New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-03


eissd for the profit of TIE white man Ana
much as men msy dsnounee the assertion 81
the irrrpres.ible conflict between Freedom ana
Slavery the United States, it was apparelt
msnfesty that the increased importation Of African
negroes caused the exclusion of European teemen 40
know how s but s fact that there has been an
irIepressible pfict it s fast, that whenever any
y ate allowed the importation Of African negroes em
grafton decreased fromIIr.land, gland aud Germany
What was to be done To make ihis great Sts'e ana
this great nation maniestly required 10 diminish sue
African labor force and arrest It; ana on tne Ssno
hand, to stimulate, increase and inVigorste ine
of fee immigration. Does anybody douot tha'i IL
reonired secondly system Of int rna Improvement
that should be commemorate with the greatness OF he
regions which were thus TO be inhabited IL requreo
that the Free Labor populaion snouid % gu
Gated and trained 30 as 10 be able TO MAINTAIN
rennblosn government. This thing required the CO.
oreralion Of the Federal Legislature and the SIse
Legislature The Federal egielature addressed tnetn
selves 10 their work IN the Congress which preSeaea
The Constitution in the Convention which framed TOE
Const;tnon and in the Congress which succeeded tue
CONSTITUTION These three Federal and Legislative an-
thorties settled the whole ma ter in manner ootn
,imple and practical Ii did not extrpate or at'empt
. rtirnse the African slave-trade. 1t did not eman-
ipste or attempt TO emanepate the African
ibid not even arrest at the savetrade, but 1t Old
ncoursPe all the Slave States 10 remove Slavery
hemselyes as soon as they practically could without
disturbing the peace and order and interests of society,
of which the States are left the sole judges Inc
rext step that they took was TO prohlot
he African slave-tIade, not Immediately, out
after the expiration Of ~ years and 10 declare tns.
after that no African slave should ever be introduced
into the United States. They took one step more on
the side of Free Labor They encouraged Free Labor
by Federal law by inviting the emiersn from Europe,
the exile poor and penn less, matter whether he
were Catholic, Protestant, or jew, or Greek
Ihear hearI or Gentle; alter whether he was an
Enplshman or German, or Pole, or hungarian, they
invited him TO come. And irasmuch az the cost OF
TRANSPORTATION was great and the voyage long one,
they decaI ed that might sell his labor and that the
labor that he should perform for year after his arrival
should 90 TO pay the expenses OF his transportation 70
this free land from his native coil. They took
ona other broad and liberal step, and that
was, they declared by laws of uniform extent and
authority that the freeman imnigratiog into this coun
try from whatever land should after sufficient proba-
ton to establish his character and his loyalty, be ad
mitted as citizen of the Republics and In every State,
Free States or Slave States, the same footing with
tbs native born inhsbsnt They took one more step,
more effective than all the rest and that 49, that they
shut up The whole of the unoccupied unsettled national
domain from which all the future States were 10 be
taken they shut it up against Slavery aud slaves
hepceforth ard forever. Applause, cries of hear,
hear This ia what the Federal and legislative au-
thority did. Hear now what the States did. Inc
pride the commercial greatness and glory, was equally
shared by all the thirteen Statesmen OF the Gee
ondpg tie wise, l had almost said, and will say,
tious policy of the Federal Government, abol-
hed Slavery from all tneir no OoIds Sv c oO.
fecaton. But they took such measures 10 the year
1900 or theresbodts that twenty five years ward,
whereas in the year 1900 every twenty eighth person
was slave in the year 1898 not one slave was found
upon the coil of the State of New-York. Cheers
Sig Others of the States followed the same policy but
six more the Southern States, declined to pursue
that policy and still determined 10 compete Tor the
GREAT national and commercial prominence. 1he STATE
Of New-Yoik had in its early day, enlightened staes.
men, who had not learned the demorazng doctrine OF
the times that virtue ana freedo eneeb State, ana
that slave labor is the great basis OF national greatne
81 he sta
of that early period were Hamilton, Jay, Clinton, Ra-
fus King and coming later, but not unworthy OF The
noble association, John W. Francis Of the City OF New
York. ICheers. All these enlightened notions OF
these men were called specuations and imaginations
by the age in which they lived They pro-
iected land they have since been completely
all the great thorougbfares for commerce that were
found requisite, from New-fork Bay TO the St;
Lawrence and TO the Lakes and other States continued
the work until these channels of intercourse and
commerce betwesn the City of New-York and other
portions of the continent now reach the very borders
OF our civilization Ia the West. One thing more was
commenced and that was edueaton-education for
free people. The foundation OF system OF education,
equal fair Just, and impartial among all the Glasses OF
the citizens laid in the State at an early day. and
after much contention, finally introduced and es-
tablished permanently in the City Of New-York. APP
plausel Feow.citizens, / have told you, in these
very few words the whole foundation OF all the pros
perity of the State Of New-fork which now, In pc
Rod Of only sixty years, counts population OF four
millions and all the other States,
as well as the foundations of the prosperity o
the United States, which now, instead o
four millions, counts thirty millions while the
City of New-York possesses an inland con-
merce SURPRISING that of any other capital, and a
foreign commerce second only to one In the world.
Surely, felowcitzens, it, lnstead OF being now before
the citizens Of this metropolis Of this great State aud OF
the United States had told this story TO stranger IN
foreign land he would have said you have told me Of
that Atlantic that happy Republic which the ancient
philosopher conceived and the ancient poets sung, but
n - e -; a. tba ord pf
mar kind has hitherto proved TO be an impossbillty
And now for the future Of New York. myself, when
/ was even older than some hundred hearers before
me, sought recreation and rest out OF the CITY OF New
York BY hanging around the open tombsin the Poters
Field in VIVA is now Washington square. think
very able and ingenious writer in morning newspa'
Ter Yesterday called my attention to the idea that 1t
was certainty which could be established by mathe'
NAUTICAL demonstration, that within period Of one
hundred and fifty years the population OF the United
States would be 300 OC0,OOOi that it would sur
pass China. / doubt not his figures are accurate.
What then ia to be, fifty years hence-for that is
great progression-what fifty years what one hundred
years hence is to be the magnitude and population OF
the CITY of NewYork of the great State of New York.
aud Of the United Satea? For the increase in the
greatness and commercial glory Of New-York and the
magnitude of New.Iork are necessarily eonJoined
Its commerce Is to be soon not merely national COM
merce but tho commerce of the continent OF America
And need not tell you that the port which enjoys the
commerce of the continent OF America commands al
once the commerce Of the globe. You have now seen
what is and You have seen what it has produced
What remaine is to consider what is needtu to secure
future of greatness for the city as well az for our
county for which men are naturally and justly anx-
ious What can il be that neeoul to be done but to
let thngs 20 just exactly they have gone on hitherto
to leave Slavery to be circumscrbsd and limited here
after az il has been hherto and TO leave tne increase
of cur own white population, ard the increase by for
egn emigration to 90 Just exactly as they are al
ready going on, and to leave canals and railroads in
ful operation as they are and leave the systems OF
education 10 stand upon the basis upon which they
stand. There if you please, is what understand by
Rspublicanfm. CheeTs, hear, hear. 90 not know