New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-15
good work.

coyrespondent "a. P.) is anxious to Ano" no"
the Re,pbIicans propose to benefit the slaves by
restricting the area which they may be emPlorH
ard subsi,ted. We will tell him.
The assumption that sympathy for the Save
desire 70 strike of his chains, IL the chief impulse
of the Republican movement. is persisted in BY our
opponenr. without regard to the truth There are
Republicans who are Abohtionists there are
others who anxiously desire and labor for the
Good Of the slave: but there are many
more than these whose main impulse Is an
ardent desire 10 secure the new Territories 70
Free White Labor. with little or no regard Tor the
;nt.res, of negroes slave or free. These are strug
cling for themselves and their posterty, and would
maintain their present position though their success
or defeat would be alike to the slaves. Nsutteriy
false then, that the Republicans as party are AMI
mated by primary and overriding regard for the
welfare or even the rights of negroes
Yet il is nevertheless true that the triumph oil
the Republican party will be prcjudcia 10 Slavery
for these reasons:
I. II will be a defeat Of the Slave Power. This
Power arden,y desires and strives for the legal
establishment Of Slavery in Kansas. Its defeat
will be Of great moment, if it only proves thai
Power net nyincbe.
.. The election of Buchanan insures Kansas TO
Slsvery-that is, two more votes IN the Senate
with one in the House--and the one will rapidly
swell to ten. 1t is Of vital consequence that this
accession of power be secured TO Freedom ana not
to Slavery. Every snch triumph tends to Perpetu'
ate the er.:cnce of Slavery.
3. Emancipation fifty years ago was far more
common than now; the greatly increased value oil
slaves having stimulated the cuPidty OF slave
holders. The purchase of Louisiana and OF Florida
the Annexation Of Texas, al have combined TO
enhance the price of slaves. If slaves were
As cheap now as in l737, we should doubtless
have had new restrictive ordinance, instead oil
the Nebraska BILL with ten slaves enamel
pated for every one actually set free during
the last ten years We should have had
MARYLAND. Virginia ard North Carolina earnestly
discussing the policy of Abolition. instead OF break
ing I'D Fremont meetings by riots, and threat
ening to indict Fremont newspapers and electors
In short. Freedom has been retrOgrading because
Slavery has been adv ancing. Free Kansas VIII be
a step in the other direction Gov. WISE says
Slavery in California would have immensely in
creased the market value of Virginia slaves. or
course. Slavery in Kansas will have a correspond
ing effect, and rice reysa.
t. Mr. Warner of Georgia. in the course OF
very able speech in favor Of Slavery Extension, III
the present House (April ith lsst said:
There il net STAKEHOLDER in this House ont OF
H. who do, not know perfectly well that whenever
Slavery il confined within certain speclned limits, iis
future existence is doomed il is only question OF
tin G as TO it, final destruction. You may take any
single ,ay choldDg county in the southern States IN
which the great staples cotton AMI sugar, are cultr
vstod 20 any extent, and Connc its present slave pop
ulston within the limits OF that county, and such Il ne
rapid natural increase Of the slaves and such the rapd
exhaustion of the coil in the cultivation OF those crops
which add so much TO the comme cia wealth 81 the
countrv that in few years It would bee Impossible 20
support them vi hin the limits at sCch county hotu
master and slave Wogld he sf0rrCf out; and what
would be the Trac ca eject in any one county would
EtpIe en- 10 all the SlayCholdug state, Nc.
lCuIg. Gob- AppentiI. p SO
:. But even were it not the case, as we believe
il j.. that to restrict Slavery within its present
limits is to secure its speedy decline aud ulti-
mat. extinction, il would still be our imperative
duty TO keep il out OF the Territories. slavery IN
Virginia is a Nrgnian matter: We had no hand IN
planting il there ard cannot be blamed for the ex-
istence of an evil over which We have no control;
but Slavery in the Territories is an affair of all the
States. Free "A We'll as Slave, and all are alike re-
,ponsibc for it, existence. The difference, then,
between Slavery III the States and in the Territories
is that between Slavery planted and upheld by Us
and that for which others only are responsibe-and
this is very serious matter with US however il
may b. with A. T."
Tie letter of AARON L. PERRY, Chairman OF