New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-21

tenn. understand, then gentlemen, in the common
sense In which this term Is used, by higher law, an
epac.ment which has the sacredness the weight and
the power that belongs to no human law. Now, are
we Christian people, and 10 there, any msn that
claims to be of the common brotherhood of Chris
snty that will deny that there is overruling Prov
idence who governs the universe by eternal and mmu
table laws which will prevail, the vicious Bacr-
legious attempts of man to the contrary notwithstand
ing There Is no man who will be so regardless of
tie sentiment Of Christian goodness as 10 utter any
such idea "a that. That then, is tbs higher law
which he acknowledged, and although do not quote
him from the book will state his position specifically:
II on the question of admitting the Territory on
the Pacific Free State when be said that Caifor-
mia ought not only TO be Free, but home for those
driven out from the Slave States by the competition
Of unpaid labor, and for others driven from their
home. by the competition Of captan the Free States;
but there was "higher law" even than Constitu-
tons, to which this Constitution should be
formed. / put it to every Democrat who hears me
tonight if that is not The true doctrine. If that be
20, how daredPreeident Buchanan to make his recon.
mendaioIs to Congress. in the name Of the Almighty
God
That, then, ia the assertion 1t is not an assertion
that brings anarchy upon community, but II s the
only principle of right and justice upon which the
permanent good of the community can rest; It Is the
only permanent security for goods, property, reputa-
ton, lves, end opinion, and that was the sense In
which Senator Seward has uttered that sentiment aud
be has sgain and sgsin said when constitutions were
made aid laws enacted not that we should cast igro-
miny and reproach upon them, or disobey them, but
that We should acquesce in them, obeyiDg them until
they changed by intelligent constituency acting
through the Legislative Department Of tho Govern
ment. That 10 what he said and there stand by him,
here and e!sewh now and for ever and there snos
man here tonight that does not stand by US, acknow-
ledge that principle that higher law that reliance upon
God, il he dare speak his honest sentiments.
We had great deal of at least, in this same Rep
resentaves' Hall from which we are excluded TO-
light The opposite party found there was higher
law and what was that Divine and ODnipoent God?
II was Slavery Slavery is higher than heaven and
earth and all constitutions and lave 1t s found in
the Constitution we told it is higher than that
Constitution; and since that time we have hoard no
thing of the higher law" Of Senator Seward. That
thing ia Deuiralzed chemsts saydone for, az COM
mon men may urge.
the IRREPREssIBLE CONFLICT.
Another allegation il made against that Senator, ~
tended to affect the Republican organization. IL rs
now alleged that he has announced in bis Rochester
epeech this much abused and cant phrase Of conflict;
that there is conflict between Slave Labor and Free
Labor all through this Governments and that that con-
fic has been going and will 20 until one or the
other utterly triumphr. That is the assertion We
acknowledge tive own up. 80 let US examine IL.
Why gentlemen understood that to be the declara-
ton Of our fathers in I776. / understood that
to lie the openly avowed sentiment of Washing
ton Madison and Jefferson. l understood that to be
the declaration of the resolution in Virginia, for which
your candidate for Speaker Of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Bocock, voted some years ago. understood iur-
thermore, that that was the declaration Of the late
here taken from The Louisville Courier, the leading
organ of the Democracy in Kentucky, made more than
ten years ago. You would like 10 read 1t. Then Will
YOU baye the goodness to turn to the es OF that our-
nal and see If lie or not. lCries Of Read til
The speaker was interrupted BY heavy fall Of
ran which forced him TO retire into the rotanda the
State House..
scssos from Tie Louisville Courier and by referring
10 the files Of that paper you will find it in the words
presume ths, viii no. be denied that Free labe,
sys labor are ON TIE . ss e equally
Labor ~ the s' q zoe Of Ss whit. man Thsrs mutual
repnsnsny ind follows course that hs Of the labor
S %':s he the labor the white man
What think you Of that, coming from this high Dem
teman carries the idea. Not only that there Ia
fiet but he goes further He says not only does the
white nan refuse to labor with the slave, but mark
him well, he puts the slave above the democratic
white labeYer of the wealth and tells you the
sentiment of the slave What then is his conclusion
why that in the conflict the "niggeI is to have Pssc
edepee 20 that Slave laber becomes entirely predom-
nant in the commonwealth. What sort Of Democratic
teaching is tina? In the name OF God let us hear no
more from the Democratic party, from Gov magomn,
CT Vice President Breckenridge, OF this thing aoout tne
bie her law or of this eternal conflict between Free and
Slave labor.
The IGNORED EXPLANATIONS.
But what did Gov. Seward ssyi With that charac
tsriste injustice which pervades too many OF tne DEM
6catieBs of that expression have been withheld from
the free white Iaborers of the Sos,h What says Gov.
Seward Gov. Seward is a long-headed man, IL 10
not d. MED that, whatsoever be may be, be knows
what he is about. heard ore of the most dlstin-
eushed jurists of the Commonwealth of Kentucky say
that no had the clearest and most phosophc head Of
any nan in the Union; and what docs this clear
headed say7 Does he leave II capable OF Peryer-
sion? Does be cay that because Slave labor and Free
labor are incompatible that the Republican party are
going TO ensave the white of the South on to in.
terfere with the Slavery now existing in the SOUTH
No, sirl deny that. viii state substantially what
he does ray. He saysand this is the important item
which ia left out BY the Democratic pressthst al
though this philosophical conclusion il gong ON, who
Their II is the work Of this century OF the next or OF
ten centuries or of ten housand centuries he does not
undertake to determine, any other man; but
he does say that il will take place. not by violence, not
| by John Brown raids conflicts and boodshed; but
peaceably BY the amendment Of the Constitutions and
| laws of the several Southern States themselyes.
Ia there a Democrat here unwilling 10 endorse that
method Of settling the conflict which Democratic papers
assert existsl Suppose the great people Of the
Commonwealth OF Ken'ucky choose to throw up
the barbarian selic, who shall object What
the right to do 1T Is not that the ideal II it. 70
not, here then is "hgher law the law of
Slavery higher than that Of all Democratic principles,
that is the Divine right against which we fought
ns without our consent Whatever ii be, be II even
the aw Of God that ia certainly not Democracy; 1t IL
deeyotsm il is the same old Divine right Of Kings, and
nothing else direnise il as you may. So said Gov.
Seward. SO ray J. and so says the DEMOCRATIC party
TIE Republican party in the States of the Union say
that II none Of their busness-tha if South Carolina,
Kentucky and Virginia choose to own slaves by vol
uItary consent by the ascertsined Will OF the majority
Of the PEOPLE, let them hold to the institution to all
eternity but the people of South Carolina Georgia,
or Kentucky in their omnipoent power the sove-
IejgDs of their country, choose to abolish IN
way that seems to them good 1t is none OF our bush