New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-27

surrender any OF tie pripcipes IL the party could be
betrayed into the folly Of any such sarTendsr 1t would
only give place to anotter stronger more radical,
more y,rtuous, and more succeesful parry. de Don.
tenoeotna TIE Republican party not az had
been, agpre ive that Slavery had al wass been not
Justly but lebienty and generously eated that having
changed the whole policy OF the country the Repubh-
can pey was forced into being not only to restore the
Government to ts original policy. but TO prevent the
universal prevalence Of Slavery and the revival Of the
horrors Of the African slsve-trsde; and to protect
the hobcos coTrrs, trial by Jury, the Freedom of thu
Prets and Of speech, snd all the other safeguards of
Freedom He reve wed the early history of the eoun.
try TO show that the prevailing and universal seu-
nment at the cloee of the Revolution, and long
AFTER was in favor of liberty, and that Slavery was
considered by everybody as a curse and blight. He
quotd from the language Of the Declaration and the
Constitution, and speeches and letters of eminent
statesmen OF the period referred to in support of that
found in Helpers Impending Crisis, work indorsed
by many gentlemen around him, and whose title was
not unfamiliar in the of all. From these extracts
1t appeared that slave codes then unjust,
baIbarous cruel, and that before there was any
Anti-Slavery agitation to furnish an excuse or
apology. 1t not till 1872 when Missouri applied
for Sdnes on, that the country discovered that the
slave power hal been aiming to eubver. the orig.
inal policy of the Government, and extending
its own borders and deepening its fouudi-
| lions. TIE invention OF the cotton-gin and the
acquisition Of immense cotton lands bad given it
painful impetus while the North had been uuobsefv
ed by other affairs. be aoverted to the great struggle
resulting in the Missouri Compromise, which had
80 recently been defsntly trsmped under foot.
He next traced the growth of Anti-Slsvery
sentiment at the North. The colonization scheme
was started by the South, for the purpose only
Of getting rid Of the dangerous element of
their population, the free blacks; and al the
Churches of the North were thrown open for the
phlanthrt pic appeals OF its agents. But when VIM.
Lloyd Garrison returned from Maryland, where he
hsd undergone the vDest persecution to expose the
n fhA do.
were closed against him, and seemed rusted in
their hlreee, and he was met everywhere
with Insult, outrage, and even mob violence
He narrated the career of Garrison, who
seemed TO him like one sent by Heaven in answer to
the petitions Of mortal man to proc ain Freedom In
the name of God He next sdverted to the laws of
South Carolina and Louisiana, and the unc nstitu-
tionsl i'm orisonment of Northern seamen in those
States. In ls22 twepty.sx CAPTAINS of vessels then
in Charleston sent petition to Congress, complain
ing OF the loss aud inconvenience entailed upon
them but by the interference of Northern merchants
the petition WAS prevented from being presented. He
RELAXED several instances of the bardsh;ps and out
RACES perpeuaed under color Of theee laws and then
spoke Of the foIcibe expulsion of the Commissioners
sent 10y Massachusetts to test the constuhonality Of
those laws in Southern Courts. This but type
of the stem of violence resored to by the promoters
| of Slavery. Yet these very men who we're afraid
TO have their own lsws tested in their own Courts
were sekeIs for law and order, aud if Northern
men did not turn ont at the very first sound OF the
Msrsbal's horn to chase the fleeing slave, they de-
!
repd il from turTe 10 fOuDdationstone There sh(uld
| be duty on by pocrisy, tax on humbug excise
\ on cant, to reach these stickers for law and
order Even late as 1895, the universal sentiment
of tie North Yves friendly toward the South and South
| ern institutions. The Arti-Slavery sentiment
| weak that candidates for Office refused to answer
questions to their views the subject of Slavery.
| How had this sentiment become changed to one of
| universal reprobston Of Slavery BY the violence
and the disregard of Constitutional obligation on the
| part of the South. Their only argument had been
force for that the only bais of their institution.
| Violence and outrage were its Alpha and Omega,
| through the horrors of the middle passage,
down TO his sale to Christian planter. From
| first 10 last is violation Of that higher law
| whore seat rs the bosom of God, and which con-
stitutes the harmony Of the world. No law and con-
sttutiona guarantees, however solemn could bind the
conscience of any citizen of any nation under heaven
TO the support Of such system of outrage and vio
leuce II was admitted by its most able advocate,
the other day Mr Curry, that there was no law in
the Slave States for the support of the institution. 1t
wss usurpatiop resting entirely upon force, and and
to test the question Of superior force. When
Ant-SlaveTy agitation spread at the North, COM
| merce was shocked aud went upon lite knees to
its throped monarch, cotton. But the days of mob
violence bad ceased at the North though they had re-
Gently the humiiatDg spectacle Of Postmaster
General Of the United States advising OF his DePu-
| ties how to construe a State law for robbng the
mails. The came system Of bviOence now to be
used to nmidate the South butt would have the same
ee at the SOuthupoD who are sought
to be kept in ignorance, it had had upon the people
of tie North. He referred TO the madness and folly
| of the slave propagandias in denying to the
| Abotionists the right of petition a right which
bas rarely been denied by the meanest despot to his
mesnest subjects. He glanced hastily at the leading
events Of 20 years, dwelling especially on the Compro-
mise measures of 1885, California he claimed ought to
have been freely admitted Free State but its admis-
sion was coupled with the Fugitive Slave lava meas
ure of but little consequence, TO be sure as pract.
cal measure but which was designed to be test OF
Northern conservatism and nationality Great inge:
puity was exercised in making that law as bad and
villainous as possible, and certainly any man who
would give it cheerful acquiescence might be relied
i on to do anything mean, even to selling bis own
l mother into the rice swamps.
Here the inevitable hammer fell, the allotted hour
having expired.
The Committee rose, and the House adjourned.