New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-07
or error 70 driven. from the field. [Cheers
Much as hate sa' sery, and glad as should be to

ot the Unlo'i. Applause. When error cOns,h's
10 reason Truth may also consent to reason. i,u'
when error take the sword. rnth must also take t'e
sword. Not TO 10 this, and to cry ont " peace al
spy price," is to desert the Truth, and give UP l'e
world TO the powers Of daIkness. lie man WHO
now breaches peace, breaches treason 10 Ms COUNTY
and the paramount claims o! tTulh anu J"''nri''
The slaVeho lders are fighting for slavery I,e
holiness with which thew nvOw this object wOuic
astonisb the world, but thst the worid knows tn'l
cunniag, not courage ia The cause OF lhef uisA'ns
IL. Hey know that all attempt at coh'e'imeh'
would be absnrd and frni'lcss. They are hgh.nl@
Tor Slvery- aid Slavery beng aga ns' naiuie-ine!
are fighting against TIE eternal laws oi ia'uie'
and tnouob they should for n tine rucleci~
dissolve the Uncu, capture "a part OF our
territory compe! the North to cue fof issce
aud Obtain peace upon ne usual tel,S "
icomprouise by which tho South ses al ana
me North nothing. Laughter aud cheers. HHuie
would eet hereof right in the end. Great rs t'th'
great il humanity, and tNey must prevail.
iug.l A -.eGt man once SAID Vt was useless W ~
a act the laws # God, meaning thereby ne la"'V
Name. But a greater man tban nc VIII y'' ~
he world tba' il is useles: 10 le-enact an! OsnV'
laws v al any bOle Of their reIll"neHce' i"e'e
IRE sid to te some town. IN thi- country "h'u "'e
flushed, nothiug'nOre VII or ea1 be done Tor theu,
anu that Ley NIGH ne leiced ~ without ue'iiH'eu''
Inera are individuals Of line same Ge-
,rri,tjou whose greatest eiarm seems 20 be thai
tlings nay change after they axe dead. lCheeisJ
As the nerves Of one Of your dwollers III nrished
tower would he shocked hy the sound OF hammer,
those OF our resyectab.e Huukcrs ale checked D. TIE
sound Os beUls discovered truth. liaueh'tT ana
Ia.uIaUsel Ihey rCcOa nize y as u disurbef q tho
worlds 1i.ce Bat the world, like tie Lsh preached
10 in the sirCam moyes on in obedience TO tbe law
Il 10 being bearing away all eNcie@nces ana upper
fectons in lis progress. Ii bus its periods OF humi-
nation ss well as # darkness, ami oiien bounds
forward greater distance in angie
wear thau in "a axe before. The ro-y morning h.lt
OF gleat ruth breaks upon the vision OF some eiry
ristr-aud strtightway lie wakes mp lie dro"sey
world with the GLnountement oil the Gay ana the
wC.k. sleepy peO} le don't like TO be disturbed.
Tnoy hate me trouble, call him names, draw Then
curtains close their blirds turn then eks TO she
hphi-but tie sun rises nevertheless, aud the moot
conservative bunker Of them all IA com
PEELED III lime 10 acknowledge II. lCheeTs.I
ess tlan one hund ed years ago II is said that The
r,eople on The West Coast If Ireland Thought that
The pToler way to attach horse to plow was "
the iiJ. II anghterl II seemed TO them that that
was what the tail was made for Laughter ana
cbeers.l Only two hundred years ago, We are tOld
by the pious Goodwin, that the Christian people OF
lie Pritish West Indies thought II sin 10 bapiize
persons of color VINO were slaves. The argument
ssains, sucn baptism quite logical. They said
that negroes ale properly, and it is not right to bap-
tie property and learned divine thought 1t neces-
srv TO write book 10 prove that IL rot sIn 20
baptize a negro. Laughter. Al time less
remote than that, even IN Ne" -hngiand,
now 80 remarkable FOR its enlightenment and
its libeTeli.y, If any aged woman were in any wise
distinguished for talent and little eccentric Wlthdi,
as nOst gifted women are supposed 10 be, che stood
a sInart chance Of being hanged as witch. New
England has oug-Own this Jolly, and is condemned
10y some who reproach her. for refusing Low 10 fall
n win tie larbarism of Slavery. AT one time 10
bate and Gesis. Jew, simply for icing jew,
was almost Christian virtue They were treated
with every species Of ind entity, not allowed to
learn trades nor TO live in the same part OF the
city with other people. Now kings cannot go 10
war without the CONTEXT OF "a Jew. The jew has
come NJ, and tie negro will come up by and by.
