New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-20


1t il not yet fortnight since Senator Douglas
was cornered on this very question by his col.
league, Judge Trumbull, with the direct question
do you hold that the people Of Territory
"while they remain such, can exclude or abolish
"Savery 7" and the Little Giant lodged the inquiry
by saying that this was judicial question to be
decided by the Federal courts Mr.. Buchanan's
successor in the Senate, Mr. Richard Bfodhesd, IT,.
maintained the Southern doctrine Of the indeeasi ole
right of each Shareholder to take his human chstels
into any Territory, as opposed to Gen. Cas.'s doc
tire of squatter Sovereignty, in a speech to his
neighbOrs at EastOn in August last. Mr. j. Clancy
Jones, who is the leading Pennsy vanis represent
tatve in Mr.. Buchanan's interest, took the same
ground in debate in the House in the early
part of the present Session. The unparalleled
OutIages, prosecutions, rObberies and murders
which the Free-State men in Kansas are now sui.
fering, are all based the same Fundamental idea
of the constitutional right of the shareholders to
establish their " institution" in any Territory. and
the consequent wrong of any attempt to exclude
it. Mr. Buchanan cannot be ignorant of these
facts: with what honesty does he seek to befog
them He gives notice 10 bis acceptance that he
will answer no questions-that he regards the Gin.
cinnati Platform as the perfection of wisdom with
regard to political differences, and its approval
as the tOuchstone of political orthodoxy: is he
seeking to enIighten or to deceive and mislead the
People in the paragraph above quoted Let re-
corded facts determine.
COL Fremont is, we believe, the youngest man
ever placed in nomination for the Presidency; but
his life has been so active and eveDtful his fortunes
so varied and trying, that he may fairly be ac-
counted older in practical experience at fortythree
than are most men at fifty. BY energy, resolution
and courage, he has risen from poverty and OBJ
security to consideration and worldwide repute;
from penniless Orphanage he is understood to have
attained in middle life prospective if not present
wealth. Few men now living have voluntarily
braved greater hardihps or more imminent perlls;
few have OfteIer been placed in trying circum'
stances; and he has won his way nObly through
ALL His actual life surpasses in contrasts and MI
tatiOns the dreams of romance; and we believe 1t
is to be rendered still more remarkable by his cleo
ton to the Presidency. BE this as it may there ara
millions who will yet know him better and esteem
him more highly than they now do.
We do not enter upon the contest before US In
oDy spirit Of overweeniDg confidence. We admit
that the apparent Odds greatly in favor of our
adversares. We realize the obstacles thro wn in
the way of our success by the existence and pecu-
larities of the american" organization. We
know that the votes of all the Slave States but
Missouri and Delaware. with probably these also,
will be thrown for either Buchanan or Fillmore
most Of them for the former. We feel that the
possession Of the Government, with the dsburse-
ment Of the millions constantly flowing from
the Treasury, weighs heavily in favor of
the Cincinnati nominees. We are prepared
to hear that several eminently respectable dis
tnguished and wealthy citizens, who have hitherto
voted mainly with u.s. when they voted at all, will
now refuse to suppOrtthe Philadelphia nominations.
But we know that standard be arerh hitherto
encountered and vnuqushed greater odds than
these We remember that, in the long contest for
Speaker, Mr.. Banks at no time re ceved a single
vote from Slave State yet he was ct last triumph
antly chosen, and that the threatened dissolution
Of the Union, instead of thereupon occurring, was
again postponed to some future exigency-as it
will be again and again.
As to the American difficulty, we fesl that
the Conye ntOn has done whatever could consist
emily be done to unite and harmonize all the ele
ments of opposition to the Nebraska 1niquity
al d the Pierce dynasty. We are unfeignedly aux.
ious that all advocates of Free Territory shall act
with us in support of that principle; but we cannot
do aueht to secure the cooperation of class of
voters friendly to our great principle which will
necessarily tend to repel and drive away another
class. We do not inquire whether our candidates
for any trust have or have not been
of the american Order;" we will treat all a,
brothers and equals who will act heartily with us
in the great struggle now commencing; why
should Lot this be enough To exact more is to
insist on defeat and destruction. We sppea to the
msensnimity, forbearance and good sense of
Americans" as of all others, who concur with US
in desiring and demanding Union for Freedom.
Mr. Buchanan in his letter of acceptance, which