New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-04


Northern States, that feeling Is oounserbalssccd
another which has grown up within the iast quarter
a century, The Abof6ones would be with Us 10
man. The best Of them are 20 now. They declai
already that IL one Of TIE many awful consequence
of Slavery in republic that true lovers Of theircoaa
try are compelled to desire the destruction of IN
anomaly before the preservation OF nationality See
ing that the ruin Of the republic, morally and pots
csly, a necessary consequence OF The preserva,ioa
Of Slavery under the conditions OF the Nineteenth cen
tury the genuine Abohsionist cannot but deprecate
war with England, which would be the sPeedest eurs
for the mischief
We speak what we know The Washington Cab.
net may boast OF the support of South Carolina, am
produce apparent evidence of Il; but most people
there and some people here understand What goes on
behind the scenes. The Cabinet is for Slavery; and
therefore it is externally upheld by the whole SoutA.
But il does not follow that the South approves al the
Pro Slavery action Of government IL Is certain thar
leading men in South Carolins disspprored the
Nebraska Bill at the time, foreseeing the
conflict of which Kansas is the seat; yet
they supported that entanglng measure be-
cause they had no better choice. They agreed
that they could but work with the tools they
had; and Pierce and Gushing, and, on that occa
sion, Douglas were the only tools at hand BV
their support is no, therefore TO be reskoned "a
under all contingencies They apparently yield stil-
while the consequences OF the Nebraska bl are press
ing upon the Government, because Il Is matter Of
urgent necessity TO alarm the representatives into
organizing their House. Not word will the Care
lpas say 10 discredit the runors Of war which are
10 ighttn the representatives into the choice OF
Speaker; but the House organized, and the Cao'ne
Vretendng still to mean war, the Carohnas Val nse
their utmost efforts behalf of peace. And win
abundant reason. Already, when they hear theE
agent, Gushing, say that their country Is drifting
into war, they whisper among themselves that II u
So il il because there is drunken pilot at the helm;
and they are keeping eye the wheel resdy
10 put out hand, If the ship goes too near the eddy
They must know that we see, as clearly a. they do
that they have everything 70 lose by the war and de-
gree of peril to encounter which cannot be paTaeed IN
any other part OF the great Union. Their long line Of
unprotected coast approachabe at almost every point
Of its sandy margin, would invite a lanhlng sooner
than the rocks of New-Engand; and what could they
do with their slaves in the face of an invader Ihe
slaves in the United States amount 10 nearly four
milious-a fatal iDcumbrance In the presence OF an
enemy. Althis would be in addition to the loss Of
commerce. But there is more behind.
The great aim of the Southern States for above
twenty years has been to restrict Northern, and 10
tend Southern territory. There was a time whea
slayeOwners believed that their human property might
be restored, and prevented from running away any
more if Canada could be annexed, and II at the zane
time stringent fugitive slave law could be obteined
But the time for that past. Tens of thousands OF
fugves and their families, living in Canada, are
among Queen Victonas most loyal subjects, -
pecially anxious to preserve Canada Ia England
Taking for granted, in way highly amusing 10 En'
gsh ., ople that Canada would be annexed IN tree,
the Southern men perceive that while their chance
of recovering their slaves would be by no means i'm
proved. the institution of Slavery itself would be
threatened with extinction. For, from the day of
annexation the North would be strengthened bya vast
acquisition of territory, in part of which apcpuatiou
of escaped negroes is exhibiting living spectacle OF
the practicablity and adv antages of emancipation.
Bv the prep0nderance thus given to the North and It's
Free Dor principles, Slavery must be banshed from
the Union. Such is the Southern view. We N Eng
land know that Canada viii never belong IL the United
States against her WILL ard that her will at present
TO belong to Great Brtain but taking even the Amen
can view OF Canadian destiny, it clear that that view
must indspoee the South for As for the North,h
has better than the restricted Southern pres
is allowed to issue and the best of those newspapers
show plainly enough to the intelligent reader that the
North viii not 20 TO war, any more than the South
In the cities the merchants feel very of peace
and the yeomanry Of New Eng land 30 not care about
the MONROE doctrine, any patriotic aspirations
that kind. The farmers of the West anuse them
selves with railing at England but they have none OF
that inyeterat malice vhich requires for IFS graft
hcatlon The ebettors of the project are the float
ing population of adventures who always vote for
great changes and those whose passions stronger
than their in political affairs, and who the
prey Of the Cabinet, the Cabinet is the tool OF
tOns. As sagacious Americans declare, il is only
the insane element of the population which believes in
war. We fear that there more who pretend for
the moment to expect it, But very sure that
the deliberate acts and permanent counsels of the
American people will not be determined by madmsn
OF knaves and; therefore, we confident that them
will be no war.