New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-21
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81 1860

again, say s,u look TO Eew-YOrk, and instead
Of seeing Rynders and Dr. Sprague, ana Dr'
you don't suppose any human being ever
The Eeanest GETS down on It's belly and eats DIRT Tor
nehinp. No, indeed II ia full OF the seIhsnness OF
the Yankee characters y corrupted ana tnas wnas
/ would save il from. i know that have not done
Justice TO this-of course have not IL can't be com
pressed into an hour. What have to say is tina. tne
Union Is an arrangement OF men. IL is macnmeIy
that our fathers have set up. may DC vsiaso's
machinery, and to a certain extent don't deny it. l
don't stand here 70 criticset All have osay 49, that
ND 10 the presen, point mas secured neither liberty nor
Justice. Carlisle says that the great test OF govern
ment lie TO educade men. Certainly. Daniel Webster
said with great deal more epgIammatic terseness,
the merit of the Colonies was that they produced
Washington. The fault of the Union Ia that i pro-
duced. Misses and applause long continued wen,
it cad record God gave Us the heaviest BRAN tnat
he lent this generation. From his New-Hampshire
mother he took much vigor OF will as most other
men have. He promised TO have run race d
distinguished and useful ststesmanshiP, imbiong
from the New-Engand atmosphere ,ne oroA yn"
sent him TO the maelstrom OF the nauoni po,eh'
enough to swallow up virtue stronger than bis.
Go to the list all those that mark the pathway OF the
statesmen who have betrayed their age II Is no mat
ter of rejoicing. One thing why regret the Union so
vastly s that makes the saddest record OF the states
mapship of generation and the Last. Inc Union
something more valuable to-day. Our best statesman
our foremost, he is obliged by the necessi-
ties Of his position to say, Tor lnS'aa an5
iustly hung Lay that record by the side Of Mr. Sew
ards best speeches 1t don't cohere. What hope
have you for the future? 1t Is in the struggle OF
public opinion. How can il be created Slowly,
by the preaching OF ngid rlght ana Wrong.
to beat down that slave power only by laying
down the most absolute principles OF r1ght-oniy
by injuriDg color-ony by asserting that slavery
is Elm, and if it is Sin, what is AL Legielan1n
that en- deavors to cover it, Three millions OF people
bending beneath the tax, put George Washington In
front Of them, and marched to victory and to fame.
The woed says right glorious -Four million OF people,
bending under bondage compared with which, one
moment is heavier than ages such as our fathers
ross to resist, put John Brown in front OF
them. He is a criminal Justly hung Ont
Of that discussion can they get virtue tnas T, !,
Won Never Now, all that / ask is. that each man
shall make up his mind that this alone has right 70
his life. That is justice, right. If you can get IN
your constitution, God grant that you may ous &c. y;
into his Missouri prison, kidnapped from the Kansas
Territory a young black man, % years old; his
hands manaced together, crying. Among his soos ne
halfarticulated: 81 am freeman | am freeman
"My free papers are in my pocket" The United
States officer who brought him In put his hands IN that
pocket took out the papers, tore them up ana hung
them into the fire and the next morning those
ulation forever. Is this a single instance
have seen the Chief Justice OF Massachusetts sitting
on the Bench of the Supreme Court with a fugitive
slave who bad proved twice the right to his liberty for
he was born Free and he had indicated his WORTH
ness for freedom by flying over thousand miles OF
peril and death. With voice broken by emotion, the
Representative of the land Of the Puritan Common
wealth said: 1t is a hard case; l cannot vind-
cate it's right, but L must announce the law.
1t is hard case; l cannot vindicate its
right but l must announce the law. II that
ia the Union you like. If that is a Government
that you willing breed up your children to love.
Ii the pulpit of thirty States announce that the
Union is almost sacred. If the Statesmen have no
other for it but divine and though they cannot
vndicate it's right but only announce the law, then
say side with the black man, and record traitor
against my name-side me with the rebel who has no
purpose in life but to tear down that Government.
whose cement is the blood of four million of its vic
Tins; and do it in the of the past-in the
of thosc two bundled years Of liberty which our
fathers thought they were to inaugurate dol for
the future, with the eyes of the fixed upon u.s.
humanity-the great, magnificent experiment of how
thirty million OF people can shape the civil affairs
Mr.. Seward closed his speech with the recommenda-
ton for every to cultivate respect for the Union.
If you will allow TO cloee mine, it will be to i'm
press upon your hearts, and teach your children
to love justice TO respect liberty to claim free hps, to
let no commerce. however swelling, bride them, to let
no sacredness Of parchment gag their lips, but TO
swear the altar which Christianity holds to every
man the oath that the sieve, whom our fathers
begot against whom they pledged their physical force
years of bondage that fathers fastened on two
generations oss or no loss law or no law far in
us les will break those fetters and elevate that
to equality with ourselves, and may God help
you to keep the oath. Loud applasuss