New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-05
FROM WASHING TON.

From Our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, June B. 1856.
II is the standing duty of respectable people to
discountenance all trays fighting, dueling, and such
| like entertainments. Nevertheless, it has become
necessary for Northern constituencies to send down
| to Congress persons educated aud skied in such
| accomplishments And for the coming elections in
| the North no man has any business to press his
claims upon the nominating conventions as con.
testant for seat in Congress unless he is prepared
to do bis duty therein in utter disregard of his life
The men who are unwilling to expose their precious
bodie. to personal danger have no business in Con-
gress under existing circumstances. 1t Is no place
for those who are cOnstitutionally timid-D0ne at
all for men who have an inherent rePugnance
for peril aud personal collisions. All such
are in duty bound to stay away aud leave the field
clear to men of different mette. AL such should
be promptly set aside by the Conventions if they
themselves do not know enough to keep back.
The same qualities are now needed for Congress
that are needed for the army. 1t is fighting men
who are wanted ia both branches. Not scholars do
we require bu. warriors. The cause of Freedom is
lang Thing for the want of them. The want will
be still more felt in the future.
Personally, have no doubt that the Free and
Slave States ought to separate, and thus avoid
this necessity. But this idea is not now palatable;
snd 80 far rs know, it ia not generally shared by
our people. And if they will insist upon preserg-
ing the existing National Union and sending repre-.
sentatiyes hither let them take measures to resist
the present determination of the South to quell
freedom Of speech and freedom of action on the
part of these repre- sentatves by the only course Of
action adequate to the emergency.
Let 70 one dismiss this suggestion as capriciOus
or inconsderate. 1t is founded on the most
thoughtful and sober consideration Of the subject.
The naked and fierce collisions of the Northern and
Southern ~ stems Of civilization, growing out OF
the destruction of all the compromises between
them, necessitate the condition that the implngng
points should be of equal Obduracy. To present
simply the mental culture and elevated sentiment
of the North against the pistol, the bowie-knlfe
ard the bludgeon Of the South is to covet disaster
ard humiliation and subjecton, and invite aggres-
sion and insult aud bloodshed. 1t is to pit
sheep sgsintt wolves. II is to set unarmed
against armed men in battle. The absurdity
of it is clear to every beholder. Aud
while the voices of Humanity and Christianity cry
out in horror sgainst the necessity referred TO-
its recogliton must, nevertheless be accepted aud
acted upon The country has been hurled, by
rtsighted and reckless politicians, upon straits
that are deplorable, but the consequences, while
they are to eprecated arenot to be avoided The
supposition of the political quacks experimeners
upon the National Constitution, who began by re-
pealipg the Missouri restriction, is that Slavery
and Freedom can exist in harmony in our Teri
tories. while they are there i'll actual conflict for
,upr, macy. There never was .hallower dream
by men elevated to power by nations
will than this. But the experiment to
show it has been thrust upon the country
From this has grown our present peril. II Was
pretended and perhaps believed by the authors Of
the existing mischief (for weakness and folly are
universal; ;;insr peace snd quiet would flow from
the principles and operation of the Nebraska bill.
Kansas is the illustration. 1t is now pretended,
aid perhaps believed, that the Slave Power can
t1iuu ph in its present designs, and hold Freedom
and the Free States in sutjectiOn TO ts policy Its
Laws, aid lts rules Of conduct and Of speech. AS
in the case Of Kansas, so in the belief of thi, essen
tial subjugaiOn Of the Free States, do the expert
neniers err. The contest 10 imposed upon Free
dom, not sought 1t il fragrant, it is likely to be
bloody. But Freedom is sure to triumph in the end
Forits apower greater and stronger thar any OF this
world which can be opposed to it. Butt viii not
triumph simply By the force Of its principles. 1nlts
great emergencies i,s weapons always were, aud