New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-07

90 acting IN ;na; eApiciiy, .nsos'd' sh'
Fugitive Slave bill. IL not that significant proof
Of the state Of mind1 When could that have
been achieved beforei Then, again, Mr.. Lincoln
turns to the Bordsr States and says: "Gentlemen,
am ready to buy; know the state Of the country
If YOU want to sell your slaves, now s the time tc
trade if YOU watt when the swift current Of the DO
litica stream sweeps beneath you, never say didn't
give you fair warning" He then goes on TO say:
"Gentlemen, am trying cannon to put down this
rebellion; it may not succeed: There arc othe!
efficient means, one is the abolition OF slavery
find cannon does Dot succeed, shall use the otheI
means" In other words: 60 If you are ready
to cell, I am ready to bpy, but Il y you
won't sell, am ready to take" lApplause.l When,
since 49, has President or Statesmen yentured
such position In both houses Of Congress there
s majority protesting that the Government oas sd
right to abolish the savesystem by confscaton and
they have been spending many weeks IN decidln9
WHAT Not that they have right but whetnef
they will execute the rght-whether they VIII
use the power. II ten years ago the American
PEOPLE, or the AbOlitionists, could have promised
this that in twenty years the majority should DC con-
yerted to the doctrine Of John Quincy Adams, IL
would have been pronounced visionary. Look again:
look into the Border States. In Missouri and Mary
land the question is open sides are beginning 10 Dc
taken whether those States shall abolish or not.
What is the significance OF that fact foq nave
brought Boston down to Baltimore; you nave iocateo
the Massachusetts, Ant-Slavery Society in TIE eEy
through which passed the Massachusetts regiment
on the memorable 18th Of April. You have pro-
iected inquiry with its Anii-Slavery discussions
iull into Missouri and Maryland. Is not that
progress2 Doesn't it show that the beginning
further and for the rst time the dome Of the Capt.
toll rests ON Liberty without chains. (Great ap-
plausel Certainly, when these things happen, men
are beginning to ecoenzc the manhood OF the ue-
gro. But, as il this was not enough TO encourage
their sublime devotion of nineteen millions OF peo-
pletle slave of whom hitherto the nation thought
has been whether or 10 be would work; lot toa'
the thought was whether mankind should recognize
him as q drudge, but whether we could venture 10
Give lin a musket aud let him own i'-to-daY TWO
departments OF the Government cvhciuue ~ spvvs svs
him a nu,kot and let him own it. lApplaus, we
have effected something beyond the question OF
whether he will work. That the nation II enrolling
and aiming the tlGcks, touches The factof the noefy
of every man. Now, my friend regrets, as 90, the
great mistake made by the Government when trey
1,utralized the proclamation of John e.. Ere
mont Could they have permitted that Proclamation
70 stand unpledged to it as tie GovorlmeDt was,
public opinion would bave crystazed around IL, ana
II could bave relied on il, and on the sure ground Oh
such conclusion, tie Government coniu Haye aI.
yanced directly to universal emancipation. thihH
il was great point lost but there have been several
points lost. IT, when Jefferson Davis frst issued
his letters Of marque, the President had sPokSe
voice of New-York, and said: :" Ii you toto
rronertv. we take yours," the great metrop1W
lie nation would have said amen, aud the co,ntry
would have followed; and the action might then
have inaueurated emancipation. But, notwithstand-
ing thai or those mistakes, they are but scratches
ON the surface. Ny friend only mistakes
tbus much. Abraham Lincoln only rules
John c. Fremont governs. IAppause.l | find
by the pulse and opinion OF the people, the
real President Of the American mind does not live
In the White House; he leads the Mountain Depart
rnent of Virginia cheering and history Will re-
cord the realities aud mot the appearances OF tue
present day; and the reality is. that although the
votes OF 56 omitted Fremont although the caucuses
of 90 omitted him. the people buried him IN then
hearts, and reproduced him, when the emergency
required il, on the praires of Missouri and elected
him President of the crisis. lAppiause mat
nroclamation was lost Oh, no; that Is the wrong
word. The beautiful rivulet which disappeared ia
Greece, according to cafsic winter, reappeared IN
Scily: and the stream which disappeared IN MIS-
souri comes up in Milwaukee with Hunters name
immense applause and Fremont, or through him
The great normal purposes and blind instincts OF tbe
American people gropes its way to the temple oi OF
American Slavery ard it will drag 1t down to lte
ruin. Now, l believe that the heart OF the
American people is set on the abolition oi
American Slavery, and 1 believe 1t will ac,
eomplish it's Purpose. ana IN cue ;DtnI,icsr, uIs
ly. but we must take the nation as we
ind it, IL il wonderful that we hnd IL 30 well pre-,
rared as II is Why only look. What has produce ed
This sublime uprisngl Certainly not the Church.
As Theodore Parker said sx years sgo IN tais ei'y
AZ this very anniversary: Ii the American Church
had dropped through tie continent no less tns lory
wears ago, the Auti-Sayery enterprise would nave
been furtherah than now." He spoke the truth.
And what was true OF the Church was true oi VIC
State. The sane hostility was maintained IN the
Stote as IN the ChuToh. The Abohllonists bad no
appeal but to the simple, the instructive sense OF
right in the hearts Of the people. We have been
blamed again aud again us agitatOrs, because we dld
10 reverence 10 the established institutions OF tie
country and the wealthy churches, but laid the reiIs
Of this ENTERPRISE on the necks Of the Uneducated
mns.es We had nowhere else to lay them, and God
gave Us the instruments by which the heart Of the
ndfses could DO reached There Is an old adaae,
" The devil is all ass." lie always il, and when he
framed the Constitution 10 put the ugiliye-slaye
clause in it, and that iugltive-slave clause, IN my ap
has been the mightiost, strongest weapon
which The Abolili0st has had 10 produce this NJ rsiOg
of the people Allow me to tell you story. a
erl of fey,nteen ilying from her father wi also by
the law was her master, reached village in Wis.
consin. kludiDg heIself III the broad street, she
sad " | 1ill appeal TO the first comer TO save me-
They happened 10 be two young men, who listened
o ler story. They could not keep her in the vii
lsce, aud hurried her 10 milwaukee. Ihe iathtr
gas in pursut aud for protection they hid tie child
with large hogshead aud tie man passed by from
tine TO tine In an interval they passed her to :he
next town, where she was enabled 10 depart, and
get under the protection Of Queen Victoria. Sae
wrote back letter stating her story. Ihe tNo
young men read it, and went 10 their clergyman
with il; ard the result that in that town there
ws. that year two Anti Slavery votes east the next
year they had fftcen AID now there is a Iopresenta-
iion throughout tie State IN the House o. Represent
tiyes. | have seen the Supreme Court OF that State,
the child of that little drop Of rain, iing itsclf
against TIE decision of Judge 1sney aud the Fugitive
Slave bill. All over the country it has been the
saIne--unhestating, unnotcei, making its WAY down