New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-06
NO BACKING DOWN

sN: 10 say thht the hepuoiCdh5 Oh Wc~c'h NO"
York are surprised at the tone and evident purpose
two or three articles which have recently appeared in
The Albany Erening Journal, would be very tame
expression of the prevailing sentiment through all this
part Of the State Not only do they meet with no IA
yor among those whom The Journal he's been wont
to designate sound and reliable but they excite
amazement in many quarter, and provoke undSgused
indignation from influential sources They regarded
"a giving up all that have been struggling for since
tie organization Of the Republican party and which
We thought had achieved in the election OF Lincoln
and Hamlin. Great numbers now belonging to that
party have been battling for ts leading principles ever
since the project Of Texas annexation was brosched,
twenty years and more ago. Some Of its most active
and valuable members embraced those principles at
even an earlier period Others, and especially those OF
Democratic antecedents land how important an ee-
ment Of the party they constitute need only to be sug-
Qes,edD ayowed these doctrines during tho memorable
struggles over the Wilmot Proviso, in 1878. The
avalanche which followed the repeal Of the prohibory
caueo Of tho Missouri Compromise, utmating in tho
organization which has just o national triumph,
was not the conversion Of great Of men to new
principles hut rather the loosening Of these masses
from old partes, and preciptating them into new
rary wbose fundamental doctrines they had long be-
fore embraced In word the principles Of the Repub-
liesn party did not spring from the organization but
the organization the Legitimate offspring of princi-
pies long cherished by members Of old and hostile
parties
The great body of the Republican party have there
FORE teen aborng for the Of theee principles
for periods of ten, fifteen, twenty and twenty-five
years. For Fix eight years past and especially du-
ring tie Presidential contests Of 1856 and 1850, these
PRINCIPLES have been expounded and illustrated
through tie press and from tho platform, in the
Noit ern States fully and clearly than any po-
Etical questions that ever before agiiaed the Amer
can reope or indeed any other people on earth. The
in neDse vote just cast for Lincoln and Hamin was
tie most intelligent honest determined testimony ever
uttered through tie balloboxes at the hustngs in
ills or any other country. The mas Of men who
gave il have not their peers for intelligence, virtue
downright honesty Of purpoe, clear appreciation OF
what they are doing, and unfalterng determination
to stand by their acts, upon tho face OF the wide
world
Now, nybody who suppress that any considerable
number Of tlose who gave that vote, can be induced
for any purpose under any pretert, to give up all
that iLey have won in this triumph, is either vulgar
otcisn incapable of rising TO the level Of the sub
line principles at stake In this contest or an srrant
fool who ia yet 10 learn the character OF the men he
dealing with. The great mas Of Republicans feel
and know that in the election Of Lincoln they have
neither done nor medtsted any harm to- any agrees
SIGN UPON, the rights Of any section Of the Union.
They know that if they succeed in doing sl that
tley have undertaken they will be merely recovering
os ground merely restoring the country to the posi-
ton, in regard TO Slavery where the fathers placed
it, AID from which it has been dragged by the Negro
Propaeandsts Of the Calhoun school. They will,
therefore adhere to their position. This they will do
for the twofod reson thai it is right, and because 10
retreat from j, would not placate their enemies, who
now threaten to break up the Union and bent upon
secession not because Lincoln 10 elected not because
few States lave enacted Personal Liberty laws,
not because they anticipate that any unconstitutional
measure will be adopted by the incoming Administra-
ton, but because the irresistible march of free prnci-
ples ard free labor creating free States Ia giving free
institutions steadily increasing preponderance in both
branches Of Congress, and the time has come when
tie minority section of the Union which has 50 long
ruled the country for the Advancement of Slavery must
yield to the Constitutional sway Of the liberty glowing
majority.
SO deeply rooted are these convictions and purposes
in the minds Of the vast majority Of the Republicans
of Central Northern, and Western Hew-York that ii,
for instance, State Convention should assemble, and
through any process Of packing manipulating could
be induced TO APPRECIATE the measures recently Promui-
gated in The Journal at least fourifths of tho party
10 the localities indicated would refuse 10 follow the
lead Of such Convention. Yea, they would, If need
b, summon another Convention, which would rally
around it the large body of the Republicans in this
State. And any prominent statesman OF the party
who should attempt enaf these measures upon the
POLICY of the nation would be killed stone dead. The
of the people who rolled up the mighty msoritiee
for Lincoln and Hsmln In the Central, Northern and
Western Counties Of tie State, knew what they were
doing when they acted and that they soc the result
they not sorry for the deed They fought the bat
tie not for the plumber which would follow victory,
but to maintain the principles at stake In the contest
Tie ambitious leaders, or camp followers, who
hang around the purleus Of the Commssaria or even
few thousand mid soldiers, may desert the eause in
the hour Of trial. the principles will remain, and like
metal, while the dross slougts of.
Henry Clay brough. Missouri into the Union 40
Slave State against the general sentiment Of the free
North. The memory Of the deed always stood in the
path of his Presidential aspirations Lewis Cas- wrote
the Nicholson letter, soohng at tho Wilmo. Proviso.
In the name Of Jeffersoniap Democracy, tho barn
burners Of Few-York put him TO death. Frightened
from his prupre.y. Daniel Webster repudlaied his
lifelong principles on tho 9Th Of March, 1850. New
HhgAnd turned her back upon her son. snd IN grief 10
tuTDed bic fsc: to the val, snd gsTe NJ the shoat-