The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-22

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hirscrs
Wore piiSations-Does tho south De-
O,nnd Concessions?
The action Of the Charleston Convention III
seeding from the Union makes il more and
moro manifest that upon the course waich
i ell be resolved upon by Mr.. Lincoln, must
d,pcrd tie future welfare of this republic.
COR national physicians at Washington. in the
senate and House Of Representatives, are con
dJually proposing new modes Of saving tn
Union witLoul having made one substantial step
in advance towards the end which they profess
20 have in view. Each political Doctor Sangrado
has his pet insl ralion, which personal vanity
suggests will allay the fever in the public mind,
and reconcile the contending interests Of ihe
North and South Some Of these are bad tn
grea er number puerlr and Indifferent, while,
in exceptional cases, they may be pronounced
not wholly destitute of good Among the after
are certain amendwents to the constitution, re-
Gently proposed By Senator Crittenden, Of Ken
lucky. 1Aey are called compromise amendments
They are not wholly acceptable, but they
have called forth unmeasured abuse on the
part of tie republican journals o. The North
an account OF their tendency TO delay such
aeton ms mas been taken within the last two
o~y, by South Carolina.
Foremost in he rank of assailants stands
tie New York Tribune, whose comments upon
Lis bin we have transcribed in another
column Of to-day's paper. This leader Of
black republicanism in the NortA has
done more TO inculcate abolition doc
trines than all other organs of the "irre-
pressiblc conflict idea put together. In large
cities it is comparatively little known but it
has obtained an extensive circulation in the ru-
raj districts Of the Eastern, Western md North
western States, and influences extensively
he quasi Puritanical minds Of the scattered
population of orr agricultural districts. 1t re-
presents, properly speaking, the barbaric code
of three centuries ago, When hanging, quarter
ing, buiping, with an occasional variation Of
The thumbscrew, rack. pulley and other extraor-
binary instruments for bloodily instilling social
ard religious tcnes, were considered heaven in
spircd and orthodox. Such pleasant mediums
FOR the propagation of truth. applied to freedom
Of opinion, Fourierism. socialism and red re-
publicani-m found immense favor with the ter
rorists of the French Revolution, and have
been consistently advocated by this leading
organ of Garrisonian ultraism in the free
States. Forgetting or ignoring that the spirit
of the age den ands absolute liberty of religious
opinion, ana, equally, freedom Of judgment in
relation to social institutions, ii appeals to that
latent spri of intolerance which, it is to be
feared, will never be extinguished, so long
rs priestcraft preserves its ambition for
asoeudancy. Ii demands, according to its
own words, that the fruits Of years OF labor"
should be conceded as the fruit Of Legitimate
victory to the "an,i-slavery sentiment of the
North" 1t declares that il is fatal foolishncss
to make any concessions now, and insists, on
b, half Of those who seek for IN "anti-slavcry
Bible and anti-slavery Cod that if they are
bu. bali through The battle, thay must Finish
ii like n"
The truth H. awever. that the South asks for
no con "a omise AVID demands no concessions.
1t seeks Gully Cor u peaceful enjoyment Of
a osc constitutional sLts which were guaran-
tecd to il by tie constitution. II is false
that slavery exists oily through municipal
law. anu il rcpugnant 10 the common law"
At The time wl,n the constitution was framed
slavery existed throughout tho length anil
breadth Of The land. Bondsmcn Of Massachu-
sct,s and New York were held by tn same te-
nurc dat -laycs are now held in South Carroll
m, Alabama and Louisiana. No Fugitive
Slave law was needed. because the require
mcnt that "iugitives from labor" should be de-
livered up was no more advantageous TO the
master in Georgia than TO tho possessor OF ne
rTces in rennsyly ana and Connecticut Sla-
very vas not especially sanctioned by any
municipal law il was part Of the common
law of ihc entire confederation. Tho wisdom
of tie fathers" which lie republican organ 20
loudly vaun,s. recognized that common law A.
underlying all written legislation 1t undeFlies
and ms portion Of the basil upon which
tie constitution rests. The reiterated appeal
10 passage IN The writings Of Washington, JEFF
ler,oi Madison and Others which would eShi-
bit tlcm as hostile to slavery, l. contradicted
and rendered absurd by the glaring fact that,
whatever private opinions political ccono-
mists they may have held, they nevertheless,
in, by and. bloueh the constitution, soiemnly
hetu. a,lcd Il, rights Of slayeowners TO all fu-
tue generations in the United States, and that,
N accordance with that instrument, the then
existing common law Of the country carries
slavery into every square acre Of territory
whic, tho nation may ever possess.
"lf The sla, eholder," We are told, chooses
to bring hi. slaves into tho free States, let him
do so hereafter, as he has done heretofore, ..
the rick Of losing them in community governed
by The laws Of freedom" Properly interpreted.
this sentence contains complete confession Of
he injustice and iniquiiy Of which republican
ism in the Northern States has been guilty. 1t
i declaration Of war in behalf Of the princi-
pies Of special State legislation, since the con-
stiui'cn was framed, agan.t hose principles