New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-22

republican liberty and along with it the hopes Of
The world. The domination which now impends
over us lie no longer merely slaveholding domins-
ton; it Is a slave-breeding domination, slave
trading domination, a slavery-extendng domina'
ton, q domination to be exercised BY men who
make no caims any longer to entertain any OF the
principles of Jefersonian Democracy, who scout a.
the idea Of the rights Of man, who set aside the
Declaration Of Independence as q mere rhetorical
flourish, who rdicule the notion that laboring men
ought to have any share in the management oil
public affairs and who boldly proclaim In many OF
their Southern organs that Free society Is dis
graceful failure and that domestic servitude, the
reduction Of The aboring whites to the condition oil
slaves, must be established at the North, as poht-
ical servitude to Southern taskmasters already mas
been.
Consider for moment what the fearful result Oh
the election of Buchanan must be. Ii Will DC
taken, and with good grounds, Is popular ap'
provd of the outrageous assault by Brooks upon
Sumner. From the position Of ferocious bully,
disgrace to bis State and to the nation, Brooks WILL
be elevated to the position of a conquering hero
whose proves has subjected in worshlpng SUD-
mission at the feet of the South, if not the whole
North, at least enough Northern States to decide
the result of the election. From the moment
that Buchanan is elected President nc North
ern member of Congress can any longer e1'
pect to derive from bis position IS such the
slightest protection in the exercise OF his con-
sttutlonal privilege of freedom Of speech. If be
dare speak at all, except BY way of fattery and
echo of the slave-breeders and Slavery-e1tenslon-
lists, he will do it at the risk of his life at the risk
of being wsylayed and assassinated, not merely on
his way to and from the Capitol, but in the very
hall of legislation itself, shot down, perhaps, or
struck senseess by blow from behind in the very
act of speaking. The party that nominated and
supports Buchanan for the Presidency has never
expressed any disapproval of the act Of Brooks,
but On the contrary, both they and their candidate
have given it q tacit approval. The first result,
then. of the election of Buchanan will be, sup
preston of the freedom of discussion in the Halls
of Congress- and the introduction instead Of gutta
percha and club law Brooks, encouraged by
this popular Endorsement of his outrages, will be
at once raised to the position of absolute lord and
master of the House of Representatives, to which
be has been reelected.
At the same time that the Representatives Of the
minority of the people thus deprived of all free
dom of political action, the minority Of the people
will themselves share similar fate. The election
practced during the in the fourteen South
ern States in which his main strength lies, of sup
pressing by force and violence all demonstrations
in favor of Fremont The election Of Buchanan
will be the adoption of that new system Of suffrage
new at least here in Amerca-among the usages
will be extended to the North, and henceorwsrd we
may expect that, instead of free competition in the
way of newspapers, tracts, speeches, political
assemblies and professions, and other similar means
of attracting public attention and gaining votes,
every party or combination of parties that feels
itself in decided majority, will fall upon the
minority parties with force and violence, and CON-
pletely suppress all exhibitions or utterance Of
their political preferences.
We come now to third result to be expected
from Buchanan's election. The system of intrusive
voting, ballot-bOx stuffing, bogus legislation and
bogus arrests backed up BY arson, murder and rob
berry, which, with the full approval of Mr.. Buchau-
an and his supporters, have been employed in Kan
sss as means of the extension of Slavery, and Of
trampling under foot not merely minority but
decided majority of the people of the Territory,
will BE- considered as having received the solemn
and deliberate approval of majority of the people
of tho United States. Thus approved aud sane
toned il will not be long before this new system of
extending the power and influence of the slave
breeders will receive new applications. The people
of Pennsy ania for example, will not be let of BY
merely themselves acting the humble servants OF
the South. They will be called upon TO assist Viz
GINA and Kentucky to carry the Border-Rufiian
system of politics into the neighboring States, and
to assist, with the aid of resident traitors in sub
ecting Ohio, and perhaps New-York, to Slavery
domination. Intrusive voting, ballot-box stufing
and bogus legislation having triumpked in Kansas,
why should not the same experiment be tried upon
other rebellious communities With the powerful
sanction thus given to the substitution of force and
fraud for free elections what would be the prospect
of popular rights
With these total changes in our domestic system.
cotemporaneous change would take place in our
foreign policy For the system laid down BY
Washington. and hitherto the traditional policy Of
our Government, would be substituted that Of the
Ostend Manifesto--the policy, that is, of highway
robbery. since no man commits highway robbery
for the love of it, but because he considers his ne
cessities greater than those of the man he robs.
With this prospect before us, with our country
exposed TO such dangers, can any man hesitate as
20 his duty in this most alarming crisis ?