New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-26

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And now, while the agents of JEFF. Davis are
holding out these lures TO tho unanimous and
inyipcible Ant.Slayery sentiment OF Europe,
the Copperheads OF the loyal States are ILL.,
tricuing for reconstruction based on the
sitting Of all Ant: Slavery expression in the
Free States and a practical surrender OF our
Government 70 the uses and direction Of the
Slave Power The purchased organ OF the Sc
cession synpathizers in our City, which even
ValIandigham and Ben. Wood are constrained
to disown, gravely enumerates every Anti
Slavery act or demonstration in the Free
States, including resistance to the Extension
Of Slavery into new Territories, as wrongs to
the South and provocations to Secession end
Civil War! To this indictment, We beg leave
to plead:
l. That it is quite too sweeping. Mcssrs.
Webster Everett, II. c. Winthrop, Fillmore.
Washington Hunt, James Brooks, and their
entire school, are on record as having, by voice
and vote, proclaimed their inyincite opposition
to the Extension Of Slavery. Dir. Webster, in
his speech at Nblo's Garden so early as 1858,
declared that ON this point the conscience and
reli son Of the North were innexibe, and must
be respected. Mr. James Brooks indicated a
similar frmness in our Wing State Adiiefs OF
1917. Al the representatives of the Free
States, with less than half dozen exceptions,
affirmed and sustained the principle Of e1clud-
ing Slavery from the Territories by repeated
votes on the Wilmot ProviSo and Oregon
Territory bills. If, then, the South has been
wronged in this matter, it has been by the
Conservatives as well as by the so-called " Radi-
GALS of the Free States.
H. The acts of violence and despOtSm COM
planned of OH behalf of Slavery originated with
the South. The Mails were rhed and all mat.
ter supposed to be Anti-Slavery destroyed in
Charleston by q Pro-Slavery mob so early as
1885, and the robbery was Justified b. Gen.
Jackson's Postmaster General. Elijah =. Love
Joys press was destroyed and the owner killed,
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year. This was long before any act of violence
was committed Oh the side of Freedom. The
dispersion of Anti-Siavery meetings by PRO.
Slavery mobs was rather the rule than the
exception for years, and Gov. Marcy officially
recommended to the Legislature Of our State
the passage of law Furnishing Anti-Slavery
agitation. Gov. Everett suggested the same
thing in Massachusetts. For twenty years
power was on she side Of Slavery in every
State, and was unsparIngly used.
III. PrO.Sayery agitation and aggression
we're continual throughout tie era in question.
The virtual supprcssion IN Congress OF the
Right of Petition; the clandestne cession 10
Missouri aud Slavery Of largo and valuable
tract of the territory covered by tho Missouri
Restrictions; the scarcely covert aid extended
by our Government aud People TO the adyen.
turers who had migrated 10 Texas expressly
wrest that fair land from Mexico and curse
L with Slavery; the Annexation Of Texas ex-
prcs,ly to secure "a Gibraltar to the South
and prevent the overthrow of Slavery therein
through British influence (see Mr.. Calhoun's
dispatch as John Tyler's Secretary of State to
ambassador Vim. X. King at Paris); the War
on Mexico; the stubborn resistance to the adj
mission of California as Free State; the afro
cious Fugitive Slave Law Of 1850; the repaid
alton Of the Missouri Compact by the Nebras-
ka bill; and the persistent attempts 10 secure
Kansas to Slavery by inhuman violence and 81
canlic fraud-fcrm Il series Of Outragcs upon
and insults to the Free States which 1t would
have been pusillannous and suicidal not to
have resented. Those States were not mere
y Justified in resisting them aud condemn
ing their MEETING cause; It would have been
intensely base and culpable to have failed
to do so. Apart, then, f.om all considerations
Of tue nature vi Slavery, the attitude Of tho
North adverse TO the pretensions and assunip-
tiOns of the Slave Pogcr has been essentially
defensive and fully justified on that ground If
there were no other.
", Finally, comprehensiyely. conclusiyely,
the Fight Of every human being, but especially
Of every free citizen Of a republic. to condemn
and seek to destroy Slavery is inherent, inde-
feasible, and pW nsUcr be suyrendered. Mack
what covenants with death" you may-buy peace
with the tratorous and blood.tbirsty Slave
Power by whatever treachcries and seryilities
you may-the struggle against Slavery will 90
on until the earth shall be delivered from lis
detested and baleiul presence. My right to
expose and resist the sOrcerles of /" the flowing
bowl is not limited by tho fact that you keep
grogshop and that Temperance inculcatOns
are calculated to diminish your profits, no
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