New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-15


absurd-instanced his prediction that Slavery must
cease in The South or must prevail Also IN The
North as prcposterous Let Ms consider this IN the
light of obvious facts.
Of course. much depends on the answers to De
given to the questions" What IS sl.very' What
" is Slave State" In our view, an individual or
community which sanctions, ju-tGes, fortifies, ap-
holds, the enslayement Of human beings, is truly
slayehoding, no matter whether thar person, th't
community, expressly holds men in bondage or not.
We cannot see bow or why they who should aid to
plant Slavery in Texas, New. Sic xicO OF Nebraska.
can be exculpaed from the sin ard sh.me Of SLAVE
holding. Vainly shall they exolaim, with the coz
science-strcLen Macbeth,
"Cbou cans; 10, 'ay Ibid &, hever shake
Thy sOFy locks a. me- "
for they rs truly responsible for the existence
and aggravstion Of savehoidine as if they were
personally negro-traders IN Richmond or NeS-Or-
leans. Let us See, then what will be said in reply
to the following averments
/. 1t is a fact that the vast region known as
Texas had been purged of Slavery by the Mexican
Republic, to which it indisputably belonged until
emgrants from this country went thithcr with
arms in their hands and wrested the territory from
Mexico, and recstabshed Slavery upon it; and
there the abon,inatiOn remains to this day.
H. 1t is fact that this establishment Of
Slavery in Texas was effected by armed bands
raised in our South Western cities, armed in good
part by weapOrs supplied or taken from our Ma
tional armories, and backed by Federal troops,
hch were moved down 10 NacscdOches on pur-
pose to countensnce ard protect the Flllibusters.
III. Il is fact that Texas was practically cx-
tended long distance westward and northward by
the arms of the United States-our troops having
been marched down to the Rio Grande, in the
heart Of loyal Mexican settlements at least hun
dred years old before war was declared or hostile
demonstrations attempted on the part of Mexico.
". When Louisiana was purchased in 1e03-i,
il was held that because slaves were held ina mere
corner of that vast domain, therefore Slavery Was
and must continue legal throughout the whole of it.
But when we came to add New-Mexico, Utah,
California, Arizona, by similar purchase in 1Si8
they being expressly and undeniably Free Ter
ritories up to the time Of our purchasing them
the rule was not allowed to work in favor Of Free
dom; but all these were and are held and officially
regarded as open to Slavery-nay, as (under the
Dred Scott decision) absolutely slaveholding by
law, and only requiring the presence Of single
STAKEHOLDER with his chattels to convert them into
actual Slave Territories, in defiance Of all other Of
their inhabitants.
Y. For the lssttwcnty years, an earnest struggle
has been going on among the civilized nations of
the earth with regard to the African Slave-Trade.
Great Britain leads in opposition to that internal
traffic; the United States stands st the head of the
opposing host. BY the influence Of our GOvern-
ment, exerted through our then ambassador to
France, now Secretary of State, the Quintuple
Treaty, granting reciprocal Right of Search of
vessels suspected Of slave-trading, was defeated
and from that hour TO this the attitude and bearing
of our Government has been such as to render the
suppression of the Slave Trade impossible. For
the last ten years, our ports have furnished and
fitted out and our flag protected, most OF the
vessels employed in the Slave Trade.
vi. Our Diplomacy has been and is constantly
under Pro-Slavery influence. Our present EUbas-
sador TO Brazil signalizei his presentation to the
Emperor by speech in which he claimed an iden-
tity of interest and OF feeling between this county
and Brazil, based on the fact that they are the two
chief slayeholding nations on this continent. Ey.
erywhere, Slavery is cherished and Emancipation
frowned upon by our Envoys. In Russia, where
the young Emperor is engaged in desperate and
doubtful struggle with the Arstocracy Of his realm
he urging general emancipation Of the serfs,
and they resisting and impeding 1.-THE presence
of an Anti-Slayery ambassador Of the school of
Franklin, Jefferson, Jay, or J. Q. Adams would
be- of immense advantage to the cause of Emsnci.
nation: but, instead Of this We are represented at
ST. Petersburg by Francis W. Pickens, one Of the
most bigoed Pro- Slavery fanatics that even South
Carolina has produced. And now, as for thirty
years back, no earnest and hearty opponent Of
Slavery represents our Government st any Court
whatever.
VII. No collector, no marshal, no postmaster,
no func,onary Of any Kind under our Federal
Government is known 10 be Anti Slavery in any
sense or manner or dare avow himself desirous
that Slavery should be abolished. Even in our
strongly Anti-Slavery States ike Vermont OF Mas
sschusetts, the Federal functonaries from highest
TO lowest are all Pro'Slayery, and each Custom.
House and Post. Office is a petty citadel Of Pro-
Slavery influence. Were Gov. Hammond or Gov.
Wise President the Federal Offices could no. be
more careful ly weeded of all Anti-slavery leaning
than they now are.
VIII. The journals patronizea, snd some Of them
in good part supported, By the Federal Executive,
are uniformly Pro-Slayery in tendency. Among
them arr obscure sheets issued in Northern cities
-;hi. City among them-who are not content with