New-York daily tribune., 1864-04-15

sons whom usually snd 10 represent ana act iVI s
in Legislatures in Congress, und otber places no"
onv f. el that when they have chosen tier seven men
to represent YOU IN house az Aibauy ana Two III ne
bcr tey have chosen nine OF the best men in the city
% no tbe fault il not tlut the people inyariabe &C
eide wrong but that they never nave chauce 10 declie
| iirbt. Primary nominations are put up Tor the
| Iegslature and you have got to choose between
them; and you choose The one generally whose
| Convictions accord with yours. DO
NOT saw in the last resort anything better can be
done But believe this whole primary election Dusl'
ncss is syinde and ought TO be put aside. believe
the best men of this city could get together in one p
| yate p1ror or in dozen private pall9fs ana DrhS
GrWdrd men for the Assembly and for the Senate and
cancress who shall be very much higher in mental and
moral qualifications than The men You usually vote ioi
or against in this city. And DeheVe we nave reached
that state when the people should tlkc lbls maer INTO
their own hands and longer allow that 10 be
pul sued whereby nominate themselves and call 1t
The regular nomipsiion Laughter and cheersI Two
or three men tiak they should go TO Congress; they
spend zoo or 0O0 or $1,000 aud pack convention
There Is Just the packing on the other side And
one of these nominations ASKS your sGppvI!, ~
will be no time ~ fight against the principle at
the Inst moment Begin early. Let your wiscst
and strongest and most discreet men meet ana
saw who are the men eminent IN capacity ana
moral worth who can represent ana Wofthy represent
US in Congress. Having selected suel utn ot thcIn
by pubc acquisitions, put down 10 the ferries Tor sigma
lures call on these mcp to stand for Congress- ana
having done that, GO forward and elect them. You
will hnd BY that (uot casyno reform il easy
by patient cflor). y0u may very g1eatly improve the
character Of the men you usually send TO Congress or to
the Legislature. Ou may SEND men ticIc whom no
corruptor OF Legislators would dare approacl-mcn VINO
never thought of bribery. and one ever thought Of
brhinE. Nou may thus, by your shining example do
something tO lift this country out of the me Of oOrrup
tion which now threatens il with ruin and dry rot
which is fatal even than this terrible Rebellion
That Is all care say about that And 50 We come
back to the consideration Of the great public matters
which wOrthly fix and fill the minds o our people TO-
day IL You TO ask one Of our nciglbors, who DIS
agrees with me very widely in politics
how this country came 10 be engaged IN
such terrible struggle now suffer from. he doubt
less would answer yOu very much like this; Why the
hoitonists and Black Republicans annoyed aud wOr.
ricd the South they could not get on and IN ut oi
madness they broke out, ana we have the Rebellion
think have stated this quite mildly as any Of the
gentlemen that side would state II. have endea-
Yored t. state il fairly. cI your attention To
some things directly in conflict with this statement
believe You remember though some seem To forget that
certain Democratic Convention was held IN Charles
In the Spring Of 1850 four years ago now And that
Convention split square IN two on question 9i prlu'
cipc regarding Slavery IN the territories and nomi-
mated two radically opposto tickets and went INTO an
election with two different plntlprms ana were Deaeh
Those very grave acIs and yet never hear those
facts alluded to by the gentlemen who bore part
in all those performances only about four years ago.
They ignore al their action. their own posi-
ton iu that struggle and talk - though
nothing ike that had taken place. The Black Re
pnbc'Ts had irritatcd The SOUTH Aes; very likely,
but this breaking up Of the Democratic patty at
Charleston, which then and there bcraldcd 40 the
precursor of the breaking up of the Union-llack Re
pubcGns had nothing 10 DO with that. Our measures
Democratic mode II dealing with Slavery IN the terri
tores-what Democracy taught with regard ~ IT. and
on that occasion the greatest party III the c0uniTy
smashed up and went tO var wuh each Other, giving
away the Government throwing It away on question
dividing them concerning slavery N the tern
torres. An this is matter OF record How Mr.
