New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-24

ard 20 admitted What nave Tue ha
alien IN migrants and Roman Catholics 70 90 - 80
that If iOe American People declare 10 paorle
dom, Kansas will be free. Ii the American - 80
declare for Slavery. Kansas will be- HIa'e &C.
II the American People divide and one Poi.tp-,
ten mint Ity, declare for Free lon "hiIo ,,r
portion being al.o minority, declare a. Nn'' -,
eicners and Catholics and third Ia II
eIilcr. declare foI Slavery. nothing = oo'''u' ,
against foreigners and Catholics, ho.nins I'm.
Slavery, and Kansas becomes 4 HId'' Vor.
II is snparent that the issue raised py 'A' ~ ~
N1,bii,gs ubs,eyer /. - merit, !: an imma,efai'
irrelevant and fa,e issue. ialse i'suo -!
tends T. divert and uslead the people Irou w ~
one. and of course 10 prejudice the JudelHeu' NJ
rendered upon il do hot accuse Tie hho"
uls Of designing 50 TO mlseac beca"', nls'
how nothing Of the motives OF others ahu - I,.
". because tie question = never upon
a.ways upon effects. What have been Tue e1 o.
thus Jar Tie Know Nothing menDtIs u
Cres. divided between the advocates OF reeoolu III
80 Io,,;-or;es and - opponents. Their votes
coubircd with either party would nave gwen -
cCnrl.te triumph. Those votes. reserved 11 -
q. .due peculiar interest dictated, have iei, tne
auesfion Of Freedom in Kansas to the eiue'I VI wv
sword. .. 80.
What +, the effect upon the present canvas ou
which depends the question Of the duAA1s
Kansas aid Of Utah slave states III 5Ae ~
[
effects are inevitable. Whoever seeks ~ ih'fiP"se
an unreal or false issue mast necessarily, III order 10
gain even a hearing affect neutrality on lhe ltaI
one At the sane time. no part! can P,"'''..
neutrality on a vital issue with harness H. VIII
Necessarily sympa'hze with tie WeaAer " tn' ~
c,n.estapIs. ana in some degree operate WIKI ~
to overthrow the stronger which j. the co'iIu'oi.
adversary Fl both. on course, as the Nv" ~
contestants possess unequal strength ia u'H'i
States il will favor one III some OF uie o'''. M
favor the other IN other States. By virtue oil Ia"
that il irresistible il will sooner or later Octray
each PARTY when is own peculiar ends require 'hal
course The experience IF the wing ahd Demo-
cratic parties hes proved how Impossible IL j. l"
practice neutrality Oh the great question OF old't'!
Tie former has broken INTO pieces ana pelis"ou III
the effort The latter has been crowded mum
neutral position. aud with crumoled rams ha9 ''hoN
that of the extension and tortihcaton 0l slavery
The Know Nothing mass can expect 10 oe'toI SUI
cess. Tie effort will cost its life. Crowded anu
iostled between the two cOmbatants, IL VIII anu
must dissolve giving up portions OF It's men, n'lt 10
Freedom and there To Slavery, but not uhtu II II
too late 10 secure the triumph Uf Freedom mus
you zee that the KnOwNOihIDg mass is not redli!
political party. Ii is only an ePhemeral ana evan
fscent faction "a useless and as injurious as thilu
blade III the shears, or third stone when Ill iguo
rant artisan might attempt to gear IN between inc
upper aud the neither milestone.
By another sign, you shall know il 10 be not
party. but faction. From the days OF the laLdhg
of tie Pilgrims AT Plymouth until now, every one
Of the great parties which has been enghsed III III
rectlpg lie lie OF the American people has rccog-
nzed from necessity tie fact that the political system
Which existed and which must continue ~ eASt
here ia a Republican one based on the principles
Of tie rightfl political equality OF all the members
Of tie State and that directness, pubhclty ana
eouuiity q. voices are necessary III the conduct OF
unblc affairs The Know -NOthlDgs reject these
principles and seek to exclude large ana cOlSiu-
cradle portion Of the members OF the State from
all participation in the conduct OF It's AFFAIRS auu 10
obtain control and carry on the operations oi ihe
government of all by secret machinery inconsistent
Witb tie Constitution of a Republic ana hpproPri-
ate only to a conspiracy either for or against des-
potism II will. think, be hereafter regarded as
one of the caprces al politics that system ol com
binaton so puerllc was ever attempted Ill Tue
United States The absurdlty of the attempt Il
rendered still more glazing when 1t Is considered
that the grounds OF persecution assumed against
the class To be excluded are those OF nativity ana
religious backgrounds directly IN conflict Win
thai elementary truth, announced by the Declare,
tIon of Independence, that all men are created
equal, and by nature endowed with certain
iLalieuable rights, 10 secure when UO'erhmcn.s
are instituted among men; and Win mat fuhda-
mental article of the Constitution which declares
" no, then, will choose TO enroll himself under
the banner OF an epnemeral, evanesceut and lnJurl-
Gus faction like this, TO be compromised III us
frauds Tor a day IRA year. or two years, ana then
% be- left by il 20 the pity and scOrn OF the nation
whose confidence il had sought to abuse Ger
tainly. no one who values at It's just worth the
great interests of Freedom and humanity when
are staktd on the present contest nor even any one
" no values at its Just worth his own influence, or
l. nt.ru pla a. "A
Our choice between parties, fellow citizens Is
thus confined 20 the Democratic and Republican
Parties. On what principe could We attach our
selves to the Democratic party Let Us LOOK iuh
i'm The face the actual state Ot things Seven years
AGO. when | entered Congress as Senator from
Ills State there not an acre OF s0ll wllhln the
National domain from which Slavery was not ex-
cluded by law. II was excluded from Mlhnesota
l., The Ordnance of l7c7, which was then OF FULLY
.;ku,vl,dped obligation and effect. II was ex-
chded from Kansas and Nebraska by the Missouri
C,murom,e restriction, which also was then III fill
sf,ct /, was equally excluded from California,
Including New-Mexico and Utah, by Mexican
laws which had never been impaired, ana
we're of confessed obligation. Ii was excluded
from Oregon by the organic law of that Terri
tory. Now there is not an acre of the pub
lie domain which Congress has not opened 10
the entrance OF Slavery 1t has expressly abrogated
The Missouri Compromise, on the ground that IL
was void. for want of power in Congress under the
Constitution 10 exclude Slavery, and also on the
ground that the Compron Use OF 1850 had already
settlcd lis inyadty This legislation, If acqulesced
in by the people, will henceiorth BE- irreslsuby
lain ed as abrOgaiing alike the Ordinance OF i'o'
the Missouri Compromise restriction, ana lne
Wcxican laws Thus the whole oi the Territories
has been already lost to Freedom by the legislation
Of tle last seven years; and the controversy before
", ,ne NOT 10 save, hut to reclaim. During the
Sr., siY wears of that period, there were only TWO
,,T,;esE,he Demo cratic and the Wing partles-in