New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-21

the Wee'u. oil nail The world mo ner na,po" tem
plsuse,l Bot / am willing 10 yield the point; WIZ
grant If You peese that commerceis the child o. ING
Union. What have you got You have sscrinceo
me integrity Of your pulpit aud the purify OF yoaa
church You have got commerce .h you Nobosy will
compare the statesmsuship Of to-day with tle
Washinetons and the Jays OF the Revolutionary
period. Nobody will compare the fulplis OF to-oay
nth the Hopkinses aud tho Edwards OF sixty years
noo That IL the change which tho Union has made.
Now. Il seems 20 mo that have got little estmste
of the Union. That is her vaae. Grant ner an sne
claims Let her nag float over the millions, the swell
inc millions Of prosperity buteterature droops rehg
ION hangs s heed and states nanshp trails in the dust
I do not exaeRerate. Well, now, you ask me, What
do you propose propose TO look for moment at
how the Union supports Slavery ana IN tnose reasons
want 10 show you the reasons why wish to get rid
of the Union. In the first place. 1t degrates public
opipioa. The Northern man, the Northern statesman,
is obliged 70 curb his thought. said Just now That
Mr.. Seward in his speech suggests no remedy. lie
eests nothing. He only says, There rs the past.
hope for the fugitive; no ground, no argument no
suggestion whatever. will find one for you. 1t is
this: Outside of politics, behind it, in those Interior
purposes in those hidden wishes of the Republican
party which he denies, which the South charge him
with and which he repudates outside there Is pno-
lie opinion, In Ohio, in Massachusetts IN New-fork,
there is public opinion which knows that that speech
does not represent III public opinion which says,
Union or no Union, law or no Law, the fugitive slave
shan't 90 back. lApplause.l Well, now, whence
anne that public opinion II came nom the ag'suon
outside of politics, from Just such speeches as am
making tonight. 1t came from politicians and Adolf
tonists who said what Mr.. Seward cannot say cam
not say on the floor of the Senase-sad. We mean to
reach Slavery, and we TO strangle 1t. APP
plausej Out of that has flowed public opinion and
agitation which has produced the only reliable the
only hopeful, the only possible element that
can ever achieve the safety Oh the Ss.no SmUh
There is such an opinion created by men who have
lived labored and cemented the Union. John Quincy
Adams said TO Charles Sumner who stood by his SICK
bed: ~ want to 90 back to washington. Wnat
for r. asked the yonI statesman. want TO 90 back
TO Washington and show this Mr.. Daniel Webster that
there is something valuable than the Union and
that is the liberty and the justice which was made TO
secure" Appausel. Ont OF that tone OF sentiment
there has come public opinion outside Of Republican
ism which affords at least plausible hope that you
cannot get rid of Slavery without dissolution OF the
| Union. want TO look at it. have no hostility 70
| the Union don't stand here 30 foolish as to attempt
10 prophecy that there is no way to get rid Of Slavery
EXCEPT by a dissolution of the Union. i cannot look
| forward. The past is the lamp by which guidemy
for the future. Slave power on the one Sae UNI,
formly successful up this moments p9bllc opinion
| upon the other. What is the Slave Power! IN
the fret place, it is two thousand millions OF
dollars invested in one kind OF property;
| You know the power of money. This is the age OF
| money-the age of the supremacy OF money. Two
thousan million of dollars in nation APPLY described
as loving guinea go much that they would leap over
| the opening of hell TO get at 1t Two thousand
millions of dollars More than that, held by whom
| Not a million of the people, but concentrated small
! number of educated men. Concentrated power is
| doubled. Again. it is kind of property alien TO the
spirit of the age; against which its holders know all
the tendencies of the nineteenth century are pitted
They are fighting therefore, with the energy OF de-
spar. Andrew jackson wasthe most popular man slnce
Washington this generation saw. He had behind
him the strongest party that this generation ever
knew when he flung down the gauntlet 70 the United
States Bank with y millions c APP n;on linen r,b saS
beneath it; how, for long time, the scales hung
doubtful which way the triumph would be. Fifty
millions with the sympathy OF the seaeoard and
the Democratic party in the full flush Of success. Tc
day. we have got two thousand millions of dollars,
producing thousand million pounds Of cotton,
the basis of the commerce Of the Union, and as
to be interfered with by the philanthropy OF
anybody. That is the first strand IN the
the CABLE What is the second That is the Iuse OF
Roihschild, which says to Europe, BE King, Napol-
eonw That is the money power. What is the third
Why we have gvento that same body OF shareholders
| an aristocracy such Vienna does not know. We
have given them the right TO represent their property
Take town of three thousand inhabitants in Long
Island or Connecticut. They will be on the alert from
now to November; they will have newspapers,
caueusses, eloquent speeches and waste great aeal
hundred votes, and will think they have done
a great deal. -Four or five men In South
Carolina, like Governor Aiken, will ride leisurely
to the baot-box and annhilate that town. Five men
chusetts. And yet You call that Republic. That is
the house of Hapsburg. And what is the third strand
The hatred of the negro. stood the other day in
Cooper Institute and trying to prove that John
Brown had right to help the slaves OF Virginia 1
compared him TO Lafayette helping our fathers, 70
Byron, Kosciusko, and one of the audience called
out, "Oh, its exactly 80, but he helped niggersT
The argument didn't suit. Now that Is the third
strand. will except the two thousand million OF
dollars, and the arstocracy of the South, and will
strangle them for you if you will give four millions
of white slaves For there is rehtfully not, such
hatred of wealth and arstocracy in the heart of the
original Saxon Democrat that there is nothing he
likes better than stranglDg BOTH Put rich corpora
ton before jury and the poor man, and there Is no
matter whether that corporation has got justice or not
they will have no verdict. You know the power Of
money. The Central Railroad is the State Of New
York. the Camden and Amboy is the State ofNew-Jer-
sey. Now we have got the Slave Power with the
power of money. Two centuries ago New-England
starts off from Old England with certain IDEAS eveng
ideas-universal suffrage, free church, &c. We have
gone ahead until to-day we are Massachusetts:
England remains England, with the same ideas, and
with aristocratic wealth and chains, and she
is about hundred years behind; That -, Is
public opinion will take century or two; by all past
experience it will take about century TO abolish Sav
cry agantt the Government held by the Slave power
As l said, governments grow; they are not made.
just imagine the State of New-York, with all her
banks factories, railroads, leading men, united in
partnership against the people. You conquer in the
end. Ideas would conquer in the end have seen
the palace of the Csar made OF stones half as large
as ibis room, grouted together as if by iron
but the tiny weeds of an Italian Summer had got into
them, and to-day they be mass of ruins. Your Gov
eminent will go to pieces before the sentiment OF
people in the same way, but it will take thousand
years to do it, That is the why propose you
should break up the Union and get the dement's on
your side. Goethe says if you plant oak in china
vase one of the two things must happen: either the
vase must be broken or the oak be dwarfed. Mr..