New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-31


public press and may saw 70 some extent Of public
opinion IL such that few men can dare to press the
opinions they really entertain in this much vexed and
annoying question of Slavery. eau dare 70 do IT, and
will 90 it-because it is q free country. am free
and have favors 10 AK OF any one. Great APP
| plause. Let any man express a sound rational aud
national sensible and conservative opinion on tne sno-
jsct Of Slavery and he is instantly sgmatized and de-
nouuced as Abolitionis and traitor to the South,
unless indeed, he belongs TO the Democratic party
then he in at liberty say and think what he chooses
No ch ridiculous and contemplate imputations sni
deter from saying what think, and thinking "hA'
| please. -. urt.o
am free TO say that the events Of the list WIner
and Spring, in my own State, have smoinereu tuiy
have rot extineuished, WHATEVER ASPIRATIONS nisus
| have INDUCED and | have no desire tae NY naA0
shall ever again be coupled with any polisic A. ON
no man il more Indifferent to political honors than am
| and 20 proceed. lApplanse. ,,,h,, than
We'll Won ask another portion OF the party why 'noy
you'd dissolve the Union and they tell you II ID owing
10 the John Brown raid. The Cotton STATES propose
~ take our grievances off our hands, thhklug sup
nose we cannot take of ourselves or nave ht sur
;,n,v pu is ed the sggressons, or that IL did not
COST one money enough to do 30, and they gehefauy
nr,nose 10 take it upon themselves to redress our
TTdn0s Thspkful for small favors we can take care
1 of all zach, without the aid OF Messrs' ian'ey "uu
Company. Laughter.
We'll. YOU nut Ii, same question 10 another, and he
;els YOU IL s because the Fugitive Slave j." hss been
puhed il fourteen States. Well, u tna Is e. - vi
wrong and ought to be corrected: but esppshs not
informed that have passed the Personal Liberty bull
| Mi hgsn Vermont and Massachusetts. Mchg N 10
too remote for slave 70 get to, and ds lar as enc
coyce ned IL is practically II no moment IAeorsh-
cay il is all wrong aud ought 30 be corrected yer
mott lies on the borders Of Canada There Is no dill
Guilty running slave into the Canadlan pr2vnees,
and Ma, s husstis has modified her Persoaal Liberty
bill bu am not prepared tOsay 10 what exteOt' "a.
if sny State in he Union has Duisd resisted 1t,
ssy il il all wJoDg. But what right have these extreme
Southern States TO complain and threaten to break up
thu Government First they lose no slaves, II Is ir)m
The border Siatee the slaves ron off, We are tne SUI
ferers not they; and if we wilhog to 1--we 10 the
Union we beg them not to 90 out on our account; We
will try and take of ourselves. Secoady IL tloss
States have bullified the Law, who set The eAenpie
Yves not set by the Cotton States who have lnas cd
on the right of each State 10 Judge for ITSELF Thudy
| becaute the responsibility rests at last not upon
those States that have nulfed the law, but on the
| Democratic President OF the United SAFES W mo Is
responsible for the resistance that may be made I, the
law or for any notification of the Fugitive Slave or
any other law, whether in Massachusetts OF IN South
| Carolina 1t is the man who has laid his hand upon
the sacred book and sworn TO see the laws faithfully
executed 1t the President of the United Staest Is
James Buchanan who is responsible for lt-and II you
had man there who knew his duty and possessed toe
courage to perform it, you would hesr nothing OF null
LITIGATION in any State. They woud all be made 10 eX
eeute the law cost what it mght-even II cost every
dollar n the Treasury and h7 life Of every man ~ the
! Army and Navy OF the United States-it is his bust
to the laws faithfully executed IN every Stae
| law, Applause lie sent Federal troops to Boston
| to execute the law, it was his duty to DO.
