New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-24
DEMOCRATIC DIsLOYALTY II
TnVTH.

OKMOGHAxAC pIShsO1 AbT1
| Truth.
The World has Washington letter OF Tn
Goth, which thus states the issue now pendin'
between the loyal and the regciied States Of on
Union.
"Thc c. s A. ia neither lettering 70 i.s fall nor H. !
Tx " to be swallowed up Suddenly even ~ lie earth
quake of Mr.. Linco.ns Reelection II It'll contains the
only nece - clements Of wsr-men. food and rowhct
II has ney'r endured cneh If the snhori1gs % th'
colonies dnting our war q" 20 ksyGl''s'n; % ~,
currency is not degraded yet 20 the condition oi th'
! continental money its form of g0vernneyt Is p''.'
adapted to the 81, IN Of war than w's ina. oil the co
Bies: ard the Oh.oct Of our administration Is n"'
| thorough. widcrc iching and destructive than was
| thu, OF the British ministry. go
"Tbe claim IL indeed Identical but the object Of th,
claim il different. Grcn Britain insisted upon tho TS
of thiukug for the c0onics upon the money question
insst upoI thinking for the slave States upon the
Slavery question. Long aier fighting commenced
Great Britain could have I"tnned the colonies by yold
Inc her caim Long afer fighting had cOmmc3cs1, We
could have had the Union undor TIE Consi'snton' y!
Yielding claim; tut We have chosen 70 rsist r.
Great Britain chose to persist, and therefore We have
10 CONQUER bhe did not 10 give as she did oi Il
| lind middle course OF sairty.
| "Our intestine trouble We take to be this: The In
habitats of the Free States crnned ia 100 10 have
q voice about Slavery The people Of the Slave States
insisted that under tie Constitution the FREQ states no
only had no voice but wero actually esaogped ~ god
faith 10 that instrument. from wishing 10 have voice
els il rot perfectly clear that such dispute olu only
be settled by the utter postrstoD OF tho South ply steal
IT, OF the Free States financially. or BY The destruc
ton OF the subject OF disputet'
is it not strociously impatient in this Rebel
sympathizcr to talk Of the cause Of the Union a.
"oar side" and speak of what "ne insist" on,
"ne could have had" &C., &C., as if lie were
on tho side Of the Nation and not on that of the
tratorsi "Our intestine trouble we tako 10
be this" says this Coppcrhead: "The inbabi-
,arts OF the Free States determined in 1850 To
have voice obom Slavery" Why. thou foolish
iugglerI "the peoplo of tho FREQ States y
had an unquestioncd, potential "yoice about
Slavery" in l75i, when lie vote was taken in
Congress on Mr.. JeffeIson'o proposition that
Slavery should becxcluded by positive ordinance
from all the territories or embryo States, pres
ent and prospective, pertaining TO oar country.
They rad "a voice about SLAVERY" in Io3,
when Congress, by the vote of every State then
reprSNnted. decided that Slavery should be
prohibited il every square Rood ofterTitory then
belonging TO the United States. They had "a
voice about slavery" in the Convention which
framed our presen. Constitution whereby ii was
voted that, in aprortioning representatives In
Congre-s, fly thousand slaves should count as
thirty thousand freomcn, and that Congress
might prohibit the African SIeve-Trade after
1907. So they had wien IudiaSs Territory
came repeatedly to Congress, asking permission
to hold slaves for II limited term, Cad was sen.
home again with lca in her ear. ~ the ~
ports of John Randolph of Va. and Jo~e Frank
lin OF n. c., advising Congress TO grant no such
permission. So again in the Missouri struggle,
in the purchase OF Florida, in the Annexation oi
Texas, in the Nebraska contest, and forty
more such. the Free States had "a yoics about
Slavery" no one questioning their right You
might as llausibly assert that the universe was
created in 1850. AS that tie Free State. then
first determined to have . voice about Slave
v."
Bu. you fstsly assert thai the Free States
insist upon thinking for tho Save states on
he S.aycry question" Weirp.st only Oh think.
ing for ourselves Wedid 80 ia 1860, and gave
ljir notice that, regarding Sla5ery IA an evil,
we would not lfscDt 10 It's exteIslon INTO TIE
Federal Territories, but should prevent such en-
tension il We could. That was ;he sum and agb-
stance Of the Chicago Platform OF that yeas.
Tia. Platform lid not go one inch beyond Mr..
Jefier~on's position in I7oi-a position which
New-York Chen o Slave State and al the
North unhoeitatincly maintained. 1t did not
90 beyond the position wherein The S11'b
stood unanimously with us in rasoinr he Crdi-
nance Of l7S7. Yet you virtually a.hrm Aat
the South il right in rcbelling and shedding
oceans of blood because the Nor>h stands Were
Jefferson eighty years sirce Taught her 10
stand, and wher5 The South unanimously stood
With her IN I7e7.