New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-21

mise of 1888, and broke down the tarin pohcy
Of 1893 This account, adjusted twenty-seven
,oor. auo. ought not to be reopened now.
v Sustaining the right of petition in the two
Uopses Of Congress. But this is Constitu-
tiopal right belonging equally to the South ana
the North. Maintaining it for the common
GOOD in a Constitutional mode, is very poor
reoson for oyerthrowing the Constitution. Ihough
in the case referred to by Mr.. Rhett (the ADO
,tion era) it was exercised by Northern cltizens
more frequently than by Southern, yet, as nothing
whatever resulted from 1t, this ahoruS soii'
excuse for dissOlying the Unlon'
vi. The Mexican war, with Its consequent ac-
ouistion of territory, resulting in the admission
of California to the Union as a Free State In
presenting this as one of his main grievances
NJ Rbett seems strangely to overlook the preg-
nant fact that this war was the legitimate fruit
of the anterior annexation of the slaveholding
State of Texas to the Union, with the right TO
carve out of it series OF other siavehOlding
States, and that in organizing the territories pur
chased from Mexico at the close OF the war OF
IS46-6, Congress left them open to competition
between slave and free labor.
VII. Mr. Rhett says the South has been
clicked out, bullied out and shot out OF
kansas" Though the South has done her full
share of the kicking, bullying, and shooting in
that Territory, yet, admitting Mr.. RS allegation
how came the South within kicking bullying,
and shooting distance of the North, in that Ter
ritory? Was it not by the wantOn violation OF
compact, made by the South forty years ago, by
virtue of which, in consideration of Missouri
being admitted to the Union as a Slave State,
Kansas and its surroundings were dedicated to
Freedom forever?
WILL Mr.. Rhett brings forward as the grev.
ance which towers above all the rest, and inn
pels the South to Secession, that the North has
continued to grow and prosper until they have a
preponderance of States majority in both
branches of Congress- and " the South are in
"hopeless and powerless minority" True o!
Rhett But who is to blame for this 2 You
have had the same opportunity to grow that we
have. Why, then, have we expanded and pros
pered, while you have dwarfed and pned away
Ii il not, Mr.. Rhett because We are Northern
States and you are Southern but because we are
prove your comparative condition, you propose to
90 out of the Union, aud take the curse along
with you
*. And here is the last count in the indict-
ment. Mr.. Rhett says, "And now they have
" consummaed their scheme of tyranny by elect
"ng o Black Republican President to rule you"
He does not pretend that Mr. Lincoln is going
to "rue" in any other mode than that pre-
scribed by the Constitution. Ii is simply be-
cause he is Republican, friend of free insti-
tutions, and not Slavery propaganda, that he
exhOrts the South to reyOlutonlze the Govern
ment, and take hold Of the pillars of the Union
and "pull it down upon the Free States and
"crush them beneath its fragments"
But, our object in noticing Mr.. Rhett's
speech was not SO much to lay bare the unten-
able ground upon which he has planted his ar
ragnment of the North, as to show that the
election of Lincoln, which fusion journals and de-
Chalmers in the Free States have given as the
principal cause of the pending Secession convul-
sons, is barely mentioned by this oracle of
Southern opinion, who assigns to it very
subordinate part in his drama Of disuniOn. He
shows, beyond oil cayl mat the triumph OF the
Republicans in the Presidential contest, is made
a mere pretext, is seized simply as an Opportune
occasion, for precipitating long premeditated
plot for separating the Cotton and Sugar States
from the Union, and forming slayehoding con.
federacy, which, to quote his language " shall
" extend its empire across this continent to the
Pacific, and down through Mexico to the other
&" side of the great gulf and over the isles of the
I" sea-" We must say, however, that we think
he makes its boundaries altogether too extensive.