New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-24


the answer.
Mr.. Lindsay proceeds to show, most need
lessly, that the North did not elect MI. LII
coin President with intent to abolish slavery,
and that this war is not waged by the loyal
States for that purpose. The North had no
righ. prior to the rebellion, to abolish slavery
in the South. and hence is not to be praised
nor blamed for not seeking to do it. The
Ioval States had no right to make war on the
south for the abolition of her Slavery, hence
ara neither culpabe nor praiseworthy on that
score. If Slavery shall be Oyerthrown by this
struggle-as we trust it may be-that will be
an incident, not the object, of the contest.
We fight TO maintain the Union, uphold the
Constitution, and vindicate the supremacy OF
the laws: if Slavery chooses to identify itself
with treason, it may justly be required to
share the fate of treason. But for Mr.. Lind.
say to argue that we of the North have no dis
like to Slavery, from the naked fact that we
shrink from repudiating our constitutional OBJ
legations to the South, is most unjust.
Mr.. Lindsay thinks Mr.. Forster wrong In
assuming that the rebels mean to reopen the
Slaye.Trads, for Che says they have solemnIy
disclaimed any intention to do so, and en-
bodied this disclaimer in their Confederate Con-
stitution. But in matters Of this sort we must
look at principles as well as professions and
enactments. The jeff Davis COnfederacy is
based upon the assumption of the essential
righteousness of Slavery, its accordance with
the eternal fitness of things. This appears in
its Constitution, and is still more forcibly set
forth in the manifestOeB Of its leading men.
Vice President Stephens has truly remarked
that theirs is the first Government ever based
upon this idea. Now, how can eVen Mr. Lindsay
fail TO see that, if this assumption be well
founded, the SLAYER is o maligned prosecuted,
meritorOus parsonage, who ought to be feted
and knighted rather than hunted, imprisoned,
and hung If Slavery is essentially just and
benefcent he, surely, is philanthroplst and
a benefactOr of his race who buys thousand
slaves from the brutal and bloody tyrant Of
Dahomey and sells them to the Christian patri-
archs Of Cuba and Carolina, thereby introduce
ing them TO the light Of civilization, giving
them a chance of salvation, and rendering
them useful to mankind a, producers of Cotton,
Sugar, and Rice. Can Government based on a
broad and positive assertion Of the justice and
benefcence of Slavery, persist in hanging
slavers7 We say it cannot and will not.
What is the answer, Mr.. Lindsay
Mr.. l.. proceeds to argue that the real diff.
ference between the North and the South in
wolves not Slavery but Commercial Policy,
and that the Rebels have seeded, not in
behalf of Slavery Extension, but from abhor-
rencs Of Protection. The answer to this is
very short and simple. There had been no
Tariff for fifteen years PriOr 10 Secession that
ros not framed By The representatives and passed
By the ro,,s Of N, South and there ronH hare
been none BAT for Secession. The South did
not seceds because the Morrill, Tariff was
passed; Il was passed because seven States
had seeded, and could not have been passed
otherwise. Mr.. Lindsay-WhO has recently re-
turned from long tour in this country, and
is enlightenipg bis countrymen as Member OF
ParIiament-bunders thus frightfully:
And VIVA, did The North do In 1886. trey ouVosd the
South ~ henrs nSoltio "a The question o. Free
n,e red into 1885, and they gradually increased their
ton ssal which The people OF the south oomplacd in
1876. They iacressed IL ,iili more 10 1913
We will assume that "l9l6 in the first line
above is a misprint for 1912; in which year a
Protective Tariff pas passed BY bare MAORI
ty, largely aided by Southern votes. In 1876,
the ruling Southern politicians had everything
their own way, with James X. Polk President,
Robert J. Walker Secretary Of the Treasury
and all else 10 match and they passed just
such Tariff as they pleased, calling i Free
Trade. Mr. Walkers Report, on which it was
to know by the House Of Lords as Free
Trade argument. Aud that Free-Trade Tariff
stood unchanged till 1851. when it was reduced
by the votes Of nearly all tho Southern with q
minority Of the Northern Members. And that
reduced Southern, Free-Trade Tariff OF 1857
passed with the full assent Of South Carolina
stood unchanged when she passed her Ord.
nance Of Secession last December. 1t could
not have been changed without the assent OF
the Cotton States had their Members remained
IN Congress. 80 much for Mr. Lndsay's
knowledge Of grave matters on which he com.
meats with such freedom and confidence. Need
we be surprised at his conclusion that a disco.
luton OF the Union will insure Free.Trade al
the North and tue Abolition Of Slavery at the
South
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