New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-04

q fugitive law OF whose lnidmt Cnristouuom 400
stood aehast Whatever the Shareholders have
wanted they have taken. Their will has boon
our law. In distributing Federal Offices, they
have taken the lions share, compromising with
the North by allowing us to pay the deficit OF
the Post Office in the Southern States, amounting
annually to more than 100000.
Every sacrifice that an easy, generous, comply
ing people could make we have made-overook-
ing their petulance-pa rdoning their greediness-
succumbiDg to their threats-eating dirt when
ever they wished. The result its before u.s.
Good faith cast to the winds-the Missouri
Compact trampled in the dust, i'll desperate
attempt to enslaye Kansas, with crimes 80 mean
and black on the part of the Federal Government
as TO make decent men of all parties denounce
the villainy; and the shareholders, taking naught
but infamy from that defeated swinde, and ad.
yised by the Presidential election that the North
will Weld no more territory to be cursed with
their biehtiDg bondage, are uniting to overthrow
the Union which they can no longer use for
propagating Slavery, and, encouraged by traitors
at Washington. grow bold aud insoent in their
defiance.
What viii be a permanent settlement OF TINS
difficulty grant of New-Mexico to the insa-
tate nav of Slavery The reestablishment of
the Missouri line which they have wiped out as
unconstitutional penitential promise that we
will hunt slaves and obey the Fugitive act, which
even in Carolina is acknowledged to be void
statute Of an usurping Congress The surrender
of Fort Sumter and it's gallant band Or some
other mess of humble pie over which we are to
say grace and return thanks, rs removing from
us the displeasure of the Carolina rebels 2
Every sane man knows that any or all of these
miserable devices would still the struggle but for
a day, and would inevitably expose us to more
,nonstrous demands tomorrow. We need, Us
the Bishop says, permanent settlement. Let
the clergy look to that They may, perhaps,
find, on review of the past that we have dis
regarded in our pride as nation, and our de-
sire for harmony and peace, some great princi-
ples of Justice and mercy. The Apostle was.
clearly right" First pure, then peaceable." In
the settlement now to be made, whatever it be,
let there he "no sacrifice of principle" On this
point let the clergy speak as their ancient fathers
and English bishops spoke-not in those vague
generalites wherein lieth fraud, but openly and
TO the point. Their silence hitherto has been
crime. As Bishop Wilberiorce told them III his
History of the American Church, sit is time
"for martyrdom, and the mother of the Saints
=" has scarcely brought forth one confessor."
How far they are responsible for the existing
state Of things, for the inidelty and corruption
that abound for the slave-trade at the North,
for rebellion at the South, and for every phase
of crime at Washington, we sball not inquiries
but we again heartily congratulate them, that
they have now the opportunity, at the call OF
their Bishop to retrieve the past, to guide arght
the course of the nation, and to assist at the re-
inauguration of Christian principle, as the foun-
dation-stone of American policy. To-day is the
appointed day Of humiliation and fasting; and, as
politics are for once to be preached on the
highest civil authority, no better opportunity can
offer, not only to the Episcopal clerymen to con-
form to the injunction Of their spiritual head,
but to the clergy of oil denominations to preach
them truly and conscientiously. The sermons for
the occasion are already written. let us hope
that they will breathe the right spirit and in our
private humiliation and prayer let us turn for
food for reflection TO the with chapter Of the
prophet Isaiah.