Year: 1859

when the sky falls, we may catch larks.' when
Repubicansm secures the reins of political supre'
macy then see with what bodness it will act with
reference to the Slave Power aud its intolerable
aggressionsV y Such has been the enticement held
out to Aboliionists to join the Republican ranks,
escbew their non.voting theory, and show them
selves to be practical in their opposition to sa


very Well, New York, Ohio and Massachusetts
are Republican in politics, and we have before us
the recent messages of their Republican Governors
to the Legislatures Of those States. What do they
say BY way of protest what do they counsel as to
action, in behalf of freedom and free institutions
! First as to the message of Gov. Morgan, of New
York. The concluding portion of it briefly aludes
to the slavery question, after this fashion The
State Of New York it says has consistently
maintained conservative attitude with regard
to those of her sister State which cherished
systems Of labor (l differing from her own That
means, Of course, that New York has had no sym,
pathy with the anti'savery movement as such, dis.
claiming las she does) all right or wish to inter.
fere with the domestic concerns OF any community
outside Of her own limits The foulest and most
brutal oppression known is thus gingerly des.
I
cern' How very regardful of the feelings Of those
Southern brokers in the trade of bloodr All that
Gov. Morgan says, however is true in regard to
the feelings and conservative attitude of the En-


pire State this subject but it is to her condem.
nation nor her credit, as he seems to regard it,
Her relation to the South, through the Union, is
that cf an accomplice in crime. She allows the
savecacher to make her soil slave. hunting ground;
she agrees to a slave oligarchy in Congress, based
on an ever growing slave representation she holds
herself in readiness to obey the summons of the
National Executive to march her citizen soldiers
to the South, for the suppression of any slave in
surrection which may require such measure
No wonder che has mo wish to interfere for the
abolition of system which she is so ready to sane.
ton and perpetuate. What if it be true that she
insists on her right to maintain, wherever the is.
sue shall be legtimately presented the superiori.
ority of liberty over slavery? Does she not stand
fooadelned cut of her own mouth Ofwhat val.
ue is her testimony under such circumstances p
What is that bat an Indiarubber conscience which
is bounded by tliirty-six degrees thirty minutes
north latitude? How does it happen that liberty.
loving New York has no issue to make with sla.
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slave States? Is it not because she is in league
with them all? She has already swallowed the
camel--why should she strain at gnat? No
sOphisry has suficed,' says Gov. Morgan, to blind
her to the fuct, that the establishment of slavery
upon territory hitherto free, would be a calamity
and wrong, for which not only the handful of
settlers who had already drfted upon the soil of
such territory, but the whole American people who
permitted such establishment would be Justly held
responsble And pray, what sophistry has suf'
feed to prove the establishment of Slavery in one
half OF the Union, by the consent and cooperation
Of the whole American people, perfectly justfa.
bic? By what rule Of morality by what consid'
Grafton Of justice, or by what principle of humani
ty, is "a calamity and wrong in a territory nei,
ther oalamitohs nor wrong in State? Well may
the South sneer at the North, and charge her With
gross hypocrisy, in making distinction SO absurd,
based upon nothing better than imaginary and
conventional border lines


Gov. Morgan snys-'Every American must, in
his heart desire either that Sarery should or that ii
should not be extended into our federal terrific
.ics' Unquestionably But when he adds-'Each
has right to proclaim and act upon his choice
he violates the truth, and comedies what may no.
be granted to any man, or body OF men because
no man can have right to declare either for the
extention OF the existence Of slavery in any part
of the country or the world. What next? If tho
deliberate sentiment of the pople constitutonally
expressed, SHALL FAVOR SLAVERY EXTEN,
SION, New York pM submit, as she has always
submitted, to decisions fairly made, which contra
Lo,, l. l.
appointed By any lawful action of the constituted
authorities of the United States! What is this
but the avowal of the most proAigate sentiments
in behalf of the people of New York! What is it
but to encourage and stimulate the men'stealing
extentionists of the South to plant slavery in all
the Notwithstanding assured that, if successful,
their transcendant vllainy will cheerfully be sub.
mtted to by the Empire State-for she has never
fatered in the work of submission, nor sought re-
dress in acts of notification, in threats of dis
union'!-'she wages no war upon the institutions
nor the interests Of her sister States! What is it
but to rule God out of the universe? If the
deliberate sentiment Of the people shall favor sa-
very extension'-favor the commission of the blood
lest crimes and the most henious SINS ad infnituni
humane, moral, Christian New York will say
Amen Though the command Of God is, break
every yoke, and let the oppressed go frec.'


So much for the Republican Governor, Edward
D. Morgan, of New York-for whom nearly all the
colored property voters in that State cast their
votes, on the ground of doing something practi
caP for the cause of freedom, and obtaining the
repeal of the odious and unjust property quali6ca
ton wich is required of the colored citizens of the
State I! What do they find in the message, as per.
tanning to their own rightsi Nothing Will the
present Republican Legislature row in session at
Albany do any better? We shall zee.


Here is the message Of Gov, Salmon J, Chase,