New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-23
BRADY ON nayL.spLITrINe.

nation the fat that be had ,pt rails In early s hairs on
entering the legal profession sssts Of that fraternity
alleged. He gettsmsn Of intellect laser OF soin y
and gentleman 'eanst the purity Of whose character no ea
vidual or journal bad msde suggestion MI
Brady referred Mr. Greeley Of The tribune for having
called him he had spoken unexpectedly Of m.n
ua sbore Industry OF ell tinds OF course honorao ou'
the men who appealed workngnen give their supp 20
and proclaim hin specially worthy OF elevation D.
cs.e he had toed more With bis nd than his baus were
practioing eemsgogue which tie workers
could not but condemn The humbst toier In our oer
wholly OF education looked with reverence on oteectus
roy or culture aud hoped and ove out Of the means oo
tanned from hs labor place some svorie son OF re'so IN
bsbr soc. position than he himself occupied and quay nun
for The stations TO witch mentsl discipline was
The rail splitting therefore, might well be omitted In sd'o
eating the claims Of who left the ranks Of no
ter the brotherhood Of lawyers"
Let us try once mOre-for we are lopg-sufier
ing and anxious to be uuderstood-to bring this
matter of rallspltting to the level of the capacity
of Mr.. Brady aud Of The inns which has hitherto
INDUCED in a strain of remark similar to the above
1t is undeni.bIy true t,st splitting rails never
qualified man for the Presidency-so let that pom
be deemed settled. Many man has split more
rails-perbaps better Ones-than Abraham Lincoln
who never will be President, and peyer ought TO
be. Nor does any one, as Mr. Brady mistakenly
supposes, consider a candidate especially worthy
of elevation because he had toiled more with his
bar d. than his brains" So let that man OF straw
be waptcnly bufeted no more
But we are engaged in great political con-
troyersy whereof the relative justice, sasss, and
benehcenco of the sntagonistc systems OF Free
and Slave Labor are the real foundation. Me'srs.
Bell and Breckenridge believe Slavery essentially
aad eteInally rigbt-a proper and jest relation
thror gh which service may be exscted and labor
constrained Mr.. Douglas has-not once merely,
but at least hundred times proclaimed his con-
victior that Slavery IT, il lot absolutely aud uoi-
versally right, at least right within certain
ATTITUDES and under certain conditions Of soil,
climate aud other industrial apttudss. As
" be,xeen the white man and the negro, stand
" for the white man; as between tie negro aud the
" crocodile / go for TIE negro" is the favoHte
form of exp ession through which Mr.. Douglas
enunciates bis con fiction that Slavery ought to
exist in the Sugar and Cotton growing regions
hundred times has Le asserted that Slavery is
morally right wherever II is economically eipedi-
ent and that il ia thus expedeut wherever fervid
sun renders man averse to labor. Repeatedly has
be secuted the assumption that the Norlhern
States abolished Slavery because they dsemed il
unjust or for any ether reason than that they
found it Improbable. Hence, he logically pro
claims his perfect indifference Is to Sayery's being
voted up or voted down in aDy Territory or INF
sDy State.
TIE Republicans, on the contrary, hold Slavery
to be essentially wrong, unjust, pernicious, and
therefore resist its extension into establishment
by, or recognition as already legally existing in,
any of the Territories which are destined to be-
come States Of our Union. They seek to destroy
it in the germ, 80 that it shall not establish itself
in the row embryo but soon to be sovereign
States, now subject to National control and plastic
to National influences but which once admitted
as States, will be thereafter subject only to the
legally declared will of their citizens respect
lively.
Now we caurot fifty discuss the questions which
divide the Republican from the adverse parties
without considering what Slavery is and how it
affects individuals aud communities. Aud neither
side attempts to do it. Ard fsTorite and pausr
BILE lne Of argument with our adyersaries is ms;
" Sayer5-in fact, if not in nsme-is universal
"There will and mrst be persons to perform
" mental and dissgreeab!e labor: Society must
Z" have it's mudsls 81 well as its gra efnl pillars,
" its Cni0thian capital; then why not have race
ret apart for and devoted TO these ignober uses,
- an so avoid all collision and Confusion 7"
"TIue" we reply, d" soue labor is lees desirable
than otheY; while that which is least agreeable is
generally wcrst paid; aud the lot Of the least for.
tunste class, even 10 Free Society, is hard one.
But yOnr system dOOms partic race to ignOble
uses in utter disregard Of indsidua fitness or ca
pacity; arbitrarily condemns st. Paul, perhaps,
to I've end die q boot black, ST. Cecilia to break
her back securing pots and kettles; while ours
allows every one to make tie most of his own ca
pscities, and proffers to the most unfortunate and
wretched the talisman Of HOPE. The freemans
sky may be dark tO-dsy-it will probably be
brighter tomorrow; if he is honest, industrious
frugal, temperate, energetic lis path scarcely
fail TO brighten and grow smoother as he presses
resOutely on, while the slaves good qualities eb
SO u'ely bar bis way to that freedom which is the
irexorabe first step toward a better condition. If
he has talent, honesty skill, efficiency, piety, all
thefe enhance his price and raise the fence that
shuts from his view the prospect Of Liberty. Do
what be may his children are doomed to begin life
where he began it, and to plOd through the same
dull, heavy round, erlivened only by the crack of
the whip. The freeman, Ga the other hind, though
bis child ia Graded 10 destituton, reared without
opportuntiesf for acquiring knowledge, without pat
rmoDy, schooling, or powerful friends, may Jet
nationally hope that that son viii live to be honored
aud esteemed among the highest and best 10 the