New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-21

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The Richmond Enquirer has been for forty years
past the leading organ and mCuth-piece of the
party which, having become a mere slayeholders,
party, by strange perversion of terms still claims
to call itself Democratic. 1t was this Journal and
| its editors that took the lead in depiyiDg Martin
| Van Buren, of the Democratic nomination ia 1874,
because be would not 60 for the extension OF
saveholdiDg, and the strengthening the hands OF the
slave holders, by the annexation of Texas. 1t was
this journal that led off on behalf Of Frank Pierce
as certain to prove, az he has done, most supple
and superseryiceabe tool in the hands Of the Slave
| Power. 1t is this journal that is now the chief
advocate of Mr.. Buchanan, as the sectional, slave
breeders, slavery extending candidate for the
Presidency and that pitches the key to which The
| The Boston Post, and the other lesser Northern or
CARS of the savedriyng party are expected to tune
| their tbroats
The posiion and nling of this journal, at the
yer, head Of the party to which it belongs, gives
| sp, cal interest to an article copied in another
column, in which The Enquirer states the grounds
upon which the pending Presidential campaign is
to be fought. Twenty years or more ago, at
| time when the money value of slaves had sunk to
very low figure, the Virginia save-breeding bust
nets being still in it's infancy, and the idea Of open
ing new slave markets by the annexation Of Texas,
Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, and by the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, not yet
started, The Enguir,r, which still had some tine
ture about it Of Jefersonian Democracy, was
al Xa for matt and for
the appropriation Of money by the State for the
transfer of all the slaves to Liberia. At that time
its columns abounded with eloquent denunciations
of Slavery as a moral, political, and economical
evi-sO that they even to tits day as an mex
haustible arsenal whence AbOtiOnists supply
themselves with both argument and invective. 1t
will be seen, however from the article to which
we REFER that since the breeding Of slaves for sale
has become the grand interest and business of Viz
GINA, The Enquirer has seen more light and has
totally charged its tone. 1t says very justly that
in "the pending canvass the Democrats (mean-
ing the slave. driving and slave-breeding party
"of the South cannot rely on the old grounds OF
"apology and excuse for Slavery for they seek
not merely to retain it ehers u.s. but to sztemd it
il do, according to The Enquirer, to rely on the
"mere constitutional guarantees Of Slavery, for
such reliance is pregnant with the admission that
"slayery is wrong, and but for the Constitution,
"should be abolished" The Enquirer fully
agrees with the ultra Abolitionists of the Garrison
school, that admitting Slavery to be an evil, the
Constitution of the United States - suppos-
ing that Constitution, the slaveholders,
the ultra Abolitionist and a certain class OF
dopghfaces do, to guaranty its continuance
can have no binding force as to that matter upon
the conscience of any honest man. 1.-The Conssi
tutioD," says The Enquirer, cannot help Slavery,
"if it be violation of the laws of God and moral
ty" If that be the fact, The Enquirer thinks the
ultra Abolitionsts perfectly right in maintaining
that the North ought to repudiate the Constitution
to abandon the Union. Ia other words, The En-.
qui,er lays down the doctrine that no man can be
regarded as conscientious and real friend Of the
Constitution and the Union, who does not look up
on Slavery as " Legitimate, moral, expedient," a
religious, natural, and probably, in the general,
"a necessary institution Of society"
This is the basis, according to Tie Enquirer, and
the only basis, upon which the present position Of
the South can be maintained, and the election of
Buchapan to the Presidency advocated 1t would
not even suffice to show that the condition of sls-
very is best for the negro In order to justify its
extension into new territory (Which is the great
point to be gained BY the election Of Buchanan,)
it must be shown to be best for society as whole,
including the whites as we'll as the negroes.
"This," says the Enquirer sis the only line Of
"argument that will enable SOutherners to main-
"tain the doctrines of State equality and Slavery
Extension. For if Slavery be not legitimate,
"usefu, moral and expedient institution we can
mot, without reproOf of conscience and the blush
of shame, seek to extend it, or assert our equali
"ty with those States having no such institution"
A., however, the doughfaces Of the North who
support Buchanan have neither cOnsciences 10
trouble them nor bushes to be spared, The En-.
gsirer-aDd no doubt The Journal Of Commerce will
rejoice to hear it-does not demand Of them TO go
quite so far For the cake of getting the necessary
complement Of Northern votes they are still to be
allowed to pursue course from which conscience
and shame would alike deter any respectable South
erner. As fey do not GEEK to extend Slavery, but
Only sgee 10 allow the Southeners to extend it as
a matter of right-in consideration Of this very
secondary part they are to play in the matter,
provided they vote for the extension of Slavery,
and strain every nerve for its introduction int,
Kansas, they are still to be allowed the privilege
of protesting to regard the social system of the
Free States, which they are to aid in driving out
as On the whole preferable to that slaveholding
system which they are to aid in forcing upon that
unhappy Territory, not merely by sppIaudng the