New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-10
CLEARING THE TRACK FOR !

CLEARING THE TRACK FOR sc.
There sre many who profess to regard the Re
publican movement and organization as perilous
to the tranquility and even to the perpe'uity OF
our Federal Union Even Mr.. John Van Buren,
appears to have been recently smitten By the gen
eral panic, and at Buffalo exhOrted the electors Of
our State to rush in their votes for the not then
defunct. SOts az to prevent the success OF the
Republicans and save the imperilea Union Johns
alarm operated so electrically upon older Boohoo"
who ought to understand the trick perfectly by
this time, that The Buffalo Commercial Adrertiser,
which last year kept the Wing ticket at the head
of it's columns while doing it's utmost for the sue
cess of the DindoOs, this time kept the Hlndoo
fog displayed but secretly worked for the Soft
ticket Next year, we presume, it will run up tue
Soft flag and work for the 6errit Smith or some
other ticket, unless it can meantime invent some
scheme by which it can enjoy the luxury of cheat
ing two parties at once.
But we had intended TO say that the various
and bellgerent parties which agree in deprecating
the Republican movement as sectional and per
ilous, have now an opportunity just before them
for divesting it of power if not of existence. To
do tbis, they have simply to unite in bringing
Kansas forthwith into the Union as Free State
That contamination will almost certainly divest
the Republican Samson of his strength, and enable
the Know Nothings and Democrats to get at each
other without impeachment or interruption. Help
us make Kansas Free Safe this Winter, and
that frigbtful bugbear Seward" will be most IN
likely to get elected President next year, or to be
seriously proposed as candidate.
Those who won and those who lost our late
election are alike liable to be deceived by the fig
ures, and to make serious mistakes in consequence
From one end of cur State to the other, there are
not fifty men who will admit that they are willing
to see Kansas erected into Slave ate. On the
contrary, the Harls argued that siuce large ma
iOrity of the pioneers of Kansas were cOlfessedly
Frees tate men, the true way to aid them in
securing their end was to assert and enforce the
doctrine OF exterior Indifference and non.interSen-
ton. The Softs also insisted that the question was
settled-that Kansas is on the highway to Organi-
zation as a Free State. The Know-NOthiogs-
though they belittled and obscured the issue as
much az possble-also insisted that they were in
favor of Freedom in Kansa., and pointed to their
BiDgbamton platform for evidence Of the fact.
Among them, majority of the people were led to
eli.ve-not that what the Republicans cOntem-
plated and affirmed was wrsDg or unmportant-
but that il could and would be secured withou. us
as well as with US. The people have confded in
these representations; let them not be betrayed.
And do not be alarmed, gentlemen. that the
standard bearers Of the Republican host will join
you, and thus obscure your prospects for gener-
GUS allowance Of the Presidential Spells when you
shall have won them. We shs stand BY our flag,
though the immediate and palpabe necessity for
unfuIling it shall have passed. We hold with Mr..
Webster, in the resolves drafted BY him and re-
ported by j. Thomas Stevenson to Wing Conven-
ton in Fapeuil Hall, QS46,) which read:
Resolred Tha the p ope OF ssachusetts will con-
tnue 20 use ell cOnslu ona measures ID restrain the
already pleponCeraiiDg iDt leLcs OF the Savehoding
interest in the Daonsi legislatures TO defeat all meas
ur.s calculated 70 uphold Slavery, aad promote all
COL stitutional measures for It's overthrow aud will
oppose al all times with uncompromi.lng zeal aud
6inness any further ADDITION of slavehodiDg States to
THE Union out Of ca crer territory formed aud that
t.ey will in like manner oppose all further extension
o. the slavery of tie African race Ga this continsat
"lf under tie government Of Providence, 1t shall
ha pen that portions Of this continent not belonging
10 lie United STATE shall be settled by tie SaXourace
let bc &c settlers ca ~ with then wherever they co.
together with their free bocd, the blessings OF
fIt goverpmen, and ire institutions to ALL and chans
spd Slavery 10 rome. Wherever our language is here
atr 10 be spoken, history remembered our exsm-
po QuCed or our kindred acknowledges, there le'
u: iversal freedom and equal laws BE- maintained by
mar.
- Blu. the mass of the People pay little heed to
abstractons-they regard only the tangible and
the practical. They will not stand up for the
principle of Slavery Restriction, so that they per-
ceige no immediate necessity for its application.
Let us have Kansas free, and safe within the fold
of the UEios, and they will soon forget the sttug
gle to make her so, with the men VINO enacted and
impelle1 it,
We speak to sagaciOus politicians who seek
wn-to Northern Democrats and Americans
and We seek to remove stumbling block from
the pathway Of both. Judge if it be not an mpera-
tive necessity for both of you before you open the
re1t Presidential canvass, to unite with the Re
pubhcsnf and cOsclusiyely make Kansas Free