New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-22

,bs imminent danger Of the triumph of the Border
puIs,n and Slavery Extension Party. there was
ample ground for those CONGRATULATIONS nv INC
same time ii il impossible to note the III" '~!
with which these victories were gained tne '''s'i
margin Of votes which the victorious party couid
boast Of and the powerful array still presented oy
the defeated enemy, without deep sentiments Oh
modification and alarm at the state oil puohc
o,inion and feeling evinced by this condition OF
tbipcs Who would have believed, even six short
wears ago. that on the question OF the rePea oil 'ne
Missouri Prohibition, and the opening to slavery oil
all the wide regions of the West, nearly one-haii
Of the citizens of intelligent New-England would
be willing AZ the bidding Of set of miserable po-
tical spectators, and without even the price OF
mess of pottage to resign this inheritance oil I'D
ert,. accepted BY way Of compromise, which mad
already once curtailed it of considerable part oil
its fair proportions
What strange reaction this What an unac'
couptable change What miserable delusion
What lamentable apostscy. How is it possible,
cons;s,eu ty with the admitted intelligence OF New
ENGLAND. her love of Liberty, her antipathy to
Slavery, her spirit Of justice, her democrauc
dess-bow is il possible to explain this PROSTATE
condition of near one half of her voting pcPula-
ton fat in the dust before the shareholders,
and inviting them to tread upon their necks
II il easy 10 understand how the Northern De-
nocracy were led BY such shareholders as Jefferson
and Jackson: for whatever might be their panta-
tion discipline. the public object which they pro-
posed was the enfranchisement of the many rom
the power and control Of the few. But how any
party can be found at the North to sustain the im-
pudent attempt of three or four hundred thousand
shareholders to make the whole policy OF the
country subsidiary to the promotion OF their poit'-
cal and pecuniary nterests--that certainly is
most inexpicabe circumstance.
IL is easy to understand how men who profess
themselves the advocates of the rights OF man
and champions of the largest liberty should De
permitted to rise to political leadership without
any very strict inquiry how far their private life
and their domestic practices correspond with their
public professions. But when set OF political
leaders step boldly forward and publicly abure all
faith and belief in the doctrine Of equal rights;
when they boldly proclaim that superior strength
and intelligence cOnltT INC IIght W hou
and subiugation the weak and the ignorant; when
they frankly avow their intention TO make slave
holding the national policy of the country and to
tolerate free labor at the best as mere stock
institution-it certainly is most extraordinary
and unaccountabe to find this insOlence on the
part of the shareholders met by correspond
ing seryility on the part of Northern free aborers
end 10 see those free aborers voting if they had
personal, political, or at least moral interest
in the extension of Slavery and the placing the adj
minisration of our national affairs in the hands OF
men who profess such principles
We know well the decisions Of party feeling
and the follies into which men will sometimes be
driven by the excuses of political excitement. But
what can possibly be the nature Of the delusion
under which the Northern advocates ofthe Nebraska
policy are acting, or what they can expect to gain
for the country or for themselves, by keeping the
Shareholders in authority, is totally beyond our
powers of conjecture For men who love Slavery,
who think it the corner. stone of our republican
system. or whose only meaDs Of getting living is
in the breeding of slaves for the market, such a
political course is ineligible ard conslstent II IS
plain enough why Virginia and South Carolina sup
port the present Administration aud wish to secule
another like unto it. But how explain the conduct
or what can be the expectations, OF the vast oody
Of Northern dOughfaces