New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-29
TO-DAY,s DUTY.

Our Southern correspondence is particularly
rich to-day. We give three letters-one from
Kentucky, one from Alabama, and one from Mis-
souri,; every one of them written with that genuine
eloquence which the heart only can inspire. There
is no part Of our professional duty and prerOgatve
which gives us so much pleasure as thus to give
voice through our columns to those natives OF the
slayeholding States and residents in them, who not
only can find no medium there through which to
address the public, but who ifsuch medium could
be found, would write or speak only at the peril of
their lives.
Each one of these letters goes to confirm what
We have often asserted, that there is at the South
no lack of men, including the best informed and
most rejecting part of the community, reldy to
take Anti-Slayery ground the moment they fad it
safe to do so. We Of the North must be csllOus
indeed if we can neglect these earnest appeals
coming to Us out Of the house of bondage-nOt
from the slaves but from the nominslly free-ap-
peals to us to stand firm in this great emergency
We fully agree with our Alabama correspondent
that Kansas is to be the battle-ground where the
question of Freedom or Slavery for this nation Is
TO be decided forever; and with our Missouri cor
respondent, that for the North to prove recresnt
10 her professions now, would demonstrate her
inability to govern herself, and would Justify
all the domination ever assumed by her slayedrv-
ing task-masters. MAY God 50 speed the right"
says our Alabama correspondent, "and so aid the
friends of humanity that justice shall triumph
everywhere and Slavery only be known as one of
the darkest pages in our countrys history! "f
"the entire North knew" says our Missouri cor
respondent how many hundreds of thousands of
1.-the people of the Slave States would rejoice in
"GOd to see Slavery forever restricted to its con-
"sttutional limits, they would lay aside all local
differences, and fix their eye on the broad plains
"and bountiful valleys of Kansas and Nebraska,
land at once march in unbroken phalanx to their
redemption from the blightingmildew of Slavery"
So much for our own spondence apropos of
which we give the following extract from Wash
ington letter in The Ne,c- York Courier and En-
guirer, paper certainly not to be accused Of any
ultra Anti.Slayery views:
"To me il appears evident that the people of the
Northern States are not of the real condition Of
things in Kansas. ! believe that without large sup
plies of men, money ammunition and firearms, mas
sacre will take place there in the Spring. This Mes
sage Will greatly aggraVate the aggressive ana Vioeht
spirit of the Missouri borderers If neglect until
the Spring opens the great duty of reinforcing Our
people, the opportunity for defence will have been
lost i think know something Of the character of the
men with whom they will have to deal. Two years
ago showed that they would do precisely what they
have done, and now state my conviction that civil
war about to be commenced in Kansas, of which the
object the part of the ageressors, will be the utter
determination Of the FreeState settlers in the Terri
tory or their expulsion from its soil. Atchison and
Strngfellow openly declare themselves prepared for
the greatest excuses and every circumtance of this
deplorabe controversy furnishes proof that they will
have the of executing their plans, unless timely
provision be made for meeting and defeating thei
attacks"
Shall not these appeals he fully answered Shall
not Kansas be defended and rescued No time is
to be lost in the performance of this great duty.
Whoever means to share in it should be ready TO
act nj once