New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-28
nEBELLuoN Is ABOLITION.

IT II
The leading oracle of the sympathizers in on
City with the Shareholders RebeliOn-whici
supported Seymour for Governor under TIT
hypocritical pretense that it expected thereby
to secure &c more vigorous prosecution OF th'
War for the Union now endeayors t
paralyze and cripple the National energies b!
such assertions as the following:
That the wsged for tho restoration u til
Union out lor tbs Abolition Of avery Is proved by sup
but entirely conclusive agomeut. II is fact, which per
authorized 10 SPEAK Tor the bepl5csn party will dispute
that SOUTH SHOULD TOMORROW Oyer TO RRTrES II
THE lisiOS CONDITION THAT TAs EsaSclPArIo. PEoc
LAaAToS SHOULD AR hSp DRcLAKKD INoPPRATIvK
Tho Prrdert pledged himsc in the Proc nation to use t
land and naval iocH 10 max its declaration o freedom good
He has committed himself continue The that yur
- .,.Laaat 4, sL15 bs H. IA. oyy. 10 cio.a a NV cn,
pete restoration Of the Union With tire e'rtnu,Dco
Slavery He would moi accept nor were he inclined Dc
would his party allow him TO Gecer the a.biss Of ih'
Rebels and of the Union condition that SLAYER,
s snsaa of hs ss. Where 4 1 Il sh" h.
the Abolition Of Slavery las become the pArsm2uHt Object
1t will be found impracticable to secure
impunity in such Notwithstanding averments "a
the above under the fact that there is "No person
authorized 10 speak for the Republican party"
hence no one can on its authority dispute +"
any statement, however preposterous. But
kere are the essential facts. familiar to all in.
teligent persons:
l. Each State composing our Union. while
peacefully and Loyalty fulfilling its obligations
as member of the Union, is substantially Su.
preme within its own limits and over its own
people. For example: tho Legislature Of AR.
kansas, some three or four years ago. saw fit
TO enact that all free persons of African des-
cent, who should reside or be in said State at
a specified date then future, should be sold
into Slavery. If that act had reached and en-
shaved British or French subject who claimed
the protection Of his sovereign, it would prob
ably have become the duty Of the Federal
Government to interfere decisiyely in behalf of
such person: its power or right to do SO being
based upon Art. VI. 80 Of the Federal Consti-
tuition, whereby "all treaties made, or which
shall b. made, under the authority of the
United States, shall be the supreme iap Of the
land, and the judges in every State shall be
bound thereby any thing in the constitution or
laws of any State to tho contrary notwith-
standing" This important provision was re.
peatedly Oyerruled, with President Jackson's
connivance, by the Shareholders. in the COLI.
,ions between the CheroAees and the State of
Georgia. but they are nevertheless " the su-
preme law of the lsnd;" and while We, with
millions like us, condemned and deprecated the
cruel legislation of Arkansas aforesaid whereby
many free persons were doomed to Slavery,
Ne never heard it suggested that, 80 far as
,ur own people were concerned, the Federal
Government could do any thing or that there
vas any help for the victims, outside of the
State of Arkansas. So as to Inhabitants OF
Georgia. or Of any other State which shall at
my time be Loyalty fulfilling her obligations TO
lie Union, we hold that the laws and courts
f that State will be conclusive with regard to
he relations subsistng between or among her
wn people. The rights claimed and exercised
a the premises BY the Federal Government
ave their origin and justification in Rebellion
nd War, and will terminate Herewith. The
ipht of tho Government 10 emancipate slaves
a Georgia has like origin and extent with its
ieLt to kill the masters of those slaves, with
Ike boundaries and limitations.
III. We do most undoubtiDgly believe that
very slaye who shall have escaped from his
Rebel master and come within the Union lines,
n reliance upon the profers of the Presidents
Proclamation of Freedom, will have thereby
established valid claim on the Government
10 protect him from reclamation and capture
BY said master or by any one claiming under
him. But were that freedman voluntarily to
place himself under the jurisdiction and laws
OF persistently Slaveholding State-that ID,
one which maintained the laws Of Slavery--we
that he would thereby subject him
self TO the operation of those laws however
iDiquitous and inhuman.
Ill. While we do most earnestly desire the
earliest restoration Of Peace to this distracted
land, and shall ever labor: as hitherto. TO that
end, we have never indicated or outlined the
terms whoreOn that Peace should, in our judc.
ment, be made since all suggestions Of that
nature tend in some measure to embarrass tho
action of the Government, on which the grave
of such action must primarily
rest. But we are not aware of any Official
act. declaration of the President, obligation or
purpose, which must or should preclude tho