New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-30

estly propounds:
ave request Mr. Greeley to tell the country eI
pcity whether hs cooperation IN the late peace move
meat ia an effort toward disunion.
Ansuer-NO, SIR is that plain
We were first impelled 10 make an effort to
bring about conference between authorized
representatives of the respective beigcrcnts by
learning, through various channels that certain
distinguished Confederatcs, then and now in
Canada, were holding out to the leading Demo
Gratis, who locked over the river TO confer with
them, that Peace might be had or a basis, no.
of Disunon, but of Union. We heard, more
specifically, that Hon. c. c. Clay hadagrecd, un-
der certain circumstances or conditions, 20 write
letter i'll this spirit to be read at the Democratic
National Convention, at Chicago. Mr.. San
derS's published dispatch, foreShaGowing Peace
on basis advantageous and acceptable to "both
sections, also pointed plainly to a.Un0n Peace.
Hence our action.
We cannot be bullied nor sland6red into ap-
proyal or rejection Of hypothetical terms of
cancellation. The business Of negotiation is
devolyed by the Constitution on the President
and Senate of the United States, and to them
we leave it.
But we may al well observe right here that
there is one grave matter which no diplomacy
can affect, and no Government bargain away;
and that ia, the inalienable right OF ireemen to
love Liberty and hate Oppression-the right of
the just and the generous TO struggle for the
eStirpaton of Slavery and all kindred villainios
from of the face Of the earth. Ii Il well TO
have this clearly understood, so that it mag
nc7er again be pretended, as it too long and too
balciuily has been, that the people of the Free
States are under some constitutional or moral
obligation to c0nnye at the atrocities and up
hold the perpetuation Of Human Bondage.
There IS not syllable Of support for this mon
strous assumption to be extracted from the Con-
stitution; and il were just a. rational TO assert
that the South was precluded from favoring the
Temperance Reformation by the fact that New
England, when the Constitution was formed
was largely engaged in the manufacture of
Rum, a. that the North was estopped on like
grounds from hating Slavery and striving TO
Federal Constitution which pledges the North
to completely. or even acquiescence, in such
crimes as those whereby Slavery was planted
and firmly established in Texas; no one can
wrench from that instrument any obligation a.
sumed by the Free States 70 concur in the legal
ization Of Slavery over the area of vast terrific
ries previously Free; yet these have been cool
y assumed, and any resistance thereto stigma
TIED as infdelity TO constitutional duty, by
Northern Democrats as well as Southern slave
holders. 1t must be distinctly understood this
time that there are no tacit pledges, binding the
North TO partnership in wrong and infamy and
II it be not understood, the fault shall not be
ours.
For an age prior to the outbreak of the Slave
holders' Rebellion, the relations between the
North and the South were based on arrogance
on one side and servility on the other. No
Southerner coming North, or trading with the
North, ever imagined himself under the smallest
obligation to discover and proclaim the supe-
riority Of Northern over Southern institutions;
while the Northern man visiting the South ras
expected, and generally constrained, to find
and pronounce Slavery benign and admirable
arrangement for the benefit, especially, of the
slaves. No Northern man going South to teach,
or trade, or practice, had the ghost of chance
(unlesS it were ~ be lynched) until he had dis
oerned and admiringly noted the happiness
contentment and general wollbeing of the
slaves. He who grew Cotton thus insisted
on prescribing the Spectaclos through which
Southern pecsliarities should DO regarded;
the debtor dictated his opinions to
his creditor; the cOtton.seler before the
counter TO the cotton-buyer behind it. The
Difference was all on ono side, nobody expected
it, reciprocation. Southern statesmen and ora
tors demonstrated, in their way, the rottenness
of Northern society, the imminence Of its crash,
the certainty that the "mud-sillsp would sub.
vert the entire edi6ce; but nobody found or
fancied in this an excuse for rebellion or dis.
union, or aught more serious than laughter.
Yet any long bearded ranter who chose to make
anti Slavery harangues in the district school.