New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-05

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PROM sFP2'EMBER 70 JANUARY
II would be a curious calculation for som
person of a statistical <urn Of mind to ascertain
how many times since the year OF our LORD ioO'
tho dissolution Of the Unb'n has been loudly
threatcd, and what measures o. state have Deer
carried thereby 10 the contamination desired b!
The slaYeholdIDg part Of the ConfedeTNy. Many
of them we can all remember, and some, Indeed
are SO recent that the grass has hardly yet over
grown the political graves Of the men who fell
victims TO those dclu.Ons and who laid down
| their lives with devotion worthy of better
cause TO nppease the simulated wrath OF Their
! Southern mastcrs. But there is no new thing
under the sun, for Why should there be when
! the cid ones answer III the purpose The od
/ joke, the cd marvel are precisely as good as
! though they came q bright G4d new coinage from
some master mind, and the shouts Of laughter
and the screams Of terror are .lost as earnest and
just as real o. if they had not been heard q
thousand times before.
AS it has been in past times, so is it al this
moment at Washington. Verify, We believe,
however, flat now tlr wolf has Gomez but the
question still il, as It has been always-whether
we rhculd run before il, or pursue it, Exc brave
men, even to the death. The procliyity at Wash
ing.on seems to be TO ruaniDg.
"For u,so Aew run VIC sever rsn before -
AID those Who lH ays - now IuE the more"
On The ith day of September last, precisely
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at Detroit Michigan. by oHs of tho most, ii rot
the most distinguished, moss philosophical and
profound Of our statesmen, which is repletc With
wisdom, ig fill Of calm courage, and breatbes
the very spirit which is ut this moment
so much needed among the chosen repre-
scntstiyes o. tho people at Washington, ard those
who have elected themselves 10 90 there under
the pretense Of having that distinction. Tie
speech is a rc5isw of the Slavery question and
its relations - the Union for tue past and the
future. "To me-" says the orator. 8" it seems
" that tho last forty years have constituted
period Of sigHJ gNd iarcHfaite tatipF. in the
efforts of statC1men to adjust and establish
Federal policy for the regulation Of Slavery IN
Z" its rclntions 10 tho Union And he continues:
"Ir we may Judge from the absolute failures Of
" Mr. Van Buren,, Mr. Polk, Mr. Pierce, and
" Dir. Buchanan, il the respect / have men,
toned, and If w5 .akc into consideration also
"ths systems which Hr. Calhoun, Mr.. Benton,
" ar Clay, aud Mr.. Webster, sc'crally reeou.-
"mendcd, srI which nave subsequently failed to
" bo adopted We may perhaps conclude that the
" dfieulGcs Of establishing n satisfactory ard
" soothing policy have o,crtasbcd even our
" wisest aud most eminent statesman. The GER
" tainly have been neitS,r incapable nor seldsh
"me1. No age or county has been illustrated
"by public characters Of greater genius, wisdom
and virtue"
Why wa- thisl Not only because these men had
relied upOn parties which, in the nature Of thing',
were trant.tory, resting, as they did, upon
" foundations that lad been laid in compromises
." Of aafrTcl jas'ioc Gaf h-.aR TgttS,' but "t that
" q new and great question, moral question
4" trnalcending tho too narrow crcod5 Of exist
" ing parties IN ls50l he'd arisen, that tho pub
" lie conscience was expanding with It, and the
green witAes Of party combinations we're Civ
"ing way and breaking under the pressure
And Ills wps 70 hHsty 'ilw Of The character of
modern parties on the part Of tho orator, for
such was bis statement as long ago az 1850, in
" that high aud intensely exciting debate in Con
gress in The year 1850, which, oyoFrulng tho
Administration Of GoDeral Taylcr, brought
" tho then two dominating parties INTO a COM
"proalise Of the time solclnny pronounced final
- irre,ocable, aud eternal, but which was new.
crtheless scattered a. tie winds o. heaven only
4" four years anerwaEd." But stu more pc
tent reason than the mcse character Of parties
undcrlCJ this signal aEl lamcn.sblc failure -
of tho efforts of the statesmen o. forty years,
As wise, iu-t and yirtu0us men occasionally err,
aud nasd 10 imploro tho Divine guidance, 30
% tho Hisest, justest, and most Tirtuous of ma.
toss often uncOnsciou1.y lose AID depart from
L" thsir ancient approved AM safer ways
Herein has been our yr.oyous ienlt, and the ora.
tor runs back in eloquent Retrospective tC The
Revolutionary War to show that that lamcItablo
larelicton from ancelt ways began not I'll ltso,
when the patton was called - take new meaElrcs
in relation 10 Slavery, namely, in relation 70 its
extension into tho Territories; land co. Lie
continued, a compromise was made which d.
"yilcd the newlyacquited domain between Free
Labor and capital in slaves, between Freedom
"ard slavery Here was the DEPARTURE here
was the origin Of " the signal and lamentuble
failure in the Efforts Of stateamon" for for
ty years. Since THEY'VE st.ll quote sis words
1--WE have continued the divergent course then
$50 iGconsiltIGtely entered; We have
deGcd tLo moral opinion Of mankind, over
"turned the laws aud sy5tcms Of our fathers,
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