New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-24
fective. A ticket there sgrred on ws, certain

Of Dost Of the county politicians off,rmsr coz
tests, While lie nomnstion would be received.
with inc edslity or surprise by Urge portion
Of those wso had united 10 sending delegates to
Ssrar ga IT WAS therefore exposed to tao
pe,i, OF defeat. though in defsnce Of the fact
that three-fourths Of the people Of our State
were openly and warmly ia a'orable to the prin-
ciple which that ticket wou represent,
The march Of events has since dis.ipsted al
tb. SO entertainments. The secession Of the
"Know Nothiogs" last Fall has destroyed the
Wtig party; while the aid generously accorded
by Democratic OF Abolition Free-Soiiers aad
Temperance men secured a triumph TO the Wing
Candidates. The "Hsrd" Democracy of our
State has taken ground with Douglas aud Pierce
on the KaBsas question, and in so doing has
thrown off thousands Of its best men TO swell
t,e Republican ranks. The /" 5ofts"-of whom
better things were evidently expected-hsve
been snsffled and ridden by their postmaster
aid tidew alters into a seeming submission to the
impudeDt rascalties and rufiiansm of Atchison,
Strir gfellow and their confederates. Three.
fourths of the "SOft" voters regard the over
throw of the Missouri Restriction, wish the
progress of Slavery northward and westward,
rs st once bunder aud crime; majority OF
them would bail with delight hearty, oat-
spoken denuDciaton of the whole conspiracy by
their State Cons eption. But while this soft are
in their workshops and their fe de, the tax
eaters are regulating presses and managing con-
veDtions; and the general result will be
soft" State Convention which will either
virtually inc orse Pierce. Douglas, Atchison and
Stripgfelow, or will only so far blandly censure
them as may be deemed necessary to insure
triumph to their supporters. There is no ra'
toral, no plausible ground Of hope that the
"Soft" Convention about to assemble will
typce less recreancy aud lack Of principle than
did its last predecessor. under whose auspices
it is called.
TIE "Hards' by their anxiety to outshine the
"Softs" IN Nationaity-that is, subserviency to
the Slavery Propagonda-and thus to obtain seats
to the PREJUDICE of their rivals in she next Balt
more Convention the "SoftS" by like Impulse,
to which is superadded the desire to s1hnd well
with Pierce d. Co. so long as they shall have
Offices to bestOw, or at least to take away; the
HDc oos, by the platform of their Philadelphia
National Council, which New-York upheld at
tie cost of disruption Of the Order-are all
committed to scquesceDce in the overthrow Of
the Missouri Restriction aud the surrender of
Kansas to Slavery and rufiabism. The Wing
! arty is in better position, an might be relied
Oh 10 make Abti-SIaveTy declarations. But the
VI - . H.fa ft Kno Mi
are but a meaaer minority of the whole people
of our Siau-certainly not more than one-thrd.
Is it desirable that the expression Of sympathy
with the Freemen of Kansas in their present
trials and p. ris should be confined to this minor
ity7 IfIot, is it reasonable to require Demo-
Gratis and sntl.Whig Abolitionists to vote for an
ent re Whig Stale Ticket in order to eviace their
opposition to Stringfellow and Coz Would it
be generous, would il be just, to ask them for a
second time to save our whole State Ticket, yet
place it car diaatss from their ranks Aud
suppose we could thus coDstrain poll of Two
Hundred Thousand Votes for our ticket, while
1T least Three Hundred Thousand were Potled
for the three antagonist tickets, what would be
he inference generally drawn with regard to
question, Would it not be boldly and plsusibly
asserted that our triumph was due, not to our
W d strength, but to the temporary distraction
If our adversares-aD imbroglo entirely foreign
% the Kansas question: VINO does not see that
he moral influence of victory would be lost to
ls-Day, would (most unjustly) be transferred to
)ur adversariesl
To our mind, Justice, Policy, Patriotism, Con-
,istency, imptratively require that every Wing
,bould hold out the flag of smity to every Demo
,Iat who agrees with us on the great issue of the
Jay. If we really believe the passage of the
ar sas bill the outrage we have so often pro-
claimed il, we ought to be foremost ia forgetting
all past differences, In exhorting all to one COM
non effort for the redress of this gigantic wrong.
II would Lot be just, much less generous, to ask
Democrats to vote so as to be accounted Whigs
in order to testify their hostility to the crime of
Douglas and Pierce. They cherish convictions
" ith respect to some public questions which the
term Whig does Lot express but misrepresents;
and, as we respect our own adverse Onvlcsioos,
go il becomes us TO be tender of theirs. These
we would gladly modify, but we cannot trample
upon them. Last Fall, tie "Know-Nothings"
had net taken Pro- Slavery g-ound-av least not
openly; nor did the "Softs" commit their con-
sciences 10 the keeping of our Custom-HOuss
until IT was too late TO change our order of bat
tie. Now there is no valid excuse for going to
the polls IN false issue. The first question in
order is" Shall the Missouri Compact be en-
'' foI ced and Kansas brought into the Union as
% Fress State a, d not otherwise l"-and until
this is settled the Insinp of old marty Mar-crles