New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-23

of that vote you remained faithful on Il think)
every call of the Yeas and Nays on question
affecting Slavery to the close Of your Congressional
career. Yet every one of these votes-and they
were constantly occurring-was far more 'eet'0"0'
than is the Republican party to-day; tor IL mas
firm footing in several of the Slave states wnue
the Wilmot Proyiso and its cognates had (out oil
Deaware) hardly ole voice in oil the South raised
in Its behalf.
Did you mean what these votes implied : Did
you distinctly mean anything
propose, Sir, to review the more important po'
sitiops and suggestions contained in this Albany
Speech of yours, that our fellow-ctizens may see
how and wherein you have placed yourself IN
deadly Opposition to nine teDths OF those BY whose
votes YOU have heretofore been chosen to and sus-
taiIed in positions of eminent responsibility and
honor. and may thus be enabled to judge fairly be-
tween Yourself and those you have abandoned.
But LET me first respond to your personal COM
pliment to myself You say you have
word to gay in reply speech made by Mr. Horace
Greeley That and neIpcabe personage appear. to
be more dangerous friend than foe and chiefly to be deade
by his most intimate partners After dissong IN important
DOlil
workers In the cause Of Freedom he shoots msdy from bis
pupges into the Of discussion and sravey al
leres that my presen! position inconsistent win my
votes In His theory seems to be that because 'oed
TO iperdct the aveade In Tho District OF Conno ana
exclude Slavery from Territories cedsd 10 us BY Mexico
therefore am bound to Join the Republicans and support their
candidates He appears have gotten that the In
tho Dtrc was prohibited and the government OF the Mex
can Terore. definitely settled by the Compromise Measures oil
1890 But he proposes keep straight ahead and continue the
10 It'll
TAX, due notice Of the fact that they have been finished and put
a, res, forever Ths, the main difference between u.s."
Gov. Hunt within the last quarter OF CEN
fury, you have been successfully ]. Democrat;
.. a Conservative; 3. a Wing; a. an American; D.
a Upiopist; and you are now about taking fresh
plunpe into Douglasism During that time,
have been 1. a Wing, and 2. on the dissolution
of that Wing party, RepubGcan-oniy these
There has been no single year OF these last twenty
FIVE in which my political sentiments were not IN
hearty accordance with those of a decided ma
iorty of your neighbors of the County of Niagara;
while you have been dead against them, then with
them, and are now against them once more, 30
that your last attempt to run for Congress resulted
in most Illuminating defeat. Your taunt that
am more dangerous to friend than TO Toe
impels me to say that, while l was your frend'
YOU were six times before the People as candl-
date for most desirable Offices, and IN FIVE of those
Fix ere successful; while you were repeatedly
candidate before and have been since, and always
defeated. Possibly Though am not aware OF the
fact> some have found Inc dangerous friend; but
you never did
You say that allege that your present position
is inconsistent with your former votes in Congress.
l remember no such allegation. pointed out the
votes themselves, with the propositions on which
they were given; they seemed to make all allega-
ton on my part superfuOus. Nay: Your own
uDguardcd remark that propose to Keep straight
"ahead' settles the question. Inot merely propose
that do it: while you circumgyrate so signaly
as to earn the paudits of those who tried to stab
you MORALLY in 1850, and who accomplished that
cherished purpose in So Only think of II" George
Washington Huntem" reported at full length, and
printed with all the honOrs, in The Albany Au0s
This is by no means inexplicable:" the like has
happened to renegades ere now: but what In my
lie or fortunes has seemed so eccentric :"
My theory" is just this: A decent regard for
consistency and the good opinion of honest men
should have impelled you either 10 continue acting
and voting in accordance with your Congressional
Anti Slavery record, OF else to admit that you
were wrong In making that record, andshOw cause
for youc radical change of position. This is what
you fail to do. will not stop to argue that, if you
we're right in voting so often, in opposition to the
entire South, to exclude Slavery from New Mexico,
when there was but chance that it would get in
there, then we Republicans are right in trying to
expel it, now that it is established there
under most tyrannc and inhuman laws,
unanimously passed by Democratic !"
Legislature You say, indeed, that the govern
"ment of the Mexican territories was definitely
4" settled in 1850" fyou mean by this that it was
then OF ever definitely settled" that we OF the
Free States would consent to the establishment OF
Slavery therein, then tell you that the people of
our State are no parties to any such settlement;
and that those who chose you Controller in 40 and
Governor in 80 especially reject and repel any
suggestion which involves them in any such settle
ment. The fundamental basis of Mr. Clays pro-
possl of Compromise in 1850 was his affirmation
that, as Slavery does not exist by law, and ID
"not likely to be introduced into any
"other Territories acquired by Mexico"
therefore it was not necessary TO legisate
on the subject. 1t was for this that he
was so promptly and iereely assailed by Messrs.
Foote, Mason, jeff. Davis, W. r. King, Downs OF
La, and Butler of $. c., as having surrendered
the whole case or claim OF the Siuth. And, now
that the South claims all the Territories As legally
subject TO the law Of Slavery, and quotes the
Supreme Court as sustaining her position, with
slaves actually held to-day in Utah, Slavery