New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-01
THE PATH OF VICTORY.

For the present, the friends of Freedom have
but two agencies through which they can act DEN
nitely in aid Of their principles. These are, FIRST
voluntary associations and, second, the State
Governments. Until they can get control of the
National Government which will come about in
process of time, they must be content with an
energetic use of these two instruments. To
party whose chief object is the patronage and
plumber of a National Administration, the failure to
obtain national success is dscouraging. Ii should
be quite otherwise with one bent on indicating
and establishing vital principles Such party can
sGord to wait, confdng in the sure triumph of
truth and justice in the end. Besides, what we
are now after is to arrest the spread of Slavery. II
we can do this by whatever means our main object
will be accomplished.
The power that may be exercised by voluntary
associations in laying the foundation of Free States
ia incalculable. Almost anything in this world can
be done by men and money, welded by intelligent
individual or associated enterprise BY these means
continents may be subdued, towns planted, cities
built, States erected. With the great modern civ
ilizer, steam men in these days may 60 forth
anywhere and everywhere, where there is no
population or small population and extempOrize
Governments to suit themselves, without stopping
to ask aid, protection, or cOuntenance, of any
existing power. 1t is enough that they go clad in
the panopy Of justice and truth, to justify, be-
fore mankind, all their acts of independent
mobility. Arbitrary Governments, slayehOlding
or slavespreoding Governments, Can afford
no real and lasting if indeed any check
to such movements. The men who subdue
nature and plant civilization, become the
creators of new rather than the subjects of old
governments. The present man rises over past
legislation. The individual becomes greater than
the State Hence il is that we may well point to
associate enterprise as power in behalf of Free
dom greater than any that can be brought to op-
pose it. We may safely pit it against all the
doughface and slayeholding legislation of the age.
Let us have this instrument, for our purpose, and
we can whistle down the wind the trumpery
cries Of such adventures as Pierce and Gushing,
who are striving to establish the legal supremacy
of Slavery Let the Northfurnsh men and money,
settlers and Sharp's rifles, and these two political
assassins shall be taught the way of Liberty
better than they have ever yet learned that
lesson. They accidentally welded the Execu-
tive arm Of the National Government to-day, but
two years hence will see these two men subsidized
to their original spheres-the one a second.rate
New.Hampshire poltican-the other an ambidex'
ferrous, questionable citizen of the STILL old Puritan
town OF Newbuyport; their opinions and power
just equal with that of any two average Yankees
the street Indeed, that the Emigrant Aid Socie-
ty, well backed is more than match for all the
Pro-Slavery legislation of Congress, and all the
Kansas Messages of the Executive to boot. But il
must be well backed, and we trust its hackers
are aware OF their elevated agency, and ready
for the discharge of their whole duty Give us,
then, men and money, settlers and Sharps rifles,
and let see ifpryate associate enterprise in be-
half Of liberty is not stronger than the combined
rascslity Of every branch Of the Government
against it,
Meantime the Free-Sta,e Governments, the re-
naming agency Of Freedom, should be gradually
getting their batteries in readiness for duty Let
the Prostate craft begin to swing into line
one BY one. When we shall have got the Cover
nor, the Judiciary, the Legislature, of any one
State clesrly, distinctly, aud permanently on the