The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-03

,oo. Free labor has Stipulated sh,,,s, except
m Rssia and Turkey s.sss aesessVss' tsvsopsd IN
Is they are we nnd Them engaged lE abosniag slavery
abor at the close Of the last ssnsry and fell before i, in
New England, New York, Me- Jersey and Peaass ana,
but trumphea over Il eisc,y. and excluded il for
Georgia. INDEED, so Incompatible are The too systems
at sus,y Safs Which is organized oin our euer.
eaiesdng domain makes Us ara political act choice
of Ne and an ectusion Of TIE other epsa at he
cost Of cui! ,1ar, necessary The SLABS Safes ,olih
cut laU, at the taa national election, forbade, oain
Aeir o0n limits euen NE casting of utes for c1sdi
dase for Prestdent Of the Uni,ed States supposed to
fauoratl TO ne establishment of the free la5m system
different States but side by side, within the Ameri
Union This has happened because the Union o confed-
Grafton Of States Bot another oect the United states
eoneuse only one nation Iucrease Of population which
~ filling the States out TO their very borders together
with new and extended network of railroad and other
avenues and an internal commerce which daily becomes
more ktimaie rapidly bringing the States into higher
and more perfect social unity Consolidation Thus thse
0ntagonistc sems continually coming into closer
tcct, and collision resl Shall tell you iohdt this COLT
sion means? fhey who thnk that It Is accidental
cesaary the work Of interested anaca agtators and
therefore tphemera mistake the case altogether. is
an trTepesbk conflict bss'Oeer opposing and enduring
fWces and that the Uaited States must and 0u
sso,s latsr become entirely sIaueholaing nation or en-
Of South Carolina and The sugar plantations of Louisiana
.o11 ultimately bs TILED BY free labor, and Charo and
Neg Orleans become nas for Legitimate merchandise alone
or else the rye fields and sosdt fields Of Aassachuss ard
Nso York must again be by their farmers SLAVE
;rs sna % s production e. auss ana s%sn Sna Ny y
souls Of 1t ID the failure TO spprehend this truth
that induces 30 many unsuccessful attempts at final CON-
ence Of this great fact tha renders all such pretended
compromse, when made, vain and ephemeral. Startling
- ths saying may appear TO you fellow citizens, by
NO means an original or even modern one. Our fore
fathers knew II to be true and unanimously acted upon
when they framed the conattuon Of the United States
They regarded the existence Of the serve system In
many Of the States with and shame which they
openly confessed and they looked upon the collision be-
tween tween them which was then Just revealing ITSELF and
hope They knesO thai either the the other system
wait eselusirely prevail glihs too many Of Aose soao
choice bstoeen The t.co. They preferred the system If
free labor, and they determined so to organize ne oousy,s.
sn and nd 50 70 ss Is ssi'' Mss a system should
oshsr they based the whole structure OF government
broadly on the principle that all men created equal
period OF one hundred years their descendants would
bear 70 be told by orator. popular that the
sserance Of that principle merely rhetorical rhsp
attended BY mental reservations which rendered hypo.
critical and false By the ordinance OF 1887 they ded-
Gated all the national domain not yet polluted by slavery
70 free labor immediately thenceforth forever while
by the constitution and laws they invited foreign free
importation Of African slave labor all times in al
places, AMI under all circumstances whatsoever. II la
rue that they necessarily and wisely modified this policy
Of freedom by leaving IL TO the several States affected
they by differing circumstances 70 aboish slavery
In their own way and at their own pleasure instead Of
TO
three 1fths representation Of slaves In the federal
government until they should find themselves able
these notifications ortfss my position that TIE faes
kr'esc that the two systems could not endure ,0ittn
ne Onion, and ezpecld that soithin short period
slavery aOoud disappear forever Moreover, In order
Mat these notifications might not altogether defeat
their grand design Of republic maintaining universal
nd the Constitution It remains to say on this point
only word to guard against msapprehens,on II these
States again TO become universally slaveholdng do
not pretend TO cay with what violations OF the constu.
