New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-08-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
ABnDouEs7 ,or IT, TIE DEsA.Es OF CONGRESS

ABRlDOMLhI tOF 1Hf D1bATk5 OF (DSUhSSo.
hol VII. Apf.etsn ca.
This volume Of tie Cons resfona Debates begins to
touch or the confines Of coernporsry history. ltir-
dudes considerable part of Monroes lss. Congress,
ard the frat Congress Of NJ. Adsms. There viii bs
found in il scme Of the most remarkable Of the later
speeches Of John Randolph, inciuiiDg his dian1bs
against the tariff Of 1921, which lie in vain opposed,
ard his still more violent dstrbes egsinst John u
Adams snd the Northern States, in that dsba's
pornirsry on the Panama Mission, in which IN the
Senate BIZ. Randolph took go conspicuous 4 no.
creat.ble q part. i. one Of his earliest speeches
on this subject, that delivered on the "a OF March,
1896. Mr. Randolph FIST Introduced into Congress
that practice CT appealing 10 the prejndicss and
the eppeher siops Of the South the sutc. o. Say-
ery which ever since hae formed 20 principal part OF
the political tactics OF certain Southern politicians.
The Slavery egits.ion which has since occupied in one
yay CT another 60 much OF the tine OF Coagress msy
lie ssid to have then fairly begun. 1t was introduced
by Mr. Randolph for the same reason for which hsa
sirce been mainly kept up He thought it good
chance for stimulating political sudice at the South
against j. @. Adams Northern man, and therefore
presumably opposed to Slavery. The speech to which
we refer vas violent defamation against Bolivar and
the Spanish American States the ground OF thel
hostility 20 the sy stem Of negro Slavery and furiou
assault upon Mr.. Adams for proposing to meet these
abolition South American States in the Diplomatic
Corgess 10 assemble al Panama 1t Is curiou, to oo
serve however that in these speeches Mr.. Randolph
did not venture TO take the ground occupied at present
by the Southern orators who have succeeded to his po
tical tactics He had rot word to say in defense Of
Slavery ss an institution nor was he guilty Of the sb-
su6ty, while himself declaming the subect, Of in
ssipg that everybody elfe should be gagged. Though
he denied that i ought to be tempered with by quacks
or prescribed for by doctors who never saw the dis
ease or the patien. he admitted, a. the same time,
that wss cancer in the face which could not bs
lid. bat must be treated sccuadum artem dry
rot which Congress could not cover up with carpet
ill the house fell about their ears; thing no more 10
be winked out Of sight than volcano in full operation
He seemed to expectan idea to which the low value
of Slaves at that time afforded como encouragement
that Slavery would die out BY ceaslDg to be profabe
and il was in this speech that he threw out his
famous suggestion about the coming OF the
time when, if the slave did not rua away
from the master, the master would run away from the
slave Yet in this very speech he appealed most art
fully to the spprehensons of the South. lie talked
about the Panama Mission, just as the ee:ton OF Fro
mont 10 the Presidency wss lately talked about, as
threatening the honor Of every mstron ard maiden,
wife and widow between the Ohio and tie Gulf of
Mexico, and ss endsrgerrg the life Of al the little
ones between the same boundaries lying in happy ig-
norapee in their cradles-not to mention general
slaughter Of TIE blacks such would become neces-
sary by way Of putting down the anticipated insurrec'
ton.
From that time to the sen this style of appeal to
the fla ehoders made coward BY their oonscences,
has formed great and growing staple of Southern pol
cs and 1t Is not little curious to notice the tine end
occasion Of its fret Introduction.
The present. volume Of the Debstes IS got out in
the came Superior style with its predecessors. We
would wish however, that little more attention were
pain to the correction of the press, which needs the
more attention, as the printed copy followed, itself
reproduction of the original newspaper reports, is far
from beir Immaculate.