New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-19


This might DO proved by extracts from speeches Of
Jefferson ana other founders Of the Constitution, IN
which document Slavery was never mentioned, 30
much were its frdmers ashamed OF It's existence
Owing however, to the great demand for cotton,
more persons had become interested in Slavery, and
ct the same tine, the progress OF opinion bad more
and more attacked IL; that the shareholders did
that which men had always done under the same
circumstances; iinGng Their profits endangered, they
declared the principle upon which they were based
to be not only not al evil hut great good. This
hey did until they actually believed what they
said, 40 that the South came TO be ruled by Pro-
Slavery fanatics. As instance of their fanaticrrn
De Rows Review for May of this year, the chief
organ Of the South, went 30 far as to state that
" the social condition OF England would be infinitely
better if the laboTing classes domestic slaves
Mr.. Forster then described how the Shareholders
felt, and with truth, that if Slavery was 10 last in
The United States the Slave POWER must continue TO
rne the Union; and, in order that j, should do 80,
Slavery must be extended, fresh Slave States must
be added to counterbaance the natural increase Of
the Free States Thus, the South, when 1t ceased to
be dominant, became disuionlst, and the minority,
being 10 longer able 10 control the majority, Sc
Ceded and set up for tbemseyes la proof that this
was the reason of their secession Mr. Forster quoted
the speech of Mr.. Stephens, Vice-President OF the
Southern CoDfederBcy, who bad declared THAT It's
foundations were habitat its cornerstone rested
on the great trutb that Slavery-subordiua'i TO
the superior race-was the NegIos natural conol'
! ton; that tho COufederacy was founded on these
principles, and that this store, which was rejected
by the first builders, had, in their ediics, be-
come the Chief s.one Of too corner" Laughter
Yet in the face Of speeches Ike this, TIE SATURDAY
RfUitiC could state that Slavery had nothing TO 90
with tins contest lie had shown that this WAS not
the opinion in the South, Bor was t in the North.
At the last Presidential election every party stated
Slavery to be the question upon which the election
WAS to be decided A plain proof that this was the
feeling was the fact that the Union party, who pnt
forward Bell snd Everett az candidates, purely
upon the principle Of prcserying the Union at any
siciGce Lad declared in their address that the only
question which agitated the American people and lay
at the foundation OF all their party divisions was
Slavery. All the attempts made after the election
to prevent or heal the rupture recognized this iact
aud nothing could be palmer than that the statement
that protection was the cause Of the quarrel mas
mere atterthOught expressed in order to blind En-
land, believed IN by no one in America, and only
believed in in England by those who from sympathy
Of interest or feeling wilh the So1th are wiling 70
bind themselves. The avOwed object, therefore, OF
the new Coniederacy was the perpetuation and ex,
terfion of Slavery and II was plain that they had
boped to carry out their object by anDe1iDg new ter
rtohes to the South and West, aud by renewing the
saye-trade, For instance, Mr.. Brown, the late col
league Ia The Senate Of Mr. Jefferson Davis, had
openly declared that lie wanted Cuba, Potosi, and
one Of two other Mexican statee, Tor the planting
and spreading VI Slavery, Ike the religion OF our
Divine master, to the uIternost euds OF the earth
/
Steuhens 10 the effect, upon which the editor
of the Southern paper who ieportedt had remarked,
with trae Southern elOquence: =" Gordon OF Free
States must never surround the GOd-ven Institution
of Slavery. The beautiful tree must not be girdled
| that IL may yitter and die" With regard 10 the
slave.trsde in order to bride tho slave-bTeeding
Border States and 10 blind England, II was the
pocy lust now be silent, but Mr.. Russells letters
| nom lie South would convince any one what was
TIE real intention. Mr. FOrteT gave several quota
I I'll n,ra ann
! 6rmatory OF this intention, among others the
sneecb Of Mr. Yaneey, one OF tie Southern Com
uis,iopers 10 England, who, Ia supporting his mo-
tom for the revival of the slayersdo III the South"
ern Convention in Alabama, asked, as the great
gri,vonce of the South, What became OF our
ssonaliry with the North when the law was passed
,b,t ,sid. You Of the South shall not import
negroes from Africa, though you Of the North
NAV import jackastes from Malta =" But il might
he a. kea-HoN could the shareholders suppose that
they eoud succeed IN establishing IIis great SHAVE
holding. slaye-extendIng, slsye-tTading common
wealth They would never have thought OF huc-
ceediug il IL were not that slaveholding made men
both ignorant and brnggars. IL so accustomed them
20 fyrannze over others, and 10 smut themselves out
from opinion beyond them, that they Imagined hat
thew could carry everything before them. They
relied for success upon their Democratic allies IN
| the North and upon the dependence OF England
and Europe upon their cotton. For instance, the
Governor OF Georgia, III bs Message TO ms Leghla-
turs, had actually said that the new slave common
wealth could, by means OF IL control over TIE eN-
rort OF cotton compel the British Government TO a
t,estv nv which Canada should no longer be bar
/ bor OF fugitive slaves" Laughter. And terrible
ms would have teen their success, It seemed Tor
time gs though this conspi scy against the progress
OF humanity might succeed Inc NorIn Mele BUR
prised. stunned II appeared as though they them.
sslyes were about 10 recognize the independence OF
lie South: and If they had done 81, II wouid nave
been difficult for England not to iollow ther eA'
annie CalamitOus, therefore, ~ was TINS war, ne
r.;oiced Az the time--aud from tie bottom OF hls
hear, he reioieed sil-that there had been such an
upr-inR of the people Of the North alter me attck
on Fol Sumter. Whatever else happened, that up
ri,ing bad he believed, saved the world from the
calamity greater than any war OF the ihlnllmeDt Oh
the aspirations Of the leaders oil the secesslo' zap
! nlsp.eI I'm England there bad been great snrpllse
n the sudden change IN Northern feeling which fol-
lowed the attack upon Fort Sumter He was not 70
surprised hmself, and for this Teason-he had
long wondered how the men In the Free
y Ates could brook the insults and outrhgeb
which were heaped upon them; how, especill-
", the great Democratic party IN the Free states
appeared 10 approve, at any rate TO conniVe AZ,
these outrages. For time he nad attributed tns
conniyapce altogether 10 low motves-iove OF place
or money Doubtless they had much to do with IT,,
but he had found ont, looking closer that there
was also good motiye--loye OF tie Union. lhe
Democrats prepared TO MAINTAIN the Union at
any cost and any sacrifice, because as PATRIOTS they
were proud of the greatness of their country, and
they were willing to make any concession TO the
Son,h 20 avoid dissolution OF that Union TO which
thew believed they owed their prosperity But
when the attack on Fort Sumter proved to them that
Secession was not mere talk, but fact-tbat con-
cesqon was sseless--they turned round in day,
and, sill in order TO preserve the Union, were ~
ardent for coercion az they had been for concession
TIM il was that the North and South came to be
rayed one against the other but there was this diff
ference that whereas the South were lighting ayow
edy Tor the right 10 perpeuate and extend Slavery
the avowed object Of the North was simply the pres