New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-05

couId he permanent peace even then, unless you
could abeolu'dy arrest The progress OF morals science
ard arts aid keep the w'te race stationary ohiy
prafr or two above The savage This IL what the Se-
cetsorists mean to do They TO get possession
cf the Government Of tle United States de Jacto,
icludng as much of the Northern portion as they can
d,poroii-c. Having thus obtained the controlling
rover Of the continent hv ropng IN 50 much oi the
North es 10 give the SIavcocratic Government the
reoue il tary strength, they bore to put out or shn
cut tie Nmthern lights Of civilization, ana make
Slavery az permanent as it is III Africa and TOR the
Q; ne reason.
The present seces-lon movement il merely one of the
r. Qular acts of drama that hrs Ing eince been fore
Fhadowed ard made inevitable by former seenes and
situations. Why j. ex..Iudge II. X Curtis one oil our
tlty five unoci advisers. Instead of being on the
brrth or Je aJ n the tead of the bench of TIE Su-
pene Cor't of ffe United States? He never ia'ed to
Re "corciliatory to tie South lie is Thought TO have
won lis race that bench by inventing the most n-
pOOus ard plsusihle argument ever advanced IN Ia
yor of extradion of fugitive slaves and uerng it
in Fareuil Hall-to wit that fugitive has no night
for is personal convenience to pe1 the interests
ard safety Of whole peof 10, under constitutions
oi ipatinn not 10 harbor him, entered into before be
fed ard reihars before he was born only quot
fiom memory. With very high appreciate IN Of Mr..
Curtis legal ability, have not the aliIhtest doubt
n ri the uttcrance Of this powerful pnsillanity ha
n ore TO DO than liz other qualifications in making him
Judge Yet hv an earlier act Of the great Pro 'Sa-
very drama Itch had things Infinitely worse than
4ecession In it's belly, even Mr.. B. X. Curtis wa
Obliged 20 make unimely exit. Our ex-) nd2es and
u cir collsboators to have forgotten what terri
Tie shock onr respect for Judges Judges has had to
undergo. TIE time when we might have looked
TO the Supreme Court Of the United States 20 protect
constitutional rights struck down by Federal legisla
op. The astounding and incredible Dred Scott decis
ion changed oil tfat. There was time when COM
mon man would almost douht his most profound and
cheristed convictions if they differed from the ruling of
Of the of Parsons or Marshall Ii ceased
for u Is generation, and perhap. thousand more when
Il I..1 1,ftl Z 1aA fhat g. nm
who're ancestors were Africans, imported into this
country end sold o. slaves. cim OF the nights
and privileges which the Constitution Of the United
States provides for and secures to citizens OF the United
Stptes."
If ANYTHING were wanting bevond the naked injus
tce of this dicium to deepen horror and contempt
for tie that could inter it, aud our shame for the
sourtry which tolerate suoh court, II would be
found abuudanty both in the circumstances which
call, It forth ard the assigned for it.
court which in the nineteenth century of Chrisen-
dom and The eiglieth year from the Declaration OF i-
Tarti liberty, had tie incidence To consign to out
lawry entire Of inotfeneve people, could not
have dore better tan 10 rest decision In Its own
simple anhcrity. Mankind would then have regarded
ss the sutlimest of ndicial monsi rosies hitherto
devclo ed. IL would have been mostly horrible. Ii
gave reasons and became chiefly contemplate. These
PEOPLE forsooh have constitutional rights, 6'cns3
their ancestors were black and brought here against
their will Because for u century previous TO the
Constitution they had hesh regarded beings Of an
inferior ORDER "and far inferior, that they had no
rights which tie white man was bound to respect
and uron tis opinion the trainers Of the Constitution
based that instrument If all the lbels which courts
ever punished 10 be concentrated Into one, II
would not eausl this falshood and malignity.
After udcia manifestation of this extraordinary
character the people of Massachusetts must be dull,
indeed, if they think they can appease the power
wboe Jreter sions are therein revealed, by simply
erasiI from iis statute book at the request Of its
ex-Judges statute pronounced by them nncon.iitu-
;ional. To make tie peace-ofleIiug Of the slightest
significance the Secessionsis, they must know that
we sacrifice it beiiering tito be eOnfftut'oHal Even
then II would be but drop for their bucket. They
would not if they could ard, being resolved to con-
tinue Shareholders they could not, il they would take
anything under the ohvebanch e-s than acguieecence
with the Dred Scott dicfUm and Northern legislation
,cholly in accordance with that detestabe opiron
Which CbefJrtti,e Taney. the spiritual medium OF
tie Spirit of Slavery had the foul nnsce and ialse
hood to say the Constitution OF the United States was
bssed ELizOR "p""i'
No. Is 1,sp street. Bosfon, Dec. 81, 1850