New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-08-25

influence and control oyer our national affair
which they posse ssed in the time of Washington
because they have always more or less openl,
repudisted the great democratic principles OF tn
equal rights Of man, upon which, in the act o
separation from Great Britain, our existence rs
nation wa based-principlea fully recognized il
the Bills Of Rights Of all our State Constitutions
and the enthusiasm inspired by which alone carried
the country through the perils and pri'atons Of
| the Revolutionary war.
The slaveholders on the contrary under tie lead
Of Jefferson, early put themselves forward as the
special and enthusiastic champions Of the principles
of Democracy, which. however limited DISPOSE
ton they might show 10 carry them out in practice
in their own States, they took great pains 10
cherish and foster, TO strengthen and maintain in
every Northern State thus creating for themselves
party in II ose States, ready in their turn in &C
know edgment Of this aid against local sri,tocracy
whose cold shadow they sensityely felt, to sustain
in the control of our national affairs savehOlding
arstocrace, with whose blasting influence at home
or with the ultimate results Of whose national pre-
dominance, the Democracy of the North did not
much concern Themselves as is apt to be the case,
with regard to distant or remote events.
Such is the whole secret of that slavehOldng
PredOmiDance fastened upon the country, main
tanned for halfa century or more, and which the
Republican party is now struggling to throw of
ard in this point Of view the refusal Of many of
the old Northern leaders-your Hunts, Barnards,
Changers your Choates Everetts, Wn!hrops, and
al that olaf. Of Northern poli.cisns-to have any
thing to do with the Republican movement is to our
IN nds the most fortunate thing for the Republican
party that could possibly have happened to it,
Doubtless the very best service which these highly
respectable gentlemen can render to the Repub-
can party ia to refuse TO have anything to do with
it, unless, indeed they will be good enough-as
most Of the n are-to go little further, and TO de-
nOunce, maign ard assail it. After yainly strug
Cling for many years to contest the control Of our
rational affairs with the slavehodiDg arissocrats of
the South, these Northern money-oag ar,stO-
Gratis, fully conscious at last Of their own
weakness and want of hold on the popular
heart Of the nation, are now content, indeed anxi-
oUs to subsde into humble allies or humble ser.
wants rather, Of the sayeholding aristOcracy-con-
tent TO scramble with their old custom house rivals
for such crumbs of profit and comfort as may fall
from the shareholders table or be generously
thrown at them, as one throws bone at dog,
% reward for special services. Thus Mr.. Geo.
T. Curtis, the Boston slave catching Commissioner,
in a recent letter to the Chairman of the old Wing
State Committee of Massachusetts,, proposes that
Massachusetts, should secure tariff protection for
her manufactures Of leather and cottOn-not on the
ground of the good policy in a national point of view
Of such protection to domestic industry, but as
boon-a special fayor-purchaSed of the South by
the enforcement Of the Fugitive Slave act. and a
quiet submission to the extension of Slavery into
Kansas, aud it's spread therce into the other
Territories of the United States
TIE Republican patty can very well spare all OF
this sort OF men; and whether they go over to the
shareholders direct like Mr.. Choate, or stop at the
Know Nothing lodges on the way, like Mr. Everett
and Mr. Winthrop, for the cake of the pleasure of
Mr. FimOre's company. in either case the slave
holders ars perfectly welcome to their services.
We are fully content to receive by way of exchange
ito the Republican ranks the sincere ancient
Democrats of the North, upon whom, indeed, We
must rely as the grenaders of the Republican COL
umn. The money-bsg aristocrats Of the North
having originally By their own selfshness and
prejudiceS and want Of sympathy with the people,
thrown the control Of matte nal affairs into the
hands of the shareholders, are now welcome to ex-
srt their utmost efforts, out of the sam, sefshness,
prejudces, and want of popular sympathies, to
Keep the shareholders in power We find some
consolation, however, in historical "reminiscences
The Tories Of IVA did not prevent the success Of
the popular movement Of that day. nor will our not
lees malignant and inyeterae Tories of 1856 have,
We imagine, any better success in preventing the
triumph of the Republican party.