New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-04


enero.chments The politicians of the North VINO
have taken the lead in resisting these enci"".
ments. have never proposed to interfere WIN '"o
oua.t;on of Slavery in the Southern States. lne'
have had unite enough to do in defending the Tree
institutions Of the North, and in Struggling !" P,e
vent the slsveholding interest from ensross'hs H'
entire control of our National Go'ernuea'' ."'
roIticsl contest of tie last twenty-five years mas
- s,r,cgle 10 wrest from the shareholders, not
,h .layss but their pretensions TO control the Ma
t;onal Government to dictate the cho'ce Vi ie'-
asn.s and 70 regulate even the INTERNAL Pohcy vi
the Free States Under the cry that tner slaves
were in danger, and the pretense oil the Necessity
of obtaining new guarantees Tor Their security '"o
slavehoding interest has been constantly putting
forward demands OF the most inadmlssioic enarac-
.sr Even the violence Of the verbal attacks MADE
,,,or them BY the Abolitionists have been, to
great extent, provoked by their own denunciallons
leveled against those Aboltionists, their de-
mapds for unconstitutional enactments against
tba and their evident readiness to sacrifice every
guaranty for the rights of freemen where the i'ei'
ests of slayeholding are concerned.
If it is not only disagreeable but dangerous 70
have the institution of Slavery made constant
subject of public discussion, IT this discussion al 'e
opinon of the shareholders tends to excite fanancs
ike Brown to engage in desperate enterprises nAe
.ba, Of Harper's Ferry, we advise the parties IN
terested instead of railing at the Republicans 10
look ont for some means of restraining those Demo
cratic poli,icians who are constantly bringing th's
Slavery question before the public, and absolutely
driving their opponents to the necessity OF dis
cussing it. If the institution OF slavery Is
meh a ticklish subject, certainly htIe
caution ought to be used by the parties
most interested as to the matter oil consen'!
tbrusting it on the public attention. In proposing
and carving the annexation OF Texas, ior Tue
ayowed purpose Of giving new strength and eAteh-
,iop TO the institution of Slavery, challenge was
thrown down for the discussion OF the merits Of that
institution which could not be evaded In propo''
ing and carving the repeal Of the Missouri Prohi'
bitjop. and thus opening to Slavery territory
| which. b. virtue of solemn compromise haa
long since been set apart to be occupied
Of free labn-. another still more impera'
ti7s challenge was given for discussing
the merits of Slavery moral, soci:. ana pohticai.
| When il was sought, with encouragement openly
extended from Washington, to snatch, by fraud ana
violence the legislative control OF the Ierrl'or! vi
Kansas out of the hands of the majority OF the III
habitants for the purpose Of favorng the nfroduc-
t;on of Slavery into it, and its ultimate erection IN
to Slave State, how was it possible tor the re-
| publicans to decline the discussion to when tney
were thus again invited When the revival Of
the African slaye-trade is openly brought forward
BY reckless and ambitious spirits at the South as
measure essential to the prosperity and progress Of
that section Of the country, and indeed Of the
| whole Union, can it be expected that We ut the
North should decline the discussion thus provoked
When we find the doctrine pertinaciously advocated
at the South that Slavery &c far from beng an evil
to be deplored, is blessing to be priced, when
, We are told that, as to this matter, washington,
Jefferson, and all the great leaders Of the ReyOlu-
| ton, were totally Mistaken that within ten years
| past great discoveries have been made nv to the
true nature of liberty and Republican institutions,
and that in fact there is no basis upon which they
can repOse so securely as upon negro Slavery, can
be expected silently to cast aside all the opinions
upon this subject in which We have been educated,
and, without wordof objection, asking single
explanation, reverentially to accept the new doc
| trine If Mr. Cobb and other Southern gentlemen
| would have us abstain from the discussion of the
Slavery question, would they not do well them
selves to set US the example Of that abstinence upon
which they insist If the sayeholding interest will
withdraw from the political arena if they will con-
fine themselves to the discipline and management OF
| their plantations, or even to the control OF the
States of which they are citizens, instead of per-
petually thrustng themselves before the nation as
the interest to which all else il to be made subser
Went, they might then have right to complain of
being made the topic perpetual discussion. But
so long as they continue to insist upon controlling
the policy of the National Government, SO long as
| they put themselves forward in conspicuous con-
ict with the rights and interests of free labor so
long as they seek to extend to the Free States their
own local policy of suppressng free discussion,
they must expect that the discussion thus provoked
| viii continue to go on.
DELAYS OF JUSTICE.
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