New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-22

~ rogered nv the South in 1920 and most reluctantly
accepted BY the North has us been destroyed so far
,s IL affected Kansas and Nebraska, by the passage Of
Douglass bill
Yet we trust that Slavery will nevertheless be
kicked out Of Kansas bolted out and thereafter kept
out BY agitation, by systematic colonization, by the
creation of strong local and National sentiment hos
tile to Human Bondage we trust all this may be ac
compshed If we did not We should not incite free
men to emierate to Kansas. But will our ultimate
triumph, supposing it accomplished, excuse those who
wantOnly forced upon the struggles. anxieties,
sacrifices, through which that triumph is secured
Is he who by night lets down his neghbors bars In
ytinq all the cattle Of the vcnage into that neghbors
corn any less cupabe because he happens to be sus
pected, watched, and the mischief he would have
done prevented If Kansas shall ultimately be saved
to Free Labor. the right will owe no thanks to
Douglas and his accompces but every thing to those
who from the outset resisted and, by arousing the
country. ultimately bafled them. Had the work of
celonizDg Kansas under the act organizing it as a
Territory been prosecuted in the spirit which per-
vades that act and which is faithful reflected in the
two Democratic journals already started in Ne
brsska and Kansas, both afflicted with chronic deaf
ness, blindness and dumbness on the subject of
Slavery, Kansas would inevitably have been Slave
State as we trust it is not to be- But there will al
ways be danger of an adverse result until the broad
shield Of Law shall have once more been interpOsed
there on the side of Universal Freedom.
But the scope Of the pro-Slayery clauses OF the
Nebraska bill is not confined to the two Territories
organized by that bill. Douglas told his disciples in
speech at the St Nicholas Hotel in this City he has
told them in many other speeches, that they must be
prepared to march up boldly TO the support OF the
great principle embodied in his bill, not merely in this
Gaze but in all cases. That principle afrms the right
Of anu State or Territory to do Just as pieasss about
Slarery and the duty People Of other States acting
hrorgh the Federal Gorernmcnt to aeqHesce in stoiid
ind6rence TO the moral character National influences
Of such action 1t is for this principle, in its pros
pective application to Cuba Hayti, Mexico, &c. that
the Slavery Propaganda prizes Douglass BILL far
more than for any chance it gives them to secure
Kansas or Nebraska. They see that future acqul-
sitons Of territory south and west OF our present lin
it's are morally certain and they want principle es-
tablished which will enable them to deal with all
these they did with Texas in her settlement, illegal
introduction of slaves, revolution aud annexation.
Give them the full benefit Of the principle af-
frned by Douglass bill and they make you welcome
to half dozen Northern Nebraskas. That principle
covers practical nquity enough to last them for the
next generation We defy any man to justify, in con-
sstency with that principle present interdctOn
of the Foreign Slave-Trade in any State Ter
rtory (fOr the latter is also sovereignty according
to the Dougaslogc) should fit to import it's slaves
from Africa at 500 per head rather than from Vir
gina at s OCO Suppose Florida, Texas, Alabama
Mississippi Louisiana and Arkansas, were to unite in
demanding liberty to buy their slaves in the cheap
est instead of the. dearest market, what consistent
champion of Douglass Non Intervention aud
Popular Sovereignty could resistth Must not
Douglas himself as an extensive consumer Of slaves
on his Mississippi plantation, feel strong pecuniary
interest in the of this application of his emf
nently "Democratic" doctrine Must not every
who works up more negroes than he grows feel
common interest with him Let triumph be ac-
corded by the People TO the supporters of the late
of Congressional reputation and it will be
impossible TO stop the rising tide of saveholdng ex
action and aggression until Toombs shall have real
lied his aspiration by calling the roll of his slaves on
Bunker HILL We must make a successful stand just
herein resistance to the assumed right of Congress
to uphold, recognize, in any manner legalize,
Slavery in Territory, and also of the right OF the
first few thousands of squatters who rush into
Territory to establish and perpetuate Slavery therein,
or we shall have no solid ground at all to stand on.
The Inhibition first drafted by Jefferson, the Ordi-
nance of Dane the Proviso of Winot, these are our
impregnable positions, from which we can retreat
neither with safety nor with honor.