New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-22

Nor il even this the worst of it; for wh..e one
Of the two cooperating candidates for the Presi-
dency waves in the air this torch of sedition and
civil war, TO which the partsans Of the other clam
orously respond he serves at the same time but as
jackal to that other-whOm by this threat he seeks
to cram down the throats of the free people of the
North while that other candidate, thus backed,
not only indorses and sustans all the outrages now
perpetrated in Kansas by PrO-Slavery intruders
and invaders who say that the possession Of that
Territory ia necessary to them-but in bis famous
Ostend manifesto Endorsed and adopted BY the
Cincinnati Convention, whose nominee he is be
proposes to extend the same grab policy to all for.
eign territories which our Shareholders may happen
to think that they need.
Such are the novelties of doctrine and Of prac-
tce BY which the country finds itself suddenly be-
set The liberty of political action extingushed IN
fourteen States; an attempt going on in Kansas,
under the patronage of the Government at Wash
ington to give to the grossest and sheerest usurpa
ton the authority Of law, and two large parties
threatening, in case they both united should prove
minority, to refuse to abide by the determination
Of the ballot boxes, and to attempt to seize the
Government by force or to destroy it
1t must be plain, We should think, to every ra-
tionsl and e,n.iderate man, that in this state of
affairs and opinion the only hope of the nation, the
only hope Of Republicanism is in the triumph Of the
party which utterly repudiates all these neologles;
which adheres to the Old-iashioned Democratic doc
trine Of the right Of the majority to govern; which
maintains the liberty Of speech, of the Press, OF
public assemblies, and of political action; which
utterly repudiates any resort to violence; which sub
mits itself to the test of the ballot box, asking for
power only as it is sustained by constitutional
majority Of votes; which threatens no pronuncia-
mentos, but proposes, whether victorious or de-
feaed, alike to stand by the Union, the Constitution
and the law. All well-wishers Of our American
Democratic institutions, must indeed find hope and
consolation in the fact that while so many dark
clouds were gathering around our Republic, such
Il party has been suddenly raised up as if BY Provi.
dence itself for the safeguard of Liberty. And
surely of all persons in the world the great capital
lists and property holders Of this cy-at least if
their sagacity in matters of politics is to be reck-
oned as but hundrcdth part of their sagacity in
matters of fnance-they surely might be reckoned
upon as the most certain Of all persons in the coun-
try to throw themselves in body into the scale in
which the two weights of Freedom and COnserva-
tsm are trembling the balance against Usurpaton,
Anarchy and Civil War.
When, however, we look at Wall street-st least
if the opinions and wishes of Wall street are to be
judged of by the contents of three out of the four
daily journals which claim to be and are generally
regarded as its especial Organs-nOt only are We
most unpleasantly reminded of that somewhat hard
but we fear only too true declaration of Scripture
that it is easier for camel to go through the eye of
needle than for rich man to enter the kingdom of
heaven; but even in mere worldly affairs, even in
question not so much of conscience, justice and
right as Of mere prudence and safety we find that
the merchant princes of Wall street are no more to
he relied upon than the democratic princes at Wash
ington or the class of princes generally, against
putting trust in whom, the Scripture so emphnti-
csy warns us.
What possible interest we should like to ask, po-
litoal, social financial or religious, can Wall street
have in the triumph Of the Border Ruffian party, OF
which Buchanan is the candidate "a candidate
whom The Journal Of Commerce avowedly and zeal
ously supports, and for whose benefit The Express,
while nominally advocating Fillmore, invents and
repeats the NEST barefaced lies and the most infa-
nous sIandcrs-a business in which the sleek,
white crayatted and solemn Commercial Adrcr-
Gser plays second fiddle to The Express. What
has Wall street to gain by the triumph Of
party which carries elections by an invasive mob,
.neakingly assaults and proposes to murder Sena-
tors in their seats, and drives citizens from their
hopes and property because they dare to favor
Presidential candidate not approved of by the ma
iority Of their neighbours Does Wall street wish
TO make Captain Rynders with his Empire Club, in
whose grand display the other night The Journal Of
Commerce found so much comfort and consolation,
the political arbiter of this city, Does it wish to
lave our municipal elections carried like that lately
at LeavenwOrth, the operation to be commenced
by forcing on shipbOard and sending away, with
their wives and children, but OBTAINING all their
property, all thought likely to have courage enough
10 vote against the Border Rufisn ticket Or does
Wall street wish to introduce among us the Mobile
fashion of supervising the sales Of booksellers and
other merchants
There are plenty Of indications occurring every
day. that nothing prevents the Buchanan and Fill
mere parties among US from adopting the same
hort way with the Republicans which is practiced
in the fourteen Ssashem States, in which these
Two parties are in The ascendency-no except
the simple fact that they are not yet strong enough
10 do it. Let the money of Wall street lavishly
expended to support such infamous journals as The
Express, along with the more decent but also more
dangerous Journal Of Commerce and Commercial
.idretser, once succeed-which Heaven in its
mercy forefend in giving the Bcrder-Rufhan
party new lease of power, and we may reasonably