New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-01-15

itheif Democratic, Is the Perpetaauon, Pto'ecson
and extension OF Slavery.
HMr. Bowie imagines that hostility 10 Slavery
was one Of the leading principles of tbs old Fed
eral party, he edly shows himself as utterly
ignorant Of American history ss the great body OF
our politicians and citizens sre-tte history OF his
own country, especially its post-RevOlution'ry
history, being generally the subject of which cIsl
zen Of the United Ststes knows least. So far from
this having been the ce it was BY the votes in the
Federal Convention of THOSE deeg stes from Mass,-
ehusetts and Connecticut who foreshadowcd the
Federal party ttat the Compromise was arrived st.
against the earnest opposition Of virginia. which
tolerated the continuance Of the slave trade for
twenty wears: and if Mr.. Bowie VIII look little
into the history Of the country, he Will find that
every Ants Slavery movement in Congress down to
and including the oppoaition to the admission oil
Missouri as Slave State, also all the early attempts
to abolish Slavery in the District Of Columbia,
were led of by Pennsylvania, the very keystone of
the Democratic arch, and further, that these
movements derived their chief support from Demo
cratic members from the Northern States, the
Federslisss, as body, voting always with the
shareholders. 1t was no old Federsist, it was
Jefferson himself who led the way to the prohibi-
ton of Slavery northwest Of the Ohio and it WAS
John Randolph who prevented its reestabishment
there. In fact, the very frst man who ever pro-
pounded on the floor Of Congress the favorite and
fundamental doctrine of the Sham Democratic
party Of to-day that Slavery is not only recognized
but guaranteed by the Federal Constitution, was
Samuel w. Dana, staunch Connecticut Federal
ist, a warm supporter Of the Alien and Sedition
Laws, and in the year 1902 when he first pro-
pounded this doctrine, the leader of the Federal
party in the House Of Representatives. While
joining the Shareholders in opposing what, at that
time, was almost as great bugbear with them as
Abolitionsm at the North is to-day, the reopening
of trade with Hayti, be observed that "he was not
such Democrat as to say that all men, whatever
80 their color, ought to be liberated and placed
"on an equality. But, whatever might be
90 his theory, he was controlled By the
Constitution Of the United States which
Z" did not permit him to indulge in the
cries on this subject. Any measure tending
"tG disturb the condition Of things in the Southern
States condition Of things ~hieh he considered to
"bs implicitly guaranteed By the Constitution, he
should regard hostile 10 that Constitution which
" as Federalist, he was bound to respect" Here
is the whole doctrine Of our present sham-Demo-
cratic party promulgated fifty years ago BY a Con-
necticut, blue light, alien and sediton law Federal
list, and leader of that party in the National House
of Representatives. We hope that after this EVIL
dence of their soundness on the goose, as well as
out of regard TO the feelings of President Buchanan
and Chief-Justce fancy, Mr.. Bowie will be careful
in future how he brings against the {" old Federal
4" ists" the supporters of the alien and sedition
laws, the charge of "Black Repubhcani,m." On
the other hand, the Black Republicans of to-day
are the very same sort Of Republicans with Jefer
son and Madison sixty years ago-neither Fed
/" eral Republicans" as Dana claimed TO be, nor
" Democratic Republicans" as the frequenten of
TammsDy Hall call themselves, but Republicans
pure snd nipple such as Jefferson and Madison a.
ways claimed to be. As to the alien and seditiOn
laws which appear go detestable in the eyes Of Mr..
Bowie, they are now in force, with severity
thotsand times aggravated, in all the Southern
States. No alien of dark complexion can enter
those States without danger not merely of being
ordered of, but of being fined, imprisoned and sold
into Slavery, while to have in possession merely q
copy of "Uncle Toms Csbin' is in Maryland (Mr.
Bowe's State) penitentiary otfense, for which a
Methodist preacher is now confined in the Mary.
land State Prison.