New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-07

period-the resistance of the North in 1890 to
the sdmissien of Missouri a. Slave State-the
Missouri Restriction on Slavery north of 36' go
the exclusion in '46 of Slavery from all the terri
tory claimed by Texas north Of the same parallel
the WilmOt Proviso-and the present struggle to
exclude Slavery from Kansas. If the platform is
right, our revolutionary fathers were very wrong,
and our country history needs 70 be turned end for
end, AID written over again.
Mr.. Buchanan has been Q Protectionst, an ad-
vocate Of Federal Internal improvements Slave
~ RestrctiOnist, aud an att. Fillibuster-all Of
which he would seem to have repudisted in his
wild hunt after the Presidency. There is that in
wilder and ibfatuate those who once set their hearts
upon it, so that principle, conviction, consistency,
are utterly forgotten in the chase.
Mr.. Buchanan is a good candidate for his party,
precisely because he is not directly implicated in
some of the last and worst of that party's doings.
Had be been at home in 1854, he would necessarily
have been involved in the passage of the Nebraska
bill and is disastrous consequence 1t is only the
aiibi hch Can be proved in hi. behalf which rem
dert bim more available candidate than Pierce
or Douglas. And those who will support him must
be perfectly aware that be will follow in the foot
steps of those he has supplah and do the work II
elected, which they have left uncOmpleted. Nay:
the facts that he was not in the Nebraska fight and
owes his nomination mainly to Northern votes. will
constrsin him to commit himself more utterly and
abjecty to the Slave Power than another would
need to do. And no man ever evinoed greater
pliancy or subserviency to that Power than James
Buchanan.
Ard this is, after all, the only question of any
consequence involved in the Presidential contest.
the White House, save as his election shall rebound
to the establishment of Freedom or Slavery n Kan
sas and the Territories In conte npatiDg this
issue, all personal considerations fade into insign.
cance. We ask not who is to be the dispenser OF
patronage, the wielder Of power, but who will roll
back the tide OF Rufian violence and gigantic Fraud
which for two years has rendered the Territorial
elections of Kansas a swindlng farce, and crushed
her beneath the iron heel Of ruthless invaders nnt
only on her subjugatiOn to Slavery by any means
ard at all hazards. AS we look OUT on the contest
for which the hosts are now gathering, we hear not
the roar of tie cannon by which the partisans OF
Buchanan are hailipg his triumph at Cincinnati, but
ra her that of the Federal guns by which the chief
edifice of Lawrence was battered down by
Sherfrs posse, in obedience to the dc
tates of a Pro Slavery Grand Jury, while the
Offices of the journals which dared to plead for
Free Labor and Human Rights were ravaged and
their materials thrown into the river. The bon
fires raised in P.npsy lvaDa to celebrate the nom-
pation of Buchanan can never hide the lurid blaze
of the burning dwellings of Gov. Robinson and bis
compatriots, guilty of no crime but that of hating
Slavery and loving Freedom. The cheers of ten
thousand partisans, rejoicing that they have no
longer to carry Pierce and Douglas on their imme-
date shoulders, ring out on the evening air. but
the low moan, of those whom the Law and
Order" forces in Ksnsss have made widows aud
crphans because their husbands and fathers desired
and labored to make their chosen home land OF
fire emen and not slaves will continue to be heard
lopg after those cheers shall have died away.
The wrongs of the Free State leaders now np:is-
oned as traitors or hunted from the Territory as
rebels shall yet be avenged by the American People,
whose verdict in November must be against Slave
ry Usurpation and Wrong, and in favor Of Justice,
Humanity and Freedom.