New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-23


TO sustain and enforce whatever decision may %
made on the subject. Yet in the face Of this ana
thousand other proofs that the Slave States to-day
make the Extension Of Slavery the one paramount,
all.sbsorbing question, and insist on tho right oil
any ono Shareholder to hold his slaves In any
Federal Territory in defiance Of a thousand adverse
freemen, Dir. Douglas persists in commencing
himself in every speech as the champion OF
Popular Sovereignty" and "Non.Intervention;"
and you, Washington Hunt are doing your
utmost to blind those who heed you to the actual
condition OF things, to ul the North into acquies.
cence ard submission, and thus allow Slavery Tin
the words of Gov. Wise) to "pour itself out with
" out restraint and find no limit but the PACING
q Ocean, This is what you are dong, Governor |!
| will not attempt TO determine what you are
intending. Yet You cannot be ignorant that, with
the political power Of the South put forth IN ener'
ge,c support of Slavery Extension, with the North
divided, needless, Indifferent, and the Federal
Government in the hands of devOtees OF the Slave
Power, tie controversy can have but one result,
ard that the one which you formerly protested 70
deprecate.
But You tell us you are against the Republicans
because you are National in your sympathies, while
they are sectional. Indeed Are they more Sec
tiOnal to-day than you were while you SO steaduy
voted against the unanimous South to exclude
Slavery from the Territories Those votes drew
pretty sharply defined line through the heart OF
our country: was that your fault? If not then
it is not ours to-day.
You cav that we have no friends at the South,
which is mistake. In every Southern State-as
know by correspondence and ttherwise--there
is respectable minority who sympathize with us,
and pray for the election of Lincoln as the downfall
of the tyranny under which they now groan. Hun
dreds who have subscribed and paid for THE
TRIBUNE are compelled to see it stolen and burned,
the Pos, Office connivng at the robbery. Thou.
sands take it nevertheless, as thousands more
would take it if they could be allowed to do so in
peace. Thousands there will vote for Lincoln, as
tens of thousands would if they dared and were al
lowed TO do 30. And if there is but one to speak
for them in Congress, whose fault is that
Thomas H. Benton, Theodore G.. Hunt, William
Cullom. and noble band of Southern Members,
resisted the reputation of the Missouri Compact
as wrong (Which you admit it to have been); does
the fact that they have been prescribed and hunted
down for so voting require us to betray the cause
for which they politically dicd' Fit was right in
those Southern representatives to noby fall defend
ing the rights of Free Labor, shall we gnObly be-
tray those rights? Just listen to the answer that
NEw-YORK is preparing to give to this question!
You object to Mr. Breckenridge as "purey
Southern candidate" Is be Then MIR. Bell
is another; for be also has stOutly affirmed and
plausbly defended the dogma which would enthrone
Slavery in every Territory under the specious as
sumption of the Equality of the States" Breck-
inridge will poll many more votes than Bell in the
Free States, and will Il think obtain more Electoral
Votes than Bell and Douglas together. For, in
fact, either Lincoln or Breckenridge is rights and
they who seek middle ground betwixt them must
seek it in vain. And if Bell or Douglas could be
elected, he must practically take and maintain the
ground held by Lincoln on the one side or Breck-
iDridge on the other.
You seem TO think we Republicans alarmed or
indignant at your last flip flap into the Douglas
ranks and into the columns of The albany atlas.
You were never m, re mistaken. We hold that
you ought to be on one side or the other; and, as
you do not choose to stand with us, we are glad to
see you take position with our adversaIies. If
you want to see Slavery difused, or Qike Mr..
Douglass scare not whether it be voted up or
"voted down." you belong with the Sham De-
mocracy, and do well to go to your own
place. We who long supported, confded in,
upheld you, because you then protested to be the
opposite of what you now prove YOURSELF felt some
natural regret at the breaking of our ilusion but
our ranks have closed up over the spot where you
sank ingloriously to the earth; and we are
marching on If you like your new friends better
than those you have so causeessly deserted, l
trust you may find in their society that repOse
which your past political life does not exemplify.
That if you wait for them to do as well by you as
did those you have forsworn and are now defaming,
you will wait long time, is the profound convic-
ton of Yours, of DID, HORACE GREELEY.