claim the support OF Southern men ior
their ne limitations, aOrding und FINISHED security
10 slave property II seviden. that the mass OF Re
publican voters in many States are becoming more
radically Anti Savery; and nothing will do go much
to promote that desirable change as the fearless dl:
cussion propose Undoubtedly the hrst ooleet ID
TO reate an united and determined North; but taere
IL even q chance that the ultimate result OF thaL ei
fort is to be dsuniOn every NUT admit the neces-
sity of being prepared for It.
In view OF these facts. regard the present rs an
opporune period for our Convention. We wish to act
with camness not with impetuosty; to be controlled
not by impulse, but by mature conviction. IL - not
strange that such Convention should be proposed IN
a period Of excitement: that it should be hell in
time of comparative quiet is fact OF moment)us sig
nifcance.
Such Convention appeals to three distinct classes
Of persons:
I. Those who repudate the United States Constltu,
ton az essentially Pro-Slavery, and hence abjare all
union under il.
,. Those who not accepting this view of the Con-
suoD still concur in the opinion that there can be
no permanent union between Free and Slave States,
ar that the only practicable solution will be found,
sooner or later, in q separation.
3. Those who believing in the ultimate triumph OF
Freedom without disunion, still approve of the agta-
ton of the subject because they admit dlsunion To be
POSSIBLE result and because the discussion VIII tend
in any case, to consolidate the North on the side OF
Freedom.
II has been determined to summon the Convention
by means of CALL to be signed by such persons as
may from either OF the motives above Indicated
sympathize with its object BY obtaining many such
names from every Free State, the existence and VIDE
distribution Of this sentiment will be exhibited and in
creased interest will be given to the Convention.
You therefore respectfully invited to append to
this call your signature and to obtain such Others
ar may be within your reach. II is believed that any
effort so bestowed will be useful AntiSlavery work
All copies of the call should be returned with sgno-
lures and memorandum Of the place where obtaned)
to Joseph A. Rowland, Worcester, Mass, on or be-
fore September !, 1857.
THOS. WENTWORTH HIGGINSoN,
WENDELL PHILLIPS,
\. w. BIRD,
DANIEL MANN
VIM. LLOYD GARRISON