New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-10

we think that the hrst ddpning OF more friendly
| feeling may he dscerned. mr. Seward is we bse'e,
DOW taken IS the representative Of the Republican
party, and their candidate for the Presidency. HIS
oeaniops on the great Questions OF tue day nave con
eeqOeD'y an Importance which is easy 70 es'ims
| The speech on the admission Of kaosas is ole.
ard even eloquent It has apparently been
accepted by the speakers party true
| replied to by bis opponents with an ener ~ whiah ia
complimentary to It's merits That will IA ~ soften
the asusriiy which st prevails is ,oSlv probable;
but this effect viii not DC ProGr'e by any want OF
Ss%srS uo ' He Its pI,n sH, @
man, and bis speech is tb'. most forcble attack on
Slavery that bias been ede for long time. But il
will tend 70 oo%o Ss "ssauss it avoids passion aud
scIimony on SS cad aud assented to by any en-
henitpeo SsSsT;~a' e it VIM commani the assent OF
political ecenOnii ,as well as the sympathy OF the
philanstbrCPle anS e. igious world
| IL LILY h;cb ~ on Slavery in this country we
100 pUs Jst to wonder atthe ignorance Of
.e a,,;or to the history and the present state
Inc CREST MAJ or their sopefuness OF accomplish
aSitasen. AZ eIiai change by means OF sentimental
the sae Of Seward az preface to Ss orG no r Ds
fculres 'laveowning power, showing the on,
70 deS with which practical politicians have
have 4, difficulties which the AbOlitiOnist body
The Ignored, to the lasting Injury OF their cause
| sns fathers Of the American Republic, says the
] o. aser had TO deal with double systsm Ia one
alt OF the cosDtry they found man as aborer for
LhhsenIn Tho otheras laborer Tor his feloT. iney
Anew thPS Tie one state Of things good and the
otner Cvil they condemned the practice OF Slavery,
sG beS hoped for Its dscontnuaDce But they were
oo 1ed 50 recognize It, and TO establish constitution
- Cbe basis Of giving owners votes IN night OF
/. Cen slaves, and that a slave escaping IN a
Free State shah be given up to the person
a Who has a. legal claim TO MIN. These principles
5ave been used by the slsveowners to gam
fresh power in the Union. The new States IN tne
Valley Of the Mississippi were the battle ground OF ,ne
rival systems. The Free States have endesvored e
treat Slavery as local custom, to be tolerated merely
ed southwark of certain parallel while the slaveo Tne
have during whole generation sought to establish N:
universally of their peculiar Institution, ana 70 max
the servitnde of the African race recognized primer
Of pie in thcse. States where 1t was not carried
by uto practice Which party has besn successful neec
tn not be said. In every struggle the slave owner
on have bad the advantage. They have a5ols aee
eh the Compromise Line, they have passed tbe Fosi
he tive Slave bill, and they have obtained the prec
be Scott decisieon which declares that no person o.
1, ! African descent can be citizen OF the United
do States. They have thus made the institution o.
or. Slavery, tn certain degree coextensve with ths
led Union. This success is attributed by Mr. Sc ware
ne to the eanestoess Of the saveowners their deerm
ali nation to win at all hazards, their disregard fo
has the interests of the UniOn, and their conscious
ness that their opponents were more par QUO tnal
uh. themselves. That is easy TO combine the Capita
tSsye) States in defense of external interests
while it is hard to unite the Labor Free States in
common policy" and tina. the Labor States have
"a natural loyalty the Union, while the Capita
ere States have natural facility for alarming that loyal
ct, by Threatening duniou the speaker takes to b.
to propositions made evident by past legislaton,
against this do ninafion. thout attacking the rights
of the Southerners or approving the enterprise o.
Brown, they rebel against the dieation which the
Slaveowning party have exercised for yeaTs ma
jorty of the peope in the North he declares to belong
to this party, which has, as were, been created by
s.S the agpressons of the South Practically then North
ty and so1b are ia autaeonism Yet the war is carried
"E on by the parry openly, fairly, consutionaly,
ard as BELTS civilized and self-governiug men; by
10 the other it is waged By Of violence aud pro-
s5 scripton. party of Democratic saveowners might
ctpe and hold their meetings in the midst of aoy Free
State. Extend TO us the same privileges, ana viii
engage that you will very have 10 the South as
on many Republicans as we have Democrats in the
IA North" To carry the struggle between Freedom
and Slavery openly and by means of argument, but to
Pe limit their object simply 20 the defense OF existing n-
stutions the Free States, and to the assertion OF
eo the right of the Territories TO shut ont Slavery is
ain the progr ANNE of the Republican party. owe
A do not seek to force or even TO ntrude sys-
zen "tem on You. We are excluded justly, wisely, and
ch conteotedly from all political power and RESPONSE
vii by in your Capital States. Use your authority to
o, | maintain what system you please. l can
a. pronounce as accurately respecting the Northern or
" Republican representatives any one. We
mr. " are not hostile Republic. Differences OF
,ps opinion upon the subject OF Slavery with
/" us political, lot eocial personal differences
he There is not Disunonst disloyaist among
nd Gus all" This il the creed of the Republican
he candidate for the Presidency, aud, though IL diers
rather from the doctrine of an "irrepressble hostility
Of existing between the two sections think it repre-
-, sens the del beIate convictions of the most
earnest opponents of Slavery The policy of the Re-
IL publican party, far understand it, will be,
theD to sand the defensive, and merely oppose the
ef aggression of the saveowners on the Free States
H. and the unsettled territory of the Union The down
fall of Slavery must be left TO time, TO economical
up causes and to the influence the of the quiet
- | repTobaton Of the world.
:" All who interested in the delverance of the
rat Western Republic from thecurse of Negro Slavery
I'd will with pleasure the Of Freedom trans
ferred to the guardianship of great and responsible
" party the policy Of which will supersede the mpotent
be and Irritating devices of agitators principal
of the continual Of the Southerners has been
ID the dread felt by the Conservative party of being
thought adopt the views of the AbOlitionists I'm
~ der the organization of the Republicans and with the
moderate programme sketcbed by Mr. Seward, the
North may be able without plotting bluster to roll
"a back the tide of Slaveholding aggression.