New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-12
their views and aspiratonsthat they sought not 70
iniurr but 10 benefit the South. Having amPi hod
ON this statement The Times proceeds:

their views and asplratons-tuat 'ncy eoeba' wv -
,piure but 10 benefit the South. Having smPlhod
on this statement The Times proceeds;
The pcaut point for the public g: wh,her the KeP1on
on-t-he6aeT q coHfsH 70 %
I,1 s,.oa! az JoIa I.s.r and whsther proposes to
rnt i.e upor platform thus Occupied ~ THE rASsS~
Surely. we need not expose the half-dozen
sophistries and assumptions here rolled together
THE TRIBUNE has proposed no platform Tor itsen'
much less for the Republican party. We have
siupIy stated that the word sectional Is improp-
erly used TO characterize Browns Virginia raid;
which. however mistaken or culpaole, Is something
cutie other than sectonal;" whereuPon ms
Tirn,s asks if the Republican party intends to be
As sectional" As John Brown, and proposes to
plant itself on THE TRIDUNE's platform! Such
logic implies contempt for the understanding OF
It's readers.
V. The Republican party is distinctly, uaequiVo-
cally. determinedly opposed to the Extension OF
Slavery under the flag of our Union-iu other
words, to an extension Of the area whereon slaves
may be legally held and worked within the geo
orapbical boundaries of the United States. Such
is substantially its creed, its platform, its guiding
purpose. Now, that purpose implies and involves
conviction that &drsry is irrong; If not, the re-
sistance 10 ia extension would be unjustfable
Hence. those who would uphold aud commend
the Republican party or its principles must Do
prepared to shotc that &arery IS trrOng, or be
exposed to uonsuit. If Sarsry is not rrOng, then
the existence and efforts Of the Republican party
are without justification. There is so far, there
fore. an identity of views between Republicans aud
Abolitionists that both agree to the fundamental
propostion aforesaid. And if, to be On Abolition
ist, it is only requisite that one should consider
Slavery an evil, then nearly or quite all Repuou-
cans are Abolitionists But if to be Aboltionist
if il requisite TO hold-as John Brown did-that all
const tutions and laws that aim or seek to uphold
Slavery are necessarily null and void and that q
citizen of New-York may rightfuly seek to subvert
Slavery in Virginia, or any other State BY violence
and force, thee not one Republican in every hun
dred ia an Aboltionist-probaby not one In every
thousand.
The fundamental, the initial, underlying ques-
ton affecting American Politics, then, Is simply
tbis-Ls Human Sarery nigh. or ,crorg1 II right,
then all manner of opposition TO it ought to be
abandoned or desisted from; but, if wrought by
no means follows that all manner of Ant-Savery
action is iustifable We have still to consider the
limitations of our own power, and the rights of
others TO immunity from our interference with their
peculiar concerns We for example, condemned
the Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island, though We APP
proved the object it contemplated. We condemn
the Liquor Traffic; but we do not therefore pre-
sumo that we have o right to run about with an Ak,
smashing in the heads of whisky and brandy
pipes. We should not be justified in doing that
here; still less in Richmond or New-Orleans.
MIR. Curry of Alabama, in his dgnifed and
statesmanEke remarks of Saturday, touched the
core of the matter; and the new Union-saving
Committee timidy and ambiguously approach il in
their call for a meeting Z" 10 discountenance and
oppose seetionaiism in all its forms" They say
maintain that the North and South were created for
them by parentsse history religion language and geographical
position and their different ns,es aud dVs,eni
hem TO apply py ss sSa other. wants
That, now, is talking to the point, though
gingerly. Messrs. Beekman, Watts Sherman *
Co. here mean that Slayeholding is partnership
concern between the North and the South-that we
sell great many more goods TO the Slave States,
and make more prOnL OUT OF tncu tiaue, tnan We
could if our customers did not own and breed
slaves; that the subsection of SambO and Dinah to
life of hoeing and picking cotton without wages,
enables Massa to buy more expensive brandies OF
Ben Whitock, and Misuss to pay higher for her
dresses of A. T. Stewart, than they could or would
do if they were under the dsagreeabe necessity OF
paving wages to their labOrers. And that is the
real mercantile creed of New-YOrk, to-day,
and the reason why this City is so strongly
Pro-Slayery and in urgent need Of the facts and
| figures embodied in Mr.. Helpers Impending Cri-
Z" sis" The unspOken belief Of the mass of our
| traders is that though Slavery may be abstracty
wrong, it is concretey proftabe and as the South
ern masters will have to stand all the consequent
FIRE and birthstone, our profit out of it is so much
clear gain. We, on the contrary, believe that nothing
wrong ever was or can be profitable; that Slavery
curses and blights both the South and the North;
and that it is the urgent interest of both to bring
it to an end so soon as possible. This is the first
question in order; when this is settled we can see
what next. Meantime, we must keep Slavery
within its present boundaries, until the argument
shall have been concluded.
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CALEB ONCE MORE.
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