New-York daily tribune., 1856-04-29

from time to time IS have been tempted 20 bf >aA
out into exultations the suOe.s OF our e1per'
meut, We have been coolly told by these sseptlc'
10 wsit little while and see what we shall come
10. Ard il must be confessed .kAt at this moment
the posture Of our national affairs, by which alone
Europe can judge VI, is such as TO give TO those
scofers at democracy great grounds OF eIultatlon
and triumph. Can il be possible that the masses
Of the United States are on the point OF making
total and final surrender Of the administration OF
their national government into the hands Of little
select arstocracy, with views and interests. or
supposed interests, totally opposed to their own
Should such an evett happen, it may well be set
down 40 the most disgraceful occurrence in all his
tory, enough TO make one despair of human nature
and 10 disgust one with the very name Of democ-
racy.
Here in these United States we unfortunately
have little class of slsyeholding farmers and
planters who live not by their own labor or the ex
ercise of their own wits applied to any productive
process, but upon the involuntary labor of slaves
under the guidance Of some hireling overseer
That Oyerseer, though white, is regarded by his
insolent employer with almost as much contempt
az the slaves Themselves sentiment liberslly
dealt out by this entire class TO all men, of what
ever color, who earn their living by personal indus
trv. Yet these are the men who are at this moment
in full possession and complete cOtrol of the entire
Executive Administration Of our National Gov
erument, and who are now boldly appealing to the
working classes os the country, and especially to
the worhing.m men Of the Northern States, to allow
them to select a new President, and so to give
continuance and peTmanence to this slayeholdlng
control of our national affairs.
By way Of excuse, and IN explanation OF the
strange phenomena presented just now, IN the
strenuous cxeTtion OF the whole energy of our na-
tonal Executive Government for the extension of
Slayery and the decrease Of the political power OF
the Shareholders it may b. said that the Democracy
of the country never consented TO any such arrange
ment 1t may be said that Pierce, Douglas, Ciss,
Gushing, and the rest actively concerned IN this
operation have betrayed the trust repOsed in them,
and that in throwing into the hands of little knot
of Shareholders themselves as tools, aud al the pat
IonaCe and influence of the National Government
as means with which to operate, they have acted
for themselves altne and not for any considerable
party of the Democratic citizens of the country.
But suppose the next Presidential election should
IT elect Pierce. or should substitute for him some
other member of the same clique, what is to be-
said then Af.er such result can it be any longer
denied that the Democracy of the country has
made formal recantation and abandonment of
every Democratic principle Let the laborng
men ofthe North once consent whether from
good .natured inclination to help paralytc old
gentleman in distress, or from any other motive, TO
take the sayeholding interest on their shoulders,
and they will presently find themselves saddled
with master whom it is no longer possible for
them to shake off
VIII tie laboring men OF the North-can the
aboring men of the North be guilty OF such sui
cidal folly With the organs of the slavehoding
interest loudly procsining that manual labor is
and ought TO be a disqualification for political
rights and that personal servtude is the rightful
and most beneficial condition II those who cuti-
yate the soil will the labOring men of the country
assist to place the control of national affairs in
the hands of men who profess such principles
We canrOt believe it. We trust the next six
months will show that Democratic ideas are by no
means vet extinct in America, and tnat, however it
may be at the South, the labOring men OF the
North are altogether unwilling to assist in deciding
the great American experiment u favor of