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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 3 3 Browse Search
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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Hedging. (search)
o see how the slaveholding interest can upon any occasion, pending any question, fail to have its own way. Voting in Congress will be the emptiest of farces' Honorable Members for the Plantations will have little need to discuss the merits of measures. Their speeches may well be brief and somewhat after this fashion: Do n't pass the bill! If you do, we shall revolt, you know, and really, by this time, we think that you must have had enough of that. We do n't know what Honorable Members for New York or Massachusetts would have to say to this. They might indeed in a passion retort: Revolt and be hanged! but after the old emollient arrangements, HonorablHonorable Members for the Plantations would laugh at hangmen as love laughs at locksmiths. This, we take it, would be sufficient to flutter the doves from the Free States into the most amiable compliance. If not, Slavery, the cause of unnumbered crimes and of all our woes, under the operation of the three-fifths clause of the Constitutio