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

man shall prevent him ~ violence trom cAer'
cisng bis right Of free speech, except at the
assailant's own peril; and he has in more than
one instance made good his declaration In deci.
siye manner Men who come with menaces to in-
terfere with bis personal rights, are wen understood
to do il at the risk Of dangerous reception. Ask
ing for peace, desiring peace Mr. Clay yet declares
himself ready for war, sooner than submit to have
bis plain constitutional prerogtives as citizen
of Kentucky infringed. In this Mr.. Clay has the
hearty support of every just and liberal American;
and his course in maintaining this position on va
rious occasions, at imminent personal hazard, has
won him the regard of millions who have never
seen bis fice In renewedly facing popular excite
ment aid clsmor, now rampant all over the Slave
States, in Congress, in commercial and doughface
cirrlss at Tie North, at John Brown meetings. and
else here, Mr.. Clay has earned hew claims to ad-
miraicn for his truly chivalric and manly course.
We greet him as a worthy champion of worthy
cause His example affords contrast infinitely be-
Hitting to the flushed and nfamed responsibilities
of this city, and the branless prgs Of Philadelphia,
who 60 recently and fecby undertook the insulticg
and odious task Of putting down Freedom OF Speech
in the two great cities of the Union. We commend
the sc poor tools of an nsoent sembarbarian aris-
tocracy, to a calm contemplation Of the manhood OF
Cassius NJ. Clay, in thus maintaining the great
cause they cowardly assailed.
The second reason of Mr.. Clay's triumph lies In
the important fact that the doctrines Of the Republic
can party which be expounded fully, as well as
fearlessly, on the occasion referred to, have nothing
in them of that nhammatOry and dangerous char
acter imputed to them by their enemies. 1t needs
nothing but that these doctrines should be wisely
and temporarily stated and argued to enforce their
Justice reasonablenees patriotism, and moderation
upon every hearer The doctrines are in themselves
SO true, so eminenty just and benefcent IN their
purposes, that when men can sufficiently calm their
passions TO give them q fair hearing, no one can
find in them anything of which he can fairly CON-
plain. They are just the doctrines. and only the
doctrines, preached by Thomas Jefferson and
George Mason of Virginia, to that greatest of the
Slave States; Just the doctrines, and only the doc
trines, preached in that same Virginia ever after
ward, till very lately; preached, though in more
violent form, in its State Conventions as late as
1882, by the very gentleman just now appointed
Minister to France, Mr.. Faulkner; indorsed by
John Letcher, within the last month ina1gurated
Governor of the same Old Dominion and Mother of
States; preached by Henry Clay himself to that
very Kentucky which bis namesake now addresses.
Why, then, in the name of consistency, fairness,
and justice, should not Republican doctrines be
listened TO in Kentucky from the lips of Cassius III.
Clay now, and in all the Slave States in peace and
quietf Why should not Cassius NJ. Clay, as well
as every other Republican, North and South, be
permitted to address any community, and every
community, without violence and without Interrupt
tion in support of the principles Of the party to
which be beloDgs7
There is no good reason under heaven why
Republicans should not be listened to everywhere
The reason why they are not, la because OF
the blind and senseless clsmOr raised by fools
and knaves alike, among the ignorant, the sell
fsh. the timid and the brutal elements of society
That ignorance, that sel6shness, that timidty that
brutality, can be overcome, and must be; and then
RepubIicanism will again be received in the South
and again be everywhere seen in slsveholding
communities, openly and earlessy, as it was Of DID,
instead of secretly and steathiy, as it is now COM
PEELED to make its way. One Of the modes OF ac-
complaining this result is noby illustrated BY the
generous and selfsacrifcing man, whose example
we now commemorate. Other methods there are, in
which all of us may participate. These are to pa
tiently and hsbitually press upon reasonable men,
all over the South, calm and dispassionate exam
ination Of our principles; to make them zee how
they are garbled and perverted by malice, and par
tisanship, and ignorance; TO show them that Re-
pubcansm is as good for the South for the North
and far less likely TO lead to dangerous issues than
the iron rule of violent exclusion and suppression
now sought TO be enforced throughout the Slave
holding States in defiance of law, of justice, and
the rights of a common citizenship. The diffusion
of the law of Freedom everywhere in the country
outside of the limits of the Slave States, will bring
national peace and tranquility to the South,
pence to the North. That basis for the settlement
OF existing controversies il firm and did, and endur
ing as truth itself 1t will still the waves Of domes
tic commoion, it viii silence agitation it will re-
store harmony between now discordsnt States 1t is
the mission of the Republican party to bring not
the North only, but the South as well, to full and
cheerful recognition Of the truth that tho original
principles on which the Government was founded
are the only principles on which it can permanently
stand. These principles cannot be showed aside to
These old and sound principles are the principles Of
the Republican party. They do not, in their prac-
teal administration, under our form Of Govern
ment, touch Slavery in the States, as long expe-
rience has shown. Neither do they, on the other