New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-24
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Voters - rcmeSuocr that tho Republican,
came into existence and into power 10 ur,.
serve freedom for the Territories. They did
not attack Slavery bscac~e it was bad, bsiu.
restrained thsrefrom by tie Constitution, but
because it was aggressive AVID au-devourinr.
The Republican party saw in the triumph Il
their opponents tho destruction of liberty il
all the Free States, first tho liberty of speech.
aud next liberty of action. as those Aisgs have
been destroyed in tho South. 1t msds eycry
possible concession, but nothing would mtisfp
the South. Tho leading Democratic journal
The Richmond Enquirer. and tho lesser lshts
there, condemned tho Jefersoniau eun-
citation of the Declaration of Indspeo.
dence as errors once held by the South
but reformed BY the new creed, that
SLAVERY, WHETHER WHITE OR BLACK
WAS FIT FOR TIE LABoRISG MAN." This
helsh doctrine became the shibboeth amons
thesparty ,eaAersssouth, end if not ,pronoqneed
openly here it was only because the time hA
not yet come when it wac quite safe to do 40.
At tho Charleston Convention the extrems
Southern wing refused to accept Douglas tho
party was thus split; and the Republicans cane
into power The seeeders South threatened
that, if Lincoln we're elected, they would Ss
national seceders and break up the Union.
Others said they would use the election e. Q
mere pretext for their designs 90 long sntsr-
tanned. This was the burden of their speeches,
conversations, and writings; and as they nave
no arts, literature or science in the South,
politics being the all-in-an, the dysentery Of
ideas and the diarrhea of words on the theme
were probably never equaled in quantity by tho
same number of men in the same time. e,
Buchanan had been chosen because he couli
dive deeper, stay in the s!ave-mud longer. and
come up dirtisr than any other white man. 40.
cordingly when Gen. Scott in December, 1863.
left sick-bed here and went to Washington
to save the country. Buchanan treated him, and
his military place. knowledge. aud his patriss-
ism, lust as buchanan would naturally treat him.
which is saying everything. Accordingly, Bu.
chanan allowed Floyd. Davis. aud their fellow
convicts, to break up tho Unon-to seize forts,
had only to say the word and the country
would have been saved, but the traitor.
and slave, refused; and the largest owl
war IT,, bloody annals of msu have s9se
witnessed has been brought upon the nation
Now 10 our immediate point Who arc
tie opponents of Lincoln and Wadsworth hsrs
now
II We take them all by name we would bs
masking extracts from the most disreputabs
portion of the city directory. But we will cite
a few-John Van Buren, and Isiah Rynder.
and the Woods. representing the different styles
Of the Democracy.
John Van Buren,. after his low comedy psi
formsnces in Tammany Hall. so necessary
where growing tragedans. " heavy fathers
and 81 first, second and third rufiians" abound
having become the Wandering Jew ia politics.
outlying his generation. aud not yet abe to
debut perhaps Gas the poet-artst has rep
resented tho nyth) with earth, sea and ar.
ever rejecting the cross OF the dying (ast
SAVIOR but slave. murdered by bis apostacy-
John Van Baren dancing double shuttle b.
tween Mozart Hall aud Ta'nmany, and kicked
out Of both--was Of course ADtl-Republican.
pro- South. Pro-Slavery; John Van Buren, nov
is aiding the South as he did tacn the
treason Of the South being no v,ler now THAI
before, but only organized in better military
iashivn.
ISAIAH Ryuders, during whose marshalshp.
IS fnts
city, " ons hundred slayers year wsfo iil@d
out at this port" and never a siave-pifsts
hanged, was then pro-Slasery. pro-Sou.h, pro.
opening the slave-trade direct with Africa.
We could help oar readers to q speech Of
Rynders delivered in THIS city Jan. 10. 1851.
where he offered the services Of the Demo-
erary Of thi, city to AID the South against tire
Government Of the Republicans. 1t is sup
posed" said RyGders, /" that the North stands
in overwhelming power against the South Is
that true , No they don't. We have sFus
men among US, plenty Of them. and | hold out az
right hand, and say welcome 10 turn aud be rish
nc last. Now il the North are true to them
selves and their principles, they never will dshs
against the South upcn tho question which now
seltates the community, ior l say 1t mo
Union is dissolved" Rynders 10 now occupied
in opposing Iincoln aud Wadsworth.
Fernando Wood. not to be behind hand. ana
indeed, to yentilate q little of that pinchoeA
he mistakes for tho KIND asca
by educated men--save US discourse on tres
critics in general. and New-iork as one "a
particular-that is, Manhattan cut oil from lb'