New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-29
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must become Slave States. But we ask any intell.
gent and impartial observer who has read the Dem
ocralc newspapers OF Connecticut for the past two
months. or who has heard tho speeches which
Democratic politicians have delivered in various
parts of that State to say if the presentaspect of
the canvass there is not fulfilment OF Nj. Sew.
ards prediction. JUDGED, Mr.. Caleb Gushing, in
bis late speech at Hartford expressly gives his as
cent to Mr. Stewards doctrine of an irrsPressibe
conflict, but be Gays tee conflict is one of ideas and
rot Of interests. 1t is something new to hnd
the Democratic party ola Free State taking ground
in favor of the desrabecess of Slavery in itself.
We have had plenty Of tslk about its being " none
" of cur business" how many slaves are held by
the South, provided We of the North retain our fee
Institutions; psnty of sphistry aud false history
about Popular Sovereignty and the practice of the
early fathers plenty Of obiarsa!On against inter-
medding with what does not concern us; but nov,
for The fret time, we have, in plain terms, Slavery
defended and advocated as good thing in Itself.
Dir. Cushing's recent speeches at New-Ha7en and
Hartford are in letter vel a. 10 spint pleas Tor
tbe reintrOductiOn Of Slavery into CONNECTICUT
TIE careful and honest readtr can place upon them
no other construction. A large portion OF the New
Haven speech consists Of labored attempt TO show
that our Revolutionary fathers never nteGded to DO
away with Slavery, even in New-Engiard, certainly
not IN the South and another portion 10 devoted 10
a defense of Slavery per Sc, and is substantially an
assertion that when they did abolish Slavery they
made mistake. We shall not make extended
quotations to prove our assertions, but we point to
tue speech itself On the historical question, how
ever. we give the following specimen brick;
"Gentiemen, affirm as a historical fact that the
Declaration OF Independence intended 10 apply only
10 the white governing of these Colonies. 1h@
onr fathers 1ateRdtd 10 retain tie AJrlcdn and the
Indian an sUbectioR 10 the wLfte race 81 these Colo
mes, there as abundant PToot our Ia
theirs did not enter upon any Qaxotic pdrHut OF raa-
cal innovations. They found Indians ab0rndng III the
country and they kept them 1nGiansi they found At
ricans aboundug in the country, and Kept them Al
Tcans.
AS there was no method short OF some process
Of amalgamaton by which the Indian and the Atn-
can could possibly have their color smedorat,d,
Mr. Gushing means by this, that our fathers found
these classes SidUes and kept them siares lie pro-
ceeds, as he well may, holding such opinions OF
radical InnoyatoIs, TO indulge IN something hke
sneer at the head of his blood and name, Chief
Justice William Gushing, who pronounced the de-
cision by which Slavery was forbidden IN Massa-
chusetts We shall not argue this historical ques-
ton, but We must be permitted 10 DOUBT whether
ChiefJustice Cushing, of the year l7oO had not rs
accurate knowledge of the intentions OF the
men of the Revolutionary era, as Dir. Caleb
Gushing Of the yeaI 1860. And Sc have Glanced
TO find curious historical document Of the year
l776, to which is affixed the signature of man
bearing the very name now borne by tbs perpatetic
advocate Of Slavery whose argument wt.are CON-
menting upon, which furnishes testimony az to the
intent of the men of the Revolution much more ex-
plict than the vague generalties which the ex-At-
torney General gives as. IL the Massachusetts, Ar
chives, vol. 90, page 96, nov in the Office OF the
Secretary of the Commonwealth at Boston, is
paper, of which the following is copy:
Z" In the House of Representatives, Sept 40, I16.
| gVhereas Ths House IL credbiy informed that
two negro men lately brought into this State as prison
ers taken on the high eeas are advertised TO be sold
| at Salem on the 18th inst by public auctioni
ReSolUed, That the selling and enslaving the hui
man species ia direct violation OF the natural rights
alike vested in all by their Creator, and utterly
inconsistent with the avowed principles on which this
and the other United States have carried their struggle
for liberty 10 the appear
all persons concerned with the said negroes be and
they hereby are forbidden TO sell them or in any man
ner to treat them oherways than Is already ordered
for the treatment of prisoners OF war taken In the same
yesse or others in the like employ and II any sale OF
the said negroes shall be mace, IL hereby Is declared
| null and void"
| Here follow the Endorsements of the officers OF
| both branches, showing that the resolve finally
passed on the 10Th of September; and attached to
| it is the following consent Of the Council
"c9 Pc. Fss to, si. S 3; l2l pah,r
| VIM Sever. b. White,
| X Graerlssf Moses Gil,
I CiIEB Cu.HIyG Daniel Hopkins,
| Il, Chad0oUme, Benz Austin
| John Whe,corsb, VIM Phillips,
| Edsd Taylor, D. SeweI"
! On tie historical question, we may safely appeal
from Caleb Gushing, the partisan demagogue of
1860, to Caleb Cushing the patriot of f76. BY
what cross did the early Revolutionary breed come
! to terminate in this modern Tory
We do not mean to pursue this latter-day Cush-
ing further To those who want proof that he and
the party who applaud Lis language, are willing to
see Slavery reestablished in Connecticut and the
other New-Ensland States, we point again to the
speeches we have referred to. They substantially
teach the doctrines which the Southern philosophers
are trying to instil into the people, and which Mr.
Charles OCOnor of this city has again and again so
| boldly proclaimed.
| The issue, then, for The people of Connecticut,
| is substantially whether they will consent to the
success OF party which gees no objection, histOr-
cal, tradtionary, political, economical, moral, or
religious to the introduction Of SlayerJ throughout