New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-31

tious perfdy. You know that the perpetual as
sertiens of Douglas that the compromise OF 1891
embodied or involved an Obteration OF the Mis-
sot line is 80 grossly untrue thatnO one less auda
cious than Douglas would venture to assert 1t. lou
know that, during the three months discussion OF
the &C compromise of 1850 no supporter, no adver-
sary, of that adjustment ever claimed as merit
or stated as an objection that its adoption would
repeal the Missouri restriction. You know that,
70 adopt Mr.. Douglass Interpretation OF that CON-
promise of so is to assert that the North thereby
surrendered every single principle and point for
which il had so long and earnestly cOntended, and
did not even stipulate for any return whatever.
Won know how baseless this is. You know that
Stephen A. Douglas primarily, and the Democratic
party secondarily, and those Southern Wings who
co0perated with them thirdly, are responsible for
reopenng this Slavery agitatiOn-reopening it wau-
toply. recklessly, wickt dy-and yet you are doing
YOUR utmost to give the vote of this State to Doug
las and thus secure triumph to all those who did
this great wrong which you profess to condemn and
deprecate Can you wonder that your present
course amazes ard aenates your old friends /?
You tell me, Governor, that and others in 1855
+" proposed 10 diSOdHH INC ny Poiy' NH ~
suppose any one ignorant that you aud your new
Conservative friends had already deserted it DO
not all know that, while we supported in good
faith the Wing candidates in 1854, you and your
present friends secretly went against them, voting
the American" ticket know that you have
tried to count yourself out of that category; can
not say that your rOte may not have been gwen 10
the Wing candidate; but it is clear that your
influence went against them. The vote OF two
thirds of the former Wings of your election District
went for the American candidates / do not
complain of this: you vote as you see fit: but when
YOU accuse me and those who act with me OF
breaking up the Wing party, you are wide OF the
fact. They Hho stabbed it to the heart in 80 took
the lead in deserving it in "a.
You accuse me of uniting with 60 radical Dem.
"ocrats" to form the Republican party. Well
did-just as you united with them to pass the
Wilmot PrOvisO, to organize the new Territories in
the interest of Free Labor and to denounce the
District Trade stencil in the nostrils OF
Christendom Your votes on these questions were
more strictly geographical than the Republican
party is or ever has been. The reputation in
"a of the Missouri Compact BY combination OF
Democratic and Southern Wing votes, with the
consequeIt expulsion from Congress of Cullom,
Etberidge, T. G. Hunt, and almost every Southern
Wing who resisted that monstrous wrong left US
no alternative. The South had all but Obliterated
old party lines in her eagerness for Slavery Exten-
sion; suppose we Northern Free-Soil Wings had
undertaken to stand alone against the PrO-Slavery
combination, should We not have been foredoomed
to defeat and overthrow Should we not have
been ss helpless as even you could wish Cover
nor there was just one chance for us-tO do as
you did in Congress when you stood by WilmOt,
Preston King and Hamlin in supporting the Will
mot Proyiso and kindred measures. Let common
sense determine. Oily let it be understood that
YOU had practically, if not formally, abandoned
the Wing for an adverse organization before the
formal absorption Of what left of the former
into the Republican party in 1855, and no more
need be said.
The Wbig party dissolved, and you went where
you chose, nobody Directing From that time, you
have been most Industrious and disparaging ad-
versary of the great bulk of those who had pre-
yiousy been your friends and supporters. So far,
well. But it does seem hard to me that you should
20 persisteItly traduce us as sectional" and
"agitators, because we have followed the shining
path which you opened for us iring your service
in Congress. If our resistance to Slavery Exten-
sion is /" sectional" and ''geo graphical" so was
yours. If it brings us into communion and CO.
operation with the most radical Democrats" so
did yours Wilmot, HamliD, Preston King, &C.,
are the same men now, and maintain the same
principles respecting Slavery that theJ did when
you so often and so steadily voted with them, as
you voted the same way with me at a later day /
CO rtainly meant what those votes imply; deemed
the question they concerned one of the very great
est moments and my present position seems to me
an inevitable sequence Of those votes. If the Slay
cry question as it exists is of sufficient consequence
to send you over to Douglas, and Csgger and
Cassidy, zee not why it should not justify my
a, ISOLATION with King, and Wmot, and Hamlin.
You tell me that ii must know" that your hos
tility to the Republicans has not been impelled by
ambitious or selfish considerations. l beg leave to
assure you that know nothing Of the sort. Of
your motives and impulses, knop nothing what
ever beiiere that you felt for some years before
the Wing party broke up, that you were not est
mated in it at your full worth-that you ought to
have been made more of than you were. believe
that you thought the Republican party would be
short lived and poweress, and that you could do
better outside than in it, This is what beliere;
but do not pretend to knon. Your industry and
zeal in opposing it SO far exceed any previously
evinced in your political conduct, that cannot
but feel that resentment and disappointed ambition
have had much TO do with placing Won in the pOsi-