New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-15

hundred and twenty five Thousand PeoPio Vi ~
pessee. who claim to be the stare;
"r,ou al .ive as protection weintend 20 aoo 7'se
,,, COcfederscy holding to the Stars and Stripes
ar Ca ~ our go lu,. We demand secofdng 70 a" "eoe
- = ~ N. ,n.rsuties Of the Constitution. You are oound
. ..a % u,s republican iorn Of Government, ard we
AZ Cor tuiions right We do not ask you to Interfere
as pa,tv as your feelings prerdices may be ono way OF
pos, in references the parties Of the country but We "k
oy "a interfere as Government according the Constitution
or oour.o your phy and regard and your
re.peo, b.. ask your interference on Constitutional
grounds"
And again:
1--WE ask the Government TO to AID We love the
Constitution made by sthers We have confidence in the
integrity capacity Of the people to henseyes We
have lived entertaining these oInious intend 10 die eper
tanning them The battle hes commenced. The President has
placed upon tho true ground. issue on the one hand
foI the peoples ard i overthrow the other
We have commenced the battle OF Freedom II s Freedoms
csu.e We are resisting usurpsOn and oppression. We
win triumph triumph. Right IS with MS
sIeat ndam principle Of right that lies at the ionnds
tion all things is with We may meet with mpediinents.
and may NEE, and here aud there defeat bat IL
tin ateiy Freedom cause must triumph for
"' Freedoms battle ouce began,
Bequcethe from bleeding sire TO sop.
Thoush bsiled on, Is ever won."
How shall this appeal be answered IL is made
lot only by Senator johnson, but by the 325, GOO
people OF Tennessee whom he so truly represents;
and not alone by them, but by that great majority OF
Union men Of Kentucky who have just declared
at the bullotbox their loyalty to the Consultation
! and the laws. All Western Virginia, where not
under the tyranny Of rebels IN arms, rtcchoeS H.
/ Missouri calls from the ground REDEEMED with the
| fresh blood of 800 men for aid The hardy yeo-
many of all the upper regions Of North Carolina
| ard Georgia, and even South Carolina, where the
air is too pure and free TO be breatled by slaves,
| dcrnand from the Federal Government and from the
North that their constitutional rights shall be pro-
tected; that the guaranty of Republican Govern.
ment, made by the Constitution, shall be fulfilled
nsy, more that their natural right to life TO liberty,
and to selfgovernment threatened by powerful
and wealthy class which they cannot resist unoded,
shall be assured TO them by generous people, in
| whose hands rests theirs and their children's
destiny. How shall this appeal be answered
If the political OF social history Of our race
teaches any one positive lesson it is this +; That
it is not in the Apglo-Saxon race to take the
side Of the stronger against the weaker party.
| Fair play is no less native and peculiar to
our tongue than il il an instinct Of our blood.
| We should be false 20 tradition, false to all the
splendid achievements Of the past which through
war and revolution, sometimes by the iron hand
Of force, sometimes BY peaceful and persistent
reform, but always by the assertion Of law,
! have made Man supreme over Institutions, have
| guarded as sacred trust the protection OF the
weak From Magma Cbarta 70 the Declaration
Of Independence FIVE centuries and half are
marked by the triumphs Of tho rights Of the
individual citizen, the rights that belong to all,
high and low alike, over the usurpaticns Of the
rich and the strong. This is the democratic
instinct that runs in our blood, whether il shows
itself in the beheadiDg Of King at Whitehall or
a ring in street-fgbt that gives fair play TO
equals or protection 10 ihe weakest. Tme and
events in their revolutions have brought us as a
people to make one Of the great historical.
! landmarks in human progress. Shall We be true
or untlu 10 The instincts and traditions of our
| race
| Our contest at this moment is not with tho
| South as whole, but with one part of ire
South arraycd against another pnrt--the common
people who are held 10 subsection, and the rich
and powerful few made rich and powerful by the
proprietorship of labor. II is the old, old story,
in another form, but with the same undcrJ ing
principle that has aioretime made contest and
! settlement between klug and baron, baron and
people, despotic power aDd the rights Of the
Commons 1t ia whether the class stroDg enough
TO own black men shall rule oil other men VITO
have no such ownership. Us, at the North, it
concerns as to our political rights; them, it con
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| political condition. If with US the question
seems, when net sustained by high enthusiasm,
in some degree intangible and remote, with
them it is intimate, imminent affecting hoa'e and
home, land and goods, religious belief. the rights
Of conscience the right TO education, the advac.
tages of that high state Of prosperity possible
only in free and equitable Government, all that
the social and civil relations OF man can give
or deprive him Of II is at the South simply
contest between a privileged class striving for
despotc power over white men through their
ownership of blacks and Tic laboring msny who
demand lelEgosernmcnt
Which SIDE shall we take The side Of the
stronger, or the side Of the weaker We believe
could the question be fairly presented to the true
Democra. of the North, the rank and file Of the
old Democratic party, there would be no doubt aS
to how they would decide it. We believe the
appeal that comes up to them from the party
ct the South that is pushed to the wall by the
sristccratic element in Southern society, would
not be in vain. Could we make them hear our
warning 1t would be to bid them beware how they
needed such Of their old leaders as Richmond,