New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-15
What though the field be lost
All Ia not lost the unconquerable vii.
And study Of revenge, Immortal hate
And courage never TO submit or yield,

The fact IT, we have given the Sham Democracy
an awful fright, and such shaking that they feel in
their bones they could not stand another like en-
counter The young giant of Anti Slavery, who first
saw daylight about 1885, has arrived at mans
estate after pretty severe training Of abuse, but
fetirgs and suferings in his youth. He has met the
enemy for the first time in a tOlerably clear field
and with powers at least approaching maturity.
Though thrown, he will not stay down. but is on his
feet again already, proud of the yigOr he has dis
pIayed: proud Of the wounds he has inflicted; con-
scious that he ia every day gaining strength and
Skill and confident that four more years OF growth
will give him an easy victory.
No one can have understandingly watched or
studied the course of the Anti-Slayery movement
in this country without being satisfied that it has
nearly reached its object. Its progress has been
like that of the tide upon the sea-shOre-a success
sion Of waves, each one apparently failing and fall
ing back, but each in reality gaining little on it's
predecessor, until at length wave comes that
sweeps irresistibly up to hgh-water mark. Shall
low politicians, like the Greeks of Alexanders
army, acquainted only with tideless Mediterra-
mean, have taken the movement for merely storm
blown up by the wind Of agitation aud sure to blow
itself out. Each wave they have looked upon a.
the last. But still the tide advances, and woe TO
those who stand in its way Douglas, Pierce and
Gushing thought that the last wave had broken and
receded in 1852. Gushing used to say that the
Anti-Slavery excitement was like the Anti-Mssouc
exctement-that it would run its course for
while, and then die out, never TO be revived
that the American people never could BE- got
to attend seriously TO anything for more than
nine days, and that you might repeal the Mis-
souri, Compromise or any other compromise,
and there would only be a transient uproar which
would harm nobody. After the deed was done, it
would be acquiesced in. Dir. Cushings philosophy
is undoubtedly sound in the main. Unfortunately
for him. the question Of Slavery is the exception.
And it is the exception for the that it is thu
great radical, fundamental question Of our ma
ti0nal policy II is the form in which is embOdie
and ultimated here in America that great and ine'
liable conflict between aristOeraey and democracy.
between government for the benefit Of the many
and government for the benefit Of the few, which
every nation has to fight out for itself sooner or
later. fhe Anti-SlaveIy, or really democratic SIDE
in this contest starts with an immense advantage
an advantage that the democracy Of no other ration
has ever bad-which is, that the principles a tho
National Government, and the documents in which
those principles are expressed (he Declaration Of
Independence, and the Constitution Of the United
Ststes), are on their side. They therefore do not
have to take revolutionary attitude. Far from
seeking to overthrow the Government, they only
seek to restore the administration Of it ~ the prin-
ciples on which it was instituted, and from which
il has been perverted.
A party with this object cannot fail though II
may be temporarily defeated, party cannot Ian
that has enlisted on its side in the past the tradi-
tons and State papers Of the Republic, the authority
of the Fathers and Heroes Of the nation and in the
present, the genius, the elOquence, the literature
Tie civilization, and, above ALL the religious con'ie
tons OF not only its own people, but Of all CHRIS
tendon.
With judiciOus management the RepnhlicsA
ia, " will carry the whole North in 1860 ss triumph
antyy as it has New.Eng'and and New-iork 10
| 1855. I think We may be sure Of retaiEins 'ns
! cams we have made. At all events. New'Engsha
| Rss taken her position She will make 10 PACK