New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-06

| cease TO live together under one Government.
That the movement will be constantly onward
and invariably successful, is too much to expect
or to hope 1t will have its periods of success
and 1t will probably meet with reverses The
cause Of free principles has never yet in the DIS
tory Of the world exhibited constant advance;
and it s too much to expect from tho iuturo al
experience totally opposite from that OF the past
1t ia enough If We are able to mark cons'ao'iy
accommodating force driving forward the great
cause Of Human Progress. The varying results
of a campaign dsmsy no great commander. They
are the fortune Of war. He ia content II the
course Of events is, on the whole, favorable TO
bis aims.
The signs of the times prominently admonish
the friends Of freedom that they should be girding
up their lOins for future contests. They have
every cause for encouragement, and none for fear.
The only substantial and widespread basis for an
enduring and successful party in the free States
is that upon which they repose They have the
heart the conscience. and the understanding of
the people with them. Every motive that can
sway the action Of independent liberty-loving,
moral or religious men, constrains the voter TO
their ranks. All that Is noble, al that is true,
all that is pure all that is manly and estmsble in
human character goes to swell the power Of the
AntiSlavery party of the North That party is
no longer the fraction the handful Of men it once
was with designs miscon ,eived motives aspersed,
| and conduct decTied. 1t now embraces every
| Northern man who does not want 10 see this Gov
| irtn huu
| spread of Slavery over the whole continent every
man who il and was opposed to the scandalous
attempt 10 abridge the territory Of freedom and
enlarge that of servitude, by the passage Of the
Kansas Nebraska bill. 1t has thus a bread and
firm basis, wherein every Northern public man
should stand now, and whereOn they must all
stand in the future, or be driven into merted dis
grace.
At this moment, just as the old end hitherto in
viDcible Democratic organization has been de-
stroyed by collision with the Anti-Slsvery senti-
ment of the North, party has arisen upon new
platform, win its members mainly engaged 10
seeing how skillfuly they can dodge and avoid the
Anti.Slavery issue which everywhere occupies the
public heart Its chief business just now is to de-
wise ways and means to escape the necessity of
siding with or sgainst the Anti Slavery party of
the North It's utmost dexterity is called into ex-
ercise and it is yet to be seen with what success
At this juncture we wish to call attention to the
inevitable fact that the Anti Nebraska or Anti
Slavery party in the North hold position
which they cannot and will not abandon and
cannot and will not defer TO any other question
or platform whatever. They stand immovably
upon the ground of resistance to the
encroachments of Slavery; they aim at the dis
connection of the Government from its support;
they are, and will be, until the work is accom-
pished, for the restoration of the prOhibitory
clause Of the Missouri Compromise. The North;
efn Anti Nebraska men will insist upon this as the
frat condition Of cooperative action in all coming
elections, as they have in the last. They have
Won everywhere on this ground, and they are not
now going to abandon it. Any battles to be
fought, OF any victories to be won by their
aid, must be fought and won on this plat
form. Let all who are calculating political
chances, let ell who are in quandary as to what
combinations can be made in the North and who,
perchance, may be verdsntly speculsting upon con-
cessions or suppressions by the opponents Of
Slavery Extension not dream Of any other or bet
ter terms than these. Upon this point all must be
plain, open and abOve-board Our motto is, and il
to be In the Presidential contest, as in oil that
precede it, REPEAL of the law which broke down
the barriers to the spread Of Slavery and on that
po.ition we stand or fall. The Anti-Nebrasks
men will not be cajoled into the support Of any
Presidential or other candidate who hesit,tes
| on this question. Their candidate for the Pres
idency must stand squarely on it. Let all,
whether they know nothing or know something,
know so much as this, and govern themselves
accordingly.
The country can be triumphantly swept upon
this issue, leaving not a remnant of the Nebrasca
policy or forces anywhere standing. And 1t is
the only existing public issue upon which tri-
umphaDt majority, or any majority at all, can De
to-day obtained in the United States. Any party
that attempts to carry the country upon plat
form less broad than this, will End itself met BY
an opposition fatal to its success. Attempts may
be made, and be partially successful, to succeed,
| here and there, on other grounds. But the final
result will be scrub-races all over the county,
the representatives of the smallest minorites in
sentiment often finding their way into power.
Instead of fighting one great battle, n may be
done, with q compact and overwhelming force
strong enough to crush al adversares and to insu-
gurate an era of peace, harmony, and justice,
ending in the absolute settlement Of the Slavery
| question, 90 far 40 the General Government 10
concerned, we shall witness an infinite number
of political skirmishes, sometimes resulting in
favor of one party, and sometimes In favor Of