New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-10

the slave Code. There Is nothing 20 choose between
them Strike at once strike hard. You have already
proclaimed Emancipasioni proclaim Enfranchisepen
also. And do not stultify yourselves by setting az
naught the practical principle of the fathers that a.
just government stands only the consent OF tne st
erned, and its nseparabls coroaTy. that tdraon mn
out representation Is tyranny. What was once ~ ~ "a
true forever although may for time lose So %
il, aud this is the with those mpersha6e VI tbe
which you have BEEN alas 30 indifferent Iuus i ,s
work is only half done See that II IS life
the freedman from the outrage when Is =, on have
AS slave he was tool without SOU. an, deinition
ceased to treat him according to this aheis lea
il is only because you treat him even as So y7,bont
In your cruel philosophy he is only "a snn5 in the
the protection which the slave L., me saw he Is
selfinterest Of the master or ra'neI ~ bnt mn.
only cipher where rights are I'm 80 =, liza maid
neral counted BY millions where taAe, ~ taveF he
The freedman is competed nHs tbe laws three things
Sib 10 cannot escape But accordngto the prii1n
nrinrjne of Republican government nv has M ,xd
easibe rioht TO a voice in determining uVN
easioe iis t "a what laws 10 obey, all OF which can
h sacu,ed onlv through the ballot. Thus AGAIN 90
vrn n the same conclusion, which meets us az every
point ard every stage Us NV-ii4'"u'N" "'''N
WoUid YOU secure all the Just fruits of this terrible
war and ranpe out the Rebellion III its pernicous as
sumptons as In its armst Then Go not hesltstei anu
this is the last stage of the argument Inc hcDenon
began in two assumptions both proceeding rom Soutn
Carolina: first the sovereignty Of the states win tne
pretended right of seceSsiOn and secondly tne super
orty of the white race with the pretended righ, OF
Caste Oigarchy, and Monopoly. on account OF coIor'
The first was often announced In every way: INC seo
ond show ed Itself at the beginning wheh Sout ,aio
lima alone among the thirteen States, allowed her Con,
sttuton to be degraded by an exclusion on accoun. o
color but it did not receive the authoritative sialee
until a later day, when that wicked evangelist Mr
Calhoun taking issue with the Declaration OF ihue'
pendence audacousy announced In the Senate tha' 10
declare all were born free and equal was the most
dangerous Of all political errors; and that II had cone
more 10 retard the cause Of civilization, and IL doing
more at present than all other causes com6ned taat
begin to experience the danger OF admitting so
great an error to have place in the Declaration oil In
dependence" CdlhOEn's Speeches. rol w. p o.
These two assumptions are kindred IN eirontery. All
agree that the dogma of State sovereignty must De
PEELED; but this is less offensive than that other dogma,
having the same origin that the Declaration Of indie
pendence is the most dangerous of all political errors
To repel such effrontery is not enough 1t must be
scOrned.
The gospel. according 10 Calhoun. Is only another
statement of the imposure that this august Republic,
founded to sustain the rights OF Human Mature is
nothing but " a white mans government lie WhOe
assumption is ignObe utterly unsupported by history
and insulting to the fathers. while it is Extensively iog-
cal and irreigious 1t is illogical inasmuch as our
fathers when they declared that all men are created
equal gave expression to truth of political science,
which, from the nature of the case admits no excep'
tion As an axiom it is without exceptions for 1t is the
essence Of an axiom whether in geometry or m0ras TO
be universal AS abstract truth II is also without
exception according to the requirement OF such truth
And, finally as sefeydent truth, 50 announced in
the great Declaration it is without exceptions for only
such truth can be selfevident. Thus, whether axiom
abstract truth or selfeyident truth 1t is always uni
versa But the assumption is not only Illogical 1t is
irreigious inasmuch flies Ia the face OF that living
truth which appears twice at the Creations first when
God said Let US make man in our own images" aud,
secondly in the Unity OF the race then diylney np
pointed, and which appears again in the gospel when
il was said God that made the world, and all things
therein hath made Of blood all nations OF men.
According the best testimony now the population OF
the earth-embracing Caucasians, Mongoans, Maiays,
Africans and Americans-is about thirteen hundred
millions of HON only three hundred and seventy
millions white men, or little less than onefourth
so that, in claiming exclusive right for white men
you degrade nearly hreequarters OF the Human Family
made in She Image Of Cod and declared 10 DE OF one
blood" while you sanction Caste offensive TO religion
an Oligarehy inconsistent with Republican govern.
ment and Monopoly, which has the whole world as It's
Against this assumption I protest with mind, soul
and heart 1t is false IN religion false In statesnalship
and false in economy II is an e1ravagance which II
enforced is foolish tyranny. Show me Creature with
erect countenance looking TO Heaven made in the image
of God. and l show you MAN. who. Of whatever
country or race whether darkened by equatorial sur
or banched by Northern cold Ia with you child OF the
Heavenly Father and equal with you in title TO all the
rights Of Human Nature You cannot deny these rights
without impiety. And so has God linked the national
welfare with national duty you deny these
without peril 70 the Republic 1t not enough that you
have given Liberty BY the same title that we ela I'm
| MED without the other. What Is Liberty without
Equality What is Equality without Liberty one Is
the complement Of the other Tue two are necessary 10
round and complete the circle OF American ctizen'
ship. They are the two lobes OF the mighty lungs
through which the people breathe the breath of lfe
They are the two vital principles OF Republican gov
| eminent, without which government although re-
publican in name, cannot be republican In fact. These
two vital principles belong to those divine statutes
which are craven the heart OF Universal Man even
upon heart OF the slave who iorge's Them aud upon
tie heart Of the master who denies them and whether
forgotten or denied they enduring than mar
bic or brass for they share the perpeuy OF the HUI
man Family
mortality of the soul added that II this error
il was an error which be loved And now. declaring
my belief in Liberty and Equality as the God given
birtbrieht of all men, let me say in the same spirit if
this be an error 1t is which love; If this be
fault it is fault which / shall be slow to Ienounee
if this be an illusion IL is Illusion which pray may
wrap the world in its angelic forms.