New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-02

Senate yesterday are an earnest Of what mar s.
expected. Let il be understood that they spoke
WI lat they did at i'm ninent personal peril. Shame
fui and damnipg as the fact is, 1t Is true, Ad ID
recognition here Is umvessel. Lot them thsp.
have the full credit of what they did in being the
first TO break the spell Of silence in Congress
But the North is entirely at disadvantage Il
the contest. The Northern men are not lighting
men by profession, and they will never initiate
bloody assertion of their rights. They will be Goa.
tent with standing on the defense, and this fact h
fatal and will continue TO be fatal, to their equal
r. with Southern men on the theater OF contest
From this disadvantage they can be relieved ony
in one of two ways. They must take step
backward in civilization and adopt The
dueling code, at the same time sending
body of men to Congress to sustain H. or Aei
must disunte from their slayeholding associates.
They must do one or the other of these things, Or
be in the end Inundated by being vanquishcd o.
the national arena They must learn to fght, b.
trained to fight, and come here to fight, or take
permanently the position at the seat Of government
of the subject race. Such, indeed, they are now
considered by the South as is abundanty demon
strated by such comments as those of The Ries.
fnond Examiner on Sumner, who, when he fell
sensecss beneath the blow of his assailant
pronounced him "an inanimate lump Of
incarnate cOwardice," and other similar
contemptuous criticisms OF Northern pluck.
Unless the Northern and Southern civilizations eau
be harmonzed, become positively asslmllated,
long union Of the tSO is impossible. This assimla-
tionwe believe in its nature to be impossible. The
antssonisms of Slavery and Freedom, when brought
face TO face as they now are, with no shields or
buffers of compromise between them, are so great
that the attempt at harmony is futile, and thus no
resource is LETT but submission on one side or sepa
ration on the other.
Compromises on the Slavery question have beea
censured and condemned by wise men, but they
have been created and upheld by wiser. No North
ern man has any business to object to compro-
mise on the Slavery question except he be willing
to draw the sword in defense of Freedom. The
maintenance of Freedom wien opposed BY its az
tagonst forces, always required the baptism Of
blood. It is as true now Of il as il ever was.
The North just now is very lively with tsIndis' ;
nation and denuncatOn over the state Of things u
Kansas and in Washington. We have no doubt
will continue 30 till after the Presidential election
and until Northern doughfaceism on the Nebraska.
Kansas bill is swept away like rubbish Throughout
the Free States. But Northern indignation Is
yery uncertain force. 1t comes in gusts, il very
powerful at times, but it subsidies. The cares Of
the world and the temptations of the devil con-
sumo it after little. 1t will be great
thing, we know, for the opponents
Slavery to get possession ofthe Executive Govern
ment of the Nation, always providing we have
man of iron nerve for President. If We are going
to install another nobody, like the present incuu'
bent who is only Jealous in his weaknesses, the tn
umph will amount to nothing, or worse. But ths
triumph is small matter when regarded froms
high point of observation. 1t docs not touch sM
essential elements of the great disorder which o.
fcts and threatens our National unity.
If the Union is to continue, the Northern msc
are beaten people sooner or later, unless 1hej
meet the force by which Slavery maintains ltsd
by foreo-n a word, unless they become fighting
people on the national arena. The South alreaA
this fact bnt the North does not.
must do it, it should do it at once. Every day
failure to do it is day lost, and PostPones the ne
cessary contamination, or swes the final volum'
Of disaster In this view, the first requisite d
every Northern Representative is fighting quail
ties. And no man who is not a protested do
unionist should permit himself to run for Congress
in the Free States, unless he feels willing and con-
petent to discharge the brutal duties that now 1
tacb, and fairly and properly attach, to the IT,
ton. J.s.h