New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-08


One Of his visitors remsrktd;
waa, the nles Of the Republican party main
tanned"
Mr. Seward responded;
ps 4 70 Hntsin The rion Renrrtnbri that tie
point which the enemy strikes s'lwAy' The POM WINCH 'O
should defend"
MI LoYejOy iD.erpOsed and added -.-.
And remember that the Union worth nothing eI'epssc
long a there Is trccrom In IT."
To this Mr.. Seward replied:
"Fleedcm Is always in tbs Union"
Comments BY The Tribune.
We confess 10 little skill in unriddling Delphic
oracles. and that last remark that "Ireedom is
{" oi,eaus in the Union +" is either bunglipgly re-
ported or is significance has escaped US. We
understand by Freedom" the conceded ana
protected right to ones own life liberty and
property, including the right to travel on lawful
business and with laudabie purposes wherever
ones own inclination shall dictate. Now, then,
let US suppose that the President elect of the
United States, his Secretary Of State, and (par.
don the presumption y the editor Of TIE TRID-
UNE had, in the middle Of last November, set
out together on a tour of observation and in
uuiry throughout the Slave States, with view
to our future political action. Is there one
chance in ten thousand that we could have con-
cluded that tour without be ng-not one merely,
but all Of us-abused, outraged, scourged, tarred,
beaten, and killed. Does rot Mr.. Seward fully
realize that we could, with far greater chances
Of surviving, have taken our way plump acrosS
the continent of Africa, through its most savage
and inhosptsble regions, traversing the kingdom
of Dahomey and drinking from the fountains OF
the Nile, than to have undertaken this journey
through fifteen Of the States over which one OF us
had lust been elected President with the hearty
concurrence of the other two I And il such be
the truth-if it be Gas we know it is) the fact,
that no man can this day avow, in any city or
village Of the Cotton States, that be voted to
make Abraham Lincoln President, without immi-
nent peril of shameful outrage if not violent
death, in what practical sense can it be true
that {" Freedom is always in the Union :"
We have never cherished an nDkind feeling
| toward our fellow-citizeDs Of the Slage-Ststes.
We have ardently desired, and still desire, their
prosperity and happiness. Trne, we belieye-as
neatly all their Revolutionary patriots and states
men belieyed-that Slavery Is their OpprObrium
and their curse-the sole reason why Virginia is
not to- day richer aud moro populous than New.
York-wby Kentucky and Tennessee have fallen
far behind Ohio and Illinois in tho race for
ereatness-why genial Arkansas il far less I'M
por.ant and populous State than bleak Wisconsin.
Imbued with this conviction, we have honestly
and ardently labored TO east out their DEVILS
perhaps not always discrectly; for casting out
devils is O work that polite and eminently
discreet persons are apt to eschcw and avoid.
The demons are certain to cry out, " What
" have so to do with tbee7' Let us alone"
etc., ETC.; and when they Turn and rend
their yic.in-often, alas without coming out
of him---the consequent disorder and suffering
are sure to be attributed by the sufferer
to the exOrcist rather than TO the real
culprit- And while we might tomorrow travel
in s6ety through and through tho donnioDs OF
tho French despOt, whom We have always de-
tested and denounced, we could not have ira
versed any one of tho Cotton States even before
LincoIn's election, save at the hourly peril Of
lawless arrest, violence, and murder. In what
practical sense, We again ask, is there freedom
always in the Union" fer Ms, or for any Of The
Eighteen Hundred Thousand voters for Lincoln
who neither conceal nor apologize for that vote
A British sea-captain ia tarred and ieathered in
Savannah for doing perfectly innocent and legal
act, and all Cottondcm hastens to explain and
apologize. Had an American Republican done
tue same thing there, he would bave beer treated
far worse, yet the whole JEFF. Davis empire
would have Justified and applsuded the act. Ia
what sense, We again ask, is there " freedom
"always in the Unon!' If this is freedom,
what would be despotsnl
MIR. Stewards motives aud purposes we do
not question; his policy seems to us fatally ms
taken and perilous. Tho implacable adTersaries
of the Republican party have steadiiy opposed its
accession 10 Federal power on tae assumption
that in such event il must either abandon It's
principles or submit to dissolution Of tie Union.
We have all steadily coin6atod that assumption
Gov. Seward ~ yaliantly az any of us. We all
held that the Republican doctrine was COED to
live by aud good to die by--goOd ohke when its
advocates were IN power and out OF power. AT
length through vie selection OF candidates
and gallant effort on the part OF their support
ers, powerfully sided by tho distraction of their
opponents, the Republicans have achieved a par
tial trumph--their chosen leader is in the White
De- Ca,