New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-21

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=. conlured slave by the county IN winch such rescue
II - ma such thing But still further as dirt |
eating community, that as II the question OF inc
recognition of slaves as property, and rs 10 ,he
Question of the rights of save~owners IN the Ter
=. .ores of the United States the people at Phila-
.,,elpha submit themselves obcdesity ana cieer-
fully to the decisions OF the Supreme Court OF 'ue
Limited States whether now made or hereafter 10
- be made"
These beresies we've preceded by MAYER Hfnry's
sneech. wha FANNY rolled in the dlG, declaring that
the misplaced teachings of tine pulpt the nnwlse
rhapscdics of The lccture-ro0m, the exciting APP
peals of the press the subject at Slavery, must
Z" be frOwned down by just and lsw-abldng
"peope" And he carried cut the trucking cow
ardce of this shameless av0Wal By that gery day SO
jutimidatiug the owners OF the hall in which Mr..
Curtis was that evening to deliver his lecture on the
.'Policy of Honesty" by threatemngs of . mcb,
that they refused ia lei hun speak. TreItlcd by
Mayor of Philadelphia. whose backbone gave way
To him succeeded TIVE fossils, with the smell eXud
ing from their garments OF the dirt FROM when they
had Just been aug up-JOsephR lngerscI aud Isaac
Hazelhurst. A. eXpo0ents oi Philadelphia senti-
n.ent these gentlemca are impudcut pretenders.
They represent no party whatever, and, like the
Mayor himself walked blndly into the Cuyler trap
for cleyatiuc Cuyler te the Democratic MayOralty.
Socially they aIe everything that is genja and ami
able; hut in this connection they are mere polit-
whose Joint inheritance of wealth and Incidence
must keep him where he is, in possession OF an
uncomfortable social mediOcrity Though just
elected CITY Solicitor by tbe Peoples party, he is no
distinctive Republican. He has 10 dOrsal stamina.
tie had the face to say that IN the late PRESIDENTIAL
election the Tariff was the main issue; called ioudy
for enforcing the Fugitive Slave law, while umldly
Initiating that eve might, perhaps, desire 10 have
"a few of It's provisions modified, yet II that s1ght
matter cannot be accomplished then drive 1t through
anyhow Mr.. Lex is taken i'll and done for
But Justice Woodward Of the Supreme Court
uiled iadignity upon outrage He began with those
chronic Misrepresentation OF Republican aims,
which repeated so faithfully at the South, are likely
10 pTeeuitate seTYie instruction lie sad:
The conflict boasts that If is lrrepres slDe IL ai-
lies itself with equal readiness to religion ana M
fidelity. Ii enlsts al our passions, good or
al bad Ii Igakes no common cause with the cham
pions of freedom the world over but with the
promoters of Instruction, discOrd and rot at
" home" Then The Tibld tests OF sedltlOuS
4" editers Ike Greeley and Beecher, can sway Leg
- siatnres and popular votes against the handlgorh
"of Washington and Madison, when tie scuIiouS
-'hbels Of such q book as Helpers become favor
campaign document and are accepted by thou
sands as law and gospel both when jealousy and
hate have killed OF all iraternal feelings for
a. those who were born our brethren and who nave
40 done Us no harm.
After this how natural that 4" the providence Of
that good Being who has WATCHED over us from
- the beginning and saved us from external foes,
." has so ordered our internal relations as to make
"ncmO Slavery an nalculablc blessing to us and to
a. the people of Great Britain. Do you not see and
az feel Low good it was for us to hand over our
" slaves to cur friends Of the SOuth--h0w good 1t
was for us that they have employed them IN rals-
ing staple for cur manufactures ~ AS To AbOl-
tiOnism. he confessed that " it is astonishing how
extensively the religious mind Of the North has al
mtted into itself that suspicion, not TO say con-
yictiOn that savehOding is a sin. If sin. then
it is violation of some Divine law for sin is the
" the tTansgressiOn OF the law Now, deny that
" any such law has ever been revealed"
So much for the law and gospel eXpounded by
the Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania beneath the
shadow Oi the Hall from which those giitterlng
senerahties embodied in the Declaration OF Indie
pendence were first proclaimed. Mr.. Cuyler stld
be thought he understood the resolutions. Strange
if he did not for they were cOncoced in his Office.
He could not discover solitary argument 10y which
Republicans could maintain their views or de.edd
!. their actions Perjury was quite rs deienslbe.
II All he uttered the rank old hash-up Tat the
South was oil right and the North all wrong. Free
speech was abominatiOD sentiment sure 10 be
remembered when come to vote again for Mayor.
He conjured Gs, as if we were all iurymen, not to
talk of Abolition.
Pardon me for the length to which this eXamna-
ton may 60. Butthe public conscience of this com
munity must be indicated. Nowhere but IN the
columns of The TRIBUNE can il be so appropriately
made. We buy il at the street corners, glance over
il in the open thOroughiare, examine 1t III our
counting and elaborate lis contents at our
iresdes, educating families and kindred by ITS
teachings. We have no such organ here, and hence
il is an institution with us. Now this great Union
meetGg was q deliberate imposition on the con-
munty, and meant to be as great an imposition on
the sOuth Republicans were assured that 1t
should not be party affair; not one
sided, but fair, candid honest gather
ing in which the true sentiment Of the masses should
be represented and find utterance. But the pro-
found secrecy of its inception cast just doubt upon
the sincerity of these assurances while the whole
proceeding developed them into shameless lie.
Not Republican speech was heard not Re
publican sentiment uttered unless coupled with
come atrOciOus dogma, some mean. debasng, dirt
eating humiliation that sent the blood tlnghng to
my fingers end as il was read OF spoken Honest
men entrapped into going the platform,
left in disgust at discovering the decep-
ton. The few persons near IL who were able
to hear what was said, evinced no enthusiasm, gave
no hearty cheers, nor indicated any sympathy. 1t
was iug-handle cheat oil through. The North
was criminal throughout, and must put sack
cloth and ashes. The South was blamcless from
the beginning and must bc cOnciilatcd by abandon
ing every principle which for Internationally years
we have fought for, and now for the first time have
conquered Not word was uttered against South
ern treason. Not a word against traitOrOus Cab.
net an absc0nding Treasurer, bankrupt Treasury
a pusillanimOus President. All these being common
incidents of Democratic orthodoxy must not be even
limited at. Had Republicans known the full meas
ure Of the intended fraud but twenty -four hOdrs
sooner they would have rallied with speakers and
resolutions that would have effcciualk upset The
calculations of the UniOn-saylDg engineers Dut as
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