New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-14


tion Of the fugitive slave laws Of the Union These
the points Of the policy which he determined follow
that n huo OF policy had been pursued country
would hsye been with state In the Union,
.sm.ined out This wa, the Iolcy which ". adopted BY
the lat Democrats AdmnistT4,oo think we are coming
Let us look into this:
The authorities and dominating politicians Of
seven States deliberately, ostentatiously repu-
dated the Federal Union and Constitution, ar.
rested the operation of the laws within those
States, and declared themselves utterly indie.
pendent of the Federal jurisdiction and power.
Messrs. Buchanan. TOucey q Co. were the
highest functiOnaries of our Government, sworn
to uphold tho Constitution and enforce the
laws. Did they fulfill this solemn obligation
Certainly not. Mr.. Toucey tolls us that they
"calmly, deliberately. riSeiy," resolved not
even to attempt it. They held those seeding
States to be still within the Union; they de-
MED their right to take themselves out of it;
yet they deliberately resolved not to execute
and enforce the laws of the Union within
their limits If this is not the blacklist PERU
ry, the most calculating Iecreancy, the most
fragrant mali.asnDce, we know not how to
characterize it. Suppose the Ncw-England
States had thus defed the laws and repudiated
tho power Of the Union, does anybody believe
that Messrs. Buchanan and Toucey would thus
tamely have acquesced in their rebellion
Do we not all know that they would have said:
There is the Constitution which prescrbes
our duties--there are the laws which, until
they shall be repealed or remodeied, you are
bound to Obey-if you do not it will be our
imperative duty to make you and, should COL
lsion ensue, your blood be on your OWN
heads! :" Is there one man on earth who does
not knop that Mr.. Toucey would have talked
to Connecticut exactly as he did not to South
Carolina How can he have expected to
preserve the Constitution by acquieScing IN
its violation and overthrow
But Mr. TouCey says they proposed to
support the Crittenden Compromise Which,
if submitted to the People, would have received
the sanction of more than two-thirds Of the
people Of the FIRE. States" That is TO say
those people, who had just voted after very
thorough canvass, that they icOud not consent
70 the diffusion of Slavery, would have turned
directly about, and. in view Of the movements
for disunion, would have voted not merely to
permit but expressly TO iegaiize such dIiiu-
sion1 Where is the warrant for this assulnp-
ton Not one thousand of the Eighteen Hund-
red thousand vino voted for Lincoln have ever
intimated that they were thus tickle, tiu'orous
or purpOseless. How does he kh0Lo that the
Republicans would have thus stultiGcd them
selves
But suppose them US paltry as he assumes,
how would that have mended mattcrsi
The Cotton States Lad seeded in full view
Of the eagerncss Of Buchanan 81 Co. to com.
promise. They knew that a majority in the
existing Congress could be obtained for the
Crlttenden Compromise; they knew that the
elections already held rendered n much larger
minority in the ensuing Congress morally Ger.
tan. TI,y Lad preeipiiated Secession because
they did NOT rant any Compromise. They had
in part hastily withdrawn from Congress in
order that there should be no Compromise.
I'VE can get the Crittendcn Compromise. bEt
zee do nj rant A." telegraphed Roger A. Pryor
from the House of Representatives. to fellow
traitor at tho South. When the vote was
taken upon IL, several Southern Democrats
skulked out Of their seats in order that il
might fail for want Of their voice, as Aadgow
johnson charged on the spot. low, then
was the baseness of the NOrth--suppotiug it
equal ~ Nr. TOucey's estimatc-tO reyerse the
already accomplished Secession of the South I
And, even if it would how could that justify
the refusal of bio master and himself to fulfill
their solemn obligation to execute the awsl
There would have been peace, says Nr. TCu.
cey, if our policy had been pcrseyered in. OF
course there would Any rutiian may kich you
not to offer any resistance. Mr. Buchanan
undertook to provision the starving garrison oil
Fort Sumter, und his steamboat was driven oil
by Rebel cannon in perfect peace. South Caro-
lima seized the Federal Custom House, Post.
Office, Sub-Trcasnry, &C., in Charleston, and
appropriated the Federal moneys therein to Tho
uses Of treason, in perfect peace. Louisiana,
Georgia. Alabama, Florida, did Likewise with
regard to the Federal Arsenals, Arnories, Forts,
INayy-Yards, &c, within their several limits.
yet all was serene and lamb-Iikc. Louisiana took
over Half Million Dollars in cash from the New
Orleans Sub-Treasury and turned it over 10 tho
Shareholders Confederscy in the most benignent
aud placid manner. Texas, through Twiggss
treachery, captured and paroled the main body
Of the u. s. army while engaged in guarding
her inland frontiers, turning over oil its arms,