New-York daily tribune., 1863-12-26


should the North be admitted to sharei
On the heel of these enomities came the
GadSden treaty, negotiated BY Shareholder
for slavcholdng objects alone, by which twenty
additional millions were proposed to be paid for
more Mexican territory. Almost cotempora-
neous with this outrage was the crowning one
Of buying Cuba for 800, ,0OO,OO or in the event
Of Spain refusing to SELL of going to war for it.
Tho object Of these two atrocious propositions
was that Of all the great Southern measures
which preceded them, the extension Of Slavery.
Ifthey did not succeed. it was solely because
time aud opportunity did not offer. Had the
Government continued in Southern hands, its
bondage to Slavery would have received new
confirmation from tho enactment Of both these
measures. Tho demand for them would have
been persisted in. and the Government. chained
as it was to Slavery. would have been compelled
to yield.
On the other hand, while it was consenting
TO this long catalogue Of exactions, what cor
responding benefits has it granted to the North
1t readily appropriated millions for the erection
Of forts in Southern harbors, but grudgingly
awarded mere tri1e for breskwater in Dcla-
ware bay. While granting an almost pro.
hibitory tariff in favor Of Louisiana sugar, it
witnessed annual attempts TO abrogate the
trihing bounties secured to the Northern
fisheries Tho Government, thus fettered, re.
fused TO recognize Hsyti and Liberia, be-
cause their people were black. 1t held
that the peaceful works demanded by
the North, such a. the improvement
Of rivers and harbors, were unconstitutional.
Jackson vetoed the railroads. Tyler was equally
hostile, and Polk uniformly vetoed the appro-
priations for Western lakes and rivers. Every
President of the slsveholding class has vetoed
the bill to indemnify tho victims of French
spoliations because the claimants were North
crn men. While all these rights were denied
tho North Oh the preteIt Of unconstitutionality,
the Government maintained fleets and armies to
paciGcatc Florida. 1t was constitutional to
send special ENJOYS to the West Indies TO select
new varieties Of sugar-cane for the shareholders
Of Louisiana, and others ~ various European
Courts to plead for lower tariff on tobacco
for both these were Southern products, but for
II jney 70 improve the navigation of Northern
lake or river there was no constitutional war.
rant. The Pacific Railroad was defeated year
after year, because its projectors were unwilling
to make it an exclusively Southern institution.
The North has d, no time demanded the acqui-
sition OF new territory on its border. But dur
ing this subseryiency of the Government TO
Slavery, the Northern politician who had seri-
ou,ly proposed TO annex Canada, either by pur-
chase or by conquest, because il contained a
free population largo enough to make several
Free States. would thenceiorward have been
politically dead. The leprosy of Slavery had
80 tainted even the Northern masses that every
political organization would have repudiated
him. II was constitutional to rob Mexico By
war, bu, unconstitutional to acquire Canada BY
purchase.
/, mus, thus DO evident that while freedom
70 the blacks will he the controlling incident of
emancipation. weight as heavy and bond
a. CALLING will will be sLsken OF by the nation
itself IL lberating them We libera,e ourselves.
Il tho blacks have realized to some extent the
blessings Of emancipation, We too have shared
them. Among is first fruits will be found the
recognition Of Hayti and Liberia. What Slavery
prohibited, emancipation has granted. Tie &C;
Of recognition is notice to the world that
this Government has broken loose from
its disgraceiul bondage. But il will be
found that this is but the beginning Of new
era. II was well 10 open ii with al &c. which
all Europe could not fail TO notice and Under
stand. The future may be less noteworthy
abroad, but il viii be more significant, az home
Hereafter, Northern and Western application
for improvements in lakes and rivers will 10
ports will be defended as thoy should be. North
crn Nayy-Yards will receive appropriations as lib
eral a. those tha, have been layishcd the naval
depo,s Of the South. A crowd OF great national
improvements viii hencoiorwsrd be aided by a
Government now no longer forbidden by slavery
to even permit them. Nothing short Of disScn-
sion among projectors can prevent it. The old
incubus removed, the negro question taken out
Of Congress, the race OF Northern doughtacc~
will bo hopelessly dead. The Tariff question
obsolete and Protection "a fixed necessity, what
neN ~ranglc can be conjured up TO render nu-
gatory the unspopkablc blessing Of a national
emancipation