New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-01


tutloLs, while they sancii0n too unreservecy books
designed 10 advocate emancipation. But sarely you
can hardly expect tho Fecerr Government or the po-
ltical parfies of the nation 10 maintain censorship Of
the Press or Of debate. The theory OF system is
that error of opinion may in AL cases safely be toer .ted
where reason is left free to combat It, WI II be
claimed that of moderation and tenderness IN de-
hate are exhibited side OF the great argument
than onr own We all learned our poemcs, as well
as our principles from common master. we are
sure that we not on our SIDE, exoeed DIS lessons
ard example. Thomas jefferson addressed DIR. Price,
an Englishman, concerning hs trea'ee On emAn''P"'
ton in America In this fashion:
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lumber who have not the courage 20 diVest tIe
property which however keeps their e,nsc-nees nuqnie
Norward Chesapeake Jon may ind here and there an
opponent doctrine you may bnd here and erc
ri % i Ss bs Sa' s 70 Which we may tam eyes
The Interesting spectacle Of Justice IN eoe; WIN s pw
recruits from the influx into ocs o. yonGg men gov" W i"d
ycu written will great deal Of good and could
m trouble yourself abou. welfare no man Is more able 70
You see, Sir, that whether we go for or against
Slavery anywhere we must follow Southern guides
You may change your pilots with the wiods or tue
curreIts; but We whose nativity, Teckoned under the
North STAR has rendered us somewh. superotitious,
must be excused for constancy in following the gud-
ance of thoee who framed the national ship and gave
the chart for its noble voyage.
profound respect and friendly gard for the Vice
President Of the United NJ ACES has induced me to weigh
carefully the testimony he has given on the subject Of
the hostility against the South imputed to the Republic
can party derived from tho relations of the repre-
eentatives Of the two parties at this capital de says
that he has here in the representatives OF the
lower Southern States most resolute and earnest
spirit of resistance to the Republican party; that no
perceyet sensible oss Of that spirit Of brotherhood
and that feeling Of loyalty, together with that love
for common country which at last the surest CO.
ment Of the Union; that, in the present unhappy
condition of affairs, he is almost tempted 10 exelaim
that we are dissolving week by week, and month by
month that the threads are gradually fretting them
selves asunder; and stranger might suppose shst the
Executive of the United States was the President OF
two hostile Republics Ii is not for me TO RAISE
doubt upon the correctness of this dark picture Ear
the Southern groups upon the canvas are concerned,
but must be INDUCED In the opinion that can pro-
nonnce accurately concerning the Northern or
Republican representatives here as any one. Know
their public haunts and their private ways. We are
not hostile Republic, representatives OF one. We
confer together, but only as the organs OF every
party do, and must do 10 political system which
obRes act sometimes partleaus, while 1t requires
us always to be patriots and statesmen. Differences
of opinion tho subject OF Slavery, with us are
political, not social or personal ddierences There Is
not one disunionist or disOyaist among US all. We
altogether UNCONSCIOUS of any process of dssolu-
lion going on among or around US. We have never
been patient, and never loved the representatives,
of other sections more, than now. We bear the same
in the very center where the bolt of dsunion must fall
frat aud be most fearful in it's effects, ssem never less
disturbed than We bear the same testimony for
all the districts and States we represent. The people
of the North are not enemies but friends and brethren
Of the South, faithful and true as IN the days when
death has dealt his promiscuousy among them
Oh common battle fields OF Freedom.
We will not suffer ourselves here to dwell on any
evidences of different temper in the South but we
sha be content with expressing our belief that hos
tity that is not desgne1y provoked and that cannot
provoke retaliation, is anomaly that must be traced
TO casual excitemens, which cannot perpetuate allen
alton.
A canvass for Presidential election, in some re-
spects more important, perhaps than any since l5O0
has recently begun. The House of Representatives
was to be organized by a majority, while no party
could east than plurality OF votes. Ine gloom
of the late tragedy 10 Virginia rested on the Capitol
from the day when Congress assembled. While the
two great political parties were peacefully lawfully,
and consttutionally though zealOusy conducting the
great national issue between free labor and capital
labor for the Territories to its proper solution through
the trials OF the ballot, operating directly or indirectly
the various departments OF the Government, band
of exceptional men, contemptuous equally OF that great
question and of the parties TO the controversy, and
impatient of the constitutional system which con-
fires the citizens Of State 10 political action By
suffrage in organized parties with their own borders,
inspired by enthlsiasm peculiar to themselves, and
eraspera'ed by grievances and wronge That some OF
them had suffered by threads Of armed propagandsts
of Slavery in Kansas, unlawful "a their own retaa-
ton was attempted to subvert Slavery in Virginia by
conspiracy, ambush invasion, and force. The method
have adopted, Of appealing to the reason and judg.
ment of the people, TO be pronounced by suffrage, s
the only one by which free government an be maiD-
tanned anywhere, and the only one as yet devised
which il in harmony with the spirit of Christian rel
gion. While generous and charitable natures will
probably coneede that John Brown and his assoc ates
acted on earnest though fatally erroneous couvictione
vet all good citizens will nevertheless agree that this
attempt TO execute Unlawful purpose in Virginia by
invasion, involving servile war, was an act of sedl
ton and treason and criminal 70 Just the extentthat 1t
affected the public peace aud wac destructive OF hu-
man happiness and human life 1t lisa painful reflection
that after long experience Of the benecent work.
ing Of system have enjoyed we have had these
new Illustrations in Kansas and Virginia OF the ex
istenee among Of clRss OF men 80 misguided and
40 desperate as seek 70 enforce their peculiar prin
cples by the sword, drawing after it a need for the
further illustration by their punishment OF that great
moral truth, especially applicable in republic, that
they who take up the sword as weapon of contro-
versy shall perish by the sword In the latter case
the amented deaths OF many citizens slain from an
ambush and by suJprise-all the more lsmentabe be-
they were innocent victims OF frenzy kinded
without their agency, 10 far slant res-the deaths
even of the offenders themselves, ptable, although
necessary and Just because they acted under deiTium,
which blinded their judgments to the real motive Of
their criminal enterprise the alarm and CONSERVATION
naturally awakened throughout the country, exciting
for the moment the fear that whole system with
Ill its securities for life and liberty, coming to an
end-a fear the more endurable because contin'
ualy aggravated by chimeras TO which tho great
leading event lent an air of probability; surely all
these constituted of public misery which ought
70 have satisfied the most morbid appetite for social
horrors Bat, in the case of the gunpowder plot,
and tho Salem wichcraft, and the New-f0rk colonial
negro plot now; the original actors were swiftly
followed by another and kindred class who sought
prolong and widen the pablo distress by attempting
direct the indignation which II had excited against
parties gailtess equally Of completely and Of sympathy
with the offenders.
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