New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-28


e,s such court decision az yours 10 shall be a.
submitted TO as conclusive and bna rue oil PoiIica
action 80
President In that supposed event. yoa say you VIII
destroy the Union and then, you gay The great crime
of heying destroyed it will be upen rs
That is cool, A high wayman holds pistol to my
ear and muters through his teeth, stand ana de-
liver or shall kill sou. and then you VIII be muir
dererl"
To be sure. what the robber demanded Of ne-my
mopey-,vas my own; and had clear right to keep
il; but it WIS no more my ovD than my vote 10 my
own; and the tbrest of death TO me, 10 extort nv
money and the threat of destruction 10 the Union, 10
extort 10y vote, can rcarcey be distinguished In prn-
ciple.
A few words now to Republicans. 1t is exceed
inpy desirabc that all parts OF this great ConfeTaey
shall be at peaoe and In bar nony, with another.
Let us Republicans do our part 10 have IL 30. Even
though much provoked let us do nothing through pas
riop and i'll temper. Even though the Southern peo-
pIe will not much iisten TO us let calmly con-
tder their demands and yield 10 them IT, ia oar delo-
crate view Of our outy, We possibly can JadSing BY
oil they ray and do, and by the aubec and nature OF
their controversy with U.s. let us determine, II We can,
what will satisfy theml
Will they be satisfied if the Territories be uncon.
ditionaly surrendered TO them! We know they will
not In all their present complaints against ~, the
Territories scarcely menu med. lnvasons ana IN
surrecoD- are the rage now. Will il satisfy them IT.
in the future, we have nothing to do with lnvasions
aud iDsurTeCuOne we EnOW II wiz HOt. Vo ~
know because we knt W we never had any thing to do
with invasOns and nsurrectons AMI yet TINS lota sD-
staining does exempt us from the charge and Ihe
denunClaton.
The question recurs, what will satisfy them
gmply his: We must not only let Them alone, but we
must eouehow convince them that we do let them
Alone Thu we know by eA yeTienee ls no easy uisS'
We have been 30 otryin2 convince them from tue We
nv legnpDg of organization, but WIN no success
la ali our platforms and speeches. we have CONSTANTLY
tod onrp
ban O tendency TO convince them. Alike unavauing
TO coLy ce them is the fact that they nave never de-
tected nan of us in any attempt TO disturb them.
These natural and appaIe nty adequate neaas all ia
ing wbat will convince theml This, and this only:
cease to call slavery rorOng, and join them IN calling "
right And this must be done thoroughly in acts
rs well as in cords. Silence will not be toeratad-we
must % ace ourselves avowedly with them. Douglas
nep section law must DE enacted and enforce cup
messing AL declarations that slavery Is wrong, Wheth-
er made in politics. in presses, In pups, or III priv We
We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with
Oyeedy pleasure. We must pull do on our tree-Saie
Constitutions The whole atmosphere mnst be dlsin-
fected from all faint of opposition TO Slavery, before
thew will cease to believe that all their troubles pro-
! coed from us.
Lam unite aware they do not state their pre-
cisely in this way. Most of them would probably sly
10 MS Let us alone GO nothing to us, and say what
Won pesse about SLAVERY" Bnt do LET them alone
have never disturbed them-so that aiter al It Il
| what we say which dissatsles them. They will con-
tipue TO accuse us Of doing, until we cease saying
lam also aware they have not, YET in terms, de-
manded the overthrow Of Free State Constitutions.
Yet thcse Constitutions declare the wrong OF Slavery,
with more solemn empbass than do ali other sayings
against il: and when all these other sayings shall uaye
been silenoed the overthrow of these Consttuu ms
| will be demanded, and nothing be lelt ID resist the
demand. 1t i nothing to the contrary, that they 90
/ not demand the whole Of THIS just now. demanding
what they do and for the reason they do, they ean
voluntarily stop nowhere short Of this consummation
Holding "a they DO, that Slavery ia morally right, and
socially elsvatibg, they cannot cease to demand a
national recognition OF IT, as legal right, and socia
! blessing.
Nor can we iustifably Withhold this, on any ground
save cur conviction that Slavery s wrong Ii Slavery
! is right, all WORDS, acts, laws, and CONSTITUTIONS
| against it, are themselves wrong, and should be
| silenced, and swept away. II 1t ID right, we
cannot Justly object 10 lts natlonaly-s unlyerSaty;
if It il wrong they cannot Justly insist upon lts exen-
sicr-ts enlargement. All they ask, we could readily
grant if We thought Slavery right; all we ask, they
could readily grant, if they thought 1t wrong.
Their thinking i right and thinking il wrong, is
the precise fact upon which depends the whole contro-
versy. Thinking it right 40 they do, they are not 10
blame for desiring s full recognition, a. being right;
| but thinking it wrong, do we yield u
them Can we cast our votes with their view, and
against own7 in view of our moral social, On
| poitical responsibilities we do this
| Wrong as We think Slavery is, we can yet afford to
let il alone where H. because that much is due 10 the
necessity arising from ts actual presence in the nation
but can we, While votes will prevent II, allow II tc
|
| here in these Free States
If our sense Of duty forbids this then let us stand
by duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us b'
| diverted by none of those sophiscal contrivsncei
wherewith we are 80 indnstriousIy piled and bella
Observation-Disclosures such az cropping for some middl:
ground between the right and the wrong vain ~ th:
search for man who should be neither living II
| nor dead mar-suoh as policy OF don't care OF
question about which all true men do care-such al
Union appeals besecehing true Union to yield Il
DisuDODists reversing the divine rule, and calling
not the sinners, but the righteous 10
as inyocatioDs of Washington, impornR TO uusay
| what Washington said, and undo what Washington
did.
Neither let ms be saniered from our duty by false
accusations against Us, frightened from il by
aces of destruction to the Governne nj, of dun
geors to ourselves Let have faith that right makes
might and in thai faith let us, to the end, dare to dc
| our duty, as understand it.
Air. Lincons speech excited frequent aud irrepress
Die applause His occasional repetition Of his text
never faieS to provoke burst of cheers and audible
smiles. The completeness with which Popular Soy
ercgnty and its progentor were used up has rarely il
ever been equaled. At the conclusion of his speech
Dir. Lincoln received the congratulations of large
| humber of his friends and the friends of Repub.
| canism.
/ Three cheers were then given for WIN. II. Seward
and some Of The prominent Republicans the pa.
| form were called upon In response to these calls,
| brief speeches were made by Horace Greeley, Gen.
Jas W. Nye, Jas. A. Briggs of Ohio and Judge Gull
vcr of Brooklyn. The vast assenblage then quietly
| Dispersed
| DEATH OF PRoP. GooDRicH, OF YALE COLLEGE,
The Rev. Chauncey Allen Goodrich D. d., Professor of
ri IL folIa