New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-11

Democratic psrty oooiesses, q Is Hms. IA iass'
psci,y IN that tespec:, by submitting to have .
President dictated to it BY clique Of Northern
efice-holding and ofice-'eeking pOlis;c!ans-- men
q large portion OF whom are notorious Tor
| their proHgacy, private a. well as public
acting in concert with, and playing into the
hands Of q Southern clique, whose sole object is
the extension of SIsyery-ihe whole of both
united factions rot amounting to two hundred
thousand individuals-whst wonder if, with the
revival of sedtion laws, and alien laws, and trials
for high treason, and the mos. extravaeant claims
Of federal authorty-simultsneously with the selrc-
ton by the pretended Democratic party of an old
| Federast as its cand date for the Presidency
what wonder, we say, if at the same time, the
notion of the old ultra Federasts should also revive
and spread that after all the people are incapable
of self.sc7ernmert, and that to adopt the doctrine
Of universal suffrage is merely to throw the admin
istaton of affairs into the hands Of audacity. yio
lence and hypocrisy
1t has been imagined and often said that the
democratic idea has triumphed in the United
States and that the OLD Federal opinion that the
lical power with any advantage to themselves,
has sunk to the position Of an exploded heresy. 1t
appears, however, that all this work must now be
done over again. Our fathers had only speculative
error 10 combat, which they fondly thought they
had exlinguisbed; but behold, within these elk
years past, the same indeed vastly greater con.
tempt for the great labOriDg mass of the people,
has reappeared not merely in the form of aspecu-
latiyo theory urged at this moment in books,
pamphlets and newspapers, in every Southern
State, with passionate sDaticism-accordios to
which theory those who labor are destined by
nature to perpetual and inevitable subsection to
the authority of others-t has actually gained
complete control Of the administration of our Ma
tional Government; it ha. gained like control of
the entire machinery Of the Democratic party; it
sgralizes its triumph by nominating as the Demo-
cratic candidate man educated in embittered
hostility to every democratic idea; no longer con.
tent with theorizing it brings matters 70 practical
test.
Are the free people of the Northern States capable
of self government Are they endowed with intelll-
geIce enough to distinguish their friends from their
enemiesl Are they so stupid and british as not to
know fish from serpent Will they, like alliga-
tors or ostriches, swallow down pine knots and iron
spikes as if they EOurishing food This 10
the great practical question now raised, aud upon
which within the next five mOnths the frcemen OF
the Northern States will be called upon to pass
We say freemen Of the Northern States, because
in the Southern States there are no freemen
Within the last twenty years, with the great in
crease Of value given to slave property by the in
creased cultivation of cotton and thes correspond
ing increase in the influence and the DOM
neeriDg insOlence Of slave breeders ard slave
buyers - freedom in these States - freedom
of the press, freedom of speech, even the
freedom of private op nion-has been totally
crushed out. Speakers in debating societies even
cannot suggest an idea unfayorabe to the slave
domination, no bishop even can drop word of SYM
patby aud kindness for his black communicates,
without being fur ously assailed therefor, and put
into personal danger by the agents and under
strappers of the Slave power. There are in the
Southern States nobody but slaves, black and
whte-the latter held in subsection even more
gslirg and bitter than The fonner-ruled over by
a domineeripg mob of slavehoders who sometime,
under the color and the form of law, and sometimes
in total disregard of both, suppress with high
hand every movement Of finger or wag of q
tongue in opposition TO their absolute rule The true
condition of the Southern States may be judged Of
by what is now going on in Kansas and what lately
occurred in the United States Senate. In Kans,s
indeed there is a movement of opposition TO des-
potsm, ard there some slight and unsvang re-
si,tance is made The complacency with which
the Senate of the United States submits to have
one of its members knocked upon the head for cx
ercsing his constitutional right Of freedom Of
speech-the great majority of the Senator'S
whether Northern or Southern evidently rejoicing
in the sct-may be taken az perfect symbol of the
cODditiOnto which the Southern States are reduced
The question now ~ be settledis, shall this slave
holding domination thus established in all the South
ern States, and now lately introduced into Kansas
and the District of Columbia be extended over the
entire Union! In the Southern States the most
melancholy forebodiDgs Of those who doubted the
capacity of mankind for self government hays been
already spply fulfilled. There is no greater lib
,rty in any OF those States than there in France
during the reign of terror Will the people OF the
North now aid to give to these melancholy forebod
ings further and complete fulfllmenti VIII they
aid to extinguish the last hope of liberty, and to
proclaim the intrustment Of political rights to
the mass of the people a miserable deusion aud
folly by suffering themselves TO be blndly aud un-
resisuql; led, like lambs to the slaughter, into the
yt dug for them by the plotters at Cincinnati