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

il would disappear from tAs land. Ny friends, this
was over seventy years ego. The men OF that DAY are
gope-the warrior statesm<n are dead.
How stand we now Why, our moderu Democrats
have discovered that the assistance of the African is
essential TO good government That the value of free
dom bias been over-estimated that Slavery is better
than freedom, and the regret not that Slavery was
ever introduced among rs, but that 1t did not and
does not cover the whole land like the waters of the
great deep cover the sea.
That such people as ours have been 50 impressed
and 90 tried that any respectable portion OF them
should have become the advocates OF any system o.
human SIavery--should seek to cultivate and cherish
such an insitutionto plant it in pew soils and there
perpttuate it, is one Of those wonderful freaks not
belonging to the ordinary course Of human action.
The cause Of this phenomenon may possibly be traced
to the peculiar position Of the Democratic party within
the last fifteen years. holding the official control Of
the Government. and resortng TO every means OF
maintaining their political sscendancy. But am deal
ing with a fact, and not inquriDg into its cause.
Whatever the cause may BE-, the TACT IL before ustne
astounding fact-that the free people of America-the
only free people in the world, as We have been wont
to call ouiselvesare on the eve Of becoming nation
of Slavery propagandsts. The mission of the Amer.
can patriot now s to 90 back to the beginning and
reconsider and reestabsh If he can, the great Prn-
tiple upon which the Government set out. The duty
of the present hour is to retry the issues at the great
bar of public opinion. Is Slavery better than freedom
Is free labor better than slave labor Is
State stronger and sounder when its people
are free men, who look up to the State for protection
and receive it with gratitude when they are slaves,
who conceive Themselves oppressed by the State and
of are hostile TO its authority This say, Is
the duty OF the present hour. The Democratic party
within the fifteen years that have just past, have been
growing in their devotion to African Slavery until
they have reached ultimatum. 1t is now with them
good institution. They are not content with pro-
nouncing il good institution; they appreciate it as
blessing They call it divine. They say no more
for Christianity than they cay for Slavery. Once we
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could not be extracted from the old structures with
which it had been unfortunately nterwoveni now we
are commanded to tall down and worship. Once IL
begged its way through appeals to and In
now it has become exacting and defiant. rises above
the law takes its place beside the habeas corpus and
trial by jury and assumes to stand everywhere within
the national domain sacred and immovable as the
Constitution within the States. Fellow-citizens, this
is the feature in the politics Of our country which has
shocked and excited social systems TO their lowest
depths which has disrupted literary associations, rent
asunder religious communities, broken political parties
10 pieces revolutionized the tone and action of the
Government, and fixed upon our future course the
steady gaze of the civilized world.
To arrest and overthrow this violent false and ag-
tious movement the Republican party has started into
existence, and it is now the duty OF every citizen who
regards his own personal interest the public good
or The honor Of his country to aid and assist in this
most just and honest purpose.
If Slavery be in fact blessing then the Democrats
right in all the positions they hold in regard to it,
Unguestionaby il is our duty TO seize and retain and
every blessing and expend its influence to
the utmost limit. But is Slavery blessingl deny
it. II is denied by civilized communities not 30 In
voyed with its existence as to be compel ed to justify
and defend it, and the denial enforced by the cearest
deductions of reason and experience.
great fundamental error which this Institution
rests with us is this That, viewed only system of
labor, it has selected probably, the worst material
which can be found for Its purposes.
Al.st
sessed of an independent mind and will. which strug
gle like the ascending fame to have their way Slavery
represses the exercise of this mind and will and prs
pms within the chambers of the soul those natural and
l1od-born impulses which constitute the force and
worth of life however naturally barren or deficient.
Another fundamental lies at the bottom of the
economy of the institution; that an employee will do
more for you and better by you when he labors under
,ompuson and against his consent, than when ne la
,ors with his own good will and pleasure; that force
md fear do more crafty, stimulate and energize the
physical, moral and intellectual nature of man. than
respect and love, than rewards and honors and all the
manifold motives of an awakened selfinterest. On
he contrary, all experience teaches that the laws of
iisregarded without injury. The rule is universal
avs great English philosopher, embracing all the
works and creations of God, from the moss that
groweth on the wall to the cedars of Lebanus."
Who has not delighted TO contemplate the monarch
VI the forest See the hale green tree, he lifts his
runk above the earth, and casts his giant arms
abroad and de6es the utmost violence Of the storm.
The birds of the air find shelter in his branches
md the focks of the field repose beneath his
shade. Go and shut out the free dews and rains
If heaven fro his head 60 limit the boundess gush of
.ir and sunlight in which it has been his wont to riot
20 circumscIibe him round, and mark the point at
which his roots shall no more descend into the EARTH
fix by props and stays and bars the range in which
lis lordly boughs may sweep amid the rocking of the
empest. Destroy in this way, if you please the liberty
,ven of tree; violate in this manner the laws Of its
,ature and the king of trees will languish-the deli
ate rose will not more certainly droop and die. cay
he majestic oak will wither and fall to the earth
blasted and leless thing Now, do you suppose that
and societies and States exceptions to this uni
5ersal rule Are they of all things else alone
med by perverting the laws of their nature liz
that liberty is essential to the growth of potato
n a cabbage and yet of no value to the development
4 a man or of the power and grandeur of State
his question may be answered differently by the po
tcal debaters or speculative philosophers of the day.
who find their interest prejudice in the subject.
But in the practical working out of principlsin the
ctnal experience of lfs--there is but one answer:
I" In the worlds broad field OF battle
We must not be dumb driven cattle
We must be heroes In the strife"
The business OF mans life is real, and the spirit
with which he should pursue it, if he pursues it well
must be s. earnest. He must have patience; he must
courage; watchfulness that never sleeps; and
ope that never fades. Then his course of life is
rowned with enthusiasm and resolved in the highest
ower and in the highest success of which the man is
apable. This it IL to throw ourselves, like heroes
nto the conflicts of business aud win, by battling
With adverse men and adverse fortune as warriors
attic another field for their victories whatever
bail GEEK as the aims and ends of life
Now there is not of these attributes of success
al business life which belongs to Slavery There is
othpg in the condition Of the slave that calls for
hem. The living stream, however obstructed, will
ever rise above its fountain head. human action
Or similar reason assume higher or no.
Ter form than it's human motive. To the free white
ian all motives are present; of course all hopes and
spirations His way of life, his choice of MEANS his
one, his family, his country, ambition for wealth. for
onor, or power all that the world denomnates and |
u the hum an heart adores glory. To the African
ave there is one only subsistence. The mar
ow space allotted TO lodging, food raiment bounds