New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-12

Slavery issue shall hl0W Vi Wv o"N''~'A VI "NJ
other tonic In fact on every political question but
s,,,.rv the differences Of opiniOn-wthn the ranks
of The Democratic organization as now constituted,
being msdo up a. it is of Southern Wings Southern
Eulhfers, Northern Straight Wings, intense
Hunkers and Old Fogies generally-are just as
great ss between wholly antagonist parties.
Whoever thinks, therefore, that the socalled Demo
cratic party IL party grounded upon unanimity Of
sentiment in regard to constitutional construction
or administrative policy touching our greatest do
mestic questions aside from Slavery is totally In
error. And whose believes it can administer this
Government for any length Of time before falling
into disintegration from the want of utilization
among its elements, is alike mistaken. The only
bond of union in the Democratic organization Is
Slavery. 1t is merely party for the defense and
extension Of the system Of servie, in opposition to
free labor When from any cause this issue be-
comes subordinated or becomes repugnant to the
public sense, the party, as national organization,
must 20 to pieces. 1t sndeed impossible it should
long continue the dominant party under any cir
cumstances. If it be defeated at the next
General Election, its power and prestige will be
infalby destroyed. If it succeeds its objects are
80 hostile. and viii prove so fatal to the free labor
of the North, that the masses of its own ranks in
the Free States will turn and rendit into Fragments
The system Of servile labor, which the party now
champions with an inhuman as well as an unwise
ZEAL will directly conflict with the interests OF the
laboring classes in the Free States. And when
This il perceived and felt by the masses, the party
will crumbe like untempered mortar. The inter-
ests of Northern free and Southern slave labor are
not identical and cannot be rendered harmonious.
One conflicts with the other, and will do so till the
collision ceases The reekDg mass of free labor,
hugely swelteriDg under its burdens, stops not to
phosophize or nterrogate political actions closely,
30 long as it has room and verge enough and feels
no external pressure from conflicting systems OF
industry. But when once the path OF that mass is
crossed, when once il finds distractions to It's
spread, when offensive antagonisms in the shape Of
coerced and degraded industry surround it, holding
their place under the lash Of proud and naughty
srstocracy, then will the ebullition of that mass
overflow those distractions and antagonisms like
red-hot lava. The great error of policy on the
part of the present managers of the Democratic
party consists in their failure to recognize the bear
ings and results of their own schemes of Slavery
Extension. They are mole.eyed and blind to the
operation Of the primary laws which control all
great political movements, and give direction
TO the broad currents Of affairs. Not one of
them has ever risen to the contemplation OF
the fundamental causes of national development,
investigated those of national decline, or cast their
glance forward or back an inch beyond the passing
hour. They are simply men of the hour, without
ideas, who deal only in material facts. They
dwell 10 tho little political tub Of their own con-
struction, and fail to see or recognize aught in the
universe beyond. They are mere journeymen
tibkers at work upon the little dams and dikes
which inclose seetbing elements of whose power to
sweep away their childish guards they seem not to
have the faintest conception. 1t is not such short
sighted men who lay the foundation of permanent
parties, or dig the channels for public affairs.
They are bOtchers of work, bad workmen whose
blunders must be repaired or end In disaster and
ruin. The present attempt to abridge the area OF
free labor and extend Slavery till it i'm
rnediately trenches spon its great antagonist
against which 1t cannot stand dA!'
is gross faulty in Judgment as well as grave
offense against Freedom and Humanity IL tne
rising members of the Democratic organization
shall know no better than to place reliance upon
these mere prosecuting attorneys, these dulleyed
nettoeeers of affairs, great is to be their dsaPpomt
,oeut hereafter when they shall expect permanence
&C success in their political career. WHAT'S called
the Democratic party was never SO CRITICAL! STU
ated as al this hour.
Defeat or success is alike fatal to it; success
w;, be eyen worse than defeat. For the objects 1t
now seeks, the measures it now advocates inc
principles upon which it now acts, are so hateiui
in Themselves, so anti-dcmocratic, 80 at war Win
the interests of free labor that in making them tn
basis of future career Of the party, confusion and
dissensions must arise which will split it into
thousand fragments. j. s. r.
Special Correspondence Of Tue N. T. Thbuse
WASHINGTON, Saturday, May III, 1856.
1t is suggested OF distance in quarters that
ought to know better that if the admission OF Kan
sas under the Topeka Ccnstitution cannot be ac-
compished, the opposition in Congress should fall
back on the Douglas bill and pass it. Whether this
suggestion arises from the weakness of not compre'
hendne the subject or frem that OF desiring TO ap-
pear astonshingy impartial it is none the less alb
surd and miscellaneous. That any journal processing
To favor the cause of Free Kansas should be so In.
iudicious as to advocate such course is subject
of equal establishment and regret. The editorial
article in The Times Of Thursday last, to which
allude, is utterly condemned in political circles
here, as alike weak in conception and
inconsideratc in exposition. Kansas has just two
H., 1ali from, Ia n