Pugh and Mr. Paine 81 ONO and Alr stuart OF Mich
gan and such men, tod the south that they crowded us
inst as far could gO-sdying let the people OF The
territories make such laws they think proper ana We
willing 10 submit Ia IT, but We are not going 10 put
Slavery there; that v not doctrine, and never was
and We will not agree 10 il. And on that issue the
Democratic party bIok cup end got to hrhting. And
the men who got the vote Of the south. the men who
carried the South their platform said as between the
Lincoln platform which Hat footed Tor keeping Sav
which would allow 1t bc driven out
they would give no preference and ot the
they had rather have The Black Republicans, for
that was straight out and manly. Nj. Doufihs got
only one Slavery voting StItc-AssouTl-beclu luse the
south would not stand on The platform Of tue Doo-
cratic party of the North WY h. II that thcy forget
this and talk as though irTiiated tie Southf They
luitated them justly and properly believe but stu
the south broke oil not nom us. hut fiom them. SLo
broke thr party IN two. aud the country in two Cen
tlcmen this H. stop hrfclur more breaking UP
follows this Why ire such facts lgnpIedf " by aIr
there twenty thousand voters Ia HJooslyn TO
] day who obstinaicly refuse 10 know facts winch
they were part OF lees than four years
agOf wish tO ash attention 10 another inct bcaiiAR
on the same ground with this that when called
upon by Douglas Democrats well ns Meckihridgc
year after that TO agree to tie tltten
den compromise that i TO run The line ~ 20 y across
this continent aud say that slavery should b. cstab
sLCd u al south OF that line for the present and igiac
all the territory they might have or acquire south OF
that AHe--aud when every Democrat adlrriug To the
party insisted That ws very great ltatc ana lhat
you fanatics and radicals and dishonest and n
because We did not agree - that; while We stood
through that contest on the same ground, not one
particle different Henry Clay stood ten year, before
when Dc introduced n s.1 bis proposition of compro
mise which the Douglas doctiue. to Yet people do
as they n mind tn. Mr.. Jefferson Davis rose Gi-
rccty after and said VIII not consent 10 tLHL You
call II a settlement and compromise II don give us
anything. might consent To run the hne 81 81, D
across the Continent u gave us all south 81 thati DOT
cannot agree 10 that proposition Mr.. Clay re.
marked that ho never could agree 20 NJ. Da-
yiss proposition lbe people Of the Territories
but he would never consent, and No earth
ly power would mako him consent 20 establish
slavery one foot Of territory. Great Britain was
blamed justly for forcing slavery upon our country
Were going to do what We blamed Great Britain
forf Nh. Criteudcn asked Us 10 agree To what sir
Clay said no power earth could make hin agree to.
never heard that conservative men objected 10 u
when resented By Henry Clay. Mr.. Webster also said
." never did agree 10 eXtcud slavery ou one foot Of
territory, and l never VIII We did not agree TO IT,
thank God, aud we are where We are. bir Greeley
sid be heard men sometimes say, you VIII have u
consent 90 II at last, and let them go. Let
NhO go Laughter and chccrs.I When this war
commenced, 1t commenced by tie Rebels advancing on
u.s. We did lombard any Of their forts tO open the
war; did not capture their army they captured ours
in Texas and promised they would give It up alicr
puHdorng 1t OF ammunition, but broke their word aud
neld them prisoners of war t. De exchanged They
tO0k p0st-Olccs, forts Hrhcnas Ac. Al the war
for two three months Oh their side; all the /
suffering and loss And when the war opened
IN earnest which IL did first in Western virginia. /
opened BY their sending armies into that pcacedbe
connty tosuhjug4te II to their GJscrlmcnt Now when
talls about letting 20. ask that be should draw
his line and shy what It "a. There is West Virginia /
The old state OF Virginia before she would agree
ont of the Union, took solemn pledge from their Cow
eminent that they would consent tO let West Viz
GINA be- separated from the East West Virginia is
loyal a. Vermont is There is Last Tennessee as true
al 1l.