New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-29
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Though we take no part in and base no hopes
| upon the new Compromise movements which GER
| tain Conservatives" are now inaugurating We
must insist that they betray no superfluOus
hypocrisy. Ii we are TO have Federal Con-
yention. and recast of the Constitution, with a
! view to the Cancellation of those threatening
| to break up the Union, we ask only that there
| shall be no cheating around the board, but that
| every phrase deliberately employed shall stand
| for an idea, and Off pOssible) for truth. At
present, it is clear that bumbug is the current
coin of our aqtators for harmony and quiet
Take the following extract from the last Heraids
leader as a sample:
thing demanded Is the absolute suspension Of Mr
Stewards irrepressibe conflict and The recognition by the
North Of the rights of Southern yehoders their slave
property .rhererer may found hin etai Of The Union
That point conceded by each Of the Northern States hu
cbusetts viii be ready for the proposition which h that the
Southern States IN behalf Of their institution Of Slavery
are entitled such additional checks and balances in the
| General Government may be necessary TO render
them hereafter against Northern Anti Ssvery par
ties and Popular Najorifies. This proposition win of
course comprehend reconstrucon Of the organic law Of the
Uuion and Constitutional Convention oil ho sasos
do important 1t is probable that this very popo
son may emsnste from tl approaching Congressional
ference may be suggested the Prcsdeu Annual Mes.
| sage"
Let us suppose, for illustration that the
| writer of the above extract has finished his
days work at The Herald office, and betaken
himself TO his residence in the upper part of the
| City, As he approaches it, dark figure
which he soon recognizes as that of negro
woman with her child in her arms-arrests his
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| doubtfully from one nook TO another, and he
readily perceiyes that she is a stranger here,
| frightened, and uncertain what to do or whittier
| to go: so he halls her, and asks her what she
| means by skulking in that manner. She briefly
| tells him that she is runaway slave from
! MARYLAND. anxious to make her way to Canada
| OF some other refuge-that her master or his
| oyerseer is close on her track-that she has had
neither food nor sleep for twenty -four hours, and
begs for temporary shelter and hospitality 60
enable her TO distance her pursuers: Do you
suppose the man so inhuman as to repulse her
prayer and rush TO the slayc-hunter bid
ding him make haste and seize bis prey? We
tell the South that however base he may be- he
is not base enough for this: he may grufly repel
I
blOodhounds baying ON her track. He may fancy
himself mean enough to DO this, but he will dis
cover his mistake in the hour Of trial. In other
words--he will not himself practically "recog-
- nize the right of our Southern shareholders to
| - their slave property, wherever it may be
8. found within the limits of the Union" If he
supposed himself observed by some one likely to
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cry; but, if he be sure Of escaping detection
his humanity, however slight in quantity and de-
fectiye in quality will triumph over his devotion
10 the Union and to the right of our Southern
" shareholders to their slave property"
Or We viii suppose that Caleb Gushing and
Ben. Hallett are on a visit to their friend Frank
| Pierce at Concord and the three have gone out
for a walk when they spy just such woman as
we have nstanced hiding in Franks barn from
| a beyy OF slayehunters hard ON her heels. They
see her dodge out of sight and know that her
| hding-place is unsuspected-that the hunters are
rushing by in hot haste, and will soon be Of the
| scent if they step aside and say nothing. VIII
| they hail the pursuers and apprsc them Of their
mistake, assuring them that the woman has hid
! den in that barn, aud may there be certainly
| taken, while if they pass on in their beadlong
career, they viii never get her at all We say
they viii do nothing Of the kind-that they will
maintain a dignifed reserve, q rigid neutrality
"mastcry inactivity and let The fugitive and
her hunters settle their domestic differences in
their own way, subject quite much to the
Constitution Of The Universe az to that of the
United States. Yet from that very scene, Pierce
VIII turn 10 writing letters, and Hallett to draw
ing up platforms, and Cushing to making the
most intermnable speeches, in favor Of the indie
feasible right to hunt slaves in the Free States
and the imperative duty Of every one to render
all needful aid aud comfort to the hunters. This
will he the talk of politicians to Buncombe while
their acts will be those Of men ashamed Of even
their own meanbesses and expecting TO stand ono
day at that Bar where "tbe rich and the poor
"mcet together" and are Judged by one in
exOrabc law.
Now if Like occurrence we're TO happen on q