| Now let me say a word about this Fugitive Slave
law, and explain what are the objections made 70 its
execution in the North. Two features OF 1t are much
| complained Of Fret Of all they complain OF Tea
ture of that bill which authorizes the Marshal Of the
District 10 call on any perton III the hearing OF nls
voice TO aid him in capturing fugitive slave. lhey
say and think with proprety that lnasmuch as you
are rot required DO il here you have no tight TO re-
quire them to do it there. If mans slave runs away,
you have right to call upon me TO aid In the catch
IL of tire slave but if the Marshal has taken posses
sion of the slave ana there is an attempt TO rescue tue
slave then he has the right TO call all men 10 vindi-
cate the law. The one you perceive, ID the vndca-
ton of personal right the other is the vlndcanon OF
public law. Now, that feature OF the bill which
| gives ofense TO the North, was put there by Mr.
| Mason, who was much opposed to the passage Oh
| The compromise measures then pending, that ne pro-
posed that feature an amendment TO the Dni-Wltl
the hope it would occasion lite defeat in the House OF
Representatives and thereby defeat the whole batch
| compromise measures to which he was opposed. But
il passed and became a law with all the rest.
Sc that YOU are iudebt to Mr.. Mason for whatever
| yesitapce has been made 10 its execution. Ny own
impression is, that that feature OF the bill might 6e
odiied without destroying the efficiency OF the Dill,
ought TO be done, and the South ought 10 pro-
pose il. Jhtre another feature IN the bill TO watch
tLey object in which, think, they wrong. They
say tie ria Of the right of the master 10 hs slave
ought to be where the slave s arrested. think not
Fet because the slave is OF fair trial in the
State from which he makes his escape. No man ever
ye, heard of free beng reduced to Slavery against
The law in Slave State. Poblc feeling inclines the
otf er way and If you to change the venue an
sure that such the VI, JUDGE of the public mind there
tia, Justice would rarely be done aud IL would cost
| man more than bis save would b. worth 10 recover
him. In addition 70 this the evidence Of the title liz
| where the slave makes his escape from.
have thus shown you tie difficulties about the Fugi
tive Slave law. think have shown you 1t ID not on
Of the doctrine Of Squater Sovereignty nor or
the i1eCt~&'y If the Staes OF the Fugitive Slave
I law that Ia Il eCkihIidge Democracy propose dis
solution of the Union IN certain contingency Wen,
sIott will say 1t Il because you VIII not give uS
Territorls bill for the protection OF Slavery take
issue again, and say ttat il not The reason why Is
that rot the ieason FiIst, because when Mr.. Blown
OF sssspp ~ the last ion Of Congress P0posed
an ndn ent 30 a BIZ giyiog Territorial Code, 1t
received but three votes IN the Senate. lhey di1 not
want i. IL Old not 6ut their convenience 70 have IL
| Ii woui have removed one Of tbs weapons with which
they proposed to fire tho southern heart sId prepats
| the Cotton Satee into revolution. They would not
vote for il. There was no necessity for IT, aud more
! than that they were Dot entitled 70 1t.
Bat that constitutes no reason for their present posi-
| ton Of hostility TO the Government. l "a ta% do not
want it. First, because there is 10 tsery % which
they could send their slaves; and, secohy II all the
territories at their CONTROL they nave no negroes
to send The States which propose dissolution Of the
Union because they cannot SEND their slaves into ter
ritories that do Lot exist, are now clamorng for
revival of the slave trade in order to supply that
deficiency Thirdly, If they had the territory aud the
negroes to send they have not the white men to send
| with them. Have we in the South any population TO
spare If dispose OF any portion of our white pop
ulahon 10y sending them into the Territories where we
have no negroes a matter Of course we deprecate
the value of ands lessen our Importance IN the ma
onal councils and become reduced TO the political con-
dton of one Of the smallest States in the Union. VIVA,
90 you want TO dissolve the Union FOR =, DO they
| want protection 10 their slave property First who
dstuIbs them in the possession of their slaves Sec
ondly, VIVA, right have they TO ask for protection TO
their slaves Have not the Cotton States al Ways re-