New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-12
TREAsON,s APOLOGAsTs.
Tie Express. in reference to the Capital
Punishment bill at Albany, speaks Of

The ELpresS, IN reference 10 inc N"p1e"i
Punishment bill at Albany, speaks of
"Tha. very TRIBUNE, so sensitive upon hanging one
wre.ch white hesiatiug 10 plunge nation into civil
var rather than surrender theoretical jo or ioa about
negro"
Tie Express thus betrays its dastardly sym
patty with the traitors now intent on subvert-
ing and destroying the Republic. It ia false
atrociously reasonably false-that THE TREB-
UNE, or any other Republican journal, had any
part in "plunging the nation into civil war"
That was the work Of the traitors whose case
The EIpress thus skukrngy pettifoss. We
simply and justly exercised orr constitutional
rights. as we exhorted Others to exercise
theirs, in obedience to the dictates OF our
reason, our conscience, and the moral sense Of
Christendom. We did ju.t what the Editor oI
Tie Express solemDly pledged himself to DO IN
the Wing State Address of l5i7, but which ne
has since opostatzed from. The threats Of
rebellion and secession If we thus exercised
our Right of Suffrage were shamele'sly at war
with the spirit Of the Con,titUtion aud Of Re-
publican Liberty. All sucL threats were in
essence reasonable, deserving TO be met with
the hauehtiest, most indignant defiance. They
were admirably answered by Gov. sEwAED, in
a speech at Auburn tue night before tho cleo
ton of Lincoln, from which We will quote for
The EJYrcss, as follows:
"You may g1 with iu,o the streets TO night ani follow
tho Ge Gl,nt. who viii thelr torhghs and their Haunt
in, banncr.of Popular Sovereignty you 20 with The
,er aud more select band Tor Breckirrdse and
Slavery and ,,rsngc say they will ali bring into one
common chamber When you got there you VIII hear only
thi. emotion Of the human heart sppoaled to-F'G -
fear that n YOU elect President OF the United States &C
cordlrs to the Con.n,ion ard laws tomorrow you will
ke % the next day and ind ths, you have country to
preside over IL not that strange motive for al American
patriot to appeal tot
Fellow clizsn,, It I, tine, high time, that We know
whether th. Constitutional Government, under which we
live II il hirh time Tbs. know since tlc Uaion Is threat
sned wlo IRE its friends and who ts euemis' The Re
publican patty who propose In tho old aPpciucd conu
oni way to choose President se every man Of them
ova 90 the Union. Tie Democrats do not 90 they
ea to support nor think they supporting Dunionisis
tell you every who proposes TO las hold Of the
pillars Of The Union and bring down Into Duaont'
that eyrry a him ard his threats ard menscs-
a. an aro, against elercs Il night 10 accordance
with our couscsn Of duty abe,,or unconscious though
he may be- q D.unlcn and will yet have 10 make choice
whether in Language the Senator from Georgia 20 go
for treason aud make Il respectable or whether lie VIII g
With u, or Freedom ior Ito Constitution, and foI eternal
Union"
Tie Express ia utterly, dishonesty WRONG
in asserting that what we were required to sur
render was one Theoretical jot or lota about
"a negro" We were required to surrender
our own right TO vote and speak according to
the dictates of our conscience and the clear
convictions of our reason .as TO what was the
true beueicent policy for the whole American
People, Shareholders included. We never had
doubt that it was our day to save and
shield the vast anoccupied territories Of H.:
republic from the curse and blight Of Slavery.
Had there never been negro in the universe,
and had none but such men as the Editors of
The EIpress been slaves, we should have pur.
sued exactly the course we did. Love for ne
grOes never dictated one comma of our course;
regard for Labor, for Justice, for Humanity
and for our whole Country, controlled it. Why
cannot The Express tell the truth respecting
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