New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-28


ne and Or. pety mos. heartily d''' but anything f'r'''
T1a wr,, r appeNs 10 think that the peOp'1 d
Aa r,oo stste,, are i, 'st DOW demanding somethin
more than this wholesa lie scheme Of freeing th
entire slave population, VIII 'ch' be says Is oil tina
should be asked. That such l'nspeakable Ignorance
should find its way into the lead W columns OF In
London Times is something to q. 'aze those who
look there for at least a fair measL 70 OF Inteli
gence on the topics it discusses.
What will this philaBthropic writer, wl'o aims
apparently to throw his influence in favor Of a.ay-
ing the imaginary national disturbance created
here by the John Brown panic, say, when he il told
that, instead of the people of the Free States ask
ing more than he yerdantly expresses his willing
ness to yield, those people are not seeking the
overthrow of Slavery at all where it now exists
They, or that maligned portion of them who profess
to believe Freedom to be better than Slavery, are
simply Directing to the further spread of the insti-
tuition over unoccupied territory within the UOiOn,
and to the acquisition of slaveholding countries.
lying outside the Union. The pervading Anti
Slavery sentiment OF the North, over which our ora
tors and Incorporating newspapers so constantly
and 30 dismaIly caterSanl, making day and night
hideous and which is represented by the Republi'
can party, hath this extent, no more. Ii wars
primarily, mainly and We may say exclusively,
against the further spread of this detestable insti
tuition OF course, the war involves the exposition
of the intrinsic character of Slavery, and OF It's
character and influence in the United States; aud
thus it ramles into extensive relations But, as
a political or social movement, it goes not an inch
beyond the limits we have indicated. We think
it would be well for The London Times to try aud
understand the position of political affairs in this
country before it ventures on further exposltons.
Otherwise, it will throw light on nothing but its
own dense ignorance, as in the article from which
We make the above extract.
There are handful of AboltiOnists in this coun-
try, and always have been at any time these thirty
years, who oppose Slavery purely on moral grounds,
and who aim directly at its overthrow in the States
where it exists. But they do not form political
party, and are proessedly non-resis;ants and non
voters. Their numbers are really inapprecable
among the great mass of American citizens. John
Brown, after his experience in Kansas, represented
the peculiar snti.Slavery ideas of this party, but
he acted in total opposition to their methods. He
embodied in bis own person, also, every other form
of hostility TO the institution, and boldly, but
wildly. flung himself at the head Of twenty-One
likeminded men against it. But in this rash act
he went counter to the ideas, not only Of our Rad-
cal Aboliionists, but against those of all other
Anti Slavery men in the country. And we
are free to ayow our conviction that, while
every generous-hearted or clear-hcaded man
must sympathize with the wonderful traits
of char acter exhibited by Brown, yet of all
parties in this country that could be mustered
against Slavery, Browns would be the smallest.
AS yet there is no insurIectionary party in the
country, and outrageous and provoking as has been,
and continues to be the conduct of the Slave States
in maltreating, mprisoning, lynching, and driving
cut peaceabe citizens of other States and terrible
as. the treatment of slaves sometimes is, nobody
anywhere has yet proposed the awful resort of
exciting Dsurrection either by way of revenge for
outrsges, or by way of relief for the enslaved.
Even John Brown, whose views were more nearly
those Of an insurrectiOnist, than those any other
man has ever manifested, would deny, were he
living, that be had any such design. 1t is our
judgment thai if every voter 10 the Free States
were called upon, one by one to know if he ap-
proved John Browns method of getting rid of
Slavery, moi one in thousand would be found to
acknowledge that he did. And yet the cOmmenta-
tors upon our affairs in The London Times would
seem to take it for granted that Browns method
is the accepted style of dealing with Slavery in
vogue throughout the Free States. So long as
The Times continues to consider The ". Y. Herald
trusty exponent of the ideas prevalent in political
and other circles in this country, so long will il
continue to fall into ludicrous and stupendOas
bmnders like this.