New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-19
We arc strong u be truth Of our convictions ana

Our convictions are those " '"o 'u0" WV '0"'',o
oar inderendence and formed our uoYernn'en'' w
believe, M they DID, that all nave Tue sSn' 10 ne
liberty and The pursuit Of hap! az ar;.be do
we submit 10 tho fict that such rig ~ ~ D.
in certain cIfs in largo portions o. our c,.ny I
psflive law. We believe, as they did, In''
an evil social and POLITICAL that 1t orr os
them in violence aid wrong, Is tho offspr ps ~ 5 H.
and il perpetuated by pogitiye and local law OIL law
shem we recognize the binding force of such 'e a
AID deny the propriey expedicncy, any NJ h
diesurb 1t, except in thoee whose law 1t b 49,
evs in tho equality and the sovereignty Of the .sIs
of tkis Union except so far that sovereign na
been modified osurresdered by tie people ofthe sey
eral Safes in the formation Of Federal Cove va
ment. We believe in their municipal affairs general Y
and ovoithe question OF domestic Slavery In partic-
lar, the States within their borders have absolute
power. Eny interference with the exercise OF that
power ith its operation upon its subjects, whether
by other GcpsnmentB political bodies, voluntary as
sociatons, o. individual we bold to be unjust, i'm
moral, wicks1. The rights established ~ positive
municipal law, religion teaches 10 respec, even
though we may deem them oppressive and unwse, un.
I'll they shall II corrected by some means recognized
by mankind as legitimate oorrectiyes. with slavery
in the States, then, we bav0no right nowsh, to IN
terscre directly or Indirectly. whatever may
Judgment aS indiduais OF its influence upon tas pco
We do not bel svo that The Constitution Of the
United States has osablished Slavery anywhere, nor
he's il recognized the power OF any state to extend It's
LEGISLATIVE control ornake effective lis municipal reg
uIaions outside Of its own territorial limits we 90
not believe that the Constitution OF the United Ssses
has recognized Slavery as condlion or state OF man.
capable OF deriving authority support st,hc'l1n ~
continuance from IT, except in the single case OF tns
fupitiy. from service That Constitution has order~
that any one owing service labor under tho a"S OF
a State who shall escape into another, where suoh
obligation would be otherwise OF no force, snai, "
ye of that particular provision, BIO surrendered to
the persoa claiming the service Ightfully, ali other
laws or regulations ;sstandng This Is para
mount las controlling all others, whether State or
Federal, uron that subject. We DOW 10 us supreme
CIV and hold resistance to it TO be unjust as i'm
moral as wicked az the violation Of any other obi ga
ton Of our political compact We do not believe that
any State can by any law bind ono man to the seT-
vice of another, can eusaye one man 10 announcer OUT
side of It's own territorial limits except by force OF
this provision Of the Constitution, and within It'd eSpe-
cial circumstances
We believe that Congress has the right to legislste
for tho Territories OF the United States IL always
has and it seems it must from necessity prescribe
their organic laws provide for their legislative, execu-
tive ard judicial functons define their boundaries,
and deiire their rights Of person aud property. We
know sufficient reason why the subject OF slavery
should DO al exception. The first Congress, which met
under the present Federal Constitution in 1889, reen-
acted the famous ordinance Of 1884, and successive O0n-
plesees have passed the same law as to Indiana Hi
nois and Michigan. In 1917 after elaborate debate,
Compress passed the same law 10 all the Missouri
Territory west of the State of Missouri and north OF
certain line OF latitude In 1896, similar law was
paesed as 10 Wisconsin, in 1893 as TO Iowa; In 1873,
as to Oregon. We think the new CONSTITUTIONAL light
40 many are now disposed to follow must be Elusive.
We feel disposed to be guided by our fathers. we
know they were pure and patriotic. We think thoy
mutt have known what they themselves did
We believe that the Territories Of the United States
ought to be appropriated TO the treemen Of the Uni
States. Our national greatness has surely been
vsnced by such appropriation Of our great Norhe-
States and our great Northwestern Territories Oar
population, our wealth, our general influence among
of the world exteudei pujIc;-
ton eli the people, progress in science, in hter;-
ture in the arts, in every branch OF economy, have
been enhanced by these measures, or that all we SEQ
and hear and feel is false. policy which looks to
national greatness its object, and compartments all
tie PEOPLE, cannot justly be stigmatlzed as sectional.
When our fathers established tie policy of deyosing
free soil to free labor they not sectional All
the States but one then Slave States. WHAT has
occurred TO make the attempt to do what they did
10 deeply wrong? What can have changed tho fdnda-
mental laws Of political science and OF domestic econ
omy1
PRINCIPLES of Constitutional Law, and of national policy
let US stand firmly by them. We have passed the
hol OF opprobium and danger. victory and yictory
alO c. has made safe here. Let us not put II In tue
power of our opponents, by an insdious union to
renew the difficulties from which we ere extricated.
There can be sympathy or union between Republic
cans and either of the parties with which the Late
struggle has been. Standing upon the policy OF the
Government as established at us formation, we are
resisting heavy torrent OF revolution, urged on by
all the other parties We must preserve distinctive
being or we stall be lost in confusion.
We know that We are sustained IL our views by tho
opinions Of the statesmen who have preceded US both
in the Northern and Southern sections Of our country,
because we are assured OF the fact BY our opponents
themselves. We need not appeal to the records OF
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mason, Marshall,
Randolph Of Roanoke Jefferson Randolph, Mcdowell,
but learn from now acting what Is the truth on
this subject. Gov. Letcher, he became candi-
date for his high Office, assaulted for Republican
opinions which he had once held and was charged Win
still entertaining. He admitted that he had WITHIN y
few wears Led such opinions but that he had changed
lis views Mr. Mason in his place in the Senate last
Winter and Dir Hunter III late address TO the people
OF Virginia, stated that few years ago ali southern
gentlemen held the views Slavery wnioh lie at the
foundation OF the Republican policy, but that they had
changed We have but 10 say, that we have not
changed ard that we Justify ourselves by the reason
ing of these Southern gentlemen, when they were
wiser than We think them now, HOW is w. tna'
southern gentlemen come think, that when they an
nounee q change OF sentiment, the general Dind must
suffer reyclution7 How is IT, that they have come 10
eypect that systems OF Thought ana action are 70 us
sp4a or to crumble, and DO reconstructed at tner
biaCin0f Whence this potency OF theirs, that Tue
PRINCIPLES OF political science OF domestic economy OF
social usiee are yield and DO reversed to SUIT their
POLITICAL exisenciesi We must thinh those geRsemen
tetlsy q want of thought and just consideration Ia
their high demands upon the intelligence aud moral
sentiments OF their fellow citizens,
Sustained as we thus find ourselves in our opinion3,
by the examples Of the mon under whose guidance this
ration has been happy, and has grown 80 great we
cannot swerye from course pause for an instant
We must adhere to our principles, our organization,
cur nane and our elected Cbief Magistrate. we arc
Republicans, and, as such, claim utilization with the
great band of patriots who have united under that
Hae to retrieve the Government from ito alterations,
ard restore M policy to that of its founders. We can
recognize organizations; we can unite with no
q ind party gathered Up from the shattered remain, Of
our hate enemies end with them as armed nsutrals or
Jealous allies watch over the Administration OF the
man Of our choice to etter his will perysft his policy
or interrupt the harmony OF Els co1neis DIT Lincoin
has been elected gs Republican, by great Repub