ton that end shall be accomplished On the other hand
whsle do c0nfd.ny believe and hope that my cunry ,Uli
4 sM be made 50 o0r1ciss than through the action Of
Ne several Sates cooperating ,oh The federal gover
ment, and all acting !" strict conformity scih their
iion concerning slavery, which gently disposed per
habitually deprecate, is nothing more than the
only thus regarded with favor but which they may be
Bad 10 have instituted II s not 10 be Denied however
shat thus far the course Of that contest has not been
eordpg TO their humane ancpatons and wishes In the
neld Of federal politics. slavery deriving unlocked for Ad
vantages from commercial changes and energies
bers Of the savehodng and between that class aud
other property Classes early rallied and has at length
made same not merely 70 retain its Original defensive
Union 1t certain that the savehoding class Of Anne.
Yican citizens indulge this high ambition, and that they
rive encouragement for 1t from the rapid and effective po
which they have already obtained The plan
Of operation s hs-By continued appliances Of patronage
ana threats Of dsunioD, they will keep majority favora
Bile to these designs the Senate where each State has an
equal representation Through that majority they viii
defeat as they best the admission Of free states and
zion Of the judiciary they will on the principle of the bred
Scott CASE carry slavery into all the Territories Of the Uni
the action Of the President and the Senate ueg treaty
making power they will annex foreign slaveholdng States
IN ter Se sses as y a !. as a,
and so they wit import from Africa, at the cost Of only
tenty dollars head slaues enough to fill up the interior Of
the continent Thus relatively increasing the number Of
slave States they will allow amendment the cons
tuition preudcal to their interest," and so, having per-
manenty established their po.er, they expect the fde
raj judiciary to nufy all State laws which shall interfere
with internal or foreign commerce In slaves When the
free States shall be sufficiently demaIed to tolerate these
c.rad BY those States aemsseves shall not '' stop to
show how speedy or how complete would be the ruin
which the accomplishment Of these savehodng schemes
would bring upon the country. For one, should not
main in the country test the sad experiment Having
epent my manhood, though not my whole life, in free
STATE arstocracy ofany kind less arstocracy
Of savehoIders shall ever make the laws Of the land ia
which shall be content to live. Having the society
around me universally engaged In agriculture, manufac
lures and trade, which innocent and benehcent,
shall be denizen Of State where and women
reared cattle, and bought and sold merchandise
resistance shall be impossible, then, If there shall be no
better hope for redemption that can now foresee, shall
ssy for .nd Inc wnos
liberty dwes, there ID my country" You will toll me
that these fears are extravagant and chimerica
swer they so but they only because the de-
signs Of the saveholders must and can be defeated Bot
is only the possibility Of defeat that renders them co.
They cannot be defeated by inactivity There is no e.
cape from them compatible with non-resistance. How
tben and in what shall the necessary resistance be
NADER There is only one way. The democratic party
must be permanently dislodged from the government The
that the democratic parry Electrically conniedto
the designs Of the Shareholders wich haze decrbed Let
be well understood charge that the democratic
ddates for public office before the people pledged
much less that the democratic masses who support them
really adopt those arocous and dangerous designs Can
dda'es may and generally do, 10 act justly wisely
and periodically when they shall be elected but they
come the minters and servants not the dctators, of
the power which elects them The policy which party
shall pursue at future period is only gradually de.
veloped depending the occurrences OF events never
fully foreknown The motives Of men, whether acting as
electors In any other capacity, generally pure
Nevertheless IL 10 not more true that shell is paved with
COED Intentions than 1t is that earth covered with
wrecks resulting from innocent and amabe motives The
very constitution Of the democratic party commits 1t to
execute all the designs Of the Shareholders whatever
they may be- 1t 10 not party Of the whole Union
Of all the free States and Of all the slave Sates yet
is party of the free in the North and the
Northwest; but Il ia sectional and local party having