New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-17


ard the Rhetis Of the South, II they shall be placed
before us for Official positions.
cannot hut indulge the hope that when the sgnes
of this ce shall assemble in the heart OF cur common
wealth they will conclude 10 leave all the mPoent ana
puere threats against the Union 70 The southern o.s'e
Propog and proclaim their readiness TO follow,
in he conflict of the future, the banner OF Liberty
and Union around which rallied in the late esnviss,
nearly fourteen hundred thousand Dieigt ut and path
otto American Freemen firm and iLte1ibe adherence
10 this constitu ional and ps'rotc position will am
confident secure the prohibition OF Slavery in all places
un6er the exclusive authority OF Congress overthrow
The Slave Power in the National Government aud pre-
maze The vay fer the pesceful emancipation of the
bondmen by the consent of the sayeh9dng states s
The letter OF the venerable j. Il. GIddings IL very
eloaueut and earnest but your space Will not per-
nit me 10 copy IL Let these brief extracts sum &c
for specimens of its tone:
SOME RESULTS OF SLAVERY.
hesitate not 10 say that this Government has been
90 administered for the last quarter OF century, as 10
be destructive Of the ves the liberties and The happ
ness of portion of toe people, in short, II mss oecoe
destructive of the very objects for which u was esIao
shed Its influence and its powers have oeen eIeleu
10 extend the most barearous system OF human oond-
age known TO mankind. Three distinct and separate
wars bave been wsged TO uphold and MAINTAIN the sys
tenn Of American Slavery. More tan thiee n9nuIeu
millions of dollars have been drawn from the PocAe oI
our lahoring people and paid out by Government of
that ptrpo-e and more than five hundred Thousand nu-
man victims have been sent to premature 70 up
hold and maipain the interests OF an INSTITUTION WHICH
the present Administration AID IFS supporters are
seeking 10 extend and eternse In one OF toe wars al
uded 10 eighty thousand temen were sscrhced TO THIS
Noloch Of Oppression, ard 10 one day recently three
hundred fathers mothers and children were oaroir-
opsly butchored by army tor no other crime than
attachment to their God given right to Liberty and
the groans Of men and women murdered IN Kansas by
employees Of our Government, have not yet ceased 10
ring in ears.
Eve have ACQUIRED vest territory and spread the
curse of lumsn bondage it, we have erected nine
slnyeholding States and received them into our Fed
eral Union; We have authorized Slavery In Utah.
New Mexico and Western Texas; we have authorized
coestwise commerce in human flesh which Is nov
caniod on under the protection OF the American tiaQ
We have established Slavery aud the slave trade 10 thu
ID sct Of Columbia, and involved our people of the
Free States 10 the dgrace the crime and the expense
of returning fuetves from oppression under the os
eri1g care of this Federal Government the number OF
slaves has increased more than three millions, aud
throughout fifteen States and three Territories bereaved
fathers aid mothers NOUN The loss oil edldren torn
sm their embrace By brutal and brothers
and sisters separated from each other sigh and weep
In chains: ard millions ofhcarts bleeding under the
accumulated wrongs of that Institution
DISSOLUTION, AND QUESTION OF POLICY.
IL hesitate not to declare that the Federal Govorn-
mott Las been destructive Of the ends for which II
irs,tuied and the people now hold the clear and nds
putabe lI.- =. rner or abolish it and establish
lew 5ae; and that the further maintenance OF 1t IS
purely question of policy, not OF ddy.'
UNION The TRUE POLICY.
81 think we should remain in the Union, not for the
puose o. upholding and e1te ndiDg Slavery bat tor
The purpose cf UNFOLDING and extending L,oeTty; l.
we unite upon the doctrines putoIth IN our Republican
platform, Success cannot be delayed OF postponed
81 thi1k cur duty and policy unite in urging US to
maintain the Union IS, ard to reject all PROPOSE
,cns 10 form new Unions with the Poly OF Utah
or the Shareholders Of Cuba that We should be active
and enere cc in efforts to restore the Government
10 its original position in favor OF freedom; tnat we
should incre6fe the number OF Free-Statee uotl the
Slave Power sha be dwaried to an insignificant por-
tcn of odr Federal Union that man shall be elect
cd TO any Office who hesGtes 20 exert his political and
moral lfueI to carry out The designs OF those VINO
established our Government; that shall continue to
arouse the public conscience OF the Nation until oppres
sion shall cease to exist outside of the Slave States
will then say 10 the Shareholders of those States: N
bird the heavy burdens and let The oppressed 90 tree
or if you prefer 10 Ieman, let that Institution PERISH
nth u. VERY respectfully, j. k. GlDDIEGs.
Mr. Giddings may remark in speaking of what
Theodore Parker, the other Sunday III a premed-
tated sermon called the recent righteous insurrec-
tions" does not fail to designate the killing OF
| slaves as MURDER Of the innOcents. Several Re
publican papers, ] observed, talked OF John Bells
| Losses as if the unoleudng slaves who were muir
| dered by the mob had been hogs hardware, Office
| holders, OF other mere property.
| Charles Francis Adams, in courteous, ably
written letter states that after careful examination
| Of the grounds of the proposition, "nelther as
"moral as q social or as political question could
" give an affirmative answer In the doctrine Oi
| separation" and discusses it from each Of these
,tand.poiuts: Thinks that the defects OF the Gov
eminent are not so much caused by any error IN
| the instrument as by the vaclail0n and weakness
of the great body OF free men who have the power
in their own hands to correct II and yet refuse TO
| use it,. He adds:
II think the obvious policy s TO persevere in reform
| ing opinion in the Free Siaesto educate the rising
ger citation In determined hostility to the spread OF
Slavery in Anericato ntuse something OF the genuine
spirit Of Liberty into the still torpid regions OF the Mid
de and Western States, and then "a trust to time and
| to the providence of Goo for favorable result"
| The Hon. Amasa Walker, in a long letter, after
expressing his disgust at "thc hypOcritcal buster
| Of the public men who "cry up the Union and cry
down all who, in the Free States, in any way or
"mauner examine the great questlOn-whether our
permanent national prosperity and happiness can
| "be preserved while the dead eafcase OF Slavery
lis bornd 10 the living body of Freedom;" after
saving that he is sick Oi so much cant about
| Union. which Is " all tegned or false" and that
| the people of Massachusetts, as he has the best
reason to know, are quite ready 10 take the
| ground practically, that they will have Liberty
and Mon or 10 Union al all; after giving It as
bis belief that nothing is so calculated TO enslaye
the people stupeiy the public conscience, or de-
"stTOy ali true manhood, this AFFECT, craven
| spirt of blind dolitry which the press of this
| country, whether literary, political or religions,
"pay 10 the UAiOn;" after reminding us OF tle
| fact that the Union is means, not an end whlsh
should be repudiated at once and forever when 1t
fails TO effect or peryerts its object aiter stating that
4 fet10n anu slavery are aVsOlupc - -t IIeeVn
"cllabe antagOnsms that cannot by any human
possibility cOexist;" that there is not, never
was and never can be any concord between Christ
"and Belial"-annOunces that
IF the object of yourself and your associates is to
swsken the people 10 free and fearless discussion OF
this great ques lOn with determination q act IN such
manner their conviction shall dictate, let that
l. " nj n M u IN aIuzx nth 4nn ~