New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-16
THE PRESIDENTS LETTEE.


upon treason overt, are helping jeff. Davis and
his fellow TRAITORS in the loyal States. He who,
in the face of this demonstration, will persist
in representing such arrests as lawlcss and I'M
warranted 10 ut heart q traitor, who does not
mean and never did mean 70 have the Rebel
lion put down. He who insists that every per-
sonal immunity and guaranty shall remain III
the midst OF a gigantic aud desperate Crii
War the same as in pro.oundest peace and
tranquility. is intensely disloyal or hspeleSsly
mad. The thing cannot he; and every true
heart feels this, and acqucsces in the neces-
sity asserted by the President. He WHO fears,
or pretends to fear, that he will be arrested
IA dlsoyal, confeseos himself in heart u traitor.
stipctively say, Mr. President deal with my
person. my liberty, my property. according to
the requirements of the awful eAiSency, but at
all eyeuts save our country"
But now let US present the considerations
which seem to us To forbid any such arrests
aud doportations as that Of Naiiandsham-
considerations which are not disposed Of BY
the Presidents sturdy logic:
The Democratic Party and the Slave Power
have for msny years maintained an intimate
and profitable alliance. In other words: Those
who sougb, office and power BY running the
Democratic "machne" and those whose con-
trolling political aim was the diffusion and az
erandizcmcnt OF Slavery hive found their ac-
count In working together. There were Dem
ocrats who intensely bn,ed Slavery tines
Ben. Tappan, Thomas Morris, Rober; Ran
toul. Thomas Earle and others, VINO were
mainly pcrsoual disciples Of Jefferson; there
we're Shareholders and intense Pro-SlTery men
who utterly oath,d the Democratic party
wiine. Thomas x. L. Cobb, George r. Bads-
or. John :. Carlisle ard IN earlier day, Rob.
ert Toornb. and 4. II. stephens; bit The al.
lahce Of the Slave Power aud The Democracy
wHs initiated 50 long 40 ~ when Georgia un-
dertook 70 Gc-poil aud drive Of tie Indian tt b-s
residing within her territorial hm,ts, ~ Hngruut
defiance Of Federal treaties, aud President
J. q. Adams b. n display OF Military force
prevented the crime. Gen. Jack.or cue.
ceeded, rece wing almo.t the entire slayeaold
mp the National treaties and plurcer t'c L.
dams at will. Tie Supreme Court affirmed
the paramount obligation Of The National l-ith;
Georgia deicd the Court, and jackson upheld
her IN 80 dong. We'll" said be- "John
Marshall has made bis drcison: now 1T him
enforce il =" TIL. be Of course could not do,
and the National faith Was tramped uLlcr he
feet oil the Slave Power. From that r.ou,ui
/ Slavery AID Sham Democracy Lave moe aud
more realized the Advantage OF hunting III
couples, aud Lave acted thereon. They are so
acting to-day.
/ Take q recent case a. illustration:
/ When the more reckless champions Of the
Slave Power (most Of them, even then, Disun-
ionists at bcart) first proposed the Anncxa-
ton Of Texas TO this country, with her indie
pendence eth unockBo"lrdged by Mexico aud
war actually existing between them, the moral
,euse Of the North utterly reyoted at the uu-
disguised turpitude of the scheme. There were
more men in the Free States ready To assert
the innocence Of adultery, seduction or theft.
| than 10 affirm the rightiunesS or eIped.ency
of such annexation. Mr.. Van Buren, the then
all but nominated candidate of the Democracy
for President, Numbered against it. Tho Dem
ocratic magnates Of this city met with tho rest
of us at the Tabernacle and resolved that they
would on no sccodnt be made parties to 50
a.. Rpf fl.. ruft
National Convention soOn after met, attend
ed and surrounded by every backleg IN
the South who could raise tie means of
reaching Baltimore, and the delegates were
csjoled, brbed, and frightened into regulating
their pledges to nominate Van Buren, aud put
up Polk-an open AnueAationist-in his stead.
The Democratic party Was bullicd into Annex
ationisIi, exactly as the Virginia Convention,
seventeen years later, was bued into Seces-
sionism, and by tho same kind Of crowd.
And, once done, the magnates who had 50
recently and so solclnnly protested that they
would never, never be made parties to the vile
plot, ale their words, and went in for Polk,
Dallas, and Texas, as heartily as if they had
never thought Of doing otherwise.
One more instance, out of many at hand:
BY the Missouri Compromise, all OF the
Louisiana purchase west Of Missouri apd north
OF latitude SO 81 was solemnly guaranteed Ia
Free Labor ever more. This. considering that
it was plauslbly claimed that oil that purchase
came to us hlavcholdiOg, was conco'aon to
the North, and was properly regarded a' some
counterpose to the undoubted triumph Of Slav-
cry in the admission of Missouri. Precisely 80
q. Aho aaaa Of ,raxaa Rui milan furiLsr nc.