New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-31

,,cbf in accordance with his pr7neipi's, 10 nave
b;t roht and left, on al possible occasions, with
s,l rossibls motions aud bills during the TWO Ses'
sious that he led his seat in that boty' SLAYER!
and shareholders should never have had II noments
ro.t He shoold have labored, not merely for the
prohibition Of Slavery 10 the Territories ana Inc
District of Columbia for the prohibition OF 'ho
iter State slave trade and the repeal Of the fugi
tic. Slave Jaw; but be should have inslsSd upon
a law FOR the immediate and unconditional ADOLF
ton Of Slavery in the States; upon making IL peba'
n bnv or sell a man. no matter what hls color;
for the repeal Of oil legislation that was based upon
recognition of Slavery as legal whether IL was
tbat Interpretation of the Constitution which gave
twenty three seats or thereabouts to savehoiderf'
in the Body of which he was member, or that
which is based upon the supposltlon That ;" iugl
I" tiyes from labor are fugitive slaves. But Mr.
Smith did not do any such thing.
Nor do We believe that any Of MI Smiths
friends are a. insane that they would have followed
course differing at all from his had they been Ia
his place. Whatever they may do at home, they
would not waste their time and the time Of the
country in Congress by insisting that Slavery
being immoral, can have no legal existence snT-
where; that, having no legal existence, it can only
be treated as d crime; and that it is the duty OF
the Federal Govern ment to put an end to IT every
where within the States and Territories Of the
United States There is something so absurd Ia
such statement that any sober man might shrink
from makiog it in a grave public assembly.
Still, this party does at home advocate
thess extreme doctrines and it is pre-
csely because they are SO extreme, and their abb
suIdity 80 palpsble, that the party which was al
wa,s next to nothing in numbers ia nov rapidly
thinning out to vanishing point.
II there be one thing which the Anglo
Spxon mind respects and chershes, next
10 Professionalism, it is law. Slavery, wicked as
il is foolish as it it, extravagont as it is, base as 1t
is, cruel as it is, perncious as it is, morally, me-
chspicslly, materially, politically, economically
intellectually, reDgiously, in every possible human
relation, is yet nowi Istandng all this, held to be
by the people of this country legal ia the States
where il exists A large majority of the people Of
the North hate, detest, loathe it. They would be
glad if the country could be rid of it. To that
erd they are willing t, LABOR. To that end they
are ready to spend and be spent. Their opinion Of
it comes from religious faith, from moral senti-
ment, from intellectual conviction; but neyerthe'
less they know they are bound by compact, and
that wherever Slavery exists under State law it Is
as much beyond their reach by any interference OF
legislation az the Slavery of Cuba or Brazil is be.
You'd the jurisdiction of Congress.
This class of persons, the most intelligent, the
most yrtuous, the most quiet, and by far the must
respectable part of the community, have stamped
their condemnation upon Slavery, and acted la
accordance with their moral convictions, BY Great
inc the Republican party. The Republican party
proposes to circumscrbe Slavery BY prohibiting it
in the Territories, which its members believe they
have the right to do. They mean to keep it out Of
the Territories, because they believe it to be a
very bad thing But they do not propose to NEEDLE
with it sy legislation in the States. For that, they
acknowledge, and not only acknowledge, but main
tam they are prohibited from doing by tho const-
tutional compact Of course, they know that the
moral influence of party based upon its love OF
freedom, and determined that the free, virgin soil
of the territory shall be held sacred from the foot
steps of slave, must do its appOi0ted work; that
the moment such party shall cross the line that
divides the Slave and Free States, and take its
place in the citadel of The Federal Government that
mt ment strength, hitherto unknown to them
selves will be given TO that large class of whites at
the South who hate Slavery because has oppressed
them, and they will begin, in good earnest the
battle with the monster IN IFS own stronghold. 1t
is there it should be fought. Those who maintain
it BY law may destroy it by law, but we OF other
States can have no share in that work. The Re
pubhcsns once in power, the extension of Slavery
INTO the Territories will be no longer question;
and the agitation of the subject at the North, at
least as one that concerns the politics of the cOun
try, Will be quoted The Anti-Slayery party of the
South, strengthened by Republican triumph, will
then take such action as they may ind proper. 1t
is these practical measures aud results, which COM
mend themselves to the common Of the peo-
pie, and that have rendered more and more appa-
rent the absurdity ard impractcaOility of those
ultra measures, which grow so often out of the
mpatieuce which cannot wait the slow but certain
workings of general law. Mr. Smith need not
despair The cause OF Liberty will not have suf-
fered if even he should not have solitary vote for
President.