Tie world is not much older than was when TO tor
ture and burn for difference OF speculative re-
Ijcious belefwas deemed simple fidelity to the Chris
tan faith All tie wisdom of Boston could devise
no better way hundred years ago to cure WOMAN
Of Quaseriom than tie cart.whp. Roger Williams
> fonnd more liberation among the Indians Of Rhode
Island than among the Puritans Of Massachusetts.
II il only thirty years ago when gentlemen Of prop
erty and standing in the very Athens OF America eii
it patriotic duty TO mob VIM. L. Garrison anc breah
up woman's Ant;-Slavery prayer meeting. Ony
two wears ago there remained enough Of this brutality
and barbarian Boston TO block The streets OF that
city with mob Of 10000 men carnoriDg for the
blood Of an eminent BostOl citizen, for simply dar-
ing to speak against Slavery. THESE facts are notor-
ous and Oft reIeated. l mention them here not 10
cast reproach but part OF the struggle Leiween
truth and error, aud as proof OF progress. For
tunately for mankind, error is a bad Ieasoner. Ii
can flht better than il can reason ii Can make
mouths, call names, and hing bnch6ats, but cannot
reason except TO damage nself. All the powers Of
the universe fight steadily against 1t. Brooks could
knock down the Senator, but the whole South in
arms could not knock down the Senator'S argument.
Such is my confidence IN the potency Of truth, in the
power of reason, hold that had the nght vi free
discussion been preserved during the last thirty
wears, had the Nortlern parties and politicians been
half 20 digen, in protecting this lgh constitutional
right. from the fret ruthessly struck down all over
The South, az they have been in framing laws for
The recapture Of POOR, tOilw0rn or footsore slaves
we should low have no Slavery to breed Rebellion.
nor war; black with DISMAL terror 10 breach ouI
land with blood, aud ell our dwellings with sorrow
aud mourning. Slavery would have fallen p, 1t iei
in the West Indies, as II has fallen ia tie Ere
States as it has fallen in Russs and elsewhere, flo
as it will fall everywhere, when men can -
sail il with the weapons of res on and b. facts
of experience. Applause 80 men b .ter IN
derstand the moral wea1GeIs II Shv,ly thsu
the shareholders tbtmseItDs. The simple oneb
among them may think he !steI ttrCr6 IN reasoni
| but the leading mnCs ~ .Le >c.tL know ana cOu-
fess the contrary. e CoiaDhi1 -. C.) Telegraph
only echoed the cent. lent OF whole South wien
it said thirty years -:
10, declare thr =, Tho PuoIio journals Of tho county
tat Tho lection o. ny is not sad sral lot be open 10
tui,t upon eviis and innoiay aud the nece
iy OF t.ag mean. u elton from them, Ia
IL, sr.' iOreI s tongue sha DO cut out tad upon
T.r .pustq Ca Chronicle. Of TIE same period,
/ sleaG Of one Lo.Aad attempted thus 10 lecture,
tavs:
h. odd have been hs'ged As igh lIartu to rot
I'll lie lQ Wu.sted through his bones. Tho Of
h,ua be death 10 tie Aboito'st'. whe-oer
+ found"
/ lhe Lords Of the Lush have often boosted of late
ina. discussion has convinced item that Slavery
! il vht. That ia tits respect they wiser tuau
lWaslilgiOn, who desired to rec slavery abolished.
and would llldly give bis vote Tor flch abolition;
wiser than j. nerson, who aid he tfembled Tor his
country when he reelected that God was Jutt, ana
that hs Justice could not sleep forever wiser than
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