New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-13
DEMOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY.

Mr.. Richard J. Haldsman ia young gentleman
Of large fortune, liberal education, and extensive
travel. who has tahppAq pQhhtticgTE x-ifsde and
editing as a recreation. He is dweller In Harris
burg, PENNSYLVANIA, edits the Democratic organ in
that burgh, and is Chairman Of the Executive Com
mittee of the National Democratic Union Club
therein located. In that capacity, he has recently
written and published an Address, which is being
extensively circulated from both Harrisburg and
Washington. We regret our inability to state that
it has been translated into German, French and the
Scandinavian tongues, and sowed broadcast among
the European emigrants to these shores; but we
trust it may be. Whenever it SHALL we shall be glad
to exchange with its publishers, giving them tea
thousand copies of any Campaign Documents on
our list for like number Of this for gratutous cir
culation We want our Immigrant population
enlightened as to what is the essential nature what
is the fundamental idea, of that which vaunts itself
National Democracy; and we know no single brief
essay better calculated to promote this end than
Mr. Trademarks Address.
For, though it grossly misstates the position and
views of the Republicans, it does not at all disguise
that of the National Democracy. In holding us up
to reprobation, it very clearly shows what its au-
thor and his compatriots regard as most deserving
to be reprobated. The radical error of our time,
according to Mr.. Haldeman is the notion of the
natural equality Of human rights. an is this idea
"of anicersal liberty and equality" he says, ",ohich
ais at the basis Of the Republican party" Thank
you, Sir for the unattended tribute, though we
fear it is not wholly deserved. There are Republi-
canf-and we trust each day adds to the number
who have risen to the hight Of this great arguments
but most of those we know are swaysd by cOnsid-
erations far less abstract and exalted. They are
Republicans becausc-believing, with you, that the
Negro is an inferior, degraded, unimprovable IN
desirable element of our American Nationality, they
deem it best not to diffuse him over our ye.
unpeopled Territories, as Slavery has. already diff
fused him over a very large and attractive portion
of our country. They deem the Negro wOfnlly out
of place on this continent forced into an unnatural
region by Slavery, kept hsre by Slavery, dilfased
by Slavery, and certain not TO be further diff
fused unless through the power and operation of
Slavery: wherefore, they insist that Slavery shall
be limited TO the States wherein it is legally
established and protected. To this very large por
ton of the Republican party, Mr.. Haldeman op-
pores no fact, no argument. They might safely &C
cept all bis premises and then triumpbantly ask,
"Such being the case, ia it well to spread Slavery
further7 Since our children aud grand children
must in the nature ofthiugs be workers for bread
lin the now embryo States of the Far West, is it
swell for us to allow Slavery to be planted there
"and thus degrade Labor by making it the vocation
"of this degraded, british, incorrigbls Negro
Grace, who are and will be sold at the post like
"cattlei What will be the inevitable effect of
"such a policy on the education, the intellectual |
sand social advantages, the consideration, the |
status, Of the White freemen who must settle aud
"labor beside them in the course Of the next fifty
" or hundred years." We say that, while we do |
not accept either Mr. Hsldeman's history or his |
philosophy, we might very safely accept them both,
and then say "Such being the conceded facts, we |
"obect to opening the Territories to enslaved de-
"eraded Negro labor" and we would fearles.y
appeal to any unprcjudiced gathering Of White la.