New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-24
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our columns to-day their final appeal to our citi-
Gems for sympathy and votes. This is q sensible
move on their part; but lie it not little mean In
the great Cotton interest. which rigdy proscrbeS
THE TRIBUNE 10 the dispensation of its CONNER
cial patronage, 10 claim the use OF our columns
when they wish TO make last desperate effort to
Carly an election1 We shall never shut them out,
so long as they use decent language aud refrain
from Iibels; but they do not expect us to thank
them for such patronage; and we tell them that,
while the slayehoding and cottOn-buying interest
does IFS utmost to shut our paper out Of the Slave
States and cripple its circulation everywhere, we
hold it exceedingly shabby in them to avail them
selves of its great circulation to advance their par
tisan ends.
But. let us tell these gentlemen little plain
truth, whereof they seem to stand in pressing
need.
They say that the Slave States " are in cOndl'
[" ton of alarm and intense excitement" in view
of the probable triumph of the Republicans-that
we find the entire people of the South filed with
gloom and dismay, because Of that apprehended
triumph. Such is not the fact--very far from it.
A very large minority of the people of the Slave
States joyfully anticipate and desire the election
Of Lincoln aud Hamlio, bailiDg that event as GER
tain TO deliver them from an intolerabe despotisn
which prizes into their private correspondence robs
them Of the journals they choose to read, and
subjects them to all manner OF abuse and
peril. This very year, men as innocent as unborn
babes have been seized by PrO-Slavery mob and
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vague suspicion that they we're concerned 10 plots
for slave insurrectiops which never had an exist
ence. A Reign of Terror has been created through
out the Soulh, which renders it absolutely perllous
for poor man from the North to be found there.
The manifest intent of the dominant arstocracy OF
that region is to crush out every vesge of inquiry
or free thought with regard to Slavery. We know
thst thousands throughout that section look hope.
fully TO the election of Lincoln and Hamlin to de
liver them from the clutches of this horrible tyranny
and restore the reign of Liberty (for White men)
and Law. And they will not be disappointed.
We shall poll more than Fifty Thousand votes
for Republican Electors in the Slave States; we
should poll many times that number il the elections
were really free that those who wish our success
dare vote as they think. But in spite Of the Reign
of Terror-of the fact that those who sympathize
with us dare not vote as they tn nix at more than
one tenth of the Slave State pOlls we shall eyiuce
strength 10 that quarter which will efectually
denolish the imputatiOn Of Sectionalism."
But suppose it were othewise-suppose no
Republican dare vote our ticket in any Slave State
what would that prove? We are Systematically
denied hearing in those States-our newspapers
desr yed by mob dictates in violation of "the
"Rights of Property" of which our adversaries
prate so much, as well as of the Freedom OF the
Press-Our speakers assailed and silenced-eSen
natives and lifelong citizens of Slave States robbed
of their possessions and hunted into exile because
of their Republican faith-while ribald and llcen
tous press habtually fills the ears of the South
with charges against US of every crime, every
abominstiOn, and every Infamous purpose. The
fact, tben-ifit were fact-that the South unsni
mously breads and hates us would be inconclusive,
in view of the fact that the South has never
fairly heard US. Even when Southern man, like
Mr.. Helper, writes q book showing that Slavery is
the curse of the South, especially of its nOn-slaye
holding Whites, the circulation of that book in the
South is sternly prohibited, while garbled quota
tions from it, which give no fair idea of it, scope
and spirit, are freely disseminated and necessarily
harped upon to excite or deepen prejudice against
US. Every Incorporate fulm nation of the Garri-
son or Gerrt Smith Abolitionists, who are our
deadly enemies, is trumpeted through the South as
Iepublican utterance-thougb no other party
bates and maligns us 30 much as these Garrison
Abolitioniss do. We refute these llbels in our
own journals, but these are suppressed at the
South, while those that are allowed to cir.
cuate there delight ia belying US. What
would it prove, then, if the South, thus deceived
ptre unanimously hostile to u.s. Give us our Con-
,titutiona! rghts-eive us Free Speech and a Free
Press-and We will convince the South that our
sentiments aIe those which our fathers we're taught
by her own Washington and Jefferson, her Mad-
son and Patrick Henry. But the care of the
South are stopped against US while crammed with
the lies of our adyeTsaries, ald then the alleged
fact that the South fears us is made reason for
depIivng US Of all opportunity to prove that she
has totally misrepreseDted us
Nay more: We note among the siguers Of this
Fusion appeal the names of several members of
that Fifth Avenue Hotel Committee which, only
one year ago, suborncd the fug tive rascal Forbes
10 utter Bis infamous lies whereby Gov. Seward
and other prominent Republicans were implicated
in the John Brown raid-liss which were sown
broadcast over our State too late to be refuted
before the then pending election. Have these
gentlemen ever yet maniully rotracted those infs-