New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-07
loGErAL CONCLUssSbys.

Thers N but one thng more uhcebliion tnan
common sense, and that is man who, possessing
so rare faculty, has also the boldrsss to talk in
accordance with Is dictates. Such unquestion-
ably is Mr.. Gauldea, delegate from Georgia to
tie late Democratic Convention in Charleston,
whose speech before that body We print in another
column. Its dirsctaess and boldness are - praise
worthy as its legic il unanswerable, 5and if his
noble Romans" of the Democratic party, North,
had the aeumen te discover and the marainess to
avOw the real ISSUE he states it, between them
selves and their opponents, the great contest which
has so long agitated the country would be mar
rOwed dswn to its simplest terms. 1t is because
tie real question is kept out of sight, covered up
with all manner of schemes, buried under subter-
fuges and stiled with lies, that the rrepressble
"conflict" is prolonged (which fair field and a
direct issue would be- forced to speedy eenclu-
sion.
Mr.. Glulden holds, with an unquestioEing and
profound faith to tho humanity, the Wholesome
ness the morality and the cyilizng tendency of the
system of Slavery. Believing this he believes that
God approves, and thet man should uphold and ex-
tend it, The more blacks there are brought insub-
lection 10 III inc DtlttI nor is any Aooiii ~
doubt that he would accept the logical sequence,
aud apply its beneioent operations to men of
every h,e and every climate whom Ignorance and
poverty have placed ami are keeping in subordi-
nate aud humble position. Starting from bisprem-
ises he Is unquestiona5ly right in demanding the
opening of the African slaye-trade from hiiman-
tartan and religious motives. If Slavery il good
thing for the partially civilized negro of this coun-
Try, il is great deal better and more necessary
thing for the wholly borbarous people
of africa. He denounces on sound
PRINCIPLES and impragnablc reasoning tho inter
ference Of the Federal Government with this great
missionary enterprises; and he may well demand
not merely as a Southern right, bat as Alright Of
humanity, that prohibition which thus interferes
with the spread of tis Gospel, sd with the growth
of ciEilization, shall be immediately done away
with. Nor is he less just in his reflections upon
the slave breeding States Of the Union. Ii there
b. anything revolving or wrong in n slaye-trade
with Africa, how much worse is a trafc in the
bodies OF Christian men and women, bound to-
gether, if not in law at least in afectinn By do
mestieItes stronger than hooks of steel, than in
50 Tages on whose uacutivated and w;d natures
neither Christianity nor civilization has as yet
exercised any ameliorating Influenza If the
trader to the Coast of Guinea ia 4 monster of
cruelty, how much more wretch Is the gen.
tleman of Virginia or South Carolina who
sells for gald the helpless inmates of his own
household! And, an the other hand, considered as
a mere question Of political economy, with what
slow of Justice can the Federal Government inter-
ere in the one ease aud neglect 10 interfere in the
other when the result is that a large and most
enterprisag class of Southern fellow citizens,
are compelled to pay for the implements of labor,
indispensable in their method OF industry, sun.
five OF ZEN times az large az they could he boughs
for in au open market We repeat, if Mr.. Gaul.
den b. right as TO the essential character Of
slayery-and on thispoint his Democratic brethren
generally agree with him-then his conclusions,
morally and logically, are unquestionably correct,
however much his Democratic brethren may
shrink from their stringent application. OF course
there is another side to the question, when the
opposite view is taken that Slavery is not what
Mr.. Gaulden afirms it to be-. 1t is To precisely
that square issue We are anxious to $50 his party
come.
There is one other point in this remarkable
speech to which we wish to direct attention. We
refer to the application which he makes Of Mr..
Douglass doctrine of Popular Sovereignty. He
shows very clearly that there Is nothing in that
doctrine which is not in harmony with the project
Of reopening the trade with Africa. On this sub.
ect he is quite as lucid cogent and fearless as on
the other Kindred topic Of his discourse. We