New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-06

,niYtsuti Alas thst il Should be go. Cariss ,nity
expains for hersh how ]: 70 tha, she IL rejected Of
men. She ssys His be caue nan hva darkn rather
than ~ b., bCAps4 their deeds evil. Tsbs not
say this in rfGsrd to the subje,, of Freedom know
bs,'er. hnow that nv countrymen love hght-not
da knees. They even n the state and di portion
of The Rrmsn Governor almost thou peIsladesI NC
te be ChIis'ian' and sImos the American peorle
persuaded 10 be Republican tCleers aud Laughter
Why, then, are they not altogether persuaded The
sDSue r cannot be given without some reflection IL
involves an examination of national eOnduct and
life
altogether persuaded To be Republican, Is because the
nstiODal sense lie perveste3-the national sense and
Judgment have been perverted We Inherited Slavery
1t is organ lied uo rational life into our forms OF
government. IL exists among us, utsuspected IN ITS
evils becsu'e have become accustomed, out Of nv
SIGNAL habit TO enduring sDd tolerating Slavery. The
effect Of this habit, GThing from the presence Oh
Slavery, is TO produce want OF moral courage among
the PEOPLE, and an iOdspOson to entertain aud exam
inc the suhjsct 1t s not however, the fault OF the
people. This lack of moral courage Is chiefly tae 1snt
OF the political representatives, Of the people, ln every
district the United States, and for every seat IN Cen
prees ,he people might sele apparently as brave,
rs truthful, as fearless and firm as Gwen Loveloy.
You r1sv I'll the balls of Congress with men frOur
all the Fee States who seem 10 be reliable wen
Loveoy but on the Changer ofths Slavery buge in the
hail thty begin to WAIVER and fail They retire. They
sut selves TO he demOralized; and tbey return
TO deporsl re the people. Slavery never hesiaes to
raise the cspgr of the Iumpets 20 terrify the tind
Slsvery has too, heraguneEt for the timid than
terror; IL is power. The concentration OF Slavery
gives it fearful Political power. You know hos
long it has be- the controlling power in The executive
departments of the Government Slavery uses that
power as might be eXpected-to punish those who
otpose it, TO reward those who serve it, All rsp-e.
senta,ives are Datura ambitious; all representatives
Ike fame if they do not like pecuniary rewards they
like tie distinctions Of place. They like TO be popular.
henf he II
becomes offensive ard obnoxious he loses posi- ion AID
the patty chooses some other representative who will
be less obnoxious. These demorazed Representative
ncuoate smopg the people promseuous Lessons, aud
sustain themselves by adopting compromises. They
compton, se far, if possible, az to save place and
show Of prncp.; they save themselves first and let
Freedom tab what remains.
community thus demoraEzsd by its representatives
il arul Of COL steering the subject Of Slavery al ALL
IL does not ike TO look back upon It's record; il does
rot dare look forward to what are 10 be the CON
seuuences of eIrors Ii desires peace and quiet We
sail see in moment what fearful sacrifices have been
made under the influence Of this decentralization of the
| power Of the Government.
The first act Of Generalization 10 surrender the
rritoy of Arkansas and thu Territory of Missouri TO
and also by implication all the rest of the Ter
tiOry Of Louisiana acquired by purchase from France
that lay fouth of SO degrees 30 minutes north lst-
tude. Take mp your maps when you go home, and see
what broad belt of counry lying sooth Of that lice
was surer dered with the States of Missouri and Ar
kansas TO Slavery. Next, under hs infuen' of this
SAME demcraiza'ion, the whole of the peninsula of
Florida acquired from Spaio, wac to Slav-
ery rendering il practically useless for all the national
puruoees for which il acquired making it burden
In ad of national safeguard in the Gulf Of Mexico
But Texas was surrendered to Slavery, and brought
in with the gauitous agfeeDe0 that four Slave States
sbonid be made out of that Territory Next in 1850,
Utah and New Mexico were abandoned TO Slavery.
After these events following in Quick succession came
the abroea ion in the year 1854 of the restriction
taired IA the Missouri COMPROMISE, by which it had
been ipuated hat all north of SO degrees 30 minutes,
exec ping the State of Missouri should be dedicated 20
Freedom. Thst abandoned to Slavery to take it
if she cou get it, and the Administration of the Gov
erpment Of he United States, with scarcely protest
from The people went to favor its occupancy by
Slavery. As legitimate consequence, came the refu
al on the part of The tional Governmentfori was
p actica REFUSAL neglec-to admit Kansas into the
| [ MON because she would not accept Slavery.
After this demo- alization had been carried out in
thee practical eat right aha had Oh. the ssioa to
Court at last pronounced that which, in previous
wear either of them woud have dared to assert-that
this Constitution OF ours not Constitution of Liberty,
but that il is Constitution of human bondage; that
Slavery is the normal condition Of the AmeTica people
| on each acre of the main Of the United States net
organized into Satesth.t is 10 say that wherever this
banner Of ours this saTspaI ged banner, whose giO
| rits we celebrate 20 bigbly-wherever that baIne
floats over a national ship a national Territory,
there is land not of Freedom, but of Slavery
Hence it has followed that the nation up to 1854 sur
rendered ali the unoccuped portions of this continent
10 Sasey, and thereby practically excluded freemen-
because experience all elbows that when you have
made Slave Territory, Freedom avoids it; inst az
| much when you make Free State, like Kansas,
| Slavery disappears from it.
4 have said that TIE country was demoralzed BY it's
pOlni,al e ntatyes but these political representa-
tves have their agents. All men necessarily fa into
| some political party and religious sect Ambition
sways n both political parties and religious sects. To
gain Office in political party and share it's favor when
| The nation demoraIized 1t became necessary that
the candidate should be tolerant of Slavery SO re-
lgoUs ambitious to extend their eccssias
teal sway. The consequence was that year by year
Slavery had party upon party; Slavery had religious
sect upon religious sect, church after caqrch. Bat,
! alas until the dawn Of that year, Freedom had no
| pant aid no religious sect throughout this whole
| country.
PEOPLE who ara demoralized are easily operated
upon; they easily kept persistenty in the same
| erroneous habit which has demoralized them. The
| first agency for continuing to extend the power Of
Slavery upon this continent, that Of alarm. Fears
| Of al kinds are awakened in the public mind The
chf of them is the fear Of turbulence Of disorder OF
civil coDmotons, and of civil war. The shareholders
10 the Slave States very justly, and trulhfully and
rightly assume that slaves are the natural enemies Of
their masters and, Of course that slaves are insd )us
enemies of the Safe which holds them, or requires
them to be held in bondage that insiduous enemies
dangerous; and therefore, in every Slave State tina.
has ever been founded in th country policy s estab
sbtd which suppreses fr edom Of speech and freedom
of debate 30 far liberty needs advocates while il
eXtends the largest license of debate TO those who
advocate the interests Of Slavery. This lack of bee
dom Of speech and freedom OF debate is followed in
Slave States by the necessary consequence, that mere
is no freedom of suffrage. So that at the last Prsn
Dental electiop-tbe first when this question
distinctly brought before the American people-here
were no Slave States in which ballot box was open
for feeCOm, where free men might cast Their ballots
with ssfety. If one side only is allowed 20 vo.e ia
State is very easy to that that eide must prevail
Laughter aud applause.
If the condition of civil society is such that voting
is pot to b. done safely few mep will vote. Every
rnau vino Alea 10 oxpTess his choice is not ed