New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-17
THE RErUBLrCAN POSITION.

Admit tie point which formed the basis Of the
DOCTRINES laid down by the Supreme Court of the
United States in the bred Scott decision, and
which Dir. O'COnOr in his late Pine-street speech
proposed to make the basis Of the preservation
Of the Union-the doctrine to wit, that the
Declaration of Independence and the COnstitu-
ton Of the United States were made by and for
tie free white Caucasian race, and that those
documents did not intend 10 recognize, and do
not recCgrize, any rights of humanity and much
less Of citizenship, on the part Of anybody but
White men-admt all this, and still the position
occupied by the Republican party, from which
they are how called upon to retire under penalty
ol dissolution of the Union, will remain unlm'
peached.
That position in substance, is, that all the I'M
occupied territory of the United States, and such
as they may hereafter acquire, shall be reserved
tor the benefit and occupation Of the white Cau-
causnn rbce-a thing which cannot be except
by tie exclusion of Slavery. Ia which class OF
States, the Free OF the Slave States, does the
White Caucasian race occupy at this moment the
moIe enviabe positiOnl Is it not notorious that
tie existence Of Slavery in State tends to keep
ard 10 drive tie white race out of it, both by
closing up thousand avenues to profitable EN-
pigment which might otherwise successfully
spring into existence, and by offixing to all man
url labor o certain badge Of degradation' Does
euybody doubt that tie territory northwest of
the Ohio, now composing FIVE States of the Union,
owes very large part of its existing population,
and still larger part of its wealth, its industry,
lie intelligence, its education, its civilization, 70
tie Ordinance of 1857, by which Slavery was ex-
clLded from it That territory, especially
tie southern portion of it, served as
city OF refuge TO the aboring whites whom the
pressure of the institution of Slavery in Mary
lard, Virginia, ard North Carolina, compelled to
seek home where they and their children after
them might hope to rise to competence and POSI-
ton. In those new States which admit Slavery,
10 such home for the labOring white man is to
10 found. The old evil from which he had fed
is soon again pressing upon him. The beet lands
are epgr,ssed by the shareholders. No demand
exists for white labor Capital, as it is accumu.
lated, instead OF being employed in enterprises
witch might give employment to that labor IS oil
el crossed IN the purchase of more slaves The
community is thus more aud more Africanzed
Tie proportion of blacks to whites is constantly
On tie increase; and nothing remains for the
great body Of the aboring whites, those at least
who are aIxious to better their condition, but |
new emigration.
Could anything be more in the interest OF the
men Of the white Caucasian race, than to secure |
10 them the qiiet possession of the new Terrific |
rics, and thus to put an end to that DIGGING OF
heir steps by gangs of negro slaves by which |
they have beep pursued and driven from one
new State to another Wherever Slavery is ill.,
iroduced, society settles down upon an African
instead Of q Caucasian basis. Instead of that |
density If population, that diversity of occupa-
tion that srlreirg up of towns and cities, which
ale tie natural growth Of q iree-labor cOmmu
nifty We frd production limited to one or two
siaIle articles, raised manly for consumption
.ls,wh here, aud the whole system Of society adapt
I'd 10 the capacities and requirements Of negro
slaves, ritlcr tLan TO those OF white freemeu
/. laIdly becomes those who insist upon dituslng
such a system over all the Territories OF the
Cnlon, to ret themselves up as the especial cham
pCLs OF tie Caucasian race.