New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-09
The Confscnticn Of sIavcs-Thc Louis
willie Journal.
From Our Own Correspondent.


From Our Own Correspondent.
LOUISVILLE, Dee. 5, 1861.
1t cannot be possible that co., 900 freemen have
taken in their hands merely to effect another
compromise with an arrogant and rebelbous interest
which has shaken our nationality from the founda.
zion, periodically since she plan of our General
Government was adopted. The one solitary error OF
magnitude committed by our fathers was the error
of concession to that interest; snd neither they nor
their children, their chdren's children have
been permitted to forget thaterror for single moment
since it committed. Things had begun to make
strong themselves by ILL., and those whose stubborn
siorts secured the first concession to system utterly
nj war with republican institutions have continued
60 demand other concessions as republioanism grew
ano strengthened. Why Because republican gov
eminent howns their system of labor, falsely
called an "inaituion." Because republican gov
eminent is that system which, above all others,
elevates the sboer level with the capitalist, and
makes labor ana capitel mutually dep, udent features
OF The common veal, reel FOCAL in theh benehtsi
~hie Slavery enables one class Of society 20 own
00'' 'ie capital and the iaborer The Dec rar coi'
,,u. no..s.. '-hor and cauital IL one
species Of property, have been seized with
bliaas at the long professions of free lbt'
- s paeauos hei'
which have passed. hike the y. ''- |,
through the prospective of their fretful day -dre
In erasping they Lave oveTFeached themselves;
and then they hyye boiled over in their recruitment
against Others, because of their own blunders.
They precipitaied the country into war at least
premature, to get slave territory from Mexicoi bnt
they got too much. The first ripe fruit Of that war
was California. Thereupon they few into great
rage, and swore they would shake down the house
over our heads We petted them, coaxed them, and
lued them into iepose Of pouts and sobs But
their repose was of short duration. Seeing that
nothing but absolute theft could preserve their stag
mating influence even in the United States Senate,
they arose one morning with the deliberate inten-
tion 10 steal Kansas Territory from the free
people who inhabited it, and bobble it's pro-
.-xress as they had hobbed that Of Maryland, Vir-
>enia, Kentucky, Tennessee Missouri, and Eor:i:
Carolina with system of labor not even profitable
10 those able and willing 10 invest their capital in
It, This ruthless and shameless attempt 80 incensed
the free lsborers of the North, that despite the ex
frtions of those in that seeton VINO dearly love
lord" and think " an abolitionst just as bad as
disunionist" they elected President and Nice-Pres-
dent In whom they thought they might conGde for
The protection of white laboring freemen, against
the encroachmenis of the abor-owning monopoli0s
os the South. The result of this insolenoe on the
part of millions of freenen in the North, toward
eouty tyrannical brother, whose weaknesses,
whims and outraees they had bumored for many
years. to their own detriment is the present most
natural and stapendous war.
Now, then, repeat in the form of interrogation,
TIE proposition with which set OUT Are we waging
this war with coo 900 ireemen in arms, and at the
expense Of more than million Of dollars per day,
for another compromise Or are we waging it to
remove any further necessity forcompronise Shall
we pour out Of blood, and spend hundreds OF
millions OF money, and when we finish the war,
leave the same frghtfu disurber, seated in the same
Chair Of State, with the privilege Of starting another
quarrel whenever the nation desires to move forward
in the march Of civilization by crying out, You are
Infringing upon my rghtsl"
Though reared in the South, | record my decaIa-
ton that Slavery is disease in the national family
avery contagious disease-and if il be not removed
by this terrible war; it should least be put in such
sanitary bounds that sections yet infected will be
safe. Aud you mlst not suppose there are fer
Southern iFeenen who say in their hearts ard will
BAY auoibly, when fair opportunity shall he pre-
scented, Let tue General Government he made
independent Of Slavery" Have you forgotten that
the press Las never been fee in the South that free
speech has been bat an empty name7 But a few
bod speakers have dared 20 touch the aItec in Il.
beg rings upon labor, and still fewer writers have felt
ST in broaehing it. The horrible yell Of "Abe-
htionist has been sufficient TO fighen the speaker
from his p,Opriety, and 10 wait the pen from The
rre milling hand Of the writer.
You are giving youlseif some trouble, perceive,
or ~ count Of T1s Loufsr,Hs Journal. Perinps you
cloud not expect too much from a source whence
more has been realized than way within the bounds
81 human expectations rte LoaisrWe .Ioargai
as an old paper, and great paper. Js editors are
among toe g'est Of tls section / believe them 10
DC sueerely Paiote yet they are men With aree0,c.