New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-16
NEW Yox DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY FEBRUARY le, 1860

which have laid down ss being CORE ave one.
TIA. one Is he mich talked Of snd po,b ya,,,,ea n
give Slave iaw. LEI me ask IA IT, undsr the Con-
States wba. DO you want with Fug dive Slave clauseI
Answer me that. Why would you. not be projected in
your slave properly as much in nv State OF the Union
fits property there and yet you stood in convention
nigh; say, year after yes coDtendpg for the rights of
the ssveholdns conn unity TO recover fugitive slaves
IL was all abeuro .sy TO quarrel about power which
yon assers Is the Constitution. You cannot prove
tbat the 20 sttution gives the power 1t cannot be
DONE ~ IS in vain that you struggle against the whole
autheg ny and common sense Of ages.
THE SLAVE CODE CONSIDERED.
! You now talk Of legislative intervention by
Congress 10 protect Slavery in the Territories. what
do you want with it. If the Constitution does not give
| it, What reht have you to i'll therefore deny, on
the pant of the Republican party, that there any such
power under the Constitution per Sc 10 carry Slavery
into the Territories Of the United States. That was
the doctrine Of the Demo cray OF 1872 or 1900 ana
only after the enunciaoD OF the Cincinnati platform,
and the election of James Buchanan, did the Supreme
Court themselves up 10 the point that they could
say that it was law-two Of the ablest and most dis.
tinaushed uIsts declaring that it was ober dtcd, and
was no law. God grant for our freedom-every mans,
white and black-that You should say In your ieglsa-
tive assemblies and national conventions and the Con-
Qress of the United States. that tits no law AS 1--we,
it is not the law.
See where it leads. Suppose they have, under the
Constitution, the right to carry Slavery into the Ter
ritorits have they not right 10 carry those same
slaves into Ohio and Newly You have the 1gnt 10
carry cow OF a horse, coat or watch, mo new"
York, and II under the Constitution Slavery il just as
sacred and inviolate as ths species OF properly now
dare Gov. Morgan bay they shall not bring ther saves
and take possession Of the hotels OF Albany ana e
farms now occupied by honest freemenf L tell you
wby Won cannot. 1t is because the night you assume
does not exist. The Constitution says:
Th, Constitution and the laws Of the Insed s;ssS or
which shall be made the authority of the United States
shall be the supreme law Of the land" &c
Is THIS A SLAVE ESiPIREf
Tbera Ia the whole substance of the matter. III the
bred Scott decision right, according TO the
ton OF the Democratic party, then tnere IL nov Vn
single foot of any but slave territory from tne ou VA
M.Sico 10 the hills of Maine Ii that be true, then
indeed there is no conflict going on, IN the language Oh
Seward and the Democratic party, between freedom
and despotism; but the conflict IL ended anu you anu
I and All of u.s. are subject to despotic power which
IL higher than the great dcta OF all the learned ursts
that have preceded us; higher than the CONSTITUTIONS
of the States and the sovereignty oil Couyentlons ana
last if not least higher than the Constitution OF the
United States--the palladium Of liberty to 49, Hit be
co. the conflict is ended, and we are ali slaves; we are
subject 70 q despotic power over which we nave no
control-none on Gods earth. There ls no appeal TO
Popular Sovereignty States Rights; there is but
one appeal and that is to revolution; an appeal to
aims and the God of Hoss-which God forbid. There
fore deny that factiousy purposing to prevent
the admission OF any more oldNe-iOlulLH clae'0.
WHAT OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
The fourth charge is that we propose TO repeal the
Fugitive Slave law and practically refuse TO obey the
Constitution on that subject / do not deny that in
some of the States there has been effort made OF that
kind but d, utterly deny that there any such clause
in the platform of 1856 or the call of 1860. Without
dwelling further upon that pass by, saying that
DO DO, TO ayow that stand on that SUBJECT WIN
Daniel Webster the man whom, of all others In the
country, we have styled the expounder OF the Con-
stitution - certainly upon Constitutional law the
highest authority this country or any other. Mr.
Webster, although he was over persuadeo, Iaeeereu
with the idea that he would get Southern support by
Welding his trueborn opinion said what In his speech
of the 9TH March He said that this was power
that belonged not to Congress, but to the several
States" That il my belief; but the Republican party,
desirous of harmony yielded it, and struck it out OF
our platform in 1856 and do not intend to incorporate
il in the platform of 1860.
OTHER CHARGES REFERRED TO.
Y"To refuse TO prevent or punish by state action
the spolation of slave property, but, on the con-
trsry, TO make il criminal oiense III their citizens TO
obey the laws of the Union in 80 far as they protect
property in African slaves" Gentlemen, don't we
tell them in our call that go for protecting the
rights fall the States and so far from hinderlng them
in the return of their property that We pledge our
selves az party defend them against your state or
ny State aud every State, against foreign INVASION
OF course, if are honest in ono purpose, we are
honest in the other, and cannot be honest in that
avowal, if we dishonest in the first imputation
"To abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia"
man TO find any such clause in it.
"To abolish it in the forts, arsenals, doek.yards and
other places in the South where Congress has exclusive
jursdctiOn." There is such clause as that In the
platform OF 1885, OF the call Of 1860.
"To abolish the internal and coastwise trade"
There is no such clause as that III either.
"To limit, harass, and frown upon the insti-
tuition in every mode Of political action, and by every
form Of public opinion" We make directly oppo
site avowa So far from that, not only COM
PEELED by the necessity Of the case, but we PROPOSE in
carrying out in good faith this associated brotherhood
of confederated States not to take Emancipaonists
alone upon platform, not simply to appoint them to
Offices but We propose and invite Shareholders TO act
in conjunction with u.s. and TO assist us in carrying out
the Government, which we shall in all probability 80
soon control. How can this be truei How can we
then intend 10 harass the institution by every mode of
political action! Why, gentlemen, the thing is impos-
sble in the nature Of things and unless you have proof
that we are dishonest, there is believing that we
cam or desire to- monopolize all the Offices in the
try. We invoke that power Of public opinion, which
cannot but by annihilaon die, TO this and all good
causes. Not We but those who deaf to its divine
admonitions, must suffer the penalty Of defiance.
1 stand where the Republican party standby the
old Henry Clay Wing ground against the extension of
Slavery. Let me here read what Henry Clay says
upon The subject
The Democrats have got wonderfully in love with
Henry Clay of late The old man they abused and
slandered all bs life, but they come TO and say
we will defend old Henry from your assaults. The
man who was pelsecuted for lifetime, the man who
went to his grave in sorrow under the imputations
made against him BY these Democrats, is now taken
up, and they call upon Old-Iine Whigs--old Clay
Whigs-to come out and crush out the Republicans,
who stand by the doctrines Of that Clay in favor
Of the non-exension of Slavery. Henry Clay said in
the last year of his fe in his last term Of public
service in his gray haired old age:
Coming as do nom slave State Il is solemn, DELHI
power shall compel me to vote for the positive introduction Of
Slavery either north OF south Of that line"
Oh for shame Democrats TO claim to he the protec-
t1,o of IS