New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-08
present example. The State itself affords another
hardly less striking
We haze steadfasby believed that o compact

We have steadidbuy ptuc'cu 'nos e"uP"'s
political organization Of those who desire that
Kansas .hsll be q Free State, and that m new
Slave ststes shall be admitted into our Union, 10
essential to the liberties, peace, the honor and
even The perpe'uity Of our Union. This convection
we have labored to impress upon others aud We
believe those who are accustomed to heed our
coub.els eenerally concur in this view. If other
AID adverse views prevail, those who PROFOUND
ard those WHO adopt them will bear the responsi-
bility We claim no superiority in prescience over
those who say they are as much opposed to
Z" Slavery xtension as any BODY" yet hearken to
the counsels of Washington Hunt. the Brookses,
.IobD Van Buren, or Daniel s. Dickinson. We
Jaw the way clear before US il the Republican
movement had been generally accepted to make
Ksptas q Free State and efectually check the
westv ard progress Of Slavery. We do NOT zee how
this is to be effected on any other tack, but will
not invoke disaster by predicting 1t. We trust
those who have suddenly vaulted into power among
us car Dot afford 10 let Kansas be made Slave state
if they can well help it; bat We fear they will
find that they have voluntarily placed themselves
in position Of inability to help it. How is it to
be made palpable to the general mind that State
which elevates Joel T. Headley and Stephen B.
Gushing to it, high places over Preston King and
Abjah Msnn, jr does really, earnestly, absorb.
ipely desire that Kansas shall at oil hazards be pro-
t, cted and preserved as Free Soil for Free Men,
We do not say that there is no affirmative answer
to this question we only say that none is to our
mind apparent We feel that The cause OF Hdmsn
Freedom has r. ceived fearful blow in the results
of Tue.day's Ell. ction we shall be very glad to
see that il is not fatal one. Let every one watch
the votes that will be taken at Washington the
coming Winter on admitting Reeder to his seat,
and the admission of Kansas as a State under
her Free Constitution
Meantime, there are some incidental results Of
the Known othiDg triumph which we can conten-
plate without dissatisfaction.
The Adopted Citizens and European Immigrants
among us have been uniformly taught By their
journals and political leaders to regard the Wings
of tie last twenty years as the implacable though
often skukDg enemies of their rights as freemen
ard citizens. "1hey may sometimes pretend
"the contrary say these misleaders; but girs
them chance, and they will all combine to dis
franchise ifnot ALLEVIATE you. Your only reliance
lis on the constant invincible support Of the DEM
"ocratic party" And this the more ignorant
immigrants generally believe.
We'll here bas been fiue chance for us to
uf lite in pIoscribirg and disfranchisng the immi
grants, ard we utterly refuse to profit by it. We
might have victory, power, office, perquisites, by
simply joining in the cry against the immigrant
and the Catholic, yet many thousands Of us utterly
f,eo 40. - . ou nj 90, auai
the hoarse hallOo and share the comfortable spoils
And while doing this, we make no appeals for
Irish or German votes, but understand perfectly
that they will nearly all be cast against us We
pretend to no peculiar love for or sympathy
with them; We fraternize" with them neither in
whisky nor lager beer; we SIMPLY stand by our
frat fundamental principle that the non Grim.
inal, rational human adult who is taxed to Gu
force the laws and required to obey them shall
have an equal voice in making and mending them
We stand Lot Up for the Irish nor the Germans
but for the essential base of our Declaration of In
dependence.
The Irish have been especially bitter upon us
for demanding that the Afric American shall like
wise-being held by the laws competent to under.
stand and Loyalty obey or culpably viola'e them
be entitled to a voice in making, modifying aud
executing them. They are very often caught
venting disparagement on the NEGRO party"
BLACK Republicans, &c. A season Of system
attic prescription will probably enable even them to
C. mprebend that devotion to Equal Rights is not
necessarily based on any particular affection for
negroes, any more than for those CONTEMPORARY
but improperly designated as Foreigners We
have great hope, that some of these will now be
able TO c'mprehend that some Of us regard each
man as entitled to mans rights, without esteem.
ing crooked shins particularly ornamental
We can easily see how Wing should be lurei
into the X. n. trap. He has been accustomed all
his life ts confront the great mass of the Adopted
Citizens at the polls-ts be resisted, browbeaten,
decried and overborne by them. To his vie Y, they
are always voting contrary to the best interests of
the country. But how Democrat-who believes
that the vstes of the great mass of our naturaized
citizens are cast in steady conformity with the
best interests of the country, and that large ma
jorty of our educated native citizens vote just the
OTHER ways should unite in movement to limit
and reduce the number of those who (he thinks)
vote right, while be proposes nothing Of the kind
with respect to those who usually vote wrong, we
do not so we'll see. However, let US all live and
learn.
OUR NEW STATE OFFICERS.
Assuming that the American" State Ticket
hiss been elected at our recent Election we pro-