New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-25
SHALL WE GIVE UP NRw.MExACO
Tile n. Y. Times demurs to our views respect.
ing New-Mexico saying:

suppOsc that four years OF keuOhchh hscetuaS 80
10 nat Now Mexico proper condition TO decide this question
for h.rsef The eight years Of Democratic ProSavery rule
favored by every possible circumstance have succeeded IN
forcing toent slaves into that Tecy Even this small
remnant Of ProSverysm Is maintained and fortified her s
THs TRIBUNE ssys by Federal patronage and power With
draw ta pressure and the last yestge Of Slavery would dis
ppoar." .
The Times seems to regard the fewness OF
the slaves 10 New-MexicO as fact which makes
in favor of its view of the matter. The reverse
seems to us nearer the truth. II, with barely
twenty -four slaves in region so vast as New
Mexico-a region confessedly, palpably unadapted
TO Slave Labor-a Slave law 80 stringent and
internal rs that now existing in that Territory
can be enacted and sustained-the Speaker OF the
last House having been compelled To resign
merely because he introduced bill to repeal
that law-what is the probability that COnven-
ton 70 be soon assembled would upset that law
and make New Mexico a Free State In our
Judgment, very little.
Let us not deceive ourselves about words.
The population of New-MeAico is in the main
ignorant superStitious and degraded. They
have no Common Schools, little Education of any
kind, no Public Press, no Public Opinion. As
community they are inferior intellectually though
morally about on par with the inhabitants of
our Fourth OF Sixth Ward either Of which
would reestablish Slavery tomorrow if il had
the power few cunning, intriguing men man.
age their pOlitics-the masses being mere count
ers in tie game. These managers are Demo-
crats-that is, tools of the Slave Power. To
make New-M Slave State would earn for
nj fat of bpn
party returns to power as they suppose 1t VIII
four years hence. We greatly fear, therefore,
that the measure which The Times fayors would
result in making New-Me1ico Slave State.
True. it would have few slaves but what Of
that Our objection is to widening the base OF
the Slave Power. Delaware has few slaves; but
Slavery rules and uses her as thoroughly as
though she had twenty times so many. And the
Slave Power has no more crafty, more devoted,
more effective servtor than her leading poltl-
clan, Senator james A. Bayard.
II is mistake that "eyery possible circum-
" stance has hitherto favored Slavery in New
Mexico. The existence, the energy, the uncom-
promising temper, OF the Republican party are
circumstances of immense weight, which have
hitherto borne against the peculiar institution.
The stakeholder who meditated emigration to
New-siexico had TO do So in full view oil the
fact that the Republicans were doing and would
continue to do their utmost TO keep Slavery cut,
aud to prohibit it if it should get TO- But II We
now make such bargain as is urged upon US,
the case will be brayely altered.
The Times says further:
But when we consider ths tho passage of Ensblns Act
or New m.Iico you'd end at he vhs 'erina dpus
abou, Slatery me 7erro< cannot hesitate TO urge Ito
Immediate adoption"
This il sheer assumption. contradicted BY no.
torous facts. Even the Border Slave States
have not offered TO compromise on such an onA-
bling act for New-Mexico m The Times ihdi-
Gates; while the Cotton States have no thought
of being conciliated by any such proposition.
Nor do the Border States intimate that, should
an adjustment. which they can accept, be made,
they will withdraw their objections to what they
cuil the coercion" of the revolving States. In
fewer words, if the Republicans make such q
compromise as The Tones favors, they will only
compromise themselves.
Mr.. Webster in 1850. declined to exclude
Slavery from New Mexico, because that would
be TO " reGnact the Law OF God'-in other
words. because it was morally or rather plysl-
caly, impossible that Slavery ,hould ever DO IN
PRODUCED there. Ten years have since passed,
and Slavery is already there-tere both III tho
abstract and the cOncrete-in the form OF
slave law and in that OF slaves. Now We are
told that there are but f,p slaves there-os If
the controversy turned Oh the number OF slaves
in q Slave State-and that Slavery will not be
allowed in the State, though 1t Las Cn defiance
| of Mr.. Webster confident assuraLce) established
itself in the Territory. We make no prophe-
cies-we do not know what may be-but we
know that the project favored by The Times is
calculated to give Slavery chance to establish
itself permanently in Ncw-MeIcO, and that the
Republican party is publicly pledged to oppose
such establishment to the extent of its ability.
! But we have another objection to the scheme
favored by The Times We protest against all
! that sayors Of juggle, equiyocation, dOube'deal.
ING. This scheme is intended to give Slavery
real advantage or it is not. If rea advantage,
we object to the surrender; if a sham, we pro-
test against the fraud. If the South is t. be
amused and beguiled by false show Of cOnces-
sion. she will be incensed rather than placated
Let us walk in the clear light of Principle rather
than qroyel in the dark aud crooked mazes Of
Policy The Republican party inaexibly resist
ing the Extension of Slavery, is power which
defeat can hardly weaken and which nothing can
! destroy. When it shall begin to tamper, and
| chatter, and traffic with Slavery, it will be a
shorn Samson, and the day of its downfall will