New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-18
POPULAR OPINION AND OFFICIAL
POLICY.

Cautious men tell us, with many solemn
shakes of the head, that amidst the commissions
of this rebellion we are drifting by all the
landmarks of the Constitution toward des.
potism. If this be 80, it is the business OF
the Government to reassure the timid and the
wavering by decent Difference to the opin-
ions of that constituency which elected and
which can decline to reflect it to office.
Unless We are ready to abandon all our theo-
ries there is no reason why the President and
his advisers should be deaf to the appeals
of suffering nation, which is seeking by on
infallible instinct for the natural solution OF
portentous problem. The people fight the
battles and the people pay the expenses OF
this war. Whence comes the army FROM
the people Whence come the ta1es' From
the people Who made the President and
the Cabinet The people What is the
House of Representatives and what the Sem
ate : The people Respect, then, Dir. Presl'
dent and Gentlemen Of the Cabinet, the voice
of the people You are not high enough yet
to be ashamed of your benefactors. Creatures
should never despise their creators
No State assisted with more hearty zeal
/, in the elevation to power of the Administration
than Massachusetts. No State has contributed
70 the suppression of the Rebellion with a
greater alacrity than she has. She has earned
the right to have her opinion respected. She
has been charged with being over theorct-
zeal; but there is no theory in the bones
of her Sons now bleaching upon the plains OF
Virginia; she has been accused of fanaticism,
but the country has acquitted of undue zeal
the masses Of men which, column after column,
she has pushed toward Washington; there has
been complaint of her tendency to distractions,
but all have admitted that there was something
at least approxlmating to the concrete IN the
millions of money which she has absolutely
given 10 the United States. Her lberalIty and
her devotion have proved her sincerity. while
her reputation for public intelligence Las never
been questioned except by the ignorant. The
views Of a State Convention representing her
only organized political party, are not beneath
the notice of any man, whatever may be the
powers which public indulgence has conferred
upon him. What were those vIe1sl Those
are to be found IN this resolution. which was
adopted, after full debate. at the last Wor.
cesIer Conventions:
Rs,oirsd That the nosi dedl,ive foI The com
pete and permanent suIIr,tson Of ihs hep.on are The
prudent and th., the Institution oisA'ey Ia loc
raj support 81 IT, that Institution shsl be ciisfiHAicd
The report before US says that this Resolu-
ton was received and adopted with enthusiastic
applause, the opposition to it, though resPecta-
bic in character, being nothing in point of
numbers. We do not quote the Resolution
either to approve or to disapprove of 1t. With
that, at present, We have nothing 10 do. IL
shows the opinion Of Mas.achuSetts, but its
introduction aud passage show something more
The terms Of its expression may be distasteful
to the Conservative mind. There may be in il
SAVIOR Of braggadocic. But the trouble s, o
conservative friends that you cannot hold a
popular Convention anywhere at the North to-
day that will lot, mauger management and the
prettiest packing, pass precisely just such res
oution II thets be error in il, then II is an error
so widely difu;ed that no probable teaching can
eradicate it. The timid may shake, tho indg-
nant may protest, the prudent may caution;
but there 10 your Popular Opinion-tbere is
your dose, gentlemen Of the Government, and
if you do not swallow it. there is predestinate
chasm which gapes 70 swallow you Remem-
Der that this IS not our warnlng-it IS the
warning Of u Fact You may shut your eyes,
but the Fact remaius just as surely as the
earth reyolyes while you are sleeping And
what reason il there TO believe that
there will lie any change Of this opin-
ion Has it been tho habit of the
world to go backward Not upon moral ques.
tons, most surely Men may alter their views
or their votes upon minor matters of Tariffs or
of Sub-Treasuries; but upon this point of hos
tility 10 or acquescence III bud and barba-
rous System Of Labor there can never be an
abandonment of the duties which reason and
humanity dictOte. Upon what terms would the
most conservative gentleman in Wall street.
eager, for profitable contract, undertake TO
thoroughly extermDate tho Christian Religion
On the United States This is what You must
do-this most simple and easy work-beioro
you can begin TO crush the Anti-Slayery Opin-
ion Of the Free North; ana when you have
done this, you have done nothing. The Greeks
figured Folly as woman twisting busiIy at
one end Of rope Of straw, while an ass i'll
dus.riously munchcd at the other. IL is 50
with Slavery. Although it should escape the
hostility of the Church. which cannot exist
without being perpetual protest against it, It
would still be exposed TO the hostility of tue
Market. What false Church did for Slavery,
Political Economy would hasten to undo; aud,
in the long run, dollars would outbid moca