New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-09
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 1863

~ AOVO'l f..f IN al a~fs. lid. wei .... l..r.
'oatling Of Northern political debaAemeut and
, trucking venslity.
What the Border.State politicians demanded
was ,'he division of all present and future terri
tories o. the Union on the line of 800 80, am
the alotm> mt Of all south of that line to Slav.
cry. This y as q very old device of Northern
sspirants TO thu Presidency by the favor CT the
Slave Power; bnt the great mass Of their fol-
lowers fought sby If it. 1t was in effect pro.
posed by Gen. Burt, Of s. G. (Jan. IL, 1s47),
az on amendment to tue Oregon bill, and
promptly voted down-lsas 81; Nays ia
on,y five Democrats from FREQ States, and not
one Wing supporting it-Wery member from
the Slave Stntes sustaining it of course. 1t
was proposed again at tho next session (Aug.
10, $780, and sustained by the Ssmte (33 to
2D, but rejected next day in tho House
yeas 80; Nays 12l)--bsrely three Democrats
and no. Wing from the Free States among the
Yeas--so the Senate had to recode. Here
were two specific instances wherein this Crit
tenden specific for our National distractions
was presented and voted down-by the united
North, Wbg and Democratic There we're
fifty opportunities for proposing and adopting
Northern Democrats said Nay. Buchanan
tried to coax them--then Douglas-but to no
purpose. Never till the South presented it as
her ultmatum on the point OF bayouet did
the Northern wing Of any party swalow it,
Apd then-all honor to tbem ,i,s Republi-
cans did not.
The Republicans made the CANVASS Of 1860
expressly on the platform Of Hostility to Sav
cry Extension. The Douglas Democrats made
their fight under the banner of "Popular
Sovereignty" or the inalienable, unshackled
right of every distinct political community to
legaze or forbid Slavery as il should see fit.
Horatio Seymour protested to stand on this
ground. Now the Crittenden Compromise
osteptatiously defied that platform equally with
the Republican. II OVERRIDE alike Popular
Sovereignty" and Slavery Restriction. Sey-
mour & Co. cared nothing for that, and acted
accordingly. We did care, and so stood fast.
Had we lincled--had we battered away our
principles for a peaceful enjoyment Of /" the
spoils" is no man living who would have
exposed our apostacy, our recreancS(no matter
for bic OWN, with more ingenious and subtle
magnity than this Same Horntio Seymour.
Certainly, we have no belicf that passing the
Crittenden Compromise would have averted
the Shareholders Rebellion. This had been
too long brewing and was too far advanced to
be now arrested. We should simply have
earned tho contempt of the embryo traitors
without assuagiDg their venom. We should
have sacrificed our convictions 10 our pusil.
animity, aud gained nothing thereby but re.
morse, our own and general contempt. 1t
would have been sorry consolation thet the
Northern Democracy had proved as unprin-
eipled a. we. Serviiiy to the Slave Power is
heir vocation.
We DID not thus debase ourselves, though
Seymour at Twedde Hall argued that We must
The Rebels in due time opened fire on Fort
sumter, Ond thus called the Nation to arms.
Their crime is hideous, and their memories will
loaf down 10 Immortal execratiOn On a deluge ,
f lrnternal blood They are the first faction I
hat ever deliberately threw away an election, b,
nd then made their defeat u pre.ext for e
and desolatng Rebellion. History {
VII, brand them as they deserve. But how 8
ouch better are they who seek to win an |
lection By predicting. threatening revolution {
nd blOodhed by others in case OF their defeat,
Ian they who threaten to inaugurate such Re 1
ellion themselves, and prove as good ~ their
lorl In short. how much better 10 Horatio r
seymour than Jefferson Davis 1