New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-04

Tie deck is now cleared for action. To-day
will be the most important for the State
of NewYork Of any day since the time when
the Waterman cried midnight and that CORVALLIS
was taken. The coming election is pivotal. On it
may turn the destiny of an empire If words or
acts have any sgnifcancy, this day will inaugurate
q new lease for Liberty or new term for Slavery.
No ordinary meter can grasp the depth, the hight,
the breadth of the question Of this election. ii
reaches 70 the foundations of the earth to the very
subsoils Of nations nutrmenf, establishing
whether Slavery shall blast or Liberty shall
bless our plsnet. Such is the choice afforded.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: no
empty phrase this, but the root Of philosophy, OF
pOicsl economy, of a nations glory, of Christian
peoples existence on the face Of the earth. History
is philosophy teaching by example and all history
teaches but one ale-,hat the wastes and cruelties
of pagan -begoten Slavery have burned out empires
Lie destroy ing fire.
Tha: the good and the great Of our classic days
that the men who died with Warren or triGmphed
with Washington-were all for Liberty and all
against Bondage is fact which should wilt, wlther,
crush triturate to the last powder of contempt and
oblivion, the crowd of Oiiice-huntiDg weathercCcks
and sentimental pOtroOns, who now advance the
cause of opprt ssion either by action or default.
That the same offce-hunling set know that the
People of the United States would be for Liberty
and against Slavery if properly instructed, is
equally true But hat are the facts-facts which
soil and shame the national repute, putting its once
democratic distinctions beneath the lowest form OF
European despotsm7 These the facts: In ff-
teen Cf the States, covering nearly three-hfths
Of the entire Statc-area of the Union, political dis
Gu, sion is aowcd-any exception to this showing the
force ~ .he rule. As we write, We have before US
eighty Buchanan and Fillmore papers OF the South,
forty Of each and in regard 70 the open discussion
Of the question OF Territorial Extension of Slavery
and is effects on the life and destiny Of this nation,
there is the same difference between them that there
5 between n alligator and crocodile. Each
strives for prcGmineuce in representing its candl-
date as tbe special friend Of he Slaveocracy. Then
in regard 70 the North, where liberty has not de-
parted quite vet, where freedom Of print and
speech exists without the bloody terrors Of lynch
law,-where whips and chains, and blood hounds
and funera, pyres, are not fashioned by a vulgar,
brutal oligaIchy TO scOurge into submission mechsn-
les and laborine men-in this North there has been
scIub.race Of lying between the Buchanan and Fill
more organs. Each and either has Ignored the true
issue. Throughout Pennsylvania, and in New
York. as we have shown the Buchanan scoundres
have represented Z" Buchanan and Breckenridge rs
the friends OF Free Kansas, calling forth the denun-
CATION Of a paper.-which, though il despses Free
Labor AMI supports accordingly Fillmore as one OF
the candidates Of the South has at east the mani-
ness 10 dcnounce the double-frced yillanies Of the
Northern Buchananes. On this point We quote
briefly from The Richmond Virginia Wing;
"M,Ryr1ors TIMrs-No Further Extension Of
Sarert.-T These indeed somaryelous times Amid the
eternal DIN and noise OF ne southern oemoc ate fress
about the bic s.irg of Slave ye1tenson, what do
eeel We see NJ. Buchanan home-Organ. published
night under bis 10 Lancaster and supposed TO ex-
pee fully NJ. buchanan sentiments, boil IL ever with
ipdier aon at the bar nsnu4on that Buchanan IS or
ever was in favor OF extending Slavery, AND GIylyG
IHr LIE 10 sUcH INsISUATIoNs ~ THE MOST EMPHATIC
YANxrR. AND YET MR.. BUCHANAN Is HELD
UPTO Us HERE IN TIE SOUTH. AND Is SUP
PORTED By THE GREAT BULK OF HIS
PARTY HERE IN THE SOUTH. UPON "HE
SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE GROUND THAT HE
is TIE ADVOCATE OF SLAVERY EXTEN-
SION APP Wl III ApM RF IHE The HE'S GOV
SLAVERY AND AUGMENT THE POLITICAL
TOWER OF THE SOUTH By THE AID
niTION OF MORE SLAVE STATES. We
roe, also Mr. Breckenridge the Democratic cardi-
date for the Vice-Pre.ijepcy ard Southern man.
vel en- n,iy declaring before Norttern audience that
lie belongs 70 no political organization that desires 70
extend Slavery. And yet be- TOO Is supported with
item d5ily spd foury proclaimed to be the peculiar
representative and Champion Of Southern views and
southern ii. Its. How is this The Southern Demo-
with their loud clemo' ia favor of the extension Of
Slavery ard vet they are sustaining Candidate f,r
tie Nicc L. ,si.t .cy-snd he a Souttera mAn--sho
bo;'y sfrmS 20 ~ fscos Of hi' Northern supporters
hat de bcl,rCs so arty that iesres TO extend
Sl.ycy nor Of cVcIsc, does lie himself Gssue 70 OK.