New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-07

| they det<st oH ckre ones.'
Now, the Gsrnsosisas are our bitter sntsgo
mats, and in effect though not in purPo'e, Mr.
| CushiDg's most ser7iceabe helpers; yet the abore
is none the less deliberate and wicked mlsrepre-
tenta.ion. Mr. Cu-hing knows right well that the
Garrisonisns never loved, nor professed 10 love,
black me better than white ones nor any thing Of
the sort. What they love and stasd up for is Lib
ty-Justice-Equal Ri1bts-"The inahenab!e
",ights Of all men to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness" which the Declaration Of lnde-
pepdence solemnly sfirms, making it the basis and
the iuitication Of their own struggle for Freedom
Shame on the eI.Attorney General who can so
grossly mis,tate an issue which he volunteers to
argue shame on the American who can thus libel
powerless and already over calumniased minority
| Of bi, fellow-citizens
That Mr.. Cushing, after thus slandering little
band whom be neither hates nor fears, but whose
attitude and efforts expose the hollowpess and the
fraud Of bis pretensiops to Democracy and to SYM
pstby and accord with our Revolutionary sires,
! should traduce and belle those whom he both hates
and fears was to be expected Accordingly, We
are not surprsed to find him speaking thus of the
Republicans:
But them it is said if sucb do not imperl
institutions yet others Of larger aims and of dscreeer
| factiousness who use them to disturb the popular
| mud, do; Others who talk of Freedom, when they
mean Power; who camor continually of the imputed
encroachments of the South on the North; who or
gsnze and uphold sectional party combinations and
whose avOwed objects are the establishment OF sec
tonal administration Of the Constitution OF the
Union"
When and where have the Republicans ever
"avowed any such objects as Mr.. Gushing here
imputes to them? What does he mean by "sec-
"tional administration ?" Was Washington sec
tiona7 Were all the great men who rallied around
him sectionalists? Was Jefferson discreetly fac
tiousl We know that these regarded Slavery as
an evil to be endured, and limited, and soon got rid
Of; we know that the very first draft OF an act OF
Congress intended to exclude Slavery peremptorily
from the Territories of the Union was drawn oy
Thomas Jefferson, and remains to this day IN his
handwriting among the National archives, where
Mr.. Gushing has seen it; we know that this Terri
toria Ordinance of 1884, though not then adopted
was voted for by large majority of the Delegates
present, including majority of those who repre-
sented saveholdiDg States; we know that this Anti
Slavery Restriction, copied into the Ordinance OF
81, was carried by unanimous vote; that the first
Federal Congress, which assembled not long after
ward, readopted It with Like unanlmity; and
that George Washington approved and signed 1t.
Here was direct, positive, absolute prohibition of
Slavery in all the then Federal or Continental Ter
ritories, devised by Thomas JeffersOn himself
stakeholder and the founder of the old Republican
party, unanimously sanctioned by Congress OF
whose members large majority represented slave
holding constituencies, and signed BY George Wash
ington, also q Southern man and a slaveholder.
The Republican party has attempted to 60 one
step beyond the vital principle of the Ordinance Of
l784-7, thus originated poeevN ""A ---~s;---1-
BY what right then, with what justice, does Mr.
Gushing brand us sectonalists? We stand in the
footprints made by our Revolutionary sires, when
the greatest statesmen and patriots OF the South
stood proudly by their side. II there has been
change since 1857, If is the South, not we it is
our renegades and apostates such as Caleb Cushing
who have changed: how dare they seek to fasten
on US the unjust reproach of sectionalism
But hear the Tammany orator little further:
"WeL these admit are dangerous men, who not
by their OWE strength but by the dssensons OF the
true friends of the Constitution have attained out TOO
much il auence in the North. They dangerous be-
cause they have no fixed principle, no stable convic'
tiOns no scrupes of consistency TO control their acts,
because their only creed is what has been called the
duty of success and because their success the sue
cestfu Accomplishment of sectional organization OF
the Government on the ruins OF its nationaty "ouo
be the de fdct0 dissolution OF the Union.
1t is Caleb Cushing who thus reproaches his po.
liiical adverssries with having "no fixed princi-
"ples, no stable convictions, no scruples of con.
sistency"-Caleb Cushing who has boxed the
compass of political tergiversation-who was
among the btterest opponents of Jackson and Van
Buren, throughout their war on the Bank OF the
United State,-Caleb Cushing, adulator of Quincy
Adams and of Webster, the devoted champion OF
Protection to Home Industry, until prospects OF
higher honors were offered to him through the
treachery of John Tyler, which be shared or emu
lsted-Caleb Gushing, whose best years were spent
10 resisting and denouncDg that Democratic party
which be now lauds as having achieved all the good
and perpetrated more of the evil which our country
has experenced-C Caleb Gushing, who has con-
trived to "turn his back on himself" more COM
pletely than sDy other living American. This is
the man who reprosches the Republicans with
lack of principle, of convictions, of consistency
and with deifcaton Of "the duty of success"
Was there ever more singing selfcastigation
But space and pstiencefail us. With one moreex-
tract We must conclude our notice. Mr.. Gushing
says:
1T is but for New-York TO say it, and we shall
emerge at once out OF this murky atmosphere of
profitable contention regarding Africans into the bngat
light of the Union We have long enough sacrificed
the interests of all the white men Of the United States
10 sentimental solictude for the black ones"