New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-01

standing requisite 70 rllei the pA'oaAaes tue oooy
onIx TO obey" In all tiue, CO., tee oocrioe o. nom
intrvenor has seemed to follow tie peculiar iusitu-
tion Wherever Slavery has existed, some masters
hsve ft to consider it private m Ntsr between
them and their elaves--a more personal ught as 70
which no third party should say anything ulcers
have looked upon il question touching the ccnmon
veal and therefore open to free discussion and sob
ject 10 the porular judgment. There never was time
when Pro-Sayery men did not this institution
to be right and treat The discussion Of insult to
them This is the why the slave issue does not
quiet down. speak Of this fact that $50 aud
deplore. IL there was nothing Sc in the subject but
is irfabiy; If there nothing bat the doubts and
objections which portion Of mankind have always
urged and always viii urge against the INSTITUTION
shouh oppose its extension.
You viii observe that in what have said nave
spoken of the policy of building new States upon .ue
African fouodation. have not beea msrhng ou. any
policy touch ng the institution where II nss oeen al
ready established. TIE RePuohcaa parry ssca .;.s
any authority on the part of Copgre to Interfere WITH
Slavery III tie States The Republican party comedies
TIE right Of every State % regulate iIs own domestic
affairs in its swn way. They eeieve slavery 10 oe an
evil. they regret it's introduction into the old Stetes
snd thev oupose its inroducon into any present and
futurp Territories because they copeider II an evil and
az niury 10 those Territories Such was always the
oppiou of henry Clay. saying the Abotionsts were
q NOT more Opposed to Slavery going into rev States
&c than he (Mr. Clay was and " no power on earth
"oond make him vote for Slavery in any place where
" il does not already exlst Such too, was Websters
opiaion, and such was Bentons Some Of the reasons
b.arrg forclbly my mind as 10 the merits OF
the peculiar iniisution itself, have been presented
But we must deal with il also as connected with the
powers OF tue General Government. These Democrats
apparently no, will Dg to trust the Issue of Slavery
extension with the people, have from time to time en-
dssyored to eutrench themselves behind supposed con-
Ftituiional prn iples as avoring their views. Now
have already said that men will sometimes make a
merit of necessity, and to defend what they
would not approve as matter OF free choice have
also charged that the Democratic party have used the
whole Slavery subject ss political capital wherewith
fn xnita aud cor trafq
ties for political effect. snail rely upon the history
of the Slavery agitation inside this party to make good
the charge. If In point OF fact there h no principle and
NO truth in their pretended constitutional teachings
they will be fouDd full Of shifs and qnirks marches
and counter-msrches, bold assertions, aud bold and
rapid retraetops and contradictions Let us then see
what these Democrat have taught as matter OF constl
tutiODa Pro Slavery law within the last few years
Avoiding the issue whether extension be right or
wrong, they have taught:
l. That Congress has power TO restrict Slavery in
the Terrific les by voting for the Texas and Oregon
bills and by their repeated attempts 10 extend the Mis-
sour Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean.
H. They have since denied this power u Congress,
and denounced ali who continued to hold to ii after
iii. They have denied to a State when forming
Constitution the right 10 decide for herself whether
she will have Slavery or not California;
". They have since taught that avery can
not be excluded from Territory except when the
people Of the Territory are forming their State Cons
tuition.
v. They have l6ugnt tIat the people OF the 1effto
RES have the power 20 decide while they are under
Territorial Government, whether they will have
Slavery or not.
vi And they have since denied that the people have
any such power.
VII They have set up the doctrine Of non-Dterven-
ton by Congress toaehingi Slavery in The Terrific
res and bcssted Of it the greatest achievement OF
the age.
wifi. And they have since repu5ated the doctrine
of non-in,erveniion, and called upon Congress to
intervene and PIoteet-that IS, establish Slavery
by law in all our Territories, whether desired by the
people not, ano positively against their will.
TX. They have taught that the Constitution OF the
United Stses does not extend into Territories, and
have introduced in Congress measures in terms extend
ing that Constitution 10 the Territories.
X They have since denied this teachipg and claimed
that the Constitution of the United States part OF the
law of Territories per Sc propose to discuss none
Of tbese points.
Taken together they discuss themselves, and show
up the motives OF the pIopagLndisis.
Each and every OF these propositions has had it's
brief and trapsent day, rolling the Democratic party
with tyrannic power while it lasted. AL have been
denounced rs traitors who would not turn as they
turned ard bowed TO the new tests they made. AT
each step OF the process they have demsudedthe adms
sen Of their latest dogma right aud threatened dis
solution OF The Union anless the demand was scknow-
Lodged BY sDch means they have painfully distressed
snd sgs'ed the whole country for series OF years
Never was there greater contradiction nor greater con-
sstency Slavery propacandism IS the key that har-
monjzes all They have asserted whatever they thought
al he moment would aid be propsgendsm. They have
abandoned
il offered CLEAN IF hope to freedom. Tue Consttu-
ton in their bands is anything. and everything aud
nothing. At TINS Dent the entire Southern Democ-
rscy-aDd there ia Demo Tacy which is rot South
er and there has not been these fifteen yearsand tue
Nationality Of the party in that time mas been only
another name for Northero subservieloy-i say the
entire Democracy are standing ready for treason and
dissolution, unless they can have all our present ana
futnre Territories opened TO these Africans There s
nothing worth 80 much III their eyes the spread OF
Slavery He who speaks against the Union
commits small oiense, if any; but he who says
aught against Slavery, is guilty OF hign treason :;
well; if not they are pleased that
the Union and III. peaee and harmony Of the stes
shall ofase and civil war begin Now Is VIII not DO
70 call this ridiculous though most RIDICULOUS, and
worse than ridiculous II ought 70 be- 1t is only not
ridieulous esy, because il is great party movement
baked by pass1oa and power aud obsinateiy main
tainsd rs his Government now to be brok'n 70
pieces and destroyed because Pro Slavery men canhot
submit 20 The policy uaugurated by Washington and
followed by the Government from to tounoatlon IN
I707 down 70 1854 How Is such coarse 10 &c Jusu
fcd 70 posterity, when cur Gay and &c 1eratlo1 iS
words and deeds shall before thelr calm ano us
PASSIONATE Judgment Can il be showa that the men
OF the Revolution of l776 passd through that baptism
Of fire and blood 20 for Government whose AdDg
feature should be slavery extension How is soel MI
idea 70 be reconoei with D6r universal expression
againe, its very eSisten,e wuile engag IN making
the Constitution If they thought that the Con-
siitutioD tbey bad made extended Slavery lnto
The Territories why did they, acting under that Goa
sttution in the seo0o year at erit made pass
an act ccnfrrDg the ordinance Of lS excl ding Slav-
cry Now il ia 10 vain thai Pres ayery men pTeteud ~
regard themselves rs defeated in any constitutional
r6b under such circu instances. II the people Of the
States shall See It, in uuansgipg their own affairs, 10
retain Slavery taat is tteU constitutional Tigt aud
ice principles of the Republican party conoede ~ 70
the.. Bal when Pro-Slavery men ask 10 TX theif
local institutions upon the national domain, mat 10
another oueetior There never was ti1e during the
existence of this Government vixen any SUCH right