New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-06

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your desperately bad cause by attempting to per-
vert them.
III. Equally false is your statement that
"The climate and soil of the Northern States soon
proved unpropious to the continuance OF slave labor,
while the converse was the at the South. Under
the unrestricted free intercourse between the two sec
tions the Northern States consulted their own interest
by selling their slaves to the South aud prohibiting
Slavery within their limits"
1t was the Conscience of the North-its Reli-
gion and MOralty-that abolished Slavery among
US, and not any consideration of 4" climate and
&" SOIL" 1t was the abundance and relative excel
lence of our Common Schools and Churches that
expelled Slavery from these States, as it would
soon expel it from yours if you dared have Com
mon Schools, and have the masses Of your Poor
Whites educated therein. Slavery was abolished
here not by the slsveholding class, but by tho
noDslayehOlding; and our cergymen who preached
against the vile "instituton" were often dis
missed, mobbed, and accused of "preaching
"potics," Just as they would be to-day among
you. Doubtless some of our shareholders sold
their Slaves South when Cor just beiore) our
prohibition of Slavery took effect, just as yours
would sell their slaves to Texas or some other
barbarOus region if your State we're sufficiently
enlightened to abolish Slavery; but it was our
Abolition acts that caused such transfer, not the
sale of our slaves that impelled us to Abolition.
And thousands were never sold away at oil, but
Gin person or by their chidren) are among us
to-day Why should you SO SANDER and ira
duce usi
". Mr.. Davis proceeds to assert
FINALLY, great party was organized FOR the pur.
rose of obtaining the administration Of the Govern
ment with the avowed object Of using It's power for
the total exclusion OF tie Stare States frOm all par
ticipation in the benefits of the public domain"
Utterly false again, Mr.. Davis! as the census
of 1850 will prove. Did Mr.. Jefferson intend to
exclude the Slave States from "all participation
I" in the benefits of the Public Domain" when he
framed the first ordinance which prohibited
Slavery thereinl Did the Members of Congress
from Virginia, the Carolnas and Georgia, mean
80 to exclude their own States when they voted
unanimously for the Ordinance Of 81 Did John
Randolph mean it when he reported to Congress
denying tho prayer of the Governor and Leslsla-
ture of Indiana Territory that Slavery might be
| allowed in that Territory for o limited term
You know very well that the people of the
! Slave States have largely migrated TO and settled
! in Ohio Indiana and Illinois, when they had
Missouri, Arkansas and Texas freely open to
them. 1.-THE Slave States" are not excluded
"from all participation in the benefits of the Public
domain" by the exclusion of Slavery thereirom,
their own people being our witnesses.
| V. Dir. Davis talks gliby about various demo-
cratic resolves, while he claims TO affirm the
doctrine that
each State was isl in the last resort, the sole
Judge well Of It's wroDgs as Of the mode and measure
| Of redress
but he passes in OminouS silence the Demo
cratic action on that point when this fatal heresy
was practically asserted by South Carolina and
put down by Gen. Jackson. Why is this In a
State paper Of such importance, why dodge the
most vital factsl We insist that Official, unmis-
taxable acts are more significant than oifice-seek
ing resolutions.
VI. Mr. DAVE of course treats Secession not
only as constitutional remedy but as al accom-.
plished fact, which no one has a right to gain
say To reiute this falacy, it is necessrr. only
to point to the unquestiOnable truth that The FED
eral Constitution is utterly silent as to the course
10 be taken By he Government Of The United States
| in uieto Of such Secession. What answer can be
made to this demonstration Most certainly if
the trainers Of that Constitution had intended
that any State might put itself out Of the Union
at pleasure, it would have directed the President
how to treat such Secession. That it does 80,
no one will pretend. Over and again have we
asked those who insist that President Lincoln
ought TO treat with the seeded States, acknOwl-
edge their independence, &C., to point out that
| clause in the Federal Constitution which author
ICES such action. They answer never aword.
Mr. Davis surely cOmprehends the difficulty;
why does he not attempt to meet it :
VII. And herein is a conclusive answer to his
assertion that his ENJOYS were trihed with at
Washington. Those enyoys were at all times at
liberty to demand an instant and categorical
answer to their demands. They might have said
TO Gov. Seward, Recognize US as ambassadors,
L" tomorrow, or we shall shake off the dust from
/" our feet and go home" They would have
done so had it not been quite as convenient for
their side as for ours to Let the matter stand as
it was. When they chose to demand prompt,
explicit respOnte TO their demands, they did not
have to wait long for it. They might have had
it in March as easily as in April, had they seen
fit. And not one Of DEMONSTRATING that he read
President LincOlns Inaugural with any glim-
mering of common sense-eyer supposed or
imagined that his diplomatic character could be
recognized, much less that his mission would be
successful.
VIII. Mr.. Davis's intmation that President