New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-21

for such action on the part OF the Norm as would
puui,h the traitors Fbc bad sbetted this Outrage
and restore to Freedom all inst had been lost oy
this temporary prostrstion Of one Of her m'"
cherished and important defenses. The hrst I'M
,ul.e 10 union and deci,ive action at the North
was almost irresistible
Yet il was resisted, on variety Of grounds.
First. the people were assured BY MI Everett and
other protested opponen Of the Nebraska act that
the controversy turned on q mere abstraction -
that there was no probability that Slavery would
ever 90 into Kansas. Then Northern Wings were
ponted to the fact that every Wing in Congress
| from a Free State, who voted at all on the ques-
tiop. had voted against Douglass measure, and il
was triumphsntly asked, What do you want
tmore7 How can any new party do better than
"thatl" Democrats were in like manner told that
about half Of their Members from Free States had
also opposed the BILL in spite Of all the appliances
of Presidential patronage and party drill and the
Softs of this State were designated as the natural
| nucfus Of Democratic resistance to the extension
| of Slavery Men Of al parties have natural re-
luctance to sever long cherished associations the
homes ard helps Of the drill sergeants are always
identified with their preservation one has prom
ises of the next, or next but one, nomination for
Congress for Sheriff, or the Legislature another
holds some sort of court-cerkship, county treas
urership, or deputy sherfalty, which came to
him through party favor, and which he can only
hope to retain while the party lie kept together 80
be draws the dry hide over the rafting old bones
and tries TO make the sad concern counterfeit life
not intoerably for another year at least. Every
impulse of Incidence or sel6shness operated against
a new organization on the Republican bssis. Men
did not deny that what that organization mainly
contemplated was right, but they cheated them
selves to the last moment into the beliefthet no
such organization was needed to- accomplish it,
In defiance Of al these imped.ments, however,
the general conviction that the tine had srrired
for aging explicitly that Slavery would not be
permitted to difuse ITSELF at least ever territory
on.s solepnly consecrated BY Freedom; manifested
Itself in acts The Republican party was organ
lied last year in TIE States of Maine; Vermont,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Iowa every
one os which it carried, except that the result in
Illinois was drawn battle. In Massachusetts,
New-Yerk, New.JerseJ and Pennsylysuia the
formation anA spread of the secret "Order COM
monty desigpsted "KnOyrEothines prevented
similar result; and w-HampsRre, Connecticut
and Rhode Iala7d were last Spring carried Under
the lead of that order" Bat in each of these. 80
in Massachusetts, the handspring OF the revolution
effected wss hostility to Slavery Aggression ss
embodied 70 the Nebraska bib and the operations
of strpgfe!low & Co. in Kansas The "KIc">
Nothing" organization was merely adopted sse
convenient and effective engin - for accomplishing
On Interior end; and the course of the Delegations
from these States in the American Council at
Philadelphia proves that resistance to- Slavery Elk
tension and not to Naturalization, Wa tn. true
keynote Of ths late revolution.
OF late, the tide has seemed to recede; but it is
only seeming. The Republican 1arty, IN 50 tie of
the most desperate efforts to subvsrt it on grounds
independent of politics, poled il Maine last Sep
TENDER the largest vote ever pol.ed IL that State
by any party. u does not es,vl ..ht dSs1eda that
for either of them proving THAI the State is safe on
ayPresidential canvass. The same is true Of every
Ne w. England State, pyopided the Knsss- Nothings
o,tmpt TO run candidates any 15stform not DIS
t;sciy, uneqHirceaRy hostile 10 Siarery Extension
They have Just held Massachusetts,. by reduced
majority only because they re pud,atea the Phila-
de- pbia National Platform and planted themselves
distinctly on ore which is at lsas:a AntSlsvery
az the Republican Add in Connecticut, where
they have recently held q State Council, they
adopted and pat forth pl stfoTrs' every inch as
" sectional AID provocative Of disunion' as our
own SO far as the Slavery question is concerned,
WA DE- sire to fight the next Presidential battle on
M stronger 1round than that officially taken by
TIA Amer ans' Of avery NevAErsland State.
In New Y ork. tho Order wsl early seized upon,
BY the Silver Gray aad Hand Shell politicians as a.
means Of raeainiDg their forfeited power. It's di.
rection has always. been in tlsir hands, and they
have unif,rmly made it as RrO-Ssvery as they
dared. Thus they cast the vote Of New-Yora at
Philadelphia for the Southern platform of acsui-
escence in the Nebraska Lniquity, whence they
came directly homo here and held greet Park
Meeting and ratified that Platform without
murmW of dissent. But, though the City acqui-
esced, the Coaptry rebelsd. The managers soon
discovered that they must gire way or lose every
thing So they called ANEW State Council a. Bng-
hantOn, wherein they backed of from the Nation.
al Platform and resolved that the repeal of the
Missouri Compact was wrong, ana that Slavery
nust delive no advantage therefrol. The leaders
do bot mean this bu: their dupes in the rural dis
tricta do, and, whsa they find themselves betrayed,
they will rebel, Such counties as Washington,
Essex and Franklin. Seneca, Tompkins and Stsu-
ben, Livingston, Orleans and Chsutauque, could
not have been carried on the Philadelphia Plat