New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-25

tal ana me second Tue very quallned ana leariui
JOY which the parry of>the Border Ruffians appear
10 iud in their victory. The one seem TO feel as II
hey bad as coed conquered, and the other as II
they were not much better than beaten. This Is
not surpris ng ia ether case. The Republicans,
seeing the hold which the spirit of resistance to the
aggIe.siors of Slavery had taken on the minds OF
the people OF the North, have reason to thank God
and take courage, knowing that such sentiments,
principles and passions as have arrayed nearly the
entire North against the crowniDg usurpauon OF
Slavery are such as must grow and streng'
when they have once found soil and taken root The
Buchanan party, ON the other hand, which has frl-
, umpbet-if such success may be called tri-
Umph-by what survives of the Evolutionary ALL
apce of slavemasters at the South and ofice-seek-
ers at the North coDspiring TO cheat the we-mean-
ing Democratic masses with 80 fair pretense and
- friendly ends"-tbe Buchanan party must see in
the Official returns of votes the handwriting on
the wall of the great Babylon they have bulded,
warning them that the day of lis downfall at hand
There is nothing so puzzlDg and incOmprehensi-
bic to a rogue as al honest man. And this problem
is as perplexing to political adventures as to any
others OF the order of Cherdliers dIndustrie. Men
who are governed by principles, who obey ideas,
aud who turn their backs on what seems an inme-
date personal coed for the sake of prospective
public benefit, would seem to the professors of this
branch of industry as merely wild and absurd if
they did not find them so impracticable and danger
ous. They had reckODed long and so securely
on the ignorance and selfsbness of the Northern
people, that they are almost as much surprised as
terrified at the fresh intelligence and rising spirit
which can be discerDed inspiring and guiding this
last stand against the final triumph of Slavery.
Seeing the state of public feeling and opinion as
expressed four years ago in the election of Pierce,
and that uttered by the votes of the fourth of this
current month, they may well feel that it is but an
unlneal scepter that they grasp soon TO pass away
to more legitimate dynasty. Revolutions in cOun-
tries where any reality of constitutional govern
ment transfers their field from the battlefield to
the balot-box or the hastings, are slow hestatng,
vascilatng, often rebufed and apparently defeated,
but ever gaining ground, and fualIy organizing
themselves into power and a permanency.
Now, whatever movement shall succeed in
overtbrowing the despoiism which the Joined
have established ard exercised over this nation
for SO many years, will be ill effect, though not
in form, Revolution. As the yielding OF the
House of Lords TO the Reform bill in 1882, ia
order to save itself from being swamped by mob
of new-made peers, was in reality Revelation
which established the virtual supremacy OF the
lower house, so any combination OF forces which
shall remove the Slave Power from the control Of
the nation and substitute for it the will ~ the in
teligent majority, will be a shifting of authority
from one influence to another, nothing less than
revolutionary. For twenty five millions of men to
take the direction of their policy, he making of
their laws the appointment of their rulers out OF
the hands of less than ninety thousand, will be
rev, lutionary IN. asuIe much more decided, as well
as more efficient, than that which established the
principle that The popular voice. when 1t could CON-
mand the House Of Commons, was not to be drowned
BY the veto of the House of Lords. 1t is the COM
ING in Of the rghtful heirs after having been kept
ont Of their estate by fraud and chicanery for 50
many wears 1t is the dow9fall of the unj Just stew
ard that had administered his lords substan e so
long for his own behoof and benefit. 1t is no won
der that the lightning Of such Revolution should
have been desperately resisted by those whose craft
WAS endangered by it. Nor yet, considering how
long they have exercised lOrdship over u.s. and that
! they had the whcle materiI and personnel of goS-
errmep. at their command, that they should have
held il in check for season.
Hnt Revelations never 90 bachward-a truth
which tyrsnis great and small know well. And
Revolutions. Ike all changes in human cOnd ton,
exist fIst in ideas-are visionary, fantastic, and
| 1t ,pian-urtll, at the fitting moment, the fitting
Land projects them into life, and from dreams and
rceres they start up into institutions. The
Quick and subtle spirit of tyranny sees the oak in
| the acorn and seeks 20 trample on: its vitality
often onl, 10 make it terminate the sooner and
aourisb the preener. The Herods Of this day, as
well as be Of old. see the man in the child and
strive BY general massacre OF the innocents to de-
| stroy the deliyeIer they most dread. The quick
ear of Slavery caught the earliest accents of ua.
qualified protest against its existence, though
uttered many leagues away, and it demanded that
,t,y should be subdued by law or By lynchiogs.
At every successive indication the North has sho xn
If growing appreciation Of it's abject political sub.
lection to Slavery. it has made fresh demands for
bacterial guarantees. The annexation Of Texas,
tie Mexican war the Compromise of lS50, the
Repeal Of the Missouri compact, the cruel aud
murderous desperation of the onslaught on Kansas,
are all proofs Of the intelligent terrors Of the slave
masters. They know that their authority cannot
stand the test Of inquiry They know that so soon