New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-21

Of their principles. We have carefully avoided any,
the least, appearance of what is commonly caiied
brag in the conducting of this canvass and this' at
least to the extent to which we have carried H. III
opposition to the opinion of persons for whose Judg
men. we entertain just regard. We were re-
solved that 80 far as our influence extended no un'
due confidence should be entertained BY the Repuo'
can party as to the certainty Of victory IN baltle
with foes as willy as they are desperate. This VIC
tory we have always believed and still believe, may
be won by resolute courage Neutrality-suspicious. ana
wise tactics, and in no other way and by no other
means. We were determined from the outset that
no false confidence, inspired by US, should relax
those efforts and diminish that of personal re-
sponsibity on the part of every one engaged IN the
conflict in which only lay the hope Of final success
We conceive that the result of the Pennsylvania
election has justified the prudence OF our course
What has been done, or rather what has been him
dered there, has not been accomplished by boastful
vaporngs and jubilant predictions, but by hard and
earnest work, done in hope and faith, to be sure,
but in the full consciousness of the difficulty OF the
strife and uncertainty of the issue.
We ale as hopeful as We have ever been OF carry
ing that State for Fremont in November, if the due
price Of success be paid without grudging We
have the example of former contests, in which the
opposition to the sham Democracy were defea ed or
had victory which seemed but defeat in disguise.
at the State Election while they carried all before
them when the magnetism of great principle or
Of an overmastering passion drew forth IRON tner
seclusion hosts of voters who cared little whether
Tweedledum or Tweedledee played the first fiddle
in the State, while they yearned to save the Nation
from the discords and the dsgraces which an In
competent or a corrupt leader could not fall 70
bring among it, barmonies. We have fall conf
dence that, if untiring and ncessant husbandry be
expended on the soil of Pennsylvania, and of every
O.ber doubtful State, and not otherwise, harvest
of living men may be made to spring up sufficient
to save this nation from the impending disgrace
and ruin involved in the election of Buchanan, and
in its natural and necessary consequences. But
should this not be done, should the hearts OF men
fail them through fear through sOth, and should
the black and bloody principle of Border Rufhan-
ism place itself ncarnate at the head of the nation,
and wave the slave-whip in triumph over the
darkenng fields of Kansas, we shall still bate
no jot of heart or hope but rejoice in what has
been effected and work on in firm faith in the
future, which may yet be conquered for the country
and the race.
The issue which is now joined between Freedom
and Slavery is not one that turns on personal pas
sons or economical theories, or, in any just sense,
on sectional interests The question which divides
the nation is not one that has sprung up in the
workshop Of the mechanic, or the counting-room
of the merchant or the closet of the philosopher.
The passions that are abroad are not nourished
mainly by selfish fears of loss or hopes of gain;
they come forth from the hearts of men and not
from their pockets, and their issues extend far be-
yOnd the ignorant present. 1t is true that the ma
teral interests of the nation, and of every man in
it, in the Slave States as well in the Free, are
darkly wrapped in the issue that has been made up,
and will be affected for good for evil, according
as it is decided for the right or for the wrong.
But it is not from calculations such as these that
mighty agitation like that which now stirs the
North to the depths Of its heart proceeds. The
Dollar, mighty as it is, is not absolutely omnipo-
tent over human hearts, even though they beat In
American breasts. The South, or rather the
sayeholding oligarchy there has miscalculated the
clements of its game. The love of wealth, the de-
sire of ease the passion for luxury, the better
aspirations for the means of benefcence aud good
works, have not entirely extingushed in Northern
hearts the natural sense of justice and right The
Northern conscience does not lie hopelessy buried
beneath mountain heaps-Ossas en- PeliOns-of
money.bags and bales of merchandise. 1t hesves
and stirs even now in spite Of them all, and pro-
claims the fact of its life in the earthquake which
shakes the continent to its center.
1t isa common error Of tyrants and their tools
TO Judge of all men by themselves. They reckon,
in LAYING out their plans, with absolute certainty on
the sel6shness and follies Of mankind. But every
now and then mankind indicates the image of
Himself, which the Creator stamped upon the race
when He fret nodded it and breathed into it His
own spirit; and the tyrant and his myrmidons find
All their theories suddenly Knocked, their deep laid
schemes derided, their apparent victories turned
into defeats, their own countenances changed, aud
they sent ridculously or fearfully away. Hence
have come all the attempts TO make or keep the
many the slaves of the few and hence the terrible
re,stances and oyerturnings, which point the most
instructive morals that history has TO teach. 1t
WAS this oyerweening confidence In the cowardy
Indifference 10 the rights and interests of others, as
long as their own selfish rights and instant interests
were safe, on the part of the North, that lured
Pierce, Douglas and AtchisOn to urge on the blood
hounds of Slavery to seize on the virgin soil Of
Kansas, and, by fendish violence to make it TEEN
reluctantly with swarms Of slaves. With the aid
os the budseon and the revolver at Washington,
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