New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-24

men. nor worse ones-supposing such to exist
equal 10 Mr.. Douglas. True Democracy, in assert
ips for al men an equality Of rights, leaves al their
natural inequalities and dversities unaffected.
So with the ,ophistry which eonfounds inalieaaole
human rights with considerations Of taste or con-
seuiality. Mr.. Douglas doubtle. meets hundreds
at the polls, and recognizes them as his equals
there. whom he does not invite home to dinner or
to pass social evening. They may be morally and
Intellectually bis equals yet the simple fact that he
chooses other associates is conclusive. There u
no di.putirg on tastes; and if white women chose
to marry black men, they would, caring for no
license" and the law Of Illinois would prove no
barrier. All the Illinois restrictions so osten-
tatiously paraded by Douglas are but proofs Of
sedulous cultivation of prejudice by Douglass
brother Democrats with view to making party
capital. Whenever the voters of Illinois choose to
ee ct negroes 10 office, their Constitution will prove
no barrier.
It wss the remark of Lord Brougham, if we
mistake not that no reform wa, ever proposed
that might not have been defeated BY giving
adequate weight to the questions, why stop
here Ifyou go so far, why not farther If
Z" this be right, why not more, and still more y
Thus Douglas with regard to the unfortunate race
whom he grinds under his feet in his frantic at
tempts to vault into the Presidential chair. But
the logic which he aims at us, the Shareholder,
the slaye-trader, the slave-stealer, may employ
with equal force against him: If you object to
10y running slaves from Africa to Cuba, why
/" don't you treat the Blacks around you as your
equal. in all things They are either men or
- not men. If men, why don't you treat them as
"such If not men, what objection to my
"buyiDg and selling them as you do horses y
Nay: Mr. Douglas urges that all the Revolu-
topary States were Slave Slater. Were they not
slaye-impOrting as well as slayeholdng States
Have not the principles on which our Revolutionary
struggle was based condemned and outawed the
Slave Trade Why should they not outlaw Slavery
as well They did-they do-and the Revolu-
tonary patriots recognized and proclaimed this
truth. None of them Of any eminence regarded
Slavery as other than a deplOrsble anOmaly-an
ulcer to be healed gradually because it could not
safely be Of once eItirpateda soecism destined to
vanish in the broad efulgence Of those rights Of
Human Nature" which that Revolution asserted
and maintained. Jeffersons Notes on Virginia,
and hundred other declarations, stretching
through bis half a century of public life,
prove undeniaby that he regarded Slavery as
Incompatible with the principles Of Amer
can Liberty; Franklin, so soon as the great
struggle was over, addressed himself to the arduous
task Of e1tirpatng Slavery, and died President Of
an Abolition Society, in which capacity he petit
toned Congress to exert all its powers to extend the
boon of Liberty to every Dhabitant Of our country;
Washngtons letters and his Will are equally cogent
and emphatic on the side of Universal Freedom.
So with Jay, Madison, and all the truly great men
of the Revolutionary era. They demonstrated
against and labored to eradicate the great social and
political anomaly of our country; Douglas on the
other hand, aggravates, gloats over, aud seeks to
make it the ladder of his unchastened ambition.
Who can doubt whether their fame or his shall be
the brighter and